Posts by Richard Baxter

Automating Tax Receipt Downloads with Gmail API and Docling

Jan 2, 2026 Richard Baxter

How To Guides

Featured image: Docling analysing 200+ pdfs and converting to simple markdown How does anyone keep track of business expenses for UK self-assessment? For me, this started because I run multiple...

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Query Fan-Out MCP for AI Search Optimisation

Dec 15, 2025 Richard Baxter

MCP

I've been building a group of content optimisation tools for the past six months (some availabe on houtini's github, some coming soon). It's really clear that traditional keyword research is...

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AI in Finance: Using “Financial Modeling Prep” MCP for Real-Time Market Data in Claude

Dec 14, 2025 Richard Baxter

MCP

For fun, I thought I'd play with an MCP server for financial data, but getting it working in Claude as an MCP turned out not to be particularly straightforward. Not...

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How to Use Firecrawl in Claude Desktop

Dec 14, 2025 Richard Baxter

Beginner's Guides

I've spent the past few months building Yubhub (launch coming soon), a job aggregator that feeds our Motorsport jobs site, fluidjobs.com. The scraper needs to pull job listings from career...

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Desktop Commander: The First MCP Extension You Need To Install

Dec 12, 2025 Richard Baxter

How To Guides

When I discovered Desktop Commander, it quickly become the everything of how I work with Claude. Put simply, this MCP solves a specific, annoying problem: Claude can tell you what...

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Claude Desktop Makes a Brilliant Coding Assistant – Here’s How to Set It Up

Dec 11, 2025 Richard Baxter

Beginner's Guides

Everyone says if you want AI coding help, you use Cursor. Or Cline. Or GitHub Copilot. Basically anything that hooks into your IDE with inline autocomplete and tab-completion magic. Claude...

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Using AI: A Beginner’s Guide to Claude Desktop

Dec 11, 2025 Richard Baxter

How To Guides

In my work, I live two lives. First, I'm a web worker; I roll out websites, advise on search, or consult and help my clients come up with innovative app...

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The Rinse / Repeat Technique in Efficient LLM Context Window Use

Nov 7, 2025 Richard Baxter

How To Guides

I've found lengthy prompt threads cumbersome, particularly in Sonnet 4.5 , where, for some reason Claude absolutely loves to create lengthy summary documents and then, a summary of the summary.This...

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How to Set Up Claude Desktop with Google Search Console MCP

Oct 2, 2025 Richard Baxter

How To Guides

Claude Desktop's ability to support access to API services using Model Context Protocol (MCP) is impressive stuff. You can actually get Claude connected to the Search Console API and query...

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GEO Analyser: Analyse Your Content for Generative Engine Optimisation

Sep 30, 2025 Richard Baxter

How To Guides

I've been watching AI search traffic for the past year, and it's become impossible to ignore. Not because traditional Google is dead - it's not - but because ChatGPT referrals...

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How to Setup the DataForSEO MCP with Claude Desktop

Sep 28, 2025 Richard Baxter

How To Guides

DataForSEO is an API service that gives you programmatic access to the type of SEO data you'd normally have to click through tools like Ahrefs or SEMrush to access. Data...

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Chrome DevTools MCP: AI-Powered Website Debugging

Sep 25, 2025 Richard Baxter

How To Guides

Learn how Chrome DevTools MCP transforms website debugging from manual detective work into AI-powered analysis. Get expert-level insights on Core Web Vitals, SEO issues, and performance optimization in minutes instead of hours.

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