How I Gave Claude Code Full Access to Google Workspace
I wired Claude Code to my Drive, Gmail, and Calendar using Google’s open-source Workspace CLI. Here’s exactly how I set it up.
I Thought Deploying an MCP Server to Azure Would Be Simple. Three Port Conflicts Later…
You know that moment when you read the Azure Container Apps documentation and think “this looks straightforward”? Yeah, that was me last week. FastMCP server working locally, Docker container running perfectly, Azure deployment guide looking clean and simple. Then I tried to actually deploy it. Port binding conflicts. Authentication failures that made no sense. Container […]
I Built My First Production Claude Skill. It Writes This Blog.
When your AI assistant starts writing your blogs about building AI assistants, you know something meta is happening You know that feeling when you’re explaining the same thing for the tenth time and you think “there has to be a better way to do this”? That was me last week, staring at another client Slack […]
Claude Code Needed a Home. Archon Gave Me a Security Education Instead.
How setting up a self-hosted AI stack turned into a crash course in Docker networking, zero-trust security, and why simple solutions beat perfect ones There’s this moment when you’re deep into AI development where you realize you’re paying $20/month for Claude Pro, another subscription for API credits, and you’re still hitting rate limits when you […]
I Thought Claude Skills Were Just Fancy Prompts. They’re Actually Better.
There’s a special kind of professional exhaustion that comes from being really good at something: you end up answering the same questions over and over again. For me, that’s AWS architecture decisions. Every new client conversation follows the exact same pattern: Client: “Should we use Lambda or EC2 for this?”Me: Launches into my standard 5-minute […]
Agent Builder Was Supposed to Make This Easy. It Didn’t.
Three bugs killed my agent build. The visual workflow builder didn’t stop any of them. October 6th, 2025. OpenAI drops AgentKit at DevDay. Agent Builder goes live—a visual workflow canvas for building multi-agent systems. Drag-and-drop nodes. Human approval flows. MCP integrations. Templates that actually work. As an n8n automation specialist, I should’ve been threatened. Here’s […]
When Claude Says No: Why I Use Gemini for Log Analytics (And You Probably Should Too)
You know that sinking feeling when something breaks at 2am, you’ve got a 75KB log file that holds all the answers, and your preferred AI assistant just… refuses to help? That was me last Tuesday. I had a failed n8n workflow execution—one of those complex multi-step processes with API calls, data transformations, and conditional logic. […]
I Almost Left AWS for Shinier Platforms. Then I Found Generative AI Application Builder.
You know that moment when you’re staring at three different cloud platforms, each promising to be the future of AI development, and you start second-guessing everything you thought you knew? Yeah, that was me a few weeks ago. I found myself caught in the classic developer trap: shiny new tool syndrome. Azure AI Foundry had […]
From $300/Month to Free: Rebuilding a Campaign Management System
Sometimes the best solutions come from the worst problems. In this case, that problem was watching a digital marketing agency’s SaaS costs spiral out of control because of one simple feature: client access. Here’s how I turned a $300/month Airtable portal into a completely free, secure campaign management system using Google Sheets, some creative automation, […]
My Deep Dive into Azure AI Foundry: The Good, The Bad, and The Reality Check
So Microsoft and Google both had their big keynotes recently, and honestly, they got me pretty excited about the current state of agent development. Google was pushing their Agent Development Kit with MCP (Model Context Protocol), while Microsoft was all-in on AI Foundry. Different approaches, but both seemed like they could be game-changers. Here’s the […]