Victoria Lo - Tech Blog

How I rebuilt my blog into an end to end publishing system my AI agent can safely drive: drafts on their own branch, scheduled publishing with no cron, Cloudinary uploads, a gated newsletter, and an MCP server with structural guardrails.

Debugging cron job timeouts caused by session bloat.

Three practical automation tools that compound together.

I ran my blog through Cloudflare's agent readiness checks and fixed what I could: markdown for agents, Content Signals, Link headers, an API catalog, skills and WebMCP.

From GPT-2's 1.5B parameters to Kimi K3's hybrid memory architecture — a deep dive into 7 years of LLM evolution, and why the biggest breakthroughs had surprisingly little to do with making models bigger.

Automating deliberate personal work with AI.

Building a compound knowledge system for AI agents.

System design lessons from building a personal AI assistant.

Complete guide to securing your OpenClaw AI assistant.

Deep dive into three advanced OpenClaw workflows - local RAG knowledge base, LinkedIn post generation with Buffer, and blog idea generator.

Set up automated workflows and scheduled tasks with OpenClaw.

Connect OpenClaw to Google Workspace with the gog skill.

Learn how to build your own personal AI assistant with OpenClaw.

Reading Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition on a work trip: five reasons not everything needs fixing immediately, and why slowness is a form of strength.

Karen Hao's Empire of AI read as a study of one mind: how Sam Altman engineered his original team, used myth-making as control, and where his blind spot is.

Only 10-15% of resumes reach a human reviewer in Singapore, and most roles are filled through referrals.

"AI bubble" has become the default framing for every generative AI story.

Why boundaries at work feel so hard to set, what crossing one quietly costs you, and what setting them professionally actually looks like.

What Anthropic's Claude Skills actually are, the types available, how to use them, and how they differ from MCP — context engineering, not magic.

Five things that actually grow a blog in 2026 — an email list from day one, your own domain, and refusing to split "technical" from "personal".

None of my cover images are AI-generated.

Why I don't "believe in" MBTI but use cognitive functions as a system: function stacks, spotting them in real life, and how it changed how I read people.

"Speak up more" is the advice women engineers hear most, and it backfires.

Two developers, same IDE and same model, completely different results.

Why data governance projects fail for organisational reasons rather than technical ones, and how to get past it — from a solutions engineer lead.

A production incident where everyone knew who owned the service and nobody moved.

How to keep your own voice while AI writes everything else: write first and optimise after, read what AI didn't write, and embrace imperfection.

Twelve lessons from twelve months, written as the year happened: non-negotiables, delegation, judgment, quiet observation, and learned helplessness.

Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline applied to real teams: the five disciplines, systems thinking as a solutions engineer lead, and what developers can take from it.

What a solutions engineer actually does all day, the core responsibilities, and how year five differs from year one — or why I call it a technical PM who codes.

After 231 articles in five years, my best-performing search term is my own name.

Anthropic's November 14 report describes the first large-scale cyberattack carried out mostly by AI.

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Running Hacktoberfest 2025 for Women Devs SG: reviewing PRs in GitHub Codespaces, why clarity matters more than code, and how recognition drives contribution.

Five ways tech bloggers stay visible as AI Overviews answer questions without sending clicks: own your traffic channels, build EEAT, get cited by AI.

Lately, the term “MCP” and “A2A” has been popping out a lot in my feed.

So this week Firebase Studio has launched and it has created a lot of buzz surrounding its capabilities.

Hello and welcome to another Articles by Victoria!

Hello and welcome to another Article by Victoria!

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken a central role in transforming how we interact with technology, from virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa to complex problem-solving systems.

As a developer, your journey to mastery is often shaped by the small, consistent actions you take every day.

Clerk.js vs Firebase Authentication: the key features, the integration effort, and when each one is the right call for your app's auth.

GitHub Copilot vs Qodo vs Codeium, compared on code suggestion accuracy, speed and efficiency, with a verdict on which AI coding tool to use.

It is not too late to start a tech blog, and AI has not made technical writing obsolete.

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Welcome to the GitHub Models series!

Welcome to the GitHub Models series!

What GitHub Models are, why they lower the barrier to prototyping with AI, and how to start building against them.

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