Two days since the relaunch and I'm already doing things I wouldn't have predicted a year ago.
I've connected Claude — Anthropic's AI — directly to this blog. Not through a plugin, not through some third-party integration. Through a desktop tool called Cowork, which gives Claude direct access to the files on my machine. It can read the HTML, write new files, edit existing ones — all while I'm just talking to it.
This post, in fact, is the first one it's written for me.
I told it to write a blog post about how I'd connected it. It read the existing posts to understand the structure and my voice, looked at the site layout, then wrote this and dropped the file straight into the blog folder. It also updated the blog index and the homepage to include the card. I didn't write a single line of HTML.
As a UI developer, I find that genuinely impressive — not because it's magic, but because it's doing something real and useful. The thing that matters to me is that it matched the structure correctly. The meta tags, the nav, the sidebar, the footer — all consistent with the rest of the site. It read the code and followed the patterns. That's the part that saves time.
What it won't be doing is writing the training logs. Those are mine. The whole point of this site is honest, first-hand experience — what I'm actually lifting, what's working, what's not. That has to come from me. No AI can fake a deadlift PR.
But the structural, behind-the-scenes stuff? Site updates, formatting posts, keeping the HTML clean and consistent? That's exactly the kind of task I'd rather delegate. I rebuilt this site to be lean and fast — no WordPress, no bloat. Using Claude to handle the mechanical parts of publishing keeps that spirit intact without costing me a Friday evening.
Worth trying. Worth writing about.
Oh — and this post was published by Claude too. Not just written. It handled the FTP upload, navigated the hosting control panel, and pushed the file live without me touching a thing. Even set up permanent FTP access so it won't need any help doing it again.
— Johnny