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Field notes · June 5, 2026
Building a marketing site with Claude Code: the honest workflow
A grounded account of building a marketing and content site with Claude Code: the code-as-content architecture that fits, where AI assistance genuinely helps, where it needs a human, and the quality guardrails that keep it from producing slop.
- Honest division of labor
- Code-as-content fits AI
- Guardrails against slop
Novus Stream Solutions · Automation & AI
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Field guide · June 5, 2026
Honest AI tiers: Lite, Standard, Pro — sized in gigabytes, not hype
Why naming real model sizes and recommending a tier your device can run beats promising everyone the heaviest model.
- Lite 0 / Standard ~400MB / Pro ~2GB
- recommendTier() probes WebGPU + memory
- Delete downloaded weights any time
NSS Background Remover · Background Remover
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Field guide · June 5, 2026
Managing the context window on a large refactor: what broke and how we fixed our sessions
A workflow lesson, not model marketing: how to structure a large refactor so it survives the limits of what can be held in working context at once.
- The whole problem won't fit at once
- Structure work into self-contained units
- Durable artifacts over live memory
Engineering · Stack & engineering
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Field guide · June 5, 2026
Running a multi-agent research sprint before touching code
How to use parallel agents to understand a problem completely before changing anything, and why that front-loaded research pays for itself on large work.
- Research as its own sprint
- Parallel investigation agents
- Research-first beats patch-first
Engineering · Stack & engineering
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Field guide · June 4, 2026
CPM, RPM, and what actually pays
A plain-language guide to ad-revenue metrics and what really drives the only number you can bank.
- RPM is the real number
- Depth beats volume
- Engagement compounds
Novus Stream Solutions (hub) · Monetization & ads
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Field guide · June 4, 2026
One recording, a week of content: a repurposing system for solo creators
Why daily-from-scratch creation fails and batch-and-repurpose wins, how to record one anchor piece designed to be harvested, the production line that turns it into a week of clips, audiograms, quotes, and posts, how to schedule the week, and where the ecosystem tools (thumbnails, visualizers) fit.
- Record once, post all week
- A repeatable production line
- The free tools to run it
Novus Stream Solutions (hub) · Creator playbooks
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Field guide · June 4, 2026
Print-on-demand as a business model, honestly
How print-on-demand actually works, the real trade-off (no inventory risk for thin margins and no fulfillment control), where it fits, and how to make the model work despite its constraints.
- No inventory, made-to-order
- The thin-margin trade-off
- Where POD actually fits
Novus Stream Solutions (hub) · Business models
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Field guide · June 4, 2026
How to make a favicon (ICO) from any image
What a favicon is, the sizes that matter, designing for tiny scale, transparency, and making a multi-size ICO from any image — free and on-device.
- The sizes that matter
- Design for tiny scale
- Multi-size ICO, free
NSS Background Remover · How-to guides
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Field notes · June 4, 2026
When to add accounts to a free tool (and when not to)
Product-discipline notes on accounts: why no-account is the right default, the narrow set of reasons that justify a signup, and how to add accounts without gating the first win.
- Default: no account
- Add accounts only for save/sync/social
- Never gate the first win
Novus Stream Solutions · Web & UX
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Field guide · June 4, 2026
Keep, kill, or shelve: a structural "no" as a product filter
An operating note on using a structural constraint — must run almost for free — as an honest product filter, not a failure of execution.
- Runs-almost-free as a hard filter
- Shelved AI-agent + sports projects
- A structural no is a complete reason
Operating model · Operating model
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