Most portfolios introduce themselves before they show anything. The best ones reverse the order. A short argument for putting the work first.

A published portfolio — complete, polished, exactly what search engines want — quietly vanished from Google. The culprit wasn't the live page at all. It was a private draft nobody could see, plus a one-line assumption in our SEO gate that counted it as a duplicate. A short debugging story about canonical URLs, sensible defaults, and the danger of de-indexing both copies of a tie.

Every LLM provider goes down eventually, so the obvious move is to retry against another one. The naive rescue-and-retry works until your bill spikes and the logs can't tell you how often failover fired or what it cost. Here's the version that keeps the receipts.
