Blake Imeson

Business Web Strategist @LimeCuda - | Web Design & Development

[Jared S. Poulton @jared_poulton]

We are less than two months away from the launch of my first book! Van Til's Counseling Movement, published by @HanoverPress and @LondonLyceum, comes out September 1, 2026.

Can you help me spread the word?

Like and repost this post!

I have created a Substack page dedicated to my book launch. You can find it here.

https://t.co/iSVoPigzpx

You can also find the final list of endorsements for this work on my Substack page, which includes Stephen Wellum and Timothy Paul Jones (@SBTS), William Edgar (@WestminsterTS), @BobKellemen, and leaders from @ccef, @GPTSeminary, @PuritanSeminary, @MidAmericaSem, and @CBTSeminary.

You can also keep up with any media promotion for this new book by subscribing to my Substack: https://t.co/mdWotMQF24

You can purchase the book here: https://t.co/BQCAxJb3MP

Final cover and Amazon page coming soon. 👀

[Blake Imeson @Imeson]

Just realized that I have open browser tabs older than my toddler 😬

[Blake Imeson @Imeson]

Fun AI win last week.
We have a sitemap spreadsheet for a new website build, and I was able to use Claude Cowork to automatically fetch each existing page’s content and place it into its own Google Doc.

Each document it created includes high-level markup to indicate the page structure and hierarchy (see attached image).  

These 60 docs are now beautifully teed up for the content team to hit any rewrites before we pull it into a rebuilt site. This would have taken me at least two full workdays before AI, been incredibly tedious, and certainly included errors.

I see AI with eyes wide open, there are definitely pitfalls and poor uses, but this felt like a real win. It took a tedious but important task and completed it in minutes, with better results than I could have achieved by hand.

[Blake Imeson @Imeson]

My wife saw my cargo shorts and said “they are coming back in style you know”

I have 30+ years of unbroken allegiance to this functional format. For me they were never out of style.

#loyalty

[Blake Imeson @Imeson]

One of my favorite tips for using AI (specifically @claudeai ) is having something like this at the end of your prompt:

"Ask clarifying questions up front before starting. "

The multiple choice options it gives and the ability for me to better direct the answer are gold.

[Blake Imeson @Imeson]

I cook and eat a lot of eggs every week.

When people visit they tell me how good they are. It is easy, there are 3 key secrets that few people follow…

1. Use a generous amount of butter. This keeps the eggs from sticking to the pan but also adds a lot of flavor. Butter is not bad for you.

2. Use a generous amount of seasoning. In the Midwest, this is a real problem. My preferred spice is a garlic salt blend and occasionally some onion powder or similar.

3. Don’t be skimpy with the cheese.

The rest are flexible variables like low heat versus high heat, whether you add milk, whether you whisk the eggs, how hard/easy, Etc.

Get those top three right and you’re golden. There is more flexibility and room for preference with the other aspects.

[Blake Imeson @Imeson]

Saw the stat from @Cloudflare that agentic traffic is now over half of the web traffic

Maybe headless / static sites becomes a necessity because no one will be able to afford the onslaught of resource hungry bots if we are all running WordPress sites.

[Blake Imeson @Imeson]

I see launches like the new electric Ferrari, Cracker Barrel logo, and most of the new Star Wars shows and wonder…

Did they not talk to representatives of the main customer base to get reactions?

The missteps seem so immediately obvious. Is that unfair?

[Blake Imeson @Imeson]

Is humorous how this is such a typical AI response…

“Honest answer: it’s ABC but not XYZ, and that distinction matters. Here’s how to think about it.”

The AI tells are starting to have their own shape and character.

[Blake Imeson @Imeson]

A good guiding principle for sentences in conversation…

Don’t let a plane take off you don’t know where or how to land.

[Blake Imeson @Imeson]

These three are somehow very similar but totally different fields. @altonbrown , @JoeMcNallyPhoto , @donttrythis (Adam Savage)

Maybe that they are all entertaining, lovable, and have climbed to the heights of their respective arenas.

[Blake Imeson @Imeson]

What % of Venmo's throughput is related to chicken eggs? I suspect it is nontrivial.

At least in my circles it seems like a common transaction 😆

🍳

[Blake Imeson @Imeson]

I feel a bit betrayed - @thinkific is giving me different pricing page incognito verse in a browser with cookies and having been recently logged in on a Thinkific account....

[Blake Imeson @Imeson]

“When your entire business is sitting on a key product, and it no longer feels stable, it makes your own business feel unstable.”

Hard not to feel that about WordPress in general.

We have used Kadence quite a bit over the last couple years. I still think it is the best of the page builders for WordPress because it was flowing in the stream that WordPress was headed with Gutenberg.

We have a few sites using LearnDash and this chaos is disappointing and the future seems shaky with all of these. The fact that this transition has been fumbled does not help. I can’t find changelog pages anymore and my “centralized” account is missing licenses for multiple products.

Our agency isn’t yet completely abandoning WordPress, but we have made a pretty heavy shift towards headless (Astro) and it feels good to leave a lot of the WordPress problems behind.

[Blake Imeson @Imeson]

https://t.co/Km2Q42NP0Q

[Blake Imeson @Imeson]

Image from a blog post I wrote this week. Excited to post on Monday. #headless #Astro #WebDev

[Blake Imeson @Imeson]

If you have multiple sites in some kind of relationship (ecommerce, blog, child company, etc.), there can be a BIG difference in how well they do SEO-wise.

TLDR: subdirectories (https://t.co/qG13VuHg0R) are usually a better choice than subdomains (https://t.co/nkNGKog4qp).

Full breakdown here: https://t.co/8JevDTeDJL

[Blake Imeson @Imeson]

My 8 year old son asked me the difference between a text and an email.

Realized that was a really challenging question to answer in a helpful way, but also in a way that is technically true in all situations.

[Blake Imeson @Imeson]

@david_shane Depends what is meant by “learn Latin”. If it is just root words, then I feel like those are actually sort of a cheat code to learning advanced English words. Same with Greek.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

A statement from Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, on our discussions with the Department of War.

https://t.co/rM77LJejuk