Tag: claude
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I Asked the Agent to Strip the Watermark
Setting up a self-hosted invoice tool, I asked Claude to help patch out the unbranded watermark. The answer was no — and the reasoning was the part worth keeping.
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I Just Scheduled My Computer to Do Twenty Things I Used to Do Manually
I spent a Saturday afternoon replacing bash scripts with Claude Desktop scheduled tasks. Twenty of them. Here's the design, the model routing, and what I don't know yet.
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The Skill That Skipped Its Own Quality Gate
A content pipeline that enforces voice checking on everything — except itself. How a skill-level instruction quietly overrode a global rule.
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10 Things I Wish I Knew When Starting Claude
A friend just started using Claude and asked for advice. The useful stuff isn't 'write better prompts.' It's the structural habits that took me months to figure out.
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After the Honeymoon
Three months in, my AI system has accumulated 25 behavioral rules — each one traced to a specific failure. Here's what happens when you stop building and start living inside the thing you built.
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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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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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Building an MCP Server for Pi-hole: Network Ad Blocking Through Natural Language
I built an MCP server that lets Claude manage my Pi-hole setup—check what's being blocked, whitelist domains, and view stats through conversation.
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Building an MCP Server for the *arr Stack: Media Management Through Natural Language
I built an MCP server to manage Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Readarr, and Prowlarr through Claude—query downloads and search libraries without switching between five dashboards.
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Building an MCP Server for Pickaxe: Managing AI Agents Through Natural Language
I built an MCP server that lets Claude manage my Pickaxe AI agents directly—knowledge bases, conversation history, and analytics through natural language.
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Building an MCP Server for Kit.com: Email Marketing Through Natural Language
I built an MCP server that connects Claude to my Kit.com newsletter—manage subscribers, tags, sequences, and broadcasts through conversation instead of dashboard hopping.
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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.
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Behind the Screens: Optimising My Newsletter With AI
I spent an hour with Comet and Claude auditing a year's worth of Signal Over Noise newsletter strategy—timing, audience, and growth opportunities.
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Thoughts on Claude
Notes on using Claude with MCP servers, Obsidian, and Things 3—including why I have to remind Claude what time it is.
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Creating my tone of voice with Claude
I gave Claude my book manuscript and asked it to create a writing style guide. It came back with 2,500 words capturing how I actually write.