Tagged: claude-code

21 articles tagged claude-code.

n8n MCP: How to Connect Claude Code to n8n and Use Its API Safely

In today's post I'm connecting Claude Code to n8n two ways: calling a tool you build behind an MCP Server Trigger, and managing the workflows themselves through n8n's public API. I ran both against my own self-hosted n8n, and tested two API calls that n8n lets through without a warning: one PUT deleted a node's credential, and another put a change live.

claude-code · mcp
AI Fact Checking: How I Check My Content Reliably With Agents

At the end of September I had AI agents fact-check all 64 articles on this site, one agent to an article, and their reports came to 155 fixes. Google's own guidance, updated on 1 October, now calls it critical to fact-check AI-generated content before you publish it. In today's post we're taking a closer look at how the agents were set up, what they found, what the recent research says about AI fact-checking, and how I got the fixes onto live pages without breaking them.

claude-code · AI agents
OpenCode vs Claude Code: Setting Up OpenCode Desktop on Windows

OpenCode Desktop runs whichever model you point it at, and it picked up my Claude Code skills without being asked. I connected DeepSeek, GLM-5.3 and a local Qwen, fenced the permissions, and then had GLM-5.3 review an MCP server I'd built with Claude, fix it and get a release ready.

claude-code · mcp
How to Connect Google Trends to Claude Code

Google Trends can now be read by whole category, with no keyword, so I added it to my seo-audit MCP. In today's post we're connecting Google Trends to Claude Code, running the three ways of asking on real data, and having Gemini MCP draw the report, with every prompt included.

claude-code · mcp
Claude Code Skills: What They Do and Which Ones to Use

A skill isn't an extension to the system prompt, and it doesn't do the job of an MCP server. It shapes what Claude produces without you spelling out what you want every time, and in this post I go through where a skill sits in a call, the skills worth using (my two included) and a template to build your own.

Claude · claude-code
CLAUDE.md: How to Write One That Stays Lean

In today's post, I'm taking a real CLAUDE.md from one of my projects down from 180 lines to 67. The review I ran on it came back with 23 findings, four of them serious, and I'm sharing the prompt so you can run it on your own repo.

Claude · claude-code
How to Make a Presentation with Claude

In today's post I'm sharing how I make presentations with Claude, a way of working that keeps my time on the data and my insight rather than on PowerPoint. Claude writes the storyline first and puts every number in one data file, Gemini draws the charts, and the same source builds both a PDF and an editable PowerPoint file. When next month's numbers arrive, the deck rebuilds in under three minutes.

claude-code · gemini
Claude Code Memory: How to Keep It Useful

In today's post I'm going through Claude Code memory: how CLAUDE.md and auto memory work, why they go stale, and the lint and retire-don't-delete prune that keep mine useful, plus my designs for a scheduled skill and a small knowledge graph keyed to Wikidata.

Claude · claude-code
Infographics and articles that update themselves, built on free APIs

Once an article goes live, it starts to go stale, so I built The Daily Visual, a prototype site that rebuilds its charts, its data and the numbers in its sentences every morning from free public APIs. In today's post we're taking a closer look at how far that goes, what broke in its first month, and where I'd take it next.

claude-code · Automation
How to Write a PRD an AI Can Build From (with a template)

A PRD is the difference between an AI coding tool that guesses and one that builds the thing you meant. Here's what a PRD is, a copyable six-part template, a worked example, and the two lines that do most of the work - written for the era where the thing reading your spec is an agent, not just your engineering team.

claude-code · PRD
How to Use Claude Code: From a PRD to a Deployed App

In today's post I'm going through how to use Claude Code properly, from the PRD I write by hand to a deployed app, with the real repos, tests, git flow and mistakes from the things I've built with it.

claude-code · mcp
Best Local LLM for Coding, Plus the API and Image Models I Use

In today's post I'm taking a closer look at the best LLM for coding, both local and over an API. Here are the local and API models in my setup, the job each one does and the tests behind it, plus the image models I use.

claude-code · local-llm
How to run houtini-lm on vLLM

I moved my local models off my old server and onto vLLM in Docker. In today's post we're taking a closer look at pointing houtini-lm at it, and why thinking goes off for a model served under an alias.

claude-code · mcp
Claude Code System Requirements (2026): Specs, Setup, Gotchas

In today's guide, we're setting up Claude Code on Mac, Windows and Linux in the forms it now ships in: the terminal CLI, the Code tab in the Claude Desktop app, and the VS Code and Cursor extension. The published spec, the install routes Anthropic recommends, Fable 5.1 on every paid plan, and why the machine matters less than the way you work.

claude-code · cli
AI for the CFO: How to Get AI Spend Under Control

In today's post I'm looking at why AI spend now moves with how much the tools get used, which is how Uber went through its 2026 AI budget by April, and at the four levers a finance team can pull to bring it back under control.

strategy · claude-code
A 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.

Claude · claude-code
How to set up LM Studio: GPU offload, developer mode and your first local model

Turn a gaming GPU into a working local AI model with LM Studio - free, no billing, no API key. In today's guide, we install it, point it at the GPU, download a first model, and then go through the settings: GPU offload, context length, Flash Attention, temperature and top-k, and the Developer mode that unlocks them.

claude-code · local-llm
Cut your Claude Code bill with houtini-lm, and get a second opinion

We built houtini-lm so Claude Code can stay the orchestrator while other models do the work: a cheaper frontier model, a local model on your own GPU, or a specialist with a skill Claude doesn't have. In today's post we're taking a closer look at what my average Claude Code day costs, what the same work costs elsewhere, and what a second model on the job adds besides the saving.

claude-code · openrouter
The Best MCP Servers for Claude Code (2026)

Claude Code has been my main coding tool for over a year, and the MCP servers around it are what close its gaps - live documentation, your database, production errors, a cheap local model for the grunt work. In today's guide I'm walking through the stack I run every day, with the install order I'd use on a fresh setup.

claude-code · mcp
Claude Desktop Tutorial: a Beginner's Guide

In today's guide, we're starting from scratch with Claude Desktop, the app where AI stops being a chatbot and starts doing jobs for you. We install it, change a few settings, connect Gmail for an email summary, then cover Projects, context and letting Claude work on files on your own disk without putting anything at risk.

claude-code · claude-desktop
How to connect Google Search Console to Claude with an MCP server

SEO Audit Console is a free MCP server that pulls your Search Console history into a database on your own machine, joins it to a crawl of your site, and lets Claude query both. In today's guide we're taking a closer look at how to set it up in Claude Desktop or Claude Code, run the first sync and crawl, and ask your first SEO questions.

claude-code · mcp

n8n MCP: How to Connect Claude Code to n8n and Use Its API Safely

AI Fact Checking: How I Check My Content Reliably With Agents

OpenCode vs Claude Code: Setting Up OpenCode Desktop on Windows

How to Connect Google Trends to Claude Code

Claude Code Skills: What They Do and Which Ones to Use

CLAUDE.md: How to Write One That Stays Lean

How to Make a Presentation with Claude

Claude Code Memory: How to Keep It Useful

Infographics and articles that update themselves, built on free APIs

How to Write a PRD an AI Can Build From (with a template)

How to Use Claude Code: From a PRD to a Deployed App

Best Local LLM for Coding, Plus the API and Image Models I Use

How to run houtini-lm on vLLM

Claude Code System Requirements (2026): Specs, Setup, Gotchas

AI for the CFO: How to Get AI Spend Under Control

A beginner's guide to Claude hooks

How to set up LM Studio: GPU offload, developer mode and your first local model

Cut your Claude Code bill with houtini-lm, and get a second opinion

The Best MCP Servers for Claude Code (2026)

Claude Desktop Tutorial: a Beginner's Guide

How to connect Google Search Console to Claude with an MCP server