When the prompt becomes a creative brief
Writing a prompt that yields a specific image is closer to art direction than to drawing. But there are lessons to learn, spanning questions technical, ethical and legal.
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Publish a blog post without opening the CMS?
Behold! The future! A Model Context Protocol server is a newish AI standard that can make a content platform addressable through a chat interface.
Test post: Hello from the MCP connector
A short test post created via the Contentful MCP connector, to confirm that entries can be drafted end-to-end from a chat interface.
The Blogger's Blueprint
If you're reading this post and the list is unchanged from the day it was published, feel free to assume I've been distracted by something shiny.
Rebuilding this site with Claude as my copilot
Templates are starting points. If you're going to run a blog on someone else's code, you have to plan for the day you'll need to take it over.
Side Quest: Installing RetroPie on a Raspberry Pi 5 using the command line
RetroPie used to ship a ready-to-flash image, but the Raspberry Pi 5 doesn't have one at the moment. Let's take the manual route.
Building blocks for building blogs
Documenting the technologies and tools behind this blog; it began life as a fork-it-and-go template, but has grown into something more substantial.