How a real Chrome profile, noVNC, and CDP turned Aldi's Google sign-in from blocker into a reusable workflow, plus the Slack controls for reorder drafts, pickup slots, and add/exclude commands.
How connecting a GitHub-synced combined ICS feed to both a family events page and a weekly AI digest eliminated duplicate config and made every calendar update a one-line change.
A look at the actual live setup: OpenClaw in Slack, systemd-driven GitHub lanes, role-based agents, and Slack merge approvals on an Ubuntu VM.
A family request for a narrated slideshow became a practical lesson: with AI agents, building exact-fit personal software can be faster than researching and learning a new app.
A production-style pattern for an autonomous assistant that watches GitHub comments, generates responses via OpenClaw, and reports activity in Slack.
From a Slack DM to a published post: how I used OpenClaw on a dedicated VM to turn a quick request into a narrative blog update.
This Kiro agent builder defaults to your existing tools and MCPs while enforcing schema correctness.
Why context engineering beats prompt hacks, plus a practical framework for connecting AI to your toolchain and automating the toil.
Three ready-to-use skills that make Claude Code integration with Microsoft 365 simple. Choose from comprehensive toolkit, lightweight SDK, or minimal bash implementation.
Kiro CLI has three main customization features. Each serves a different purpose, and knowing when to use which one will save you from building the wrong thing.
AI tools still forget what they can do, where config lives, and when auth expires. Steering gives them the context they keep missing.
I spent about two hours kicking the tires on Zencoder. Short answer: I did not see anything that truly stands out from the crowded field of AI coding tools.
I wanted to prompt AI tools from my phone while working against a real local development environment. Here's how I set up a dedicated Mini PC with Ubuntu, SSH access, and network configuration to make my phone the prompt interface and my local machine the executor.
A fast, self-service way to explore Microsoft Graph APIs, grab a short-lived token, and hand it to your AI assistant for email, Teams, and SharePoint workflows.
GitHub MCP is powerful, but for most GitHub tasks the CLI is faster, simpler, and doesn't waste tokens. Install it, run the OAuth flow, and prompt your assistant to use gh.
A complete guide to configuring MCP servers for Claude Code and Codex CLI. Covers Docker Desktop MCP Toolkit, Atlassian for Jira/Confluence, Memory for cross-session context, AI-Sessions for tool handoffs, and Playwright for browser automation.
Asked GPT-5.2 to connect a static basketball stat tracker to Firebase. A few clarifying questions and minimal back and forth later, it delivered a working integration. Competition between OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google is pushing everyone forward.
ChatGPT lost Google Drive access, so I moved the weekly digest entirely into Apps Script, dropped in a Gemini key, and let Google handle the schedule end-to-end. About 45 minutes of work.
Madison and Lucy organized Madison's room and thought it was fun. So they made a website for their "organization service." Canva for design, Antigravity for code, done in an afternoon.
Will had an idea for a leaf-shooting game. We fired up Google's new Antigravity IDE with its spec-driven workflow and browser automation. Fifteen minutes later, we had a working game. Here's what the agentic IDE experience feels like.
Movie on, laptops out. Madison and I built a complete basketball team website in a few hours on a Saturday night - just like we did with the soccer site.
Basketball season started. Parents asked for a stat tracker. Twenty minutes with Claude Code later, done. Same workflow as soccer: track stats, email summary, ChatGPT turns it into match reports.
Between sets in my basement gym, I used OpenCode and Grok to build a ChatGPT calendar integration in an hour. A story about rapid prototyping, AI-assisted development, and why the security team had questions.
A Python script running on GitHub Actions automatically combines 6 family calendar sources into one feed every 6 hours. Free automation, 1,200+ events, zero manual work.
A 45-minute before-bed build with my son Will became a two-game mini arcade. A couple of Codex prompts, some HTML and JavaScript, and just enough glow to keep a first grader smiling.
When my daughter Madison's Junior Current soccer team needed a website, I saw a perfect opportunity for a fun father-daughter coding project. With the help of Kiro, AWS's agentic IDE, what could have been a lengthy development process became an enjoyable weekend activity.
Managing three kids' schedules across GameChanger, TeamSnap, school calendars, and volunteer commitments was driving me crazy. So I built a unified family calendar system that aggregates everything—and made it public so the grandparents can finally keep up.
I built a hands-on workshop teaching engineers to connect their entire tool chain—Jira, Confluence, AWS, Bitbucket—to AI assistants like Amazon Q and Kiro using the Model Context Protocol. Here's what I learned about breaking down silos and the challenge of maintaining consistent MCP configurations.
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