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How to Connect Claude to Shopify with MCP (Dev MCP and Storefront Catalog)

Shopify's storefront catalogue tools have moved to /api/ucp/mcp, and they won't run a search without an agent profile. In today's post I connect Claude Code to the Shopify Dev MCP and to a live store's policies and catalogue, read-only, with the commands I ran and the errors I hit.

claude-code · mcp
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
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
How to set up an MCP gateway with Docker

A lot of MCP servers get pulled straight off npm and run with your permissions, which makes them a supply-chain risk. In today's post we're taking a closer look at why I run mine in Docker containers, how to set up Docker's MCP gateway for Claude Code and Claude Desktop, and what a container won't stop.

Claude · mcp
How to Use the Gemini API (and Why I Run It Next to Claude)

Get a Gemini API key, make your first call in curl and Python, dodge the thinking-token trap that returns an empty answer, and see why running Gemini next to Claude is the real unlock. Written from production - and the bills.

Claude · mcp
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
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
How to do an SEO audit with Claude

SEO Audit Console is a free, open-source MCP server that pulls your crawl and your Search Console data into a database on your own PC, and Claude runs the audit from it. In today's guide we're taking a closer look at what an SEO audit covers and how the fixes get ranked and written, run for real on houtini.com with no Semrush or Screaming Frog.

mcp · claude-desktop
Claude Desktop System Requirements (2026): Minimum & Recommended Specs

Claude Desktop was my introduction to AI and it's still the best on-ramp to useful AI at work, so in today's guide I'm taking the system-requirements question the way I'd answer it for a client: the official minimums, the July change that moved Cowork into the cloud, what still runs on your machine, and why the laptop you own is probably fine.

mcp · system-requirements
What is RAG, and what could it do in your company?

Your AI confidently answers questions about your business with public-internet knowledge. RAG is the architecture that gets your actual contracts, customer list and operating playbook into the conversation, with citations. Here is what it is, where it sits next to long context and MCP, and what it changes if you sponsor the work this quarter.

Claude · strategy
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
Best MCP Servers for Claude Desktop (2026)

Claude Desktop is open all day on my machine, and the MCP servers wired into it are what turn a very good chat window into a control panel for everything I work on. In today's guide I'm walking through the stack I run, grouped by job - SEO, finance, research, browser automation - with my real install order and the ones I'd skip.

mcp · 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