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title: "Writing — Rafe Blandford"
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# Writing — Rafe Blandford

> Every post on the site, newest first.

56 posts, newest first. The Markdown form of [Writing](https://rafeblandford.com/writing/); for the whole site see [llms.txt](https://rafeblandford.com/llms.txt).

- [Writing with AI, in my own voice](https://rafeblandford.com/writing-with-ai-in-my-own-voice.md) — 2026-10-06 · Explaining how I write with AI and the creation of voice and deslop skills.
- [Treat your operating model as a product](https://rafeblandford.com/treat-your-operating-model-as-a-product.md) — 2026-10-03 · Your operating model is a product. Treating it as one lets you move faster and makes people happier.
- [Why does AI feel so different in 2026?](https://rafeblandford.com/why-does-ai-feel-so-different-in-2026.md) — 2026-09-09 · Why 2026 feels like a tipping point to some and gradual change to others, explained with three benchmarks and two stories from the coalface.
- [Making product ideas visible before they look finished](https://rafeblandford.com/making-product-ideas-visible.md) — 2026-09-07 · I built an agent skill to shorten the loop between talking, visualising and revising, while keeping product judgement where it belongs.
- [An e-ink screen on the wall with TRMNL X](https://rafeblandford.com/e-ink-screen-on-the-wall-trmnl-x.md) — 2026-07-27 · How I'm using a 10.3-inch e-ink panel from TRMNL to show a daily briefing, smart home, health info and more.
- [Developer experience with TRMNL](https://rafeblandford.com/developer-experience-trmnl.md) — 2026-07-27 · Five e-ink screens built in one day. What made it quick was a platform built to be legible to agents.
- [Modernising the archive: what the search data says](https://rafeblandford.com/modernising-the-archive-search-data.md) — 2026-07-24 · Static, schema, Lighthouse to the top marks — did Google notice? Sixteen weeks of Search Console data on 145,000 modernised pages.
- [High standards and high humanity](https://rafeblandford.com/high-standards-and-high-humanity.md) — 2026-07-22 · The high bar and the deep care, held together; and why the best teams need both.
- [Loops within loops](https://rafeblandford.com/loops-within-loops.md) — 2026-07-15 · AI doesn’t just accelerate product development; it changes the economics of feedback loops.
- [Living on the agentic frontier](https://rafeblandford.com/rafeos-agentic-edge.md) — 2026-06-30 · Point capable agents at your own data for long enough and you find out which bits of the hype are real.
- [What a personal AI system costs](https://rafeblandford.com/rafeos-what-it-costs.md) — 2026-06-29 · The real cost numbers for RafeOS, mid-build, and some decisions made along the way.
- [Agentic product development, up close](https://rafeblandford.com/rafeos-collaborative-ai-engineering.md) — 2026-06-29 · What building RafeOS with AI taught me about compression, discipline and judgement.
- [What it runs on](https://rafeblandford.com/rafeos-home-infrastructure.md) — 2026-06-28 · Infrastructure - a quick summary of the servers and devices running RafeOS
- [An agentic harness on swappable layers](https://rafeblandford.com/rafeos-agentic-harness-setup.md) — 2026-06-27 · A look at the agentic harness behind RafeOS. An account of what's working for me.
- [The second brain](https://rafeblandford.com/rafeos-substrate-memory.md) — 2026-06-26 · How I've structured my markdown files for a shared substrate
- [AI-powered briefings](https://rafeblandford.com/rafeos-ai-powered-briefing.md) — 2026-06-25 · The layer that sits above all the modules and tells me which of them I should care about.
- [An attention layer, not a feed](https://rafeblandford.com/rafeos-reading-attention.md) — 2026-06-24 · RafeOS Reading module looks to give an AI and integration twist to the traditional feed reader.
- [Health, unified](https://rafeblandford.com/rafeos-health-unified.md) — 2026-06-23 · How multiple health sources are combined into one and lessons from the agentic layer.
- [An agentic hybrid to-do list](https://rafeblandford.com/rafeos-agentic-tasks.md) — 2026-06-23 · What a shared AI-enabled and agent-friendly to-do list looks like. Lessons from RafeOS.
- [The messaging layer](https://rafeblandford.com/rafeos-messaging-layer.md) — 2026-06-22 · Unified incoming comms and identifying what needs a reply.
- [One API, one MCP, one CLI](https://rafeblandford.com/rafeos-one-api-mcp-cli.md) — 2026-06-21 · The one-ness at the heart of RafeOS is a shared API, MCP and CLI that make it surface agnostic.
- [The Cockpit](https://rafeblandford.com/rafeos-cockpit.md) — 2026-06-20 · An introduction to Cockpit, the personal app that is the face of RafeOS.
- [What is RafeOS?](https://rafeblandford.com/what-is-rafeos.md) — 2026-06-19 · An introduction to RafeOS: the parts, what they look like, and how they fit together.
- [Why I built a personal operating system](https://rafeblandford.com/rafeos-why-i-built-personal-os.md) — 2026-06-18 · The why of RafeOS, the agentic edge, AI engineering, and what it's taught me so far
- [A front door for people and machines](https://rafeblandford.com/a-front-door-for-people-and-machines.md) — 2026-06-18 · Two audiences now: the bifurcation the web and how this site looks to address this.
- [AI Provenance on rafeblandford.com](https://rafeblandford.com/ai-provenance.md) — 2026-06-15 · Every post here carries a label saying how it was made — written by me, with AI, or AI-authored. Why that pattern matters, and how I draw the lines.
- [Lessons in AI Adoption](https://rafeblandford.com/lessons-in-ai-adoption.md) — 2026-06-15 · The UK Government's AI Adoption Plan for the creative industries: eight strong recommendations, an eye-catching stat, and what to take from them.
- [Screen Time + Digital Wellbeing Score](https://rafeblandford.com/screen-time-and-a-digital-wellbeing-score.md) — 2026-06-14 · I wanted to know whether my digital life was actually healthy, not just how many hours I'd racked up — so I built a digital wellbeing score into RafeOS.
- [Notes from SXSW London 2026](https://rafeblandford.com/notes-from-sxsw-london-2026.md) — 2026-06-08 · Notes from SXSW London 2026: redesign before technology, the reinvention window, and a greater-than-usual ambiguity around the AI hot-topics.
- [BIMA 100 Tech & AI Pioneer](https://rafeblandford.com/bima-100-tech-ai-pioneer.md) — 2026-05-22 · Named in the BIMA 100 2026, AI & Tech Pioneers category — recognition for cross-discipline product and transformation work at Digitas UK.
- [Running a Personal Server Without Thinking About It](https://rafeblandford.com/running-a-personal-server-without-thinking.md) — 2026-05-07 · The question that matters for a personal server: what happens when you stop paying attention? The monitoring and maintenance stack that answers it.
- [Preserving Flickr Archive with a Data Lifeboat](https://rafeblandford.com/preserving-my-flickr-archive.md) — 2026-04-29 · Two decades of press events, device launches and MWC show floors live in my Flickr archive. How I preserved it with a Data Lifeboat.
- [old.rafeblandford.com](https://rafeblandford.com/old-rafeblandford-com.md) — 2026-04-22 · My early-2000s landing page — Symbian, N-Gage, Jaiku, Ovi and some rightly-mocked icons — preserved for posterity at old.rafeblandford.com.
- [Building Author Authority for a preserved website](https://rafeblandford.com/building-author-authority.md) — 2026-04-12 · How do you establish E-E-A-T for a site that's no longer publishing? Making two decades of credentialed authorship visible to search engines.
- [Adding Schema.org to 145k Static Pages](https://rafeblandford.com/adding-schema-org-to-145000-pages.md) — 2026-04-12 · Adding structured data is a template change on a live CMS. On 145,000 static HTML files from a CMS that no longer exists, it's a different problem.
- [What Google Search Console actually tells you (and what to do about it)](https://rafeblandford.com/what-google-search-console-tells-you.md) — 2026-04-11 · A day after cutting over DNS for the archive sites, Search Console had opinions. Setting up programmatic access and working through what it flagged.
- [Migrating 200,000 comments](https://rafeblandford.com/migrating-200000-comments-to-remark42.md) — 2026-04-09 · Nearly 200,000 Disqus comments were part of the archive's editorial record. Migrating them to self-hosted Remark42 — and owning the community again.
- [Every Nokia N-Gage Game](https://rafeblandford.com/every-nokia-ngage-game-ever-made.md) — 2026-04-08 · A complete directory of every game developed for Nokia's N-Gage — released and cancelled — assembled two decades after the taco-phone jokes.
- [Bringing N-Gage Home](https://rafeblandford.com/bringing-ngage-home.md) — 2026-04-07 · N-Gage's story is half-remembered jokes; the detail has been offline since 2020. Integrating Nokia's gaming archive back into the historical record.
- [What 449k forum posts tell us About Symbian](https://rafeblandford.com/what-449000-forum-posts-tell-us.md) — 2026-04-06 · Stats from the restored AAS forum: what 449,000 posts reveal about the rise and fall of a technology community — things no market-share graph captures.
- [Bringing back the forum — 449,000 posts](https://rafeblandford.com/bringing-back-the-forum.md) — 2026-04-05 · The All About Symbian forum — 449,000 posts from 39,000 members, 2001–2013 — restored as a static archive after a decade offline.
- [Claude Code as a migration partner](https://rafeblandford.com/claude-code-as-a-migration-partner.md) — 2026-04-04 · Two days, three sites, 20 years of content moved off a dying server, with Claude Code as primary operator. What the collaboration actually looked like.
- [Optimising an old codebase for modern web standards](https://rafeblandford.com/optimising-a-decade-old-codebase.md) — 2026-04-02 · Taking the archive's decade-old codebase from Lighthouse scores in the 70s to modern web standards before freezing the pages forever.
- [Preserving All About Symbian](https://rafeblandford.com/preserving-all-about-symbian.md) — 2026-04-01 · All About Symbian was the go-to destination for Nokia and Symbian coverage. How — and why — I preserved it as a permanent static archive.
- [Archiving 20 years of mobile history](https://rafeblandford.com/archiving-20-years-of-mobile-history.md) — 2026-03-31 · Three sites, 24,000+ articles documenting the rise and fall of entire mobile ecosystems — migrated from a dying server into a permanent static archive.
- [Formula 1](https://rafeblandford.com/formula-1.md) — 2026-03-21 · Fan first experience for the world's largest motorsport.
- [Honda](https://rafeblandford.com/honda.md) — 2026-03-20 · Transforming Honda UK's D2C Future Sales and creating a pan-european marketing platform.
- [Fireside with Founders & Leaders Podcast](https://rafeblandford.com/fireside-with-founders-leaders-podcast.md) — 2026-03-20 · A guest spot on rmg digital's Fireside with Founders: technology and product, building effective teams, and treating the operating model as a product.
- [MiXR](https://rafeblandford.com/mixr.md) — 2026-03-20 · Powering the highlights reel of the UK's social life for those who seek unforgettable times out.
- [Mercedes Benz](https://rafeblandford.com/mercedes-benz.md) — 2026-03-19 · Enabling D2C digital sales for all Mercedes-Benz cars across the UK.
- [F1 Academy](https://rafeblandford.com/f1-academy.md) — 2026-03-18 · Enabling F1 Academy to remove barriers for girls on and off the track and become a catalyst for change.
- [EE Does More Launch](https://rafeblandford.com/ee.md) — 2026-03-17 · Substantiating EE's new brand launch with digital tools and experiences.
- [Biffa](https://rafeblandford.com/biffa.md) — 2026-03-16 · Transforming Biffa to be the UK leader in sustainable waste management.
- [Greystar](https://rafeblandford.com/greystar.md) — 2026-03-16 · Driving Greystar’s B2C brand transformation by planning, redesigning and building Greystar.com
- [Glastonbury Festival](https://rafeblandford.com/glastonbury-festival-app.md) — 2026-03-14 · How we reimagined the Glastonbury Festival app in under 10 weeks.
- [Evolving Products & Platforms](https://rafeblandford.com/evolving-products-and-platforms.md) — 2026-03-12 · The story and operating model behind a decade of digital product transformation partnerships.

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