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Keep going with this hey? I think that as an old power user and an AI hawk I have managed to cobble together all the bits and bobs to make it work for me. But the next major move is an agentic computer that does all this stuff out of the box and really lowers the bar of entry for business owners... which looks like what you are doing. I would love to just chat with my agentic box all day long with my AirPods Pro... that would be amazing.

I was in IT for 30 years when I transitioned two years ago to gardening. It's the best decision I have made for my mental, physical and spiritual health. I had been accused of being a programmer for many years and even convinced myself a few times. Funnily enough, it's been the last year that I have been able to actually build things with Claude that I would never have tackled a few years ago. For so many years I had all sorts of loose ends with clients... all the hard stuff that was difficult to deliver and I was constantly stressed out and depressed. But as of today I can honestly say, with all the personal projects I have going for my own business and a few web dev jobs for friends, I have absolutely no loose ends hanging over my head. What a time to be alive.

I think I just used the /loop command to initialise it - ask it to do what you want. More docs here:

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/scheduled-tasks

Yeah I know, I have experimented locally with CC channels - but it's brittle and buggy at the moment. I will give it another go in a few weeks once they iron out the kinks.

I actually have a /loop running scheduled tasks like syncing customer data from routeboard (my job scheduler) and a flat file (MD and JSON) agentic CRM I have created that keeps tabs on the status of all the jobs, invoicing etc. This happens at 2am every day.

The great things about NanoClaw is that its actually Claude running in an Apple Container on my Mac. I gave up on OpenClaw fairly quickly because it seems like the biggest security regression ever created in the history of human kind.

I have a Max 5x plan and it'm very happy to pay the money TBH, considering that proposals take only 20 minutes to build, and my conversion rate is quite high.

When I send them for the first time to a new real estate agent they love them because it's easier for them to "sell" my service to their client.

I’m a professional maintenance gardener and I have used NanoClaw running on my Mac to do the following:

Schedule jobs on my job management tool (I vibed it) using a custom MCP. I’ll ask it questions like “what jobs are on today” etc. start the job, complete the job etc.

It will watch Gmail using a MCP for work orders from local real estate agents, where it will schedule quote visits.

After the quote visit I add the photos to telegram (the channel I happen to use) where I then ask it to analyse the photos.

Claude in NanoClaw does a good job of figuring out what needs to be done, but it doesn’t always get it quite right, so I use intake-api which is a “session inbox” [1] that generates a form and uploads it to Cloudflare along with the images and puts a link to the form in the chat so I can make adjustments to the annotated images of the property. After I’m happy, I click submit.

I’ll then go back to the telegram channel and let it know I have submitted the form. Claude will then pull the JSON payload back down into the session and integrate it into the quote.

It will ask me questions about what the job will cost etc, and anything else it thinks it needs to know.

It will then generate a full PDF proposal using Latex between 14 and 32 pages long depending on how many photos were taken.

There are sections with terms and conditions as well as a bit of sales guff etc. as well as quite a nice cover page with their contact details and mine etc.

When I’m happy I’ll ask it to create a draft email in Gmail with the attached pdf proposal.

I’ll review it quickly and then send it.

I also have the Xero MCP setup so I can ask it to create invoices and contacts etc.

I do all of this when getting in and out of my truck.

It’s freed up my home life to spend more time with my children and my Mrs.

There is alot of scope for small business owners who need these sorts of agentic assistant tasks and with my Agentic CRM I’m see a glimpse of the future for guys like me I think.

Intake API:

https://github.com/mjsweet/intake-api

Just fantastic! You know you can setup GitHub Actions to move things along? I have made a few. I also installed Claude Code agent in the git hub repository. Then if I want to make changes to the site when I’m out and about I just raise an issue and ask @claude to do something. Also, I have been using Netlify functions to do quite a few different things as well, like sending SMS messages when a form is completed. Also the paid version of Netlify allows background functions that can run too.

Wordpress is dead.

I officially logged into Wordpress for the last time six weeks ago.

I’m currently migrating a bunch of my sites over to Next.JS.

Claude has vibed the best SEO, E.E.A.T., CRO (CXL best practice), WCAG 2.0, and schema.org compared to any site I’ve ever built in Wordpress.

The audits OPUS was creating for each of these areas are astonishing.

I’m simply migrating them across to Next.JS and hosting them on Netlify.

I haven’t paid for any premium plugins to get these sites up and running; I just used Claude Max 100.

I won’t be renewing the AUD$3500 in Wordpress ecosystem subscriptions after they run out this year.

For my gardening business (I’m now a professional gardener), I’ve integrated a job route scheduling tool with Claude Code. This tool calculates travel times between my gardening jobs and provides basic CRM functionality for my clients. It uses the Google Distance Matrix API, and my week is laid out like a Kanban board.

For my new gardening website, I’ve created dozens of new service pages over the last ten days. I’ve also created a local admin dashboard that ingests my 1200 or so before and after pictures. This dashboard provides a neat interface to match before and after “pairs,” extracts the EXIF data, calculates the suburb, and allows me to tag by job type. It then moves the photos (stripped of EXIF) into the Next.JS public folder with AVIF and WebP versions and a JSON file that specifies their content.

Claude then uses the JSON to build custom gallery components for each service page.

None of this was conceivable for me two months ago.

I’m primarily building static JamStack sites that are secure.

Is Wordpress secure? I don’t think so.

I’ve done many months of work in the last twenty-one days.

Have I saved myself $50k by doing all this with Claude Code? No, because that was never an option previously.

I understand your concerns about false confidence, and I genuinely respect that perspective. I backed out of Firebase Studio a while ago because I lacked confidence in Gemini’s ability to create safe and functional Firebase rules.

However, the landscape is changing, and the new interface for CMS systems will no longer be the traditional wp-admin. Instead, it will be a user-friendly chat agent with a robust system prompt for building websites, forms, basic workflow rules, business logic, and authentication.

Although I’m not a programmer, I have experience as a digital producer, which has given me a good understanding of toolchains.

If I were a startup envisioning the next generation of CMS, I would be actively working on it and developing it as quickly as possible.

The most frustrating problem I have had with Firebase Studio is Gemini 2.5 attempting to create firebase rules... it was completely unworkable in my experience - just constant permissions errors. I pivoted to Claude Code a few weeks ago with Prisma ORM and NEON db running on Netlify. It's been pretty good so far. I will give InstantDB a go soon I think.

Back in January 2010 I went on a blind date with a lady who’s now my wife — an astrophysicist. We talked about this instrument and how Google would shuffle petabytes of raw observations, then distilling them into datasets researchers could actually use (don't know if Google is still involved?). We’ll celebrate 15 years of marriage this January, and I have been following the progress of this telescope since 2007 or so. It's amazing how long it takes for these instruments to come online, but the benefits are significant.

When my wife and I lived in Canberra, we made friends with a few couples who met at alternate homes every Sunday night, almost without fail. I miss that so much. All I want to do is have dinner with the same group of people every week. We moved to Melbourne and then back to Brisbane, but we were never able to replicate that.

Could this be related to their plans for local inference? Maybe the need to load larger models into memory has driven their decision?

Those computers will still run Ventura for years to come though.

I remember the original Google announcement where it was announced that Google would help with the huge storage requirements for the project, I just dug up the YouTube announcement. Pretty amazed that this video is 17 years old now, a testament to how long these projects are in development for... this 2007 video wasn't even when it began.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thPlpDcaewo

I read another article that labeled it “mild hybrid”, curious to know what that even means? A best as I can tell the electric motor assists the diesel motor for acceleration and drive chain. So are there scenarios where both motors are powering the drive chain at the same time, or have I read it wrong?

That’s what I wondered!

It looks like I would need the following for this to work:

To use iMessage Contact Key Verification, you’ll need: iOS 17.2, watchOS 9.2 and macOS 14.2 on all devices where you’ve signed in to iMessage with your Apple ID

Unfortunately my work iMac isn’t on Sonoma, it’s on Monterey. I suppose I could log out on that machine, but still, a bit of a shame older versions aren’t supported.

Am I reading the requirements correctly? Does this mean that for all devices to work with CKV, then all OS’s need to be updated, or will it not do CKV on any devices if even one device is not supported?

I had a chest infection lasting months from mid-june to mid-October, and despite a run of Moxy, then Augmentin, then Roxy, and finally Cefalexin, nothing worked. Out of options, I tried a friend's suggestion: raw garlic and honey. After three weeks, my symptoms and long COVID issues improved. It was a stubborn infection that caused me to over-relying on antibiotics, as the article suggests. Makes me wonder about GP's exploring alternatives, especially with rising drug resistance.

You know, it's probably not migration assistant. I would say it's a major OS upgrade and gets tarred with the same brush. I personally have found it to be fantastic for upgrading to new hardware.

My partner is an Astrophysicist who relies on Gnu Emacs as her daily driver. Her work involves managing a treasure trove of legacy code written in a variety of languages like Fortran, Matlab, IDL, and IRAF. This code is essential for her data reduction pipelines, supporting instruments across observatories such as Keck 1 & 2, the AAT, Gemini, and more.

Each time she acquires a new Mac, she embarks on a week-long odyssey to set up her computing environment from scratch. It's not because she enjoys it; rather, it's a necessity because the built-in migration assistant just doesn't cut it for her specialised needs.

While she currently wields the power of an M1 Max MacBook Pro and runs on the Monterey operating system, she tends to stick with the pre-installed OS for the lifespan of her hardware, which often spans several years. In her case, this could be another 2-3 years or even more before she retires the machine or hands it over to a postdoc or student.

But why does she avoid the annual OS upgrades? It's simple. About a decade ago, every OS update would wreak havoc on her meticulously set-up environment. Paths would break, software would malfunction, and libraries that used to reside in one place mysteriously migrated to another. The headache and disruptions were just not worth it.

She decided to call it quits on annual OS upgrades roughly 7-8 years ago. While I've suggested Docker as a potential solution, it still requires her to take on the role of administrator and caretaker, which, in her busy world of astrophysical research, can be quite the distraction.

Thanks for posting this. At the end of that video is this tidbit of information:

Shot on iPhone Edited on Mac

Additional pro software and hardware used. Special thanks to Blackmagic Design and Beastgrip.

Right at the end at the beginning of the credits it said it was shot on an iPhone 15 Pro and edited on a Mac. I think it might have been an MBP M3 Max… flashed by so fast. It’s fascinating that it was shot entirely on a phone.

Apple is trying to get people to upgrade from the M1 family, not people who have recently bought a laptop with an M2 chip.

If I were operating a SaaS platform or any other online service, I'd be inclined to automatically reset passwords for users whose credentials have been compromised in a data breach. Has anyone here developed an automated system to handle this? I'm particularly curious about how one would automate the gathering of leaked databases and cross-reference user passwords against these lists, both at the point of signup and periodically thereafter. Seems like a compelling problem to solve.

Good luck with that! Amazon is the most powerful product search engine available. I love it and use it almost every day. Amazon will spend a lot of money trying to convince the feds they are otherwise… no amount of lobbying, PR pieces, paid ops and persistent commenting on boards like this one will stop valid questions being asked in hearings. It’s only a matter of time sorry.

Amazon is a product search engine and should be treated as such. Vendors must have the freedom to set pricing on any platform as they see fit. If all product search engines and ecommerce platforms behaved in this anticompetitive behaviour then what would we have? A weird commercial landscape that lacks flexibility… in the end the consumer looses because free market forces are not in play.

No, they should be able to set their own pricing as they see fit.

The market should decide. That’s commerce.

From what I understand, it’s not that simple. Sellers need the sheer volume of Amazon to compete. There is also the risk of Amazon duplicating their product and continuing to sell it on their platform… or their competitors filling the void.