Articles
Write-ups from the work. MCP servers, AI workflows, content engineering, search, and the occasional tangent. Most of these come from problems I hit on real engagements, written up so the next person does not have to figure it out from scratch.
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The Bitcoin Spiral: How I Built a Live AI-Narrated Dashboard on GitHub Pages
I spent an afternoon building a live Bitcoin dashboard on GitHub Pages with no backend, no paid API key, and a frontier model writing the verdict at the top of the page every six hours. Here's how it works, what it cost (nothing), how to stop the model inventing numbers, and where the architecture goes next when Chrome ships in-browser inference.
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· Claude · claude-codeA beginner's guide to Claude hooks
Claude Code hooks are small scripts that fire automatically at specific moments in a coding session. They give you deterministic control where CLAUDE.md instructions only get probabilistic compliance. This beginner's guide covers what hooks do, the five events you need to know, the exit-code gotcha that catches almost everyone, and the community projects worth installing before you write your own.
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What Are AI Agents? The Plain-English Explanation
An early-user's view of AI agents. Where they fit relative to chat and MCPs, what counts as agentic, and the simplest first agent to build inside Claude Code.
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Claude Code API Key Security: A Guide to Token Hygiene
The simplest possible setup that keeps your production tokens out of AI chat windows. 1Password CLI, op run, and the conversational discipline that makes the rest of it work.
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· ClaudeAI for the Managing Director and CEO - What You Need to Know
If you back your team to identify and ship the work that AI can take off them, you've cleared the biggest barrier to making AI adoption in your company real.
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Agentic Interoperability for Website Owners: AI User Experience (AI UX)
I've been keeping a close eye on the emerging subject of "agentic interoperability" across all my recent build projects. In layman's terms, that's the ability for AI agents to do things for you on your behalf - particularly inside SaaS…
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Implementing WebMCP on a Recruitment Website
Thinking about what, exactly, the future of a website "looks" like in the agentic era is a challenging proposition. It might be that in most cases, our future viewers/readers/customers can do everything, from their chatbot of preference…
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How to Set Up a Claude Code Project in 2026 (And What Goes Where)
What goes where in a Claude Code project: CLAUDE.md, rules, skills, agents, hooks, MCP servers and plugins, plus the setup I use for every new repo.
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Swapping the Engine: How to Run Claude Code on Local Silicon for Zero Pennies
Claude Code's real power isn't the Anthropic model sitting behind it, it's the agentic : the file-system access, the tool use, the way it chains tasks together without you babysitting every step. I figured this out the expensive way. I ran…
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A Beginner's Guide to Claude Computer Use
I've been letting Claude control my mouse and keyboard on and off to test this feature for a little while, and the honest answer is that it's simultaneously the most impressive and most frustrating AI feature I've used. It can navigate…
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DGX Spark Alternatives and AI Mini PCs: Do You Actually Need One?
NVIDIA's DGX Spark and a wave of tiny AI mini PCs promise local LLMs in a gold box. I run local models on water-cooled 3090s, so here's the honest take: the real DGX Spark alternatives, the one spec that actually matters, and whether you need any of them.
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Content Marketing Ideas: What It Is, How I Built It, and Why I Use It Every Day
Content Marketing Ideas is the tool I've built to relcaim the massive amount of time I have to spend monitoring my sources for announcementsm ,ew products, release - whatever. The Problem with Content Research in 2026 Most front line…
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Are Claude Skills Just an Alternative to Reading a Book or is there more than that?
I've too long treating skills like magic incantations of a topic that really, I don't fully understand. I strated out not really thinking about skills or embracing them. I still don't, fully, becuase most of what I do is command line…
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Using a Local LLM to Audit Your Codebase - What Qwen3 Coder Next Catches (and Misses)
I ran a local copy of Qwen3 Coder Next on a machine under my desk. It pinned down a race condition in my production code that I'd missed. It also told me, with complete confidence, that crypto.randomUUID() doesn't work in Cloudflare…
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How to Make SVGs with Claude and Gemini MCP
SVG is having a moment. Over 63% of websites use it, developers are obsessed with keeping files lean and human-readable, and the community has turned against bloated AI-generated "node soup" that looks fine but falls apart the moment you…
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How to Make Images with Claude and (our) Gemini MCP
My latest version of @houtini/gemini-mcp (Gemini MCP) now generates images, video, SVG and html mockups in the Claude Desktop UI with the latest version of MCP apps. But - in case you missed it, you can generate images, SVGs and video from…
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Yet Another Memory MCP? That's Not the Memory You're Looking For
I was considering building my own memory system for Claude Code after some early, failed affairs with memory MCPs. In therapy we're encouraged to think about how we think. A discussion about metacognition in a completely unrelated world…
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The Best MCPs for Content Marketing (Research, Publish, Measure)
The content-marketing MCP stack I run through Claude, from the founder of Builtvisible - built around seo-audit, which does the SEO grunt agencies bill for.
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· claude-code · local-llmHow to set up LM Studio: your first local AI model on your GPU
Turn a gaming GPU into a working local AI model with LM Studio - free, no billing, no API key. The complete beginner path, start to finish.
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· claude-code · openrouterHow I Cut My Claude Code Token Spend with Houtini LM (Architect, Drafter, QA)
Claude as the architect. A cheap local model as the drafter. Claude QAs everything. The token bill drops as a side-effect of using each model for what it does best. Here is how I run it on my own rig.
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What Skills Are AI Companies Hiring For, and What Do the Jobs Tell Us About Their Strategy?
I pointed YubHub at 7,200+ job listings across the major AI labs and the hiring patterns reveal six completely different strategic bets. Anthropic is all-in on research. OpenAI reads like an enterprise SaaS company. xAI is hiring domain experts to teach Grok finance. Here's what the data shows.
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How to Create LinkedIn Carousel Slides with Gemini and Claude
A developer workflow for turning blog posts into LinkedIn carousel slides using Gemini SVG generation, Puppeteer PDF conversion, and a four-line Python merge script. No Canva, no SaaS tools.
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What Is an MCP Server? And Why It Matters for AI Tool Use (2026)
What an MCP server actually is, in plain English - from someone who builds them. How Model Context Protocol turns Claude from a chat window into a workspace.
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How to Improve Your AI Prototype Designs with Skills, Prompts and Gemini
I build a lot of single-file HTML prototypes with Claude Code. They work, but they all end up looking the same. I tested three approaches to fix this - Claude Skills, manual prompt engineering, and Gemini MCP feedback.
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