Simon Willison has been saying (and showing) that this might be a great time to start blogging again, so after 10 years or so, I've revived my blog. I expect I'll write mostly about AI and climate, but we'll see. I had (of course) to build my own blogging software, which took a day or so with a little help from Claude. It's really custom to what I like. (link)
As an example of how I'm using Claude, it's roughly in the "talk to a junior engineer" style that works really well right now. It's fairly specific, but I don't have to write the boring bits myself. As an example, I just wrote this:
Create a migration that inserts the first category in the db called "Other", and adjust the livewire component for creating new posts to select the first (id=1) category as default.