Teaching Claude My Disney Lorcana Collection, Part 4: The Fix That Broke Things
A promo-card mapping that looked verified, shipped clean, and would have quietly added the wrong cards to a real collection. The bug, the revert, and the act...
2026
July
Teaching Claude My Disney Lorcana Collection, Part 3: Building an AI Deck Builder
A heuristic deck-building engine, two bugs that made 60-card decks structurally impossible to reach, and a perf bug that turned a sub-second tool call into a...
Teaching Claude My Disney Lorcana Collection, Part 2: The Build
A CSV enrichment pipeline, a fuzzy card-matching engine, and what happened when I audited two competing open-source Lorcana MCP servers instead of building i...
Teaching Claude My Disney Lorcana Collection, Part 1: Why I Built It
Three tabs open just to answer 'can I build this deck': TCGPlayer for what I own, dreamborn.ink for the deck, a wiki for the card text. So I gave Claude the ...
May
Health Dashboard Part 6: Closing the Loop with Body Composition
Part 5 ended with a gap: nutrition, training load, and calorie balance — but no scale data. Withings body composition is now wired into every tab, and the AI...
Withings MCP: Body Composition Data in Claude
A fourth MCP server, this time for the Withings scale. OAuth2 is clean, the API is stable, and the data — weight, fat%, muscle mass — slots naturally alongsi...
Health Dashboard Part 5: Did Yesterday's Food Affect Today's Run?
The Nutrition × Exercise tab compares what you ate the day before against how your morning run went. Turns out prior-day carbs and calories are better predic...
Health Dashboard Part 4: An AI Coach Without an API Key
The Running tab ends with a cached coaching analysis. Generating it doesn't require ANTHROPIC_API_KEY in the dashboard env. It uses claude -p — the CLI alrea...
Health Dashboard Part 3: A Dedicated Running Tab
The general activity tab was fine for an overview. Running needed its own screen — three time windows, per-km splits, and every metric Strava exposes. Here's...
Health Dashboard Part 2: Wiring In Nutrition (And the Cloudflare Detour)
Adding MFP nutrition to the dashboard revealed that the MFP MCP was silently broken. Fixing it took longer than building the nutrition UI. Here's both stories.
MFP MCP Part 3: Cloudflare Killed the Scraper (We Found a Better API)
The dashboard revealed that my published MFP implementation was broken. Every bypass failed. Then we found that api.myfitnesspal.com exists and has no Cloudf...
Health Dashboard, Part 1: The Concept and First Scratch
I have Strava and MyFitnessPal talking to Claude. The natural next step was a dashboard that puts everything in one place — not a chat, an actual screen I ca...
Building a MyFitnessPal MCP: Cookies, a Bearer Token, and Six Tools
No public API, Cloudflare blocking the HTML scraper, and an undocumented mobile JSON API hiding in plain sight. Here's what the build actually looks like.
MyFitnessPal Killed Their API. Here's How I Got My Data Back.
I already wired Claude to my workouts. Nutrition was the obvious next piece — except MyFitnessPal killed their public API in 2020.
Claude Wrote It, Copilot Reviewed It
I used Claude Code to build a Python MCP server from scratch, then let GitHub Copilot review the PR. What happened next was the most useful code review I've ...
Wiring Claude to My Running Shoes, Part 4: What's Next
The server works. Now here's the honest list of what it still can't do, where I want to take it, and what building in public actually felt like.
Wiring Claude to My Running Shoes, Part 3: Using the Data
I've been using the Strava MCP server for a few weeks. Here are the prompts that worked, the things Claude found that surprised me, and how it's changed what...
Wiring Claude to My Running Shoes, Part 2: The Build
OAuth is always the part nobody wants to explain. Here's the whole thing — plus how I designed the five tools and why I cut the other seven.
April
Wiring Claude to My Running Shoes, Part 1: Why I Built It
I wanted to ask Claude 'how did my training go this month?' and get a real answer. That meant building something.
2016
Use Postfix With AWS SES or Gmail
Configure postfix to send mail with SES or Gmail
Install and Configure Nginx With Naxsi
Configure naxsi WAF in your nginx webserver
Configure Nginx to resolve DNS during the application uptime
Making nginx smarter when the AWS ELB changes the Public IP
2015
Pull Request Validation Between Jenkins and Bitbucket
Shell script to build every bitbucket pull request on Jenkins and comment the result
Building a Dynamically Linked Docker v-1.6.2
Build docker dynamically to solve problems with Udev and devicemapper