mitchyb.com

Deep Dives

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:14:53 +1100

Longer explorations of topics I care about — AI discoverability, web performance, systems design. These take time to write and are meant to be referenced.

Field Notes

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Short experiments, observations, and things I’ve tested. Each note follows a consistent structure: context, setup, observations, takeaways.

About

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m Mitch Beaumont. I’m an engineer who’s spent his career building things for the web — from backend systems to frontend interfaces to the infrastructure that connects them.

This site is my lab notebook. It’s where I write about the things I’m learning, testing, and thinking through. The topics tend to cluster around AI, web performance, and systems design, but I follow curiosity wherever it leads. Some posts are short experiments with clear results. Others are longer explorations where I’m still working out what I think.

Now

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is a now page. It’s a snapshot of what I’m focused on right now.

Building this site. Setting up mitchyb.com as a proper lab notebook — structured for both human readers and AI discovery. Using Hugo with inline layouts, JSON-LD schema, and plain CSS.
Experimenting with local LLMs. Running Ollama on constrained hardware and testing which models are practical for everyday development tasks like code review and summarisation.
Exploring AI crawlability. Testing how AI-powered search tools discover and cite content from static sites. Tracking which structured data formats actually make a difference.

Principles

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

These aren’t rules. They’re patterns I’ve noticed in my best work and habits I try to maintain. They change over time.

Build to understand. The fastest way to learn something is to build with it. Reading and watching only gets you so far. Hands-on work reveals the details that matter.
Write things down. If I didn’t write it down, I didn’t learn it. Writing forces clarity and creates a reference I can return to. This entire site exists because of this principle.