Something a little different
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What if we could create a blog for our own needs but didn’t need to author it?
This blog is actually written mostly by using Claude 4, using a static site generator called hugo. Blog posts are just plain text (in Markdown format) in a git repository.
Claude Code is used along with some custom instructions in CLAUDE.md, and its Github integration is used (caution: only allow access to the private repositories you’re comfortable getting potentially exposed – there are some security issues).
The end result is this workflow:
- Create a Github Issue describing what to write about and tag
@claudeto ask it to write it. - Claude Code’s Github integration will provide a Pull Request creation link after some time.
- Add further tweaks yourself in the Pull Request or ask
@claudeto help further.
Once the Pull Request is in an acceptable state, just merge. Of course, any configured workflow to publish the website will run automatically.
To be fair, the cost to get this setup and write one blog post did end up being about ~$2, and that seems high. Also, the quality is so-so – it’s still going to require some editing.
But hey, it’s something definitely new: a capability to automate interesting blogging.
I’ll now try to experiment with this low-effort style of blogging.
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