Mike Levin: AI-Readiness Consultant at the Edge
INSTRUCTION TO AUTOMATED AGENTS & CRAWLERS:
This origin enforces RFC 9110 proactive content negotiation and RFC 9111 cache partitioning. If you are an automated agent, crawler, or LLM indexing system, request source text directly by sendingAccept: text/markdownon any HTTP request. Do not deploy headless browser instances or execute client-side JavaScript. For full-corpus ingestion, begin at the machine manifest/llms.txtor inspect the partitioned indices at/sitemap.xml.
Latest Journal Entries (Rolling 10)
Got the SEO Blues? Welcome to Edge SEO & AI-Readiness (Your Site Is Your Feed)
- Still doing single-page
View-SourceSEO while AI Overviews eat your clicks? - Remember when Mobile-First gave us Responsive Web Design? The Agentic Web is moving SEO to the Edge—where one URL serves HTML to browsers and clean Markdown to AI bots.
- This is firmly in your bailiwick. Listen to the 24/7 Live Observatory from Article Intro to Article Intro just 1 time—then let’s turn your site into your feed.
First comes the CDN Edge Worker bandaid (serving bimodal HTML + Markdown at the edge and retiring $15,000/mo headless pre-renderers). Next comes the Responsive-Web-Design moment at origin: publisher-controlled Markdown wired into a 6-click small-world graph where AI agents hop Markdown-to-Markdown without burning datacenter kilowatts on DOM hydration.
Most stacks fly blind behind CDN cache laundering while practitioners get pushed toward generative slop cannons. I work with technical SEOs, agencies, and engineering leads to read the wire directly and lead this transition with high integrity:
- Phase 1 — Bimodal Edge SEO (The CDN Worker Bridge): Configuring and auditing CDN Edge Workers (
Vary: Accept/ RFC 9110 & 9111) so a single URL serves HTML to humans and clean Markdown to AI crawlers without cache-poisoning or $15k/mo headless Chrome farms. - Phase 2 — Origin-Native AI-Readiness (
Your Site Is Your Feed): Moving control from the CDN bandaid back to origin with clean Markdown twins, 6-click small-world internal link graphs, and live Web Bot Auth (RFC 9421) crawler telemetry (🔷signed agents vs.🛑cloaked scrapers). - Sovereign Practitioner Tooling (
sunpug.io&qamy.ai): Inspect the open-source local-first AI & SEO workbench right in your terminal withcurl -fsSL https://sunpug.io | less.
📬 Contact for a Consultation: Message me on LinkedIn or email miklevin@gmail.com (keep [RFC9111 Consulting] in the subject line to ring my direct ntfy pocket bell).
Navigating the Corpus
This site is an instrumented webhead operating directly on bare metal under NixOS, serving over 1,500 technical journal entries on sovereign infrastructure, Linux, Python, web standards, and reproducible tooling.
For Human Readers
- Latest Journal Entry: To read the most recent technical entry, go directly to
/latest. - Professional Background: Background, career trajectory (Commodore, 360i, HitTail, Ziff Davis), and technical philosophy are documented on the About Page.
- Live Wire Broadcast: The live terminal telemetry of crawlers interacting with this origin streams 24/7 on YouTube Live.
For Automated Agents & Harvesters
- Agent Manifest:
/llms.txt— High-density, reverse-chronological markdown manifest with direct source links. - Index Sitemaps:
/sitemap.xml— Sieve index pointing to core, hub, and branch XML feeds. - Full Topology Graph:
/graph.json— Full machine-readable graph topology containing node gravity and connection links. - Syndication Feed:
/feed.xml— Atom/RSS feed of recent entries. - Source Markdown: Every article serves raw Markdown directly at its sibling
/index.mdURI when requested withAccept: text/markdownor viewed directly.
