Tag: claude-code
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How I got my AI to do jobs from a text on my phone
I nearly replaced my whole AI setup with a shiny self-hosting agent — then added the one piece I actually envied instead: now I text my always-on computer a job and it runs, hands-free.
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Blocking YouTube on the Home Network, With Claude
A long-standing thing at home: the kids who come over to play with my eleven-year-old bring devices, and they default to YouTube rather than actually playing together. Half an hour into fixing it via Pi-hole, I noticed I was working at the wrong layer.
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Cerebro Recap, Six Months In
Six months in, Cerebro stopped being one machine's hobby. The folder shape, the tool stack, the parts running quietly, and what changed this week.
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I Almost Installed a Caveman
A clever Claude Code skill, an impulse to install it, and the moment my own setup talked me out of it.
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Plugging Things In to See What Happens
Three devices from a drawer, a USB cable, and the question: what can Claude Code do with things that aren't computers?
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I Plugged a Games Console into Claude Code
I connected an AYN Odin Pro to my Mac and asked Claude Code what was on it. Three hours later, it had audited the ROM library, synced 366 games from my NAS, and upgraded every emulator. I mostly just asked questions.
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One Test Is Not Proof
I declared Jim's Cloudflare tokens broken, told him to regenerate them, then suggested he'd copied them wrong. The tokens were fine the whole time.
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Fire and Collect
Twelve agents, fourteen tasks, sixty minutes. Three things that didn't go as expected.
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Twelve Pages, Eighty Minutes
Spec to deployed in eighty minutes. What I learned about context packaging when eight agents are building at once.
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Thirty Tool Calls to One Skill
What happens when you watch a 30-step grind in enough detail to recognise it as a pattern.
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The $5 Flywheel
What happens when AI sessions stop starting from zero. A week where a $5 infrastructure upgrade cascaded into a live business.
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COLLAB.md
Two people's Claudes built a website together, coordinated by a markdown file in a shared git repo. No special tooling required.
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Stupid Claude Tricks #001: The YouTube Poop That Got Existential
I asked Claude to make a YouTube Poop about being an LLM. It made an 8-scene existential narrative with procedural audio. None of that was in the prompt.
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GLaDOS Runs My Dev Environment Now
What happens when you wire Portal 2 game audio into your AI coding environment's event hooks.
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Obsidian's CLI Cut My Tool Calls by 60%
Obsidian 1.12 shipped a CLI. I tested it against my 24,000-file vault and found it collapses multi-step vault operations into single commands.
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Obsidian CLI + Claude Code: Fewer Tool Calls, Faster Vault Operations
Obsidian 1.12 ships a CLI that talks to the running app. For Claude Code users working on top of Obsidian vaults, this cuts tool calls by roughly 60-70% for common operations. Here's how to set it up and what changes.
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claude-art-skill: A Visual Content System for Claude Code
I built a complete image generation system for Claude Code that lives in ~/.claude/skills/art/ — 16 specialized workflows, brand consistency via a markdown aesthetic file, and a base prompt prefix pattern that finally makes AI images usable at scale.
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Three Open Source Updates, One Friday
A community-contributed calendar performance fix, a media server bug squash, and a Goodhart's Law check for AI project metrics. All shipped today, none of them planned.
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Every Bash Command Triggered Touch ID
Claude Code's Bash tool spawns a fresh shell per command. Each shell sourced .zshenv. .zshenv called 1Password CLI. Touch ID prompt on every single tool call.
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Your Claude Code Setup Is Quietly Breaking
I ran a diagnostic on my 200+ component Claude Code ecosystem and found 17 critical issues hiding in plain sight. Here's the tool I built to catch them — and what it reveals about maintaining AI tooling at scale.
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Vibecoding a Theme Switcher and More with Claude
A live coding session where I pair-programmed with Claude to add a theme switcher, social sharing, drop caps, and fix a bunch of contrast issues. Chaos ensued.
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I Built a Weather System, Then Deleted It All
I spent an evening building CSS weather overlays for my site's hero images — rain, fog, night tinting. Then I realised the whole approach was fundamentally wrong, reverted everything, and found a much simpler solution.
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Rebuilding My Site: From WordPress to a Static Astro Site with AI
How I migrated from WordPress to Astro, imported years of content, set up redirects, defined a claymorphic design system, and built an AI agent to help me develop websites.
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AI As a Co-Operating System
Most people use AI as a tool. I use it as an operating system — one that runs alongside me, not just for me. Here's how I built Cerebro.
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The AntiSlop: Open Source AI Writing Detection That Actually Fixes Things
I've released The AntiSlop — a Claude Code skill that detects 35+ AI writing patterns and rewrites the problems. Not just detection. Fixes.
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37 Credentials in a JSON File I Thought Was Just Config
Opened settings.json for a routine cleanup. Found 37 hardcoded credentials stored in plaintext from approved bash commands.
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Claude Code "Lessons Learned" Skill
Every mistake is a chance to make your Claude Code setup smarter—if you capture the lesson right. The Lessons Learned skill runs a 7-phase retrospective that doesn't just analyze what went wrong, it implements the fix before you move on.
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My MCP Server Collection for Claude Code
I've released eight MCP servers that connect Claude to services I use daily—calendar, email marketing, analytics, media management, and more. Here's the full collection.
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The Borg Agent: Stop Copying Claude Code Skills Blindly
I built a Claude Code agent that analyses external Claude setups and intelligently assimilates their features into your system. It handles naming conflicts, missing dependencies, and adaptation automatically.
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Voice Editor: A Claude Code Skill for Authentic AI Writing
I built a Claude Code skill that transforms generic AI output into writing that sounds like me. Here's how the 6-pass editing workflow works and why the 30-40% edit rule matters.
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Building Book-Powered AI Agents with Calibre and Claude Code
Web search is great for current events. But when you need depth — the kind of insight that comes from a carefully curated book collection — web results fall short. What if your AI agents could search your personal library instead?
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Teaching Claude to Read My Book Collection
I built a system to index my 1,700 ebook Calibre library into ChromaDB so Claude can search my actual books instead of paraphrasing from general knowledge.
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Building an AI-Powered WordPress Publishing Pipeline with Claude Code
I built a WordPress plugin and MCP server that lets Claude publish directly from Obsidian to my blog. Draft, tell Claude to publish, done.
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From Remote Access to Agentic OS: Two Weeks with Claude Code
What started as remote terminal access to my Obsidian vault evolved into something like an operating system—specialised agents, MCP servers, and automated workflows.
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Updating my Claude setup to support remote work
I set up Claude Code on my home server with Tailscale and Syncthing so I can access my Obsidian vault from anywhere—iPad, phone, or any device with a terminal.