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If Claude can Learn to do it!
April 23rd, 2026
*Title inspired by the song titled "Learn to do It" from the 1997 animated movie, "Anastasia"*
My plan is to redo my blog site. It's become incredibly important to me and I feel like if I invested more time it would be even better. you are probably reading this on Facebook. Which is a great general platform. But on my own website I can completely control the experience. I don't have to pay $50 a month to X to unlock longer posts. I can create a short post that has a link to my website which cost me a whole $6.24 per month. I can use the word F@gg0t and no algorithm punishes me. Lol
so I thought I would take this time and explain to you my current system and how I built it using Claude.
The heart of my blog is a folder on my web server with a bunch of markdown files in it. If you are reading this, you inherently know what a markdown file is. It's literally what I post to Facebook but I include a link that displays the picture that I also have stored on my web server. Here are some screenshots:
And literally that's it. save the mark down file, numerical sequential order, in a sub folder on my web server. export appropriate image to a sub folder on my web server and rename it to something easy for me to identify.
claude created the web pages that do the rest. A php file generates the RSS feed that my webpage reads. It is compatible with standard RSS readers as well. It scans the last few lines of my markdown file and finds the attribution line. It scans that line of text for something that looks like a date. It uses that as the date it was written. and it uses the hash tag title for the title. It's a beautifully simple system. And it costs me no additional money. it's crazy fast. I don't have to log into anything. I write the markdown file and I upload it. I upload the image. If I do it correctly everything else just works. Completely custom software built by Claude, system/words and design by the humon...says the Ferengi.
written by B. on April 23rd, 2026. Spelling Assistance by Alexa plus
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