Jose Mijares — Engineering notebookhttps://joseamijares.com/blogAI engineering, search, and commerce.enFrom AI Prototype to Production: A Deployment Readiness Checklisthttps://joseamijares.com/blog/ai-deployment-readiness-checklisthttps://joseamijares.com/blog/ai-deployment-readiness-checklistThu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTA practical release gate for AI features: evaluation cases, bounded tools, failure handling, cost limits, and a rollback you can actually use.How to Measure AI Search Visibility Without Vanity Metricshttps://joseamijares.com/blog/measure-ai-search-visibilityhttps://joseamijares.com/blog/measure-ai-search-visibilityThu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTBuild a repeatable SEO and GEO measurement loop that separates crawlability, sampled AI citations, referral traffic, and actual business outcomes.RAG vs. Fine-Tuning: How to Give AI Your Business Knowledgehttps://joseamijares.com/blog/rag-vs-fine-tuning-business-knowledgehttps://joseamijares.com/blog/rag-vs-fine-tuning-business-knowledgeThu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTChoose between prompt context, retrieval, and fine-tuning by separating changing business facts from the behavior you want a model to learn.GitHub Actions hit our $100 cap. Linux CI now runs on a Hetzner VPS.https://joseamijares.com/blog/github-actions-hetzner-vps-cihttps://joseamijares.com/blog/github-actions-hetzner-vps-ciWed, 26 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMTI hit our 100 USD per month GitHub Actions limit and still had a lot of PR merges sitting there, so I found migrating Linux CI to a Hetzner VPS was the path. This is the guide of how I did it.Shopify Storefront Performance That Actually Convertshttps://joseamijares.com/blog/shopify-storefront-performance-that-convertshttps://joseamijares.com/blog/shopify-storefront-performance-that-convertsSat, 20 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMTA practical way to improve Shopify speed without treating Lighthouse as the customer. Start with buying intent, then remove friction from the theme, media, apps, and measurement layer.SEO and GEO: How I Structure Pages for Search Engines and LLMshttps://joseamijares.com/blog/seo-geo-llm-visibility-playbookhttps://joseamijares.com/blog/seo-geo-llm-visibility-playbookThu, 18 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMTA page-level playbook for making websites easier to crawl, quote, summarize, and recommend across Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and other AI answer systems.CRO Before Redesign: A Practical Ecommerce Audithttps://joseamijares.com/blog/cro-before-redesign-ecommerce-audithttps://joseamijares.com/blog/cro-before-redesign-ecommerce-auditMon, 15 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMTBefore redesigning an ecommerce site, audit the buying path: offer clarity, product detail quality, trust, speed, mobile behavior, analytics, and the checkout handoff.Ezeo Operating Notes: Building a Visibility System for AI Searchhttps://joseamijares.com/blog/ezeo-visibility-engine-operating-noteshttps://joseamijares.com/blog/ezeo-visibility-engine-operating-notesFri, 12 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMTThe product thinking behind Ezeo: treat SEO and GEO as an operating system for visibility, not as a one-time metadata checklist.iOS and Android Apps: Product Decisions Before Codehttps://joseamijares.com/blog/ios-android-apps-product-decisions-before-codehttps://joseamijares.com/blog/ios-android-apps-product-decisions-before-codeWed, 10 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMTBefore building an iOS or Android app, make the product decisions explicit: user job, platform need, offline behavior, notifications, data model, release scope, and measurement.How I Build AI-First Shopify Workflowshttps://joseamijares.com/blog/first-posthttps://joseamijares.com/blog/first-postSun, 01 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMTMy practical approach for shipping faster with AI tooling while keeping quality high in Shopify and frontend projects.Static Markdown Blog on Vercelhttps://joseamijares.com/blog/vercel-static-bloghttps://joseamijares.com/blog/vercel-static-blogTue, 20 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMTHow this blog turns Markdown into crawlable HTML, with one shared article template, generated metadata, a sitemap, and RSS.