Practical notes on converting heavy WordPress sites into faster Astro front ends, using Valet for local development, and testing new ways to work with Claude, Codex, Fireworks, Kimi, MiniMax, and local models.
Sharing the patterns, tradeoffs, and practical decisions behind hybrid WordPress and Astro builds, plus the AI tools that actually help day to day.
Astro as the fast layer on top of WordPress
Claude, Codex, and model comparisons that inform real work
Valet, Zed, Ghostty, and tools that keep the loop fast
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Part 17 of the Forge series: a runaway build loop filled the Docker host, took out identity, Git and CI together, and showed what a cleanup that only runs on success really costs
Part 16 of the Forge series: the firmware settings, kernel workarounds and disk checks that live below every Compose file — including a BIOS bug that flooded the logs once per second
Part 13 of the Forge series: searchable container logs with Loki and Alloy, a report-only update watcher, one morning digest instead of twenty dashboards, and the capability that a crash loop taught me about
Part 15 of the Forge series: a second network card, an active-backup bond, a test that cut the house off from DNS, a byte-for-byte rollback — and a problem that is still open
Part 14 of the Forge series: the services that deliberately get no public hostname — DNS filtering, home automation, Mac backups over Samba, and a bridge into a decade-old Sonos system
Part 10 of the Forge series: a dedicated Debian VM for client staging sites, the scripts that pull live WordPress sites down safely, and the wildcard-certificate limit that changed the hostname plan
Notes from trying new coding assistants, local models, prompt patterns, and orchestration tools. Some experiments stick, some don’t, but the useful ones end up here.
name: Draft article with Claude
on:
workflow_dispatch:
jobs:
draft:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Generate outline
run: node scripts/generate-blog.js
- name: Review and refine
run: echo "Edit the draft, then publish once the structure and examples are solid."