writing.
AI tools, Claude Code workflows, and things i'm building. long-form stuff that doesn't fit in a reel.
I Built a Game Boy to Plan My Bachelor Party
Planning a bachelor party for a group of 17 felt like a chore, so I had Claude build it as an interactive Game Boy web page instead of a document.
read post →The Quiet System That Runs My Life
I talk into a journal from any device, my meetings get written up overnight, and every morning a brief tells me what is coming.
read post →From Automation to Creative Ops: Lessons From Building an AI Carousel System
I tried to automate Instagram carousel production. Six workflows failed before one produced slides I could actually post. This is the documented journey from my MIT Sloan independent study.
read post →I Had Two Second Brains. Now I Have One.
Collapsing an operational Obsidian vault and an LLM-readable wiki vault into a single unified knowledge graph, and the rules that changed along the way.
read post →A Two-Tier Email Gate for Capturing Every Reader and Tagging Warm Leads
Why I run a lightweight Supabase capture in front of every guide and keep the Kit form inline for readers who want the template pack.
read post →I just applied for a job with a curl command
Every is hiring a Head of Social. The application is a JSON POST to an API endpoint. No resume, no cover letter, no form.
read post →100 Secret Codes for ChatGPT and Claude
100 one-word commands you can paste into ChatGPT or Claude Projects once and use forever. Type LEVERAGE, DIAGNOSE, PRESSURETEST and the model knows exactly how to frame its answer.
read post →Building an Instagram Archive Pipeline Into My Second Brain
How I built /ig-to-md and /2brain — two Claude Code skills that pull Instagram Reels into structured markdown and route them into a knowledge vault.
read post →I Built a Second Brain That Claude Maintains
How I set up a personal knowledge base using the Karpathy LLM Wiki pattern, what decisions I made along the way, and what it's actually for.
read post →The Creator Stack I Actually Use (And How to Build Yours)
Five tools that run my entire content business: Claude Code for strategy, Instagram for reach, ManyChat for DM automations, Vercel for my website, and Kit for email. Here's how they work together.
read post →The Content Engine That Researches Itself
I built a system that scrapes 22 competitors, pulls my own analytics, picks winning hooks from real data, and tells me what to film every morning. Here's the data behind it.
read post →How I Made This Website in Two Claude Code Sessions
I rebuilt mattycartwright.com from scratch in two sessions with Claude Code. No templates. No Figma. Just a brand brief, a PRD, and a conversation.
read post →How I Wired Email Gating Into My Blog in One Session
I built an EmailGate component for mattycartwright.com that hides blog content behind an email signup, stores subscribers in Supabase and Kit, and remembers returning visitors with localStorage.
read post →How to Build an AI Content Engine with Claude Code
The step-by-step system I use to produce 23 scripted videos in a single sitting. Includes the full template pack.
read post →The Anti-Slop Writing Rules
The exact document I give Claude before every piece of writing. 100+ banned words, patterns, and sentence structures that make AI copy sound like AI copy.
read post →How to Build an AI Executive Assistant (For $20/Month)
Email triage, invoicing, automated check-ins, brain dump parsing, and a system that learns your habits. Built with Claude, Google Calendar, Gmail, and Todoist.
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