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Guides
How-to articles and tutorials
Writing Your First Photo Jot
A beginner's guide to uploading images, writing alt text, and creating your first photo jot. Learn how Jottings optimizes and delivers your photos automatically.
The Three Types of Jots: Text, Link, and Photo
Text jots for your thoughts, link jots for sharing the web, photo jots for visual moments. Here's how each type works and when to use them.
The Search Index: How Your Content Becomes Searchable
Learn how Jottings pre-indexes your jots at build time, keeps search fast and lightweight, and why this matters for your site's performance.
The Admin CLI: Platform Operations
How I built a command-line tool to manage the entire Jottings platform as a solo founder—from user analytics to debugging infrastructure.
Using Search Data to Improve Content
Learn how to use Google Search Console data to discover content gaps, identify what your audience is searching for, and optimize your microblog strategically.
The Art of the Jot: Writing for the Small Screen
Writing a blog post feels like homework. Writing a jot feels like talking. Here are 5 rules to master the art of the microblog and keep your creative flow alive.
JWT Best Practices in a Serverless Architecture
Learn how Jottings implements JWT authentication in serverless Lambda functions. Token validation strategies, best practices, and common pitfalls to avoid.
Alt Text: Accessibility and SEO in One Field
Discover why alt text is essential for both accessibility and search visibility. Learn practical tips for writing effective alt descriptions that help screen reader users and improve your site's SEO.
Client-Side Image Optimization: Reducing Upload Size by 80%
Learn how Jottings optimizes images in your browser before upload, reducing file sizes by 80% while maintaining visual quality.
Client-Side Image Resizing: Faster Uploads, Less Bandwidth
How we optimize images before upload with smart client-side resizing. Max 1200px, Retina-ready, and automatically compressed—all in your browser.
Media Cleanup: How Orphaned Files Are Handled
Learn how Jottings manages orphaned media files with a 6-hour grace period, ensuring you never lose important files while keeping storage lean and costs minimal.
The Media Library: Organizing Your Visual Assets
Browse, search, and manage your uploaded images in one place. Keep your visual content organized as your microblog grows.
Photo Jots: Visual Storytelling Made Simple
Share your life in pictures, not pixels. Photo jots let you upload images that are automatically optimized, responsively served, and perfect for visual storytelling.
Batch Publishing: Multiple Jots in One Session
Master the art of publishing multiple posts at once. Learn batching workflows, stay in flow, and how Jottings rebuilds your site with each publish.
Build Versioning: Tracking Every Change to Your Site
Know exactly what's deployed to your site with Git SHA tracking. Every build is tagged with a unique version identifier so you can audit changes and debug issues with confidence.
How to Start a Microblog in 5 Minutes (2025 Guide)
Want to start a microblog but don't know where to begin? Here is a step-by-step guide to launching your own site in 5 minutes, from choosing a platform to writing your first jot.
Hybrid Jots: Combining Text, Links, and Images
A jot doesn't have to be one thing. Text + photo. Text + link. Learn when and how to combine content types for richer storytelling in Jottings.
Lazy Loading for Landing Page Performance
How Jottings uses IntersectionObserver and lazy loading to achieve fast load times and better Core Web Vitals without sacrificing visual quality.
Presigned URLs: Secure Direct Uploads
How Jottings uses presigned URLs for secure, direct-to-CDN media uploads without compromising security or performance.
Setting Up robots.txt for Search Engines and AI
Control which search engines and AI bots can crawl your microblog. Learn how robots.txt and ai.txt work in Jottings.
The Tag Cloud: Visual Discovery for Your Content
Tag clouds aren't just aesthetic. They're a map of your entire site at a glance. Learn how visual hierarchy through typography reveals what your audience finds most interesting.
Tag Slugification: URL-Friendly Organization
How Jottings converts your tags into clean, readable URLs. Discover how special characters are handled, why case matters, and what happens when you tag creatively.
Priority Queues: How Jottings Handles Traffic Spikes
Learn how Jottings uses intelligent priority queues to ensure your site builds fast, even during traffic surges. Fairness meets speed.
The SEO Advantage of Static Sites
Speed is king in SEO. Discover why static sites built with Jottings outperform dynamic sites like WordPress in Core Web Vitals, crawl budget, and security.
Creating Link Jots That Stand Out
Master link jots: use auto-fetched metadata, add your voice, and become a curator instead of a link dumper with Jottings
Lambda's 10GB Ephemeral Storage
How Jottings uses AWS Lambda's 10GB /tmp to generate entire static sites without memory limits. A deep dive into serverless architecture.
Serverless Framework for Lambda Deployments
How Jottings uses Serverless Framework as infrastructure as code for AWS Lambda deployments, Cognito triggers, and serverless infrastructure management.