Category: How To
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Redoing My Blog’s Featured Images with Claude Code and Gemini 3.1 Flash Image
How I used Claude Code and Gemini to apply Jitka Hrůzová’s brand design lessons to every featured image on my site. Includes the prompts I used, the rules I picked, and what I’d do differently if I started over.
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Making My Own Sync Tool for the XTEiNK X3 eReader
How I used Claude Code to build a safer Finder-folder Sync tool for the XTEiNK X3 eReader. Includes a reference doc of the X3’s HTTP requests for anyone who wants to build their own.
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A Dashboard, a Cheat Sheet, a Maturity Model, and More: My AI Month
Some quality-of-life improvements this month, all courtesy of AI: one dashboard for all my automations, a newsletter backlog paced out one issue a day, a 3-hour course boiled down to a cheat sheet, tidier commit messages, and a 116-page report distilled into a maturity model.
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How I’m helping non-technical friends get started with Claude Code
Non-technical macOS users can get in on the fun with Claude Code, even if they’re using Terminal for the first time. This post shows you how.
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Two Ways that AI has Helped Me since January
Any task that is Repetitive, Data-heavy, and has Low variability is a prime candidate for AI-enabled automation. This post has two examples.
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Three practical AI tips for non-technical people
You know you should be using AI more, but where do you start? Get three practical tips that don’t require prompting expertise or technical skills.
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Using Generative AI to Keep Up with New Reading Material
This post is a step-by-step, how-to guide for using Generative AI to keep up with new reading material. Use GenAI to quickly produce summaries and extract actionable recommendations that are tailored to your specific work context.
