Aaron Crowder

My CMS was publishing my scheduled posts early. On two sites. And nobody noticed, including me. Schedule a post for next Tuesday and it showed up the second you hit save: at its URL, in the post list, in the RSS feed, in the sitemap. It even tooted to Mastodon. Then next Tuesday rolled around and... nothing happened, because nothing was ever watching the clock. Drafts were worse. Saving one sent webmentions for a post nobody could even see yet. The CMS is Webstead, which runs this blog. I wro...

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...

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...

Last week I blogged about some bug fixes that I wanted to make to Webstead. I gave myself an "SLA" of today. I'm happy to repor that as of today the bugs I shared in that post are now fixed! Blogging works! I guess blogging really does work as a method of accountability. I have blogged about some of my goals for this year and even have some on my Now page. I'm tracking one of my goals (40 hikes this year!) as a series of blog posts. I'm happy to see that blogging is working in the short-term...

I'm going to just start blogging things. What better place to start than with a post about the bugs I need to fix in my blog. How meta, right? Actually, I'm hoping that by posting these here I'll actually fix them this week some time. Bugs These aren't listed in order. I'm using an un-ordered list after all! Also, it's not exhaustive either. I noticed: Dark mode contrast for the cursor location in admin editor needs to be increased. We can probably just change it to white from it's current b...