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The open web is back in reach

The open web is back in reach

The barrier to publishing on your own site was never the idea. It was the weekend you had to lose to hosting, DNS, and CSS. That part just went away.

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My security alarm went off 8,270 times. It was wrong 8,270 times.

My security alarm went off 8,270 times. It was wrong 8,270 times.

I built a safety net to catch leaked passwords. It buried the real ones, quietly rewrote 14,000 pieces of my own work logs every night, and nearly talked me into rotating a production credential that was never leaked.

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You're not using AI to its full potential

You're not using AI to its full potential

Most people use AI for scraps — write this email, summarize that. The real unlock is handing it a big, tedious life project. Here's how I'd gather 25 years of my own medical records today, safely.

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I made an awesome list for ActionKit

I made an awesome list for ActionKit

ActionKit has quietly powered progressive advocacy email for twenty years. The tooling around it is great — and impossible to find. Time to fix that.

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The best thing I did with two AIs was give them different jobs

The best thing I did with two AIs was give them different jobs

Claude designs the work. Codex writes the code. The split makes both of them better — and made my workflow clearer too.

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What survived the Progressive Deliverability Round Table

What survived the Progressive Deliverability Round Table

A public CC0 list of 66,000 email domains progressive nonprofits should never send to, with self-serve ActionKit import. The story behind it goes back to a working group that wound down with CREDO Action in 2020.

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Let me download my own data

Let me download my own data

Vibecoding changed what one person can build. The bottleneck now is companies still treating my own data like I need permission to have it.

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My AI runs a weekly infrastructure audit

My AI runs a weekly infrastructure audit

Monitoring tells me what's on fire. It can't tell me what's quietly rotting. Once a week, Claude Code sweeps my stack looking for the stuff I'd never check on my own. Here's what it found last Monday.

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I cancelled my Raindrop subscription and rebuilt the replacement in a few hours

I cancelled my Raindrop subscription and rebuilt the replacement in a few hours

I had about 6,400 bookmarks in Raindrop. I moved them all into Notion, built a new capture pipeline, and stopped paying for a single-purpose tool. Claude Code wrote almost all the code.

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The best thing about two AIs is when they disagree

The best thing about two AIs is when they disagree

I run two AI models on every pull request, blind to each other's work. The disagreements are where the real catches come from.

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The best thing I did with AI was give it a server

The best thing I did with AI was give it a server

Most people use AI as a conversation partner. I gave mine a $7 server, a deploy platform, and an automation engine — and it changed what I could build.

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I made 1.2 million emails searchable

I made 1.2 million emails searchable

I backed up every email I've ever sent or received, indexed it all for full-text search, and built a daily digest that tells me what actually needs my attention. Here's how.

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AI is great at research. It's terrible at sourcing.

AI is great at research. It's terrible at sourcing.

I caught fabricated quotes in a client report before it went out. AI hallucinates most where you're least likely to check — and sub-agents are worse. Here's the system I built to catch it.

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The fediverse has an AI problem

The fediverse has an AI problem

Elena Rossini makes a strong case for public institutions on the fediverse. But the biggest barrier to adoption isn't willingness — it's a missing sysadmin. AI could fix that, if the community would let it.

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You Need to Learn AI (I Promise It's Worth It)

You Need to Learn AI (I Promise It's Worth It)

Progressive organizations are falling behind on AI. The gap is growing, and your team deserves a head start. Here's why it's worth learning now.

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I built a social posting pipeline without writing most of the code

I built a social posting pipeline without writing most of the code

How I used Claude Code to build a fully automated posting system for Twitter and Bluesky. I directed the architecture, Claude wrote the code, and it's been running for months.

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I built a self-hosted RSS system that actually keeps me informed

I built a self-hosted RSS system that actually keeps me informed

Email newsletters were drowning me. Algorithm feeds were wasting my time. So I used Claude Code to build a self-hosted RSS setup with Miniflux, NetNewsWire, and an AI filter that only shows me stuff worth reading.

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I rebuilt my entire website with AI in one sitting

I rebuilt my entire website with AI in one sitting

I'm not a developer. But I just rebuilt jordankrueger.com from scratch using Claude Code, and I wanted to write about how it went.

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The one security practice that would prevent 80% of nonprofit breaches

The one security practice that would prevent 80% of nonprofit breaches

Password managers aren't sexy, but they're the single most impactful security upgrade your organization can make.

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Why the heck aren't you using an AI notetaker yet?

Why the heck aren't you using an AI notetaker yet?

AI notetakers are one of the most impactful, low-effort tools you can add to your workflow today. Here's why you should start.

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