The Residue: From zero to live
Weekend 1 of building a personal knowledge corpus: what worked, what didn’t, and what I learned about AI-proofing a website. In the previous article, I outlined the problem: context trapped in chat sessions, knowledge scattered across tools, published work invisible to AI agents because it lives in walled gardens. The thesis was files plus semantic search plus MCP integration equals thinking that persists. The plan was three weekends of building. Weekend 1 was about foundations: get a site live, get domains sorted, get email working, create the corpus structure. The unsexy infrastructure that everything else depends on. Here’s what actually happened. ...