The Pikkola Journal
Small, fast software, and the decisions behind it
Essays on distributed work, browser-native tooling, metadata that actually renders, and writing for a web where the answer comes before the link. Four pieces, no noise.
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4 essays- 01 GEONovember 9, 2026 Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): Why Your Site Needs llms.txt Search returns a list; an assistant returns an answer with three citations. Here is how to write passages a model can quote, and where llms.txt fits in. 8 min read1753 words
- 02 DistributionNovember 8, 2026 Mastering Open Graph & Twitter Cards: The Complete Developer Guide Nobody clicks a link — they click a card. The tags that matter, the crops per platform, edge rendering, and the five bugs behind blank previews. 7 min read1672 words
- 03 EngineeringNovember 6, 2026 The Modern Guide to Web-Based Text Diffing and JSON Patch Diff looks like an algorithms exercise and turns out to be a product problem. Trim, compare, then apply RFC 6902 without uploading a byte. 9 min read2066 words
- 04 Remote workNovember 4, 2026 How to Manage Timezones Across Remote Teams Without Calendar Chaos Nine hours of offset is arithmetic, not a scheduling inconvenience. A written system for overlap budgets, handoffs and the two-week DST gap. 8 min read1882 words
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