Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist

Posts tagged “claude-code

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The Work Starts When the Thought Does
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The Work Starts When the Thought Does

An autonomous SDLC where a note fires a Claude session, and the pull request is waiting when I get home.

Self-healing software survives its bugs without changing a line. What I run against my projects changes the source. Logging the defect is what fires the work, and most days the completion email is the entirety of my involvement.

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I Spent Years Automating My Obsidian Daily Note. Now It Files Itself.
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I Spent Years Automating My Obsidian Daily Note. Now It Files Itself.

I fed it by hand for years. Now an agent files my day's captures overnight, and I wake up to what's next.

For years I fed my Obsidian daily note by hand. Now an agent files my captures overnight, tells my thoughts from my tasks, and I wake up to a clear picture of what's next.

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Sorties: Fire Real Actions Straight From Your AI Chat
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Sorties: Fire Real Actions Straight From Your AI Chat

Set up an action once. Fire it by name from anywhere, even your phone.

A Sortie turns a sentence in your AI chat into a real action. Fix a bug, message your team, fire an automation. Set it up once, fire it by name from anywhere, and your keys never touch the conversation.

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Claude Code Is Not Your Project Manager. The Artifacts Are.
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Claude Code Is Not Your Project Manager. The Artifacts Are.

A markdown file got me started. Infrastructure is what it became.

A year ago I gave Claude a ROADMAP.md and called it my project manager. The post still ranks. The post is also out of date. Here is what Claude actually manages now.

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Personal Second Brains Are Step One. Operational Second Brains Are The Actual Destination.
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Personal Second Brains Are Step One. Operational Second Brains Are The Actual Destination.

Every few months a new "second brain" build hits X. The pattern is real, the folder taxonomies are getting sharper. But every one of them stops in the same place: a markdown file. Here's the wall.

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From It's a Small World to the Haunted Mansion: A Blog Post Written in Claude Chat via BlackOps MCP
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From It's a Small World to the Haunted Mansion: A Blog Post Written in Claude Chat via BlackOps MCP

How a single conversation, no app switching, no copy-paste, went from breaking news to published post before the ride ended.

Obsidian just shipped official Claude Code skills. Here's what it means when your vault already runs a custom skill ecosystem. And yes, I sent this from It's a Small World.

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Everyone's Mad Anthropic Killed OpenClaw Access. I'm Not.
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Everyone's Mad Anthropic Killed OpenClaw Access. I'm Not.

I spent a month debugging it every morning. The people crying loudest aren't the ones who were actually using it.

I bought the Mac mini. I posted that it was the future. A month later I was waking up every morning to fix something that broke overnight. Here's what I learned.

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The Industry Just Validated What I've Been Building All Year
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The Industry Just Validated What I've Been Building All Year

A 20-year product leader described the AI capability overhang. Every theme matched systems I'd already shipped. This is what it looks like from inside.

A great video just described the AI development revolution happening right now. I've been writing about it — and building it — for months. Here are the receipts.

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Vibe Coding Isn’t the Problem - Vague Thinking Is
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Vibe Coding Isn’t the Problem - Vague Thinking Is

Why AI-assisted development exposes leadership, not recklessness

Discover why vibe coding is not the real problem in AI-assisted development and how clear thinking, intent, and constraints turn it into a powerful workflow

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Command-Driven Development Logging with Visual Progress: A Better Way to Track Development with Claude Code
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Command-Driven Development Logging with Visual Progress: A Better Way to Track Development with Claude Code

How I created and use a command-driven system in my everyday commerce development process with Claude Code to document progress with visual screenshots - giving me complete control over when and how enterprise development gets documented.

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I Asked AI to Make My Site 'Pop' — It Built Asteroids Instead
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I Asked AI to Make My Site 'Pop' — It Built Asteroids Instead

From a simple UI request to shipping a complete Asteroids game—discover how Claude Code transformed casual conversation into production-ready code with authentic 1979 arcade gameplay.

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Claude Code Is More Than a Dev Assistant—It’s My Project Manager
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Claude Code Is More Than a Dev Assistant—It’s My Project Manager

Discover how combining Claude Code with a simple ROADMAP.md file transformed my personal project management and delivered consistent progress on my blog.