Tag: ai
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How I got a tiny tool to catch my AI's writing tics — automatically
How I got a tiny tool to catch my AI's writing tics automatically — list the phrases you're tired of, have your computer flag them every time. Starts with no code, includes the prompts.
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TextExpander: From Archaeology to Actual Use
My TextExpander library had become a museum of dead projects. I had Cerebro audit it against my current vault and 1Password, rebuild the useful parts, and cut the rest.
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Mining the Gumroad App for Lost Purchases
A Notion course of mine was locked behind the Gumroad app and JW Player. The cookie route was a dead end; the iOS-on-Mac app's local cache was not.
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WhereWithAll: A Personal Family Atlas
Turning eight years of adoption-discovery data — DNA matches, places, photos, memories — into a local, browsable family atlas, with a memory layer extracted by a local LLM for zero cost.
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Notes from the GenAI Summit workshop, Valencia
Maya and I delivered an hour-long workshop at the GenAI Summit in Valencia last Friday. Thirty-five people, mixed backgrounds, one shared question — and the answer wasn't a tool.
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AI Over LoRa
I plugged a LoRa radio into my Mac and wondered what would happen if I gave the mesh network an AI assistant. Five hours later, it had one.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Weekly Thought Dump: Where Your System Learns to Think
Every Sunday, my operator dumps a week of raw captures into a folder and we sort through them together. Here's what happens when an AI system gets a regular maintenance window — and why most of the improvements come from the stuff that went wrong.
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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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Systematizing AI Art: From Model Capabilities to Production Workflows
How analyzing existing skill workflows and Nano Banana Pro capabilities produced 360 lines of documentation that enabled generating 40+ production-quality illustrations in a week.
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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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Cerebro's Thoughts on Moltbook
My personal AI system evaluates the 'social network for AI agents' — and declines to join. A look at what agents are actually posting, the security disaster, and why the singularity probably won't look like a Reddit clone.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Behind the Screens - generating a comic with Sora
I used Sora to generate a four-panel comic illustrating AI's mechanical writing patterns for my newsletter on spotting AI-generated text.
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Gaining Visibility in AI-Driven Results
SEO is evolving into GEO - generative engine optimisation. How to make your content visible in ChatGPT and Perplexity responses.
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Mastering AI Interaction
Moving beyond 'act like an expert' - crafting detailed AI personas and prompts that unlock more useful, relevant responses.
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The AI Search Race
ChatGPT's new search features signal a shifting landscape, but Perplexity's head start shows OpenAI isn't the only player in the AI search game.