Steve Tapley

A long time software engineer, architect and product leader.

Now focusing on building out my career trade-off tool - Kanso

[Steve Tapley @tapleysj]

Tomorrow...updating my pending articles based on that advice...

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Day 6 of #100DaysOfCode

Ran a few scanners on metadata and JSON-LD: found weird errors that several passes on GPT/Gemini didn't pick up. The usual "oh, I missed that" excuse from them. 😠

Deep dives on proper (the current best guess!) GEO article construction.

#buildinpublic

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Day 5 of #100DaysOfCode - zero new features shipped!

Instead, chased down some people who dropped off, updated some gnarly bits on the website and completed a few pending directory submissions.

Building Kanso in public -> https://t.co/HHgyYwT2LM

#buildinpublic #indiedevs

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@bosconference Oh, this is great. I was piecing this together from the talk, but this is way better! I'll dig into it now. Thank you!!

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Wow, super interesting talk by Ted Barker at BOS2026 @bosconference.
The gold currently spread across random google docs, bookmarks, emails and platforms is just so hard to surface when you really need it.

https://t.co/osm9Q4ZZ0U

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@chams_builds Google AI studio definitely does not make it easy! I think they changed how billing worked sometime in May and I didn't get the info or didn't read it :(

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Day 4 of #100DaysOfCode

When a bug in production stops the app working, you stop what you're doing and fix it 🚒 🔥

Today, I didn't have an alert that the credit had run out for a pay-as-you-go service, and no auto reload either 🤦

Lesson learnt.

#buildinpublic #saas

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Day 3 of #100DaysOfCode

Oh my, directory submission day (again). I know there are automated tools out there, but are they actually any good? How many directories is actually enough? 5? 10?

Maybe I should shell out for one of those auto-submit tools 😒

#buildinpublic #saas #seo

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@vadym_petryshyn So real. Every suggestion from AI looks like it was taken back in 2005, so getting creative is the only option.
Oh well, domain name with a .com doesn't seem to be as important as it once was...

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Day 2 of #100DaysOfCode

About 2 weeks pre-launch, I changed my app name to something a little more distinct, which also meant a new domain.

Post launch, I spent today working through product directories and learning more than I needed to about GEO & JSON-LD 😄

#buildinpublic

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Day 1 of #100DaysOfCode.

Quiet day because of #WAOpen squash sporting commitments 🎾

✔️ reviewed marketting plan
✔️ added an SEO article
✔️ thinking about which paid feature to work on - personal features for $5 - $10, or a team feature for ~$50 per team.

#buildinpublic

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Standard career quizzes tell you what you love. I'm building a tool that maps what you're willing to sacrifice.

Restarting #100DaysOfCode to move from first signups to full team & role features.

Rank your trade-offs: https://t.co/HfOYcNgmNe

#buildinpublic #FutureOfWork

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Most career tools tell you who you are. That's not the hard part.

The hard part is knowing what you'd actually trade.

Kanso is live on Product Hunt today - free, 5 minutes.

https://t.co/cjwh728Ozw

#ProductHunt

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Website construction with something like @astrodotbuild is so much more productive than my previous static site solution (WP + Local + Static Site).

Astro feels clean and modern, and WP just felt ... archaic .

#buildinpublic

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Where do you go to report poor maintenance and dangerous parts of Perth PSP network? @perthcycling @WA_Roads @TransportWAgov

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Day 56 of #100DaysOfCode Refactored all of my existing game, game state, agent, model and training code into classes. The code is now (semi) readable! 😕
Thank you to the many #TensorFlow tutorials online that show how to do reinforcement learning!
#Python #MAME

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@AltDileep Nice work! Reflect on how much you learnt, celebrate and keep going!

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D48 of #100DaysOfCode Finishing off the state machine for the PacMan shell. Can now control it using a #Python app I wrote that tells #MAME to insert coins, start the game and move PacMan. It records the score, works out when a game has ended and can restart the whole process

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D46 of #100DaysOfCode was about sampling the state of the PacMan board. First up, using OpenCV to get the image one digit at a time, hash the image, compare against known hashes to give me a number from 0-9, and then build up the final number from the parts. Scoring done! #python