# Ideas, projects and process.

> Notes on web development, design, video and side projects.

Web development, design, video and the occasional guitar project.

## Writings

- [Building a page builder with Astro content collections and Sveltia](https://kloud9creative.com/posts/building-a-page-builder-with-astro-content-collections.md) (Oct 2, 2026): You don't need a big hosted CMS to get drag-and-drop page sections. A schema, a renderer component and a list in your frontmatter go a long way.
- [robots.txt is not an AI policy, but it is the only switch most crawlers honor](https://kloud9creative.com/posts/robots-txt-is-not-an-ai-policy.md) (Oct 1, 2026): llms.txt tells an assistant what's worth reading. robots.txt is the file that decides whether a crawler is allowed to fetch it. Here's how I split those jobs on this site.
- [What are llms.txt and llms-full.txt, and why is everyone adding them?](https://kloud9creative.com/posts/what-is-llms-txt.md) (Sep 25, 2026): AI assistants are terrible at reading websites built for humans. llms.txt is a small Markdown file that gives them a map. Here's what it is, what it isn't, and how I added it to this site.
- [Thoughts on Astro Dot Build](https://kloud9creative.com/posts/thoughts-on-astro-dot-build.md) (Oct 21, 2021): There are a few paths you can take when dealing with the ever-evolving Javascript framework world.
- [The $68 Parker Fly Mojo Guitar](https://kloud9creative.com/posts/the-68-parker-fly-guitar.md) (Mar 27, 2021): I have fond memories of looking through 90s Guitar World magazines as a teenager and seeing the Parker advertisements with Reeves.....
- [.NET Core Lab at Visual Studio Live Chicago 2019](https://kloud9creative.com/posts/asp-net-core-visual-studio-live-lab.md) (Sep 30, 2019): I recently hit up the 2019 Visual Studio Live in Chicago....
- [Giving the JAM stack a go Part 2](https://kloud9creative.com/posts/giving-the-jamstack-a-go-pt2.md) (Sep 29, 2019): I still haven't said what I used on this rebuild yet....
- [Giving the JAM stack a go Part 1](https://kloud9creative.com/posts/giving-the-jamstack-a-go-pt1.md) (Sep 22, 2019): This started out as one singular post as I build this site. It was to distract me from technicalities and worry about content....