I enjoy writing in my personal life and at work. In the latter case, it’s an important part of my responsibilities. The IT department is currently deploying and assigning Copilot Premium licenses. I’m still waiting for my turn, but from what my colleagues tell me, the experience of using Copilot with access to our documents, emails, conversations and notes is quite positive and almost magical in some situations. I look forward to trying out Copilot, especially since I write much more than most of my colleagues¹ and since writing is their main fuel, I’m up for a few positive surprises. I have a feeling that I will finally benefit from my consistent efforts.

In today’s world, it is surprisingly easy to go from a problem to a viable solution in just a few hours. The problem: I can’t query my published content hosted on Ghost beyond using the basic search capabilities¹. Now, with the Ghost API endpoint, a Postgres-hosted SaaS, an n8n sync workflow, a Claude Skill, and Claude Desktop, I can.

Now, I wonder if I could reproduce this design for querying Micro.blog content. Let me ask Claude AI. Stay tuned.

Well, what a day… both at work and for my digital hobbies. I saw a teaser from @mattbirchler late last week, which made me think that he might be onto something with RSS feeds… Today I found my answer with the official release of birchfeed.app. There is quite a lot to unpack there.

First, from my experience with Birchfeed after a few hours using it (on the free tier), I came out impressed. It is another case of “build the best tool for myself”. Matt is an RSS feed junky just like me. I also built an RSS reader, but the end result is quite different. It’s not a sync service like Birchfeed, but an RSS reader for a blogroll (i.e. a very limited list of RSS sources).

Second, my RSS reader maintains its own data persistence. It’s not connected with my current RSS sync service: Inoreader. I’d like to have a single source of truth. Birchfeed seems to fit the bill, thanks to its APIs, and it would allow that for a fraction of the cost of using Inoreader APIs. After a quick investigation using Claude AI on my codebase, I could make the switch rather easily, and eventually drop Inoreader when my subscription expires next year. So I’m not in a rush, and Birchfeed will keep improving until then.

But, because I’m a nice guy who likes to support cool guys, I’m might subscribe to Birchfeed right before my free trial ends…

Since Claude Code exists, I have noticed a surprising phenomenon: more and more new applications are appearing on the App Store or coming to life as web applications accessible only to their creator-promoter. The process is called vibe coding. When I see people creating new applications with the help of artificial intelligence, I can’t help but think back to the era of the introduction of PageMaker, the LaserWriter laser printer, and the Macintosh. These three elements enabled the democratization of what became known as ‘Desktop Publishing.’ Many people who knew nothing about printing, layout, and design started creating posters, newsletters, etc. The results were not always of very high quality. Fast forward to today: artificial intelligence and tools like Claude Code are bringing us back into a similar context of high-velocity creation. It’s fascinating. The more things change…

My bookmarking web app is now mature, but one thing was missing: an MCP endpoint. I wasn’t sure whether I could add that feature while running on Vercel. Well, after less than an hour, Claude Code helped me get my MCP endpoint running smoothly and responding to all sorts of prompts! I was expecting a much more challenging journey. 😅

MyMind now offers an MCP endpoint for use with Claude. I can imagine that for those who store a lot in MyMind, it could be really useful. I tested MyMind and liked a few things about it. It’s like Pinterest but without the AI and ads crap. I connect to my MyMind account from time to time just to see how the service is evolving, and it does, but I eventually found it was redundant with what I already use: Craft, which also supports MCP and API endpoints.

One quick question for the Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta IT guys: is it that hard to configure a sandbox to block outbound traffic to the Internet? I know really good guys who could help you with this. Or, if you don’t want to hire a human to do it, just ask your fuckin models how to do it. Until then, how can we trust you?

I’m returning from a short visit to YouTube Studio to find out that Google is now offering AI-based ideas to inspire the creation of new videos. I selected that one because it relates to Micro.blog. Very low quality. Here’s an excerpt:

“Most Micro.blog sites are digital ghosts, invisible to the search engines and professional networks that matter. We are going to fix that by engineering a high-authority ecosystem that ranks on the first page while keeping you in total control. Stop shouting into a void and start building a discoverable hub.”

This couldn’t be further from the truth.