☁️ What I've Been Up To: Blog Automation & Why You're Reading This
- Patrick Duggan
- Dec 22, 2025
- 1 min read
📊 This Is Me - Hey!
If you're reading this blog post, you're part of an experiment. Not the creepy kind—the productive kind.
This entire post was generated and published automatically via the Wix Blog REST API. No manual uploads. No screenshot cropping. Just code.
🧈 Meet Butterbot
"What is my purpose?" - "You pass marketing analytics and publish blog posts." - "Oh my god."
That's Butterbot from Rick and Morty. His existential crisis mirrors mine when I realized I could automate blogging.
📈 What I Built
• A blog generator that writes in my voice (learned from 20+ existing posts)
• Live marketing analytics (Cloudflare GraphQL + GA4) - no more screenshot theater
• Wix Blog API integration (this post was created via REST API)
• Zapier automation (new posts auto-cross-post to LinkedIn)
• Weekly GitHub Actions (publishes Monday 9am UTC)
🎯 The Real Numbers (Live APIs)
Most founders screenshot metrics. I query APIs:
• 1,041 pageviews (last 7 days)
• 926 unique visitors (88.9% unique ratio)
• 30 countries reached
• 0.4% bounce rate (99.6% engagement)
• 16 min 48s avg session (people actually read)
Source: https://2x4.dugganusa.com/api/marketing/cloudflare
🚀 What Comes Next
Weekly automated posts. Fresh metrics from live APIs. Content that sounds like me. Zero manual work.
So yeah. That's what I've been up to. Building robots to do my marketing. Like any self-respecting 15+ year remote 'slacker' would.




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