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Where to Start Learning Claude (Without the Hype)
The short list I’d give a friend for learning Claude: free official courses first, YouTube creators with notes…
Nov 9, 2026Can AI Answer Your Business Emails? Yes. Just Don’t Let It Be Steve.
Yes, AI can help with your business email. Which AI rules apply in California, which don’t, and the…
Nov 6, 2026We Built Our Own CRM With AI Agents: 417 Commits, One Foreman
We built our own CRM and email app with AI coding agents: 417 commits in four and a…
Nov 2, 2026My Claude Meetup Talk: How My Bots Ring Claude Code’s Doorbell
I gave a talk in Pasadena on how my AI agents message my Claude Code sessions. Slides, plus…
Oct 29, 2026My Bots Couldn’t Reach Claude Code, So I Built Them a Doorbell
I have a bot that manages my other bots, and they had no way to talk to Claude…
Oct 26, 2026Missive Is the Inbox Tool Nobody Talks About (and My Bot Has a Seat)
Missive is the collaborative inbox we have run our email through for years. Here is why I like…
Oct 22, 2026If You Build It, Why Will They Come?
Building is cheap now. Anyone can vibe-code an app by dinner. So why would anyone use yours? A…
Oct 15, 2026Six AI Media Platforms Compared. Only One Remembers What It Made.
Oxen.ai, fal.ai, Atlas Cloud, Replicate, Runway and Artlist, compared on pipeline capability, fine-tuning and real published pricing. Verified…
Oct 5, 2026I Gave a Bot the Job I Was Bad At
I gave Grok Bot the operations seat I was never good at. Here is what is helping, what…
Sep 15, 2026Time First or Your Calendar Eats Everything
AI may save your time, but work will eat every minute you don’t claim. I’m testing a Profit…
Aug 24, 2026Little Internal Apps With a Big Punch
A show-and-tell of the scrappy internal tools quietly running my business — a self-hosted CRM, a positioning advisor,…
Jul 17, 2026If I Built a Membership Plugin Today, I’d Build It for the Robots Too
I’m a ride-or-die MemberPress guy. But if I built a membership plugin today, I’d build it completely differently,…
Jul 9, 2026I Over-Engineer Everything. A Room Full of Claude Users Set Me Straight.
I hosted an unofficial Claude Users Group meetup in Pasadena expecting nobody to show. Thirty-plus people did, and…
Jul 8, 2026The CRM you already have is probably enough
Before you buy another CRM, a straight look at why the tool was never the problem — and…
May 14, 2026How we got Urban Southern a 900% sales lift
Fewer than ten sales in two years, then a 900% lift and an acquisition. The Urban Southern playbook,…
Apr 3, 2026Automations that quietly save us a day a week
No AI hype, no platform migrations — seven small automations we actually run, what each replaces, and how…
Feb 19, 2026Using AI and Automation to Transform Membership Engagement
When our client Aurras approached us about revamping their membership model, we knew we had a lot of…
Nov 11, 2024Automated Backup Script for Pantheon Hosted Websites
DigiSavvy hosts many websites on Pantheon. Sites on a paid plan have automatic backups enabled, but sites that…
Mar 28, 2023Automate Synchronization Between Pantheon and GitHub
Pantheon has many tools to facilitate and automate our web development processes. This web server makes our daily…
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