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My MCP Went Down Today. I Don't Want To Care About Infrastructure.
Google Cloud blocked Railway's account. BlackOps MCP went dark. I don't want to care about infrastructure, but the infrastructure doesn't care what I want.
•3 min read
Claude Code Is Not Your Project Manager. The Artifacts Are.
A markdown file got me started. Infrastructure is what it became. The year-later upgrade: Claude manages a living knowledge base, files its own bugs, and pitches its own features. One pattern, three implementations.
•5 min read
They Booed AI at Graduation. I Get It. They're Still Wrong.
UCF arts graduates booed a commencement speaker for praising AI. The fear is real. But blocking it out is the worst possible move. Here's the formula the adapters are already running.
•4 min read
The agent is the buyer now. Your checkout isn't ready.
Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol, ChatGPT Instant Checkout, and Perplexity shopping are live. Retail leaders still hiding catalogs behind login walls are losing transactions they can't see.
•7 min read
Signup is dead. The agent is the signup form now.
From npx to a live post in ten minutes. No forms, no empty dashboard.
•6 min read
Personal Second Brains Are Step One. Operational Second Brains Are The Actual Destination.
Personal second brains help you think. Operational second brains run a business. Five places that wall shows up, and what changes when the architecture has to publish.
•6 min read
Coinbase Founder Just Validated What I've Been Saying for Months
Brian Armstrong announced one-person teams running fleets of AI agents at Coinbase. I wrote this playbook months ago. Here's what it actually looks like in practice.
•5 min read
Why Your Best Work Gets 200 Views While Slop Gets 4.8 Million
The platform math that rewards repackaging over judgment, and why practitioners who ship real work win long-term anyway. A breakdown of urgency loops, borrowed authority, and the structural bet against content slop.
•8 min read
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I Killed the Browser Workflow for Content Creation. My Readers Still Live in Browsers.
Salesforce killed the browser for data access. BlackOps kills the browser workflow for creators. Your content lives in browsers. Your work happens in Claude.
•4 min read
From It's a Small World to the Haunted Mansion: A Blog Post Written in Claude Chat via BlackOps MCP
Obsidian CEO kepano shipped official Claude Code skills. Here's the practitioner take on what composable vault architecture actually looks like — from someone already running 8 custom skills.
•4 min read
Google Analytics in Claude: Query GA4 Without Leaving the Chat
How I added GA4 query tools to my MCP server so analytics, drafting, and iteration all live in the same chat surface.
•4 min read
The Algorithm Just Told Me You All Use the Same Tool
The X algorithm is serving up identical posts from different accounts. Same tool, same tells. Here's why practitioners scroll past and what AI should actually do.
•13 min read
The Knowledge I Lost (And How You Won't)
30 years of hard-won engineering experience, gone. Here's why the next generation won't have the same regret.
•6 min read
Gary Vee Was Right. The Execution Layer Was Missing.
Gary Vee told business owners to post on 8 platforms every day. The advice is right. But advice without infrastructure is just motivation. Here is how I built the execution layer.
•6 min read
I Was Trying to Buy a Truck. I Accidentally Discovered the Future of Note-Taking.
How a Sunday truck research session revealed something I hadn't designed into BlackOps: the end of note-taking as we know it.
•6 min read
Stop Giving Claude a Static Doc. Give It a Brain.
Brain compiles any Obsidian folder into a living knowledge base every agent can read and update. Claude Projects, Claude Code, Cowork. No RAG. No scripts. No stale context.
•6 min read
You Don't Have a Brand Problem. You Have a Systems Problem.
Joanna Wiebe broke down 6 psychology principles behind personal brands that convert. Every single one is a systems problem — and BlackOps solves all 6.
•10 min read
Everyone's Mad Anthropic Killed OpenClaw Access. I'm Not.
I spent a month debugging OpenClaw every morning before coming back to Claude Code. The people crying loudest about Anthropic's decision aren't the ones who were actually using it to get work done.
•5 min read
I Watched a YouTube Video. Claude Wrote This Post.
BlackOps has an MCP server. That means Claude can draft, queue, and publish your content directly from a conversation. Here's what that looks like in practice.
•3 min read
Two Waves of Digital Transformation. Developers Win Both.
AI is replacing workers and consumers alike. The first wave digitized the back office. The second is removing humans from both sides of the transaction. Here's why developers should be optimistic about all of it.
•6 min read
Stop Hiring Cooks. Start Building Kitchens.
Everyone says "we can use AI for that." But reliable, repeatable AI requires infrastructure. Here's why developers need to build the kitchen, not just hire the cook.
•5 min read
I Published an MCP for BlackOps Center. Here’s What It Actually Enables.
The BlackOps MCP connects Claude directly to your content system. Here's how to use it to write posts, tweet threads, and run campaigns.
•2 min read
Flying West
A Razorfish call, an Oakley project, and two and a half years of flying every other week changed how I worked—and turned me into a consultant.
•6 min read
Building a Customer Radar with OpenClaw
Instead of shouting into the void, I built a system to notice patterns in real conversations using OpenClaw to measure real product-market fit signals.
•8 min read
Why I’m Done Trying to Make X Make Sense
•4 min read
How I Created Mission-Command Development (The Backstory)
How a single senior developer with AI agents can replace entire development teams, transforming software delivery from slow team coordination to rapid mission command execution.
•5 min read
The Idea That Hit Me 2,500 Miles from My Laptop (And Sparked a New Dev Tool)
How a vacation without my laptop led me to build VoiceCommit - an AI-powered voice-first tool that turns spoken commerce and development ideas into GitHub Issues, PRs, and updates.
•9 min read
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.
•11 min read
I Asked AI to Make My Site 'Pop' — It Built Asteroids Instead
A casual evening with Claude Code turned into shipping a fully-featured Asteroids easter egg
•10 min read
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.
•9 min read
When AI Goes Off the Rails
Reflections on the challenges of working with AI agents in development and how teams can adapt
•6 min read
Navigating Your Career Path as a Developer: From Junior to Principal and Beyond
Career guidance from 30 years in commerce development - from accidental start to Commerce Frontend Specialist. Navigate your tech career with insights on continuous learning, mentorship, and strategic growth in e-commerce.
•7 min read
How I Use iOS Shortcuts to Add Today's Local Weather to My Obsidian Daily Note
Use iOS (or macOS) Shortcuts to add the day's weather for my location to my Obsidian Daily Note.
•5 min read
How I Add the Weather to My Obsidian Daily Note
Use iOS (or macOS) Shortcuts to add the day's weather for my location to my Obsidian Daily Note.
•4 min read
Automating My Obsidian Daily Note
How I use iOS Shortcuts to automatically create and populate my daily note.
•7 min read
Quickly Add VSCode to Your iPad
A quick walkthrough of how to add VSCode to your iPad home screen.
•3 min read
How I Import My Meetings Into My Obsidian Daily Note
How I automate importing my Obsidian daily note's meeting schedule from my Outlook calendar events.
•7 min read
5 VSCode Extensions I Use Daily to Manage My Remote Teams
Essential VSCode extensions for commerce frontend development and team leadership. Tools that enable efficient development across multiple e-commerce projects and remote team management.
•11 min read
How I View My Latest Readwise Highlights in My Obsidian Daily Note
I created an Obsidian Dataview query to view my latest Readwise highlights daily.
•4 min read
First Look at the Official Readwise Obsidian Plugin
A rundown of the official Obsidian plugin from Readwise
•3 min read
