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Aaron Crowder

Hi, I'm Aaron Crowder. Or—if you know me online—CrowderSoup.

Father of two, Software developer, and lover of the open web. I like to take things apart (and sometimes even put them back together). I can frequently be found tinkering with some bit of code in my spare time.

New theme, who dis?
Aaron Crowder

If you're reading this on my site instead of in a feed reader: hi, yes, it looks different. 👋 Honestly, the old look had gotten stale. It was the stock Webstead default theme with every setting left at its default. Cream background, orange accent, fancy serif headings. Nice! But it looked like every Webstead site, and I wanted mine to feel like mine. So now it's a terminal. What changed A prompt for a header. aaron@crowdersoup:~$, with a blinking cursor (it stops blinking if your system asks...

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I Connected My Blog to Claude
Aaron Crowder

Webstead, the CMS that runs this blog, now has an MCP server built in. As of this morning it also does OAuth, so I connected it to Claude like any other connector. No API keys pasted anywhere, just a normal "log in and approve" flow. The MCP server landed in #147 and the OAuth bits in #148. What it can do Claude can now: Search and read my posts Write drafts and hand me a preview link that works logged out Upload media Edit, publish, revert, and delete, with a confirm step for the destructiv...

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Lil family run

Lil family run

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Did a run with these two while E was at softball practice!

Aaron Crowder

My Home Server Talks Back Now
Aaron Crowder

A while back I wrote about building a home server. That post was all Docker containers, DNS, and reverse proxies. The foundation. This post is about what I've started building on that foundation, and it's a little different: the box now does things for me every morning, and I can talk to it from my phone. The goal I gave myself was loose: an always-on box that smartly automates my life. My laptop isn't always on, so it can't be the thing that runs scheduled jobs. The server is, so that's wher...

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Morning Run

Morning Run

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Ran 3.7 mi in 37:08 (9:59/mi pace), 108 ft elevation gain.

Aaron Crowder

Race for the cure

Race for the cure

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Ran 3.1 mi in 27:51 (8:55/mi pace), 95 ft elevation gain.

Aaron Crowder

Afternoon Run

Afternoon Run

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Ran 3.1 mi in 29:26 (9:25/mi pace), 72 ft elevation gain.

Aaron Crowder

Afternoon Run

Afternoon Run

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Ran 3.4 mi in 34:23 (10:02/mi pace), 82 ft elevation gain.

Aaron Crowder