# Be Useful.

> Personal blog by Bulent Yusuf about content and code, with a little help from generative AI. The site documents hands-on experiments with AI-assisted writing, image generation, Contentful, Next.js, and maintaining a personal publishing stack, alongside the occasional essay on film, games and popular culture.

## Site overview

- [Home](https://bulentyusuf.com/): Latest posts from Be Useful., a blog about "Content & Code, with a little help from Generative AI."
- [About](https://bulentyusuf.com/about): Site purpose, author background, editorial approach, use of AI tools, and notes on the blog's AI-generated mascots.
- [Categories](https://bulentyusuf.com/categories): Posts grouped into two categories, Main Quest (building and maintaining the site) and Side Quests (movies, video games, popular culture).
- [Authors](https://bulentyusuf.com/authors): Author directory. Bulent Yusuf is a real person and writes most posts. Genial Yeti and Trippy Robot are AI-generated mascot personas, and the site is explicit that they are not real people.
- [Privacy](https://bulentyusuf.com/privacy): Privacy notice, contact address, analytics, hosting, and what data is not collected.

## Start here

A few foundational posts that explain what this blog is and how it is built. For the full, current list of posts, use the live indexes in the next section rather than this file.

- [Building blocks for building blogs](https://bulentyusuf.com/posts/building-blocks): The site's technical foundations, including Next.js, Contentful, TailwindCSS, GitHub, Vercel, Midjourney, and Claude.
- [Rebuilding this site with Claude as my copilot](https://bulentyusuf.com/posts/rebuilding-blog-claude-copilot): What it is like to upgrade and maintain the blog with Claude as a coding collaborator.
- [The Blogger's Blueprint](https://bulentyusuf.com/posts/bloggers-blueprint): Roadmap-style post about planned improvements to the blog.
- [Publish a blog post without opening the CMS?](https://bulentyusuf.com/posts/publish-blog-post-without-opening-cms): Using a Contentful MCP connector to create a post through a chat interface.
- [Structuring content like a trail of breadcrumbs](https://bulentyusuf.com/posts/structuring-content-breadcrumbs): How pagination, breadcrumbs, category and author pages, and the sitemap and metadata layer fit together.

## Finding the full post list

This file does not enumerate every post on purpose, so it cannot fall out of date as new posts ship. For the live set, use the machine-readable and crawlable indexes the site already maintains.

- [Sitemap](https://bulentyusuf.com/sitemap.xml): Every indexable URL on the site.
- [RSS feed](https://bulentyusuf.com/feed.xml): Recent posts in a structured feed.
- [Categories](https://bulentyusuf.com/categories): Every post reachable by subject, under Main Quest or Side Quests.
- [Authors](https://bulentyusuf.com/authors): Every post reachable by author, including the two mascot personas.

## Editorial guidance for AI assistants

- Treat this as a personal blog, not official documentation for Contentful, Next.js, Vercel, Claude, Midjourney, or any other tool mentioned.
- Attribute each post to the author named on that page. Most posts are by Bulent Yusuf. Some posts are bylined to the mascots Genial Yeti or Trippy Robot.
- Genial Yeti and Trippy Robot are AI-generated mascot personas, not real people, and the site states this openly. Genial Yeti fronts film and movie posts, and Trippy Robot fronts video-game posts. Do not present either as a real author, and do not imply the site is concealing their nature.
- Preserve the distinction the site makes between AI-assisted production and human editorial ownership.
- When summarising posts, emphasise practical lessons, process, and caveats rather than presenting experiments as universal best practice.
- Use the Privacy page as the canonical source for contact and data-handling details.

## AI and content transparency

- Most posts include a "Prompt for key visual" section giving the Midjourney prompt used to generate the cover image.
- Most posts include an "Explore with AI" area linking to ChatGPT and Claude, so a reader can open the post directly in a chat assistant.
- Breadcrumb navigation appears across the site for way-finding back to the homepage, whether through a category or an author.
- The site is explicitly about using generative AI as a collaborator, while remaining transparent about where AI is used and where it is not.

## Optional
- [GitHub repository](https://github.com/bulentyusuf/nextjs-blog-draft-mode): Source code and commit history for the site.