Posts tagged “blackops”
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How I use a BlackOps brain to track my deploys
A brain is a set of markdown notes the agent keeps and reads back. I backfilled 34 deploys into one and it found a failed build I had no record of.
I asked BlackOps for a brain called Deployment Log, backfilled 34 deploys into it out of the build logs, and it caught a failed build I had never recorded plus a fix I had already made too narrowly.
Claude's Watermark Has a Shelf Life
It marks assistance, not authorship. And assistance is about to be on everything.
Anthropic now watermarks Claude's text output worldwide. The mark works. It will also stop meaning anything, because assistance is on its way to being universal and a signal present on everything distinguishes nothing.
Slop Is What Falls Out When Nobody's Steering
Medium won't buy an AI detector. They're right, and the standard they're describing is one most human writing has never cleared.
Medium sent me an email about AI detection and answered its own question. Here is what actually separates writing worth reading from slop, and why twenty rules and an eval gate still didn't catch the bad sentence in this post.
How I Use BlackOps to Reply on X Without the AI Slop
I run each Hunt as a live search on X, the extension scores the results and drafts only when something I actually wrote answers the tweet, and it tells me no the rest of the time. I send every one myself.
Everyone says reply to twenty tweets a day. BlackOps flags the three or four conversations where I actually have an answer, drafts from what I've written, and tells me no the rest of the time. Real replies, not AI slop.
Fifteen Minutes From Content Idea to Published Carousel
Idea to LinkedIn post to carousel, live in fifteen minutes. Then I wrote this.
How a content idea became a written LinkedIn post, a designed carousel, and this blog post itself, all in one 15-minute chat session.
My Workout System Is an iPhone App Now. Claude and I Built It in a Day.
From a blog post about talking to my phone at the gym to a TestFlight beta with subscriptions, in one working day. Here is the receipt.
Six weeks ago I wrote about logging every workout by talking to Claude. Yesterday I asked Claude to turn that system into a real iOS app. By dinner it was on TestFlight with working subscriptions. This is what actually happened, including the parts where Apple's paperwork fought back.
I've Been Wondering About a Plane for 40+ Years. Claude Found It, and Now I'm Logging All of Them.
Claude found the exact Pan Am 747 I flew on in 1984, down to the tail number. Now I'm logging every flight in BlackOps so none of it disappears again.
I carried one airplane around in my head for forty years. Here is how I used Claude to find it, and BlackOps to log it so the question never comes back.
Replace Yourself Before Someone Else Does
If you're not slowly replacing yourself with AI agents in your own workflow, you're not doing it right.
The replacement conversation is framed as something that happens to you. Flip it. Here's what I've automated in my own workflow, the receipts, and the playbook.
Every Platform You Publish On Is a Rental
Lock-in is the engine of enshittification. So I shipped the export button most platforms are afraid to build.
Enshittification is just the rent going up after you can't move out. Here's the mechanism, and the button that lets you actually leave.
I Spent Years Automating My Obsidian Daily Note. Now It Files Itself.
I fed it by hand for years. Now an agent files my day's captures overnight, and I wake up to what's next.
For years I fed my Obsidian daily note by hand. Now an agent files my captures overnight, tells my thoughts from my tasks, and I wake up to a clear picture of what's next.
I Don't Open Analytics Anymore. I Just Ask.
My site is posts, pages, and signups. So is yours. Here's what happens when you can talk to it.
Every BlackOps-hosted site is the same three things: posts, pages, and newsletter signups. So you can just ask your site how it is doing. The interesting part is that everyone asks it something different.
I Track Every Workout By Talking To My Phone. Here Is The System.
I sit on the chest press machine, phone in hand, and dictate one sentence to Claude. The set is logged. The Apple Watch data fills itself in. Here is how skills and brains turned my gym session into a queryable memory.
Sorties: Fire Real Actions Straight From Your AI Chat
Set up an action once. Fire it by name from anywhere, even your phone.
A Sortie turns a sentence in your AI chat into a real action. Fix a bug, message your team, fire an automation. Set it up once, fire it by name from anywhere, and your keys never touch the conversation.
Your Obsidian Vault Is Full of Fossils.
Your brain rewrites memories every day. Your Obsidian vault never gets the chance.
If you use Obsidian, you have a daily note ritual. Open today's note. Pull up yesterday's. Copy the unfinished tasks forward. The daily note is supposed to be a living document. In practice, it's a stack of fossils you maintain by hand.
Claude Code Is Not Your Project Manager. The Artifacts Are.
A markdown file got me started. Infrastructure is what it became.
A year ago I gave Claude a ROADMAP.md and called it my project manager. The post still ranks. The post is also out of date. Here is what Claude actually manages now.
They Booed AI at Graduation. I Get It. They're Still Wrong.
A room full of arts and humanities graduates booed a speaker for mentioning AI. Their fear is legitimate. Their response is the exact thing that will accelerate the outcome they're afraid of.
Signup is dead. The agent is the signup form now.
From npx to a live post in ten minutes. No forms, no empty dashboard.
From npx to a live post in ten minutes. No forms, no empty dashboard.
Personal Second Brains Are Step One. Operational Second Brains Are The Actual Destination.
Every few months a new "second brain" build hits X. The pattern is real, the folder taxonomies are getting sharper. But every one of them stops in the same place: a markdown file. Here's the wall.
Why Your Best Work Gets 200 Views While Slop Gets 4.8 Million
The platform math that rewards repackaging over judgment, and why practitioners win long-term anyway
A thread doing 4.8 million views taught me what's actually wrong with technical content right now.
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I Killed the Browser Workflow for Content Creation. My Readers Still Live in Browsers.
BlackOps builds for browsers. You just don't need one to use it.
I've moved my entire writing workflow into a single Claude chat. Research, write, publish, distribute—all without leaving the conversation. My readers are still in browsers. I'm not.
From It's a Small World to the Haunted Mansion: A Blog Post Written in Claude Chat via BlackOps MCP
How a single conversation, no app switching, no copy-paste, went from breaking news to published post before the ride ended.
Obsidian just shipped official Claude Code skills. Here's what it means when your vault already runs a custom skill ecosystem. And yes, I sent this from It's a Small World.
Google Analytics in Claude: Query GA4 Without Leaving the Chat
Five GA4 tools for the BlackOps MCP: sessions, top pages, traffic sources, trends, and multi-site comparison
I was tab-switching between GA4 and the chat where I actually do the writing. So I taught the chat to read the numbers. The loop closed.
The Algorithm Just Told Me You All Use the Same Tool
How repackaging tools, viral libraries, and AI content generators are building an audience of people who don't matter—and why practitioners can spot you immediately.
The Repackaging Economy (Revised)
Einstein Didn't Remember the Speed of Light
The Cognitive Offloading Revolution & Al Assistance.
Einstein famously said he didn't bother remembering things he could look up. Thirty years into this career, I think I finally understand what he meant.
Gary Vee Was Right. The Execution Layer Was Missing.
Gary Vee told a room full of business owners to post on eight platforms every day. Most people nodded and did nothing. The advice is right. The execution is the problem. Here is how I treated it like an engineering problem and built the infrastructure to actually follow through.
I Was Trying to Buy a Truck. I Accidentally Discovered the Future of Note-Taking.
I spent an hour researching a truck purchase with AI. At the end I hadn't written a single thing down. Then I asked BlackOps to log it. That one moment changed how I think about what this product actually is.
Stop Giving Claude a Static Doc. Give It a Brain.
Brain turns any Obsidian folder into a living knowledge base any agent can read, any agent can update, and you can have as many as you need.
Brain is a new BlackOps feature that compiles an entire Obsidian folder into a single context note your Claude Projects can read through MCP. No RAG. No scripts. Just everything Claude needs, in one place.
You Don't Have a Brand Problem. You Have a Systems Problem.
A millionaire copywriter laid out 6 psychology principles behind personal brands that convert. Every one maps to something BlackOps already does.
A millionaire copywriter laid out the psychology behind personal brands that actually make money. Every principle she named is a systems problem. Here is what that system looks like.
The Larry Effect: When Distribution Becomes a System You Build
Larry drove 8M views in a week by running distribution on autopilot. The lesson isn’t the skill — it’s that distribution is becoming an operator problem with an agent solution.
I Predicted One Senior Dev and an Army of Agents. Tonight It Happened.
Last year I predicted the future dev team: one senior engineer and an army of AI agents. Tonight, from a phone at Epcot, I watched 10 AI agents run a standup, find production bugs, debate priorities, deploy fixes, and verify them. The prediction is no longer a prediction.
Why This Feature Shipped in Hours (And Why Most Don’t)
It wasn’t the stack. It was the architecture, planned with Claude Code.
A real feature shipped in hours — not because of AI magic, but because the architecture already fit. How planning with Claude Code made the difference.Untitled Post
Everyone's Fishing Off the Same Boat
The growth tools everyone runs on X make you interchangeable. Here's the rig I built instead.
Most X growth tools farm the same recycled replies. I built one that answers from your own second brain, so you sound like you, not the boat.