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I recently decided to drop the numericcitizen.io domain name and focus on numericcitizen.me for all my needs. The former was tied to a Craft subscription that I’ll cancel, too. I prefer to manage everything inside a single space under a single domain. It’s cheaper.
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Continuing my thinking about a custom-built Micro.blog theme plugin, I wondered why most of Micro.blog themes design card-based? Here’s Claude AI’s answer:
Cards became the dominant Micro.blog theme style largely by following a broader web design trend from the mid-2010s, when Pinterest and Material Design made cards ubiquitous. Theme authors adopted them because they handle variable-length content safely and look great in screenshots. The fork-from-fork nature of many Micro.blog themes then perpetuated the pattern. The irony is that cards aren’t actually the best fit for Micro.blog’s typical stream of short title-less posts — making it a real opportunity for anyone wanting a distinctive, better-suited design.
Besides the fact that Micro.blog launched in 2018, the rest of Claude’s response makes me think that my design choice of a left sidebar, similar to Micro, is a good one.
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Vibe Coding a Custom-Built Micro.blog Theme Plugin
I started working a my next vibe coding project: building my own Micro.blog theme plugin. I wanted to have one even before vibe coding was a thing, but I didn’t have the experience with Hugo and Micro.blog theme creation. With Claude Code, having that knowledge is secondary to the task, but having a clear mind about the desired final product is paramount. I started gathering specifications that will end up in some form in the specs. Continue reading →
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My Micro.blog Timeline Summarization Workflow
By popular request, here’s the documentation for my n8n workflow. This documentation was created with Claude AI using Claude Skills and was slightly tweaked to remove any sensitive data. The diagram was manually added. Continue reading →
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What Happened in Recent Days - A LOT
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been on an intensive learning journey exploring automation, cloud deployment, and AI integration. I’ve been hands-on, building real workflows and connecting actual services. Here’s what I discovered along the way. Getting Started with Automation The foundation of this exploration was deploying n8n as a self-hosted instance on a cloud provider. This wasn’t just about clicking a button—it required understanding infrastructure, configuration, and the basics of running a service in the cloud. Continue reading →
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Building an Automated Publishing Pipeline: From Craft to Ghost
For months, I’ve been publishing my weekly newsletter, The Ephemeral Scrapbook, using a manual process: write in Craft, export to Ulysses, copy to Ghost, reformat everything, add images, fix formatting issues, and finally publish. It worked, but it was tedious and time-consuming. Today, that process is fully automated. Here’s how Claude and I built it together. The Challenge My workflow had become a bottleneck: Writing newsletters in Craft Docs (my preferred writing environment) Exporting to Ulysses as an intermediary step Manual copy/paste to Ghost (my publishing platform) Reformatting all the markdown and HTML Dealing with Craft-specific formatting that Ghost didn’t understand Adding metadata like excerpts and tags manually I wanted automation, but I also wanted to understand the infrastructure I was building. Continue reading →
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Here’s a quick demonstration of the Microblog Poster web app I mentioned in my previous blog post.
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Why I Built a Micro.blog Front End?
As recently shared on my blog, I have finished (or mostly finished1) building a simple front end for Micro.blog. This front end, as depicted in the following screenshot, presents the user with a straightforward UI: a title field, a body field, blog post categories, and a Publish button—very focused, with no distractions. It works on desktops and mobile devices. I even added PWA support. But why did I build this? Continue reading →
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From My RSS Feeds To Day One
Recent readings about n8n and with the help of Claude AI, I finally found a way to replace IFTTT for archiving my RSS feeds content: it won’t be by using an n8n automation but a simple feature that was sitting right in front of my eyes on Micro.blog: cross-posting. The trick is simple: each of my RSS feed is added to the Sources panel in Micro.blog, from there, I configure cross-post the RSS feed article to other places like Day One journal using email-to-dayone. Continue reading →
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Using AI For Writing is Lazy? Think Again
Some believe that using AI for writing articles is lazy, not creative, and that you don’t earn the credit for doing it. I disagree. Or, it depends. Here’s a personal experiment. This week, I shared an article about digital sovereignty with my professional network on LinkedIn. Even if I used ChatGPT to write the article, I spent days on it, or, more specifically, I spent days creating and testing different prompts. Continue reading →
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My Content Creation Ecosystem - Fall 2025 Update
It has been a while since my last update in March 2025. Here’s a summary of the changes. I removed Brief.news because I no longer think it will replace Mailbrew. I removed Mailbrew because I no longer depend on it to consume Internet content. I tried to replace it with Inoreader email digests, but it didn’t work as I wrote here. I decided to add ChatGPT Atlas because I now have a solid use case for it: articles summarization and analysis, as I explained in this YouTube video. Continue reading →
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Screenflow + Screen Studio
Screen Studio enhances the YouTube video recording workflow with ease of use but has limitations that necessitate the continued use of ScreenFlow for final assembly, resulting in increased rendering time and disk space usage. Continue reading →
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Behind the Scenes of the “On Apple Failures" Writing Project
I’ve long wanted to write an article like this one. However, as Apple continued to add to its list of failures, poor Apple, I kept pushing back the deadline. This summer, however, the timing was right. Here’s what I did differently this time. A few months ago, I started gathering a list of Apple’s failures in a Craft document. I wanted to cover the period from when Tim Cook took over as Apple’s leader, following Steve Jobs’ passing, up until now. Continue reading →
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I have always been torn between creating text-only quotes and image-based quotes. Text-only quotes are easier to resurface and index, while image-based quotes are more visually appealing. You’re preference?
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I made a little update to my reading workflow, especially the part for newsletter. Look in the table on this page and sort by date to locate the most recent update.
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Eternal Debate for Online Creators
The decision to remove duplicates and outdated posts from a blog highlights the ongoing debate between preserving past content as a reflection of identity and eliminating irrelevant material to enhance focus. Continue reading →
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When I read about vibe coding to quickly create app mockups or even shipping an app to the App Store, I wonder if I could use genAI to vibe code a theme plugin for Micro.blog. That would allow me to use a unique visual theme inspired by my visual branding.
