# Derrick Emery - Site Content Map

> This log provides LLMs and AI crawlers with clean, high-signal access to the site's content.

## Available Pages

- [About Derrick Emery](https://derrickemery.com/about)
  Summary: Details on Derrick's experience as a Staff Software Engineer and Technical Strategist.

- [Contact Derrick Emery](https://derrickemery.com/contact)
  Summary: Public contact details and submission form to reach Derrick Emery.

### Blog Posts

- [The 4 Essential UX States Every App Needs](https://derrickemery.com/blog/software-engineering/the-4-essential-ux-states)
  Summary: Building software requires designing for more than just the happy path. Every interactive interface needs four core states - loading, success, empty state, and error state - to guide users, reduce anxiety, and prevent support tickets.

- [How to Make AI Work Like You](https://derrickemery.com/blog/ai-tools/make-ai-work-like-you)
  Summary: Generic AI assistants give generic results. To make an AI work like you, you need to define your rules, standards, and workflow preferences. By having the AI interview you, you can generate a system prompt that turns the assistant into a clone of your professional self.

- [How to Reclaim Your Time and Stop Feeling Overwhelmed](https://derrickemery.com/blog/food-for-thought/reclaim-your-time)
  Summary: You can get more done and reduce mental stress by automating routine decisions, prioritizing with the ABCDE method, and taking intentional, offline breaks.

- [UI vs UX: Why AI Struggles with the Hard Part](https://derrickemery.com/blog/software-engineering/ui-vs-ux)
  Summary: Many people confuse UI and UX. UI handles the visual styling, while UX governs the system behavior and user journey. While AI tools are great at spitting out pretty interfaces, they fail at UX because they only build for the happy path.

- [Maximizing GEO by including keyphrases in your articles](https://derrickemery.com/blog/seo/maximizing-geo-with-keyphrases)
  Summary: To win at Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), you need to use the exact phrases people and AI bots are looking for.

- [Why is UI/UX Important for an E-Commerce Website?](https://derrickemery.com/blog/e-commerce/why-ui-ux-is-important)
  Summary: Good UI and UX directly impact your revenue. Making finding products easy, ensuring fast load times, and smoothing out the checkout process stops people from abandoning their carts.

- [The 9 Best Programming Languages to Learn in 2026](https://derrickemery.com/blog/software-engineering/best-programming-languages-2026)
  Summary: You don't need to learn every trending language. Focusing on core languages like Python, TypeScript, and SQL is enough to build almost anything.

- [Automating Programmatic SEO with Next.js and AI](https://derrickemery.com/blog/seo/automating-programmatic-seo)
  Summary: You can build a repeatable Next.js template to create hundreds of pages that target specific questions people are searching for.

- [Micro-Niche AI Tools: Developing for Zero-Competition Keywords](https://derrickemery.com/blog/ai-tools/micro-niche-ai-tools)
  Summary: Making small tools that solve one specific problem is the easiest way to get search traffic and natural backlinks.

- [Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) for Statically Exported Sites](https://derrickemery.com/blog/seo/generative-engine-optimization)
  Summary: You need to set up your code so machines can easily read and pull your answers into their AI summaries.

- [How to Use Twitter Analytics to Improve Your Posting Strategy](https://derrickemery.com/blog/marketing/using-twitter-analytics-to-improve-marketing)
  Summary: You can find your best posting times and most engaging content for free by exporting and analyzing your Twitter Ads activity data.