so, I’m currently working on a Claude project where I’ve built out a PDF PRD after talking to Claude for a little while to do a few simple things that I think will add a lot of value to the blog in the long term, especially from a search perspective or using AI to ask questions about media and content that I came across that day.

currently i’ve got urls and links that i aggregate using a dashboard called glance, it’s a fantastic piece of free open source for making dashboards. It’s got a bunch of content creators i like on there and a bunch of reddit and rss feeds from across the web, it’s my at a glance look at the pulse of common places i go too, it’s even got hacker news on there front and center.

my need is quite simple

• post my complete list into my claude project
• the project instructions come from the pdf prd (built with claude)
• output two versions, micropost (300 characters max) and a blog version
• ability to copy and paste markdown into micro.blog

future features

• splinter off the urls collecting into separate daily list in bear (so i can use the api)
• use the micro.blog api after review via telegram (or something) to push microblog
• maybe create daily draft posts so i don’t have blank page vibes
• combine getmatter.com (matter) read later into output too in some way

i spent quite a chunk of my morning collecting links i’ve found and i’d like to automate a bunch of that, i’m quite ok for them to live offline in my bear but i think want to get more social value about them and often times it creates conversation around the blog and on social in general when someone is always an existing user of a platform or is looking for a tool to make things easier.

i’ve always been very much a keymaker kinda of character because of my early BBS days when i was ratio’d out of my mind! also, mad hoarder, that tutorial, that thing with a short link or a stash or stored on a nas/cloud somewhere.

i think i want to start taking the “weight” out of that so i’m not so tied to it, in a world of hyperconnected ai tools the need to do this ourselves is falling away, i’m not saying the personal choices part but the actual nuance of the moment is kinda just becoming this blob of context.

i love that i can make little tools like this with ai, either as .zsh aliases and scripts or something much bigger, i love the idea of fixing or creating a fix/timesaver and charging a small amount public facing for that – especially for content creators, we need more people making and adding to the conversation instead of what we have today which is more absorbers/viewers.

so expect to see more daily blog posts as i try to combine my links addiction (collecting!) and generally writing a post, i think i can combine the two nicely and have something public facing for people to see, a lot of my discovery has been offline and personal up to now but i love the curation aspect of the “find”

it’s been perfect in the current life state i’m in, i’m not allowed to work at the moment so i’ve been learning, re-learning, trying to be more in-tune with my daily life and general all around health. this has given me much needed thinking time to recalibrate what i want my life to look like in the next years, including where i want that to be and why – where the opportunities might be next.

once i get this prd/claude project fine tuned i’ll share what i’ve learned in much more detail.

my idea situation is a bear api note integration, then send that for review to say something like telegram (some chat app) so i can test and review and then finally push as either a live microblog post or a draft for a blog post on micro.blog that i can pick up when mobile.

obviously it’s got to fit with the other things i’m considering which is to build out the og “medium/me.dm” idea of a tool for content creators on the go or on the desktop to be able to rapidly deploy their content at scale, in multiple ways.

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