I swapped from the NIV to the NLT many years ago. My father’s uncle, J.A. Thompson, was a translator for the NLT and worked on Deuteronomy and Ecclesiastes. I really appreciate the way it flows too and it is my daily reading Bible. My wife and I read through the “Daily Bible” by F Lagard Smith (NIV). Now there is an NLT version in paperback. I would love a bonded version, however. Recommended for daily reading in chronological order so you can feel the arc of the story.
I’m a professional maintenance gardener and I have used NanoClaw running on my Mac to do the following:
Schedule jobs on my job management tool (I vibed it) using a custom MCP. I’ll ask it questions like “what jobs are on today” etc. start the job, complete the job etc.
It will watch Gmail using a MCP for work orders from local real estate agents, where it will schedule quote visits.
After the quote visit I add the photos to telegram (the channel I happen to use) where I then ask it to analyse the photos.
Claude in NanoClaw does a good job of figuring out what needs to be done, but it doesn’t always get it quite right, so I use intake-api which is a “session inbox” [1] that generates a form and uploads it to Cloudflare along with the images and puts a link to the form in the chat so I can make adjustments to the annotated images of the property. After I’m happy, I click submit.
I’ll then go back to the telegram channel and let it know I have submitted the form. Claude will then pull the JSON payload back down into the session and integrate it into the quote.
It will ask me questions about what the job will cost etc, and anything else it thinks it needs to know.
It will then generate a full PDF proposal using Latex between 14 and 32 pages long depending on how many photos were taken.
There are sections with terms and conditions as well as a bit of sales guff etc. as well as quite a nice cover page with their contact details and mine etc.
When I’m happy I’ll ask it to create a draft email in Gmail with the attached pdf proposal.
I’ll review it quickly and then send it.
I also have the Xero MCP setup so I can ask it to create invoices and contacts etc.
I do all of this when getting in and out of my truck.
It’s freed up my home life to spend more time with my children and my Mrs.
There is alot of scope for small business owners who need these sorts of agentic assistant tasks and with my Agentic CRM I’m see a glimpse of the future for guys like me I think.
I think it's great that you were able to build all of that! It sounds very useful. I'd recommend asking Claude Code to evaluate your entire setup and try to identify areas where a script running on a schedule could replace parts of this framework. You could probably get 90% of it from simple repeatable scripts which would let you save more tokens for things that actually need LLM "intelligence". But if you're happy with the ROI then it seems to be working quite well for you!
I actually have a /loop running scheduled tasks like syncing customer data from routeboard (my job scheduler) and a flat file (MD and JSON) agentic CRM I have created that keeps tabs on the status of all the jobs, invoicing etc. This happens at 2am every day.
The great things about NanoClaw is that its actually Claude running in an Apple Container on my Mac. I gave up on OpenClaw fairly quickly because it seems like the biggest security regression ever created in the history of human kind.
I have a Max 5x plan and it'm very happy to pay the money TBH, considering that proposals take only 20 minutes to build, and my conversion rate is quite high.
When I send them for the first time to a new real estate agent they love them because it's easier for them to "sell" my service to their client.
Just be careful. By all accounts I don't believe that the subscription plans cover 3rd party harness support. You may be at risk of all of this being shut down. That's one of the reasons I haven't explored other harnesses. The main one being, I can accomplish everything they can from within CC with some extra steps I know how to do compliant with a CC Max Plan Terms of Service.
Yeah I know, I have experimented locally with CC channels - but it's brittle and buggy at the moment. I will give it another go in a few weeks once they iron out the kinks.
If you do run into any troubles you're not sure how to navigate, please feel free to reach out to me. Hell, even before that. I'm happy to collaborate on your LLM experience. But if the worst happens, I can probably get you back and running at that baseline even if Anthropic bans you. And this isn't me trying to worm my way into you paying me. Just a better understanding of what you've implemented versus how I typically use these tools and if I can close the "token" gap.
I was in IT for 30 years when I transitioned two years ago to gardening. It's the best decision I have made for my mental, physical and spiritual health. I had been accused of being a programmer for many years and even convinced myself a few times. Funnily enough, it's been the last year that I have been able to actually build things with Claude that I would never have tackled a few years ago. For so many years I had all sorts of loose ends with clients... all the hard stuff that was difficult to deliver and I was constantly stressed out and depressed. But as of today I can honestly say, with all the personal projects I have going for my own business and a few web dev jobs for friends, I have absolutely no loose ends hanging over my head. What a time to be alive.
Keep going with this hey? I think that as an old power user and an AI hawk I have managed to cobble together all the bits and bobs to make it work for me. But the next major move is an agentic computer that does all this stuff out of the box and really lowers the bar of entry for business owners... which looks like what you are doing. I would love to just chat with my agentic box all day long with my AirPods Pro... that would be amazing.
I officially logged into Wordpress for the last time six weeks ago.
I’m currently migrating a bunch of my sites over to Next.JS.
Claude has vibed the best SEO, E.E.A.T., CRO (CXL best practice), WCAG 2.0, and schema.org compared to any site I’ve ever built in Wordpress.
The audits OPUS was creating for each of these areas are astonishing.
I’m simply migrating them across to Next.JS and hosting them on Netlify.
I haven’t paid for any premium plugins to get these sites up and running; I just used Claude Max 100.
I won’t be renewing the AUD$3500 in Wordpress ecosystem subscriptions after they run out this year.
For my gardening business (I’m now a professional gardener), I’ve integrated a job route scheduling tool with Claude Code. This tool calculates travel times between my gardening jobs and provides basic CRM functionality for my clients. It uses the Google Distance Matrix API, and my week is laid out like a Kanban board.
For my new gardening website, I’ve created dozens of new service pages over the last ten days. I’ve also created a local admin dashboard that ingests my 1200 or so before and after pictures. This dashboard provides a neat interface to match before and after “pairs,” extracts the EXIF data, calculates the suburb, and allows me to tag by job type. It then moves the photos (stripped of EXIF) into the Next.JS public folder with AVIF and WebP versions and a JSON file that specifies their content.
Claude then uses the JSON to build custom gallery components for each service page.
None of this was conceivable for me two months ago.
I’m primarily building static JamStack sites that are secure.
Is Wordpress secure? I don’t think so.
I’ve done many months of work in the last twenty-one days.
Have I saved myself $50k by doing all this with Claude Code? No, because that was never an option previously.
I understand your concerns about false confidence, and I genuinely respect that perspective. I backed out of Firebase Studio a while ago because I lacked confidence in Gemini’s ability to create safe and functional Firebase rules.
However, the landscape is changing, and the new interface for CMS systems will no longer be the traditional wp-admin. Instead, it will be a user-friendly chat agent with a robust system prompt for building websites, forms, basic workflow rules, business logic, and authentication.
Although I’m not a programmer, I have experience as a digital producer, which has given me a good understanding of toolchains.
If I were a startup envisioning the next generation of CMS, I would be actively working on it and developing it as quickly as possible.
I've built a CMS with Claude Code aswell and its working incredibly to create JSON proposals that my sveltekit website reads and turns into beautiful proposal pages. When a customer creates a booking for my mini-golf hire company they get emailed and they get their own booking hub where they can update their booking details, see the proposal when it comes through see any invoices ect.
The best part is and what i'm so excited about is we have created a daily business script 'npm run daily' that Claude Code runs and the script uses the business logic to move bookings along in the cycle by telling Claude Code what bookings have tasks. It will return, you have 3 bookings that need attention, run 'npm run get-booking [booking shortcode] THEN that script returns ALL data for that booking row from the db and it knows what task is needed to be done so Claude Code has all the context for that booking and it's prompted at the end saying NEXT STEP Claude code run 'npm run generate-proposal [shortcode] JSON output. (there was an example json output in there for claude to know the syntax ) Everything goes to an out tray in the admin web ui that i have to manually approve. I'm still in testing but I'm starting to realise that Claude Code can be an agentic platform for apps run from the CLI, like my automated crm assistant we've built.
Just fantastic! You know you can setup GitHub Actions to move things along? I have made a few. I also installed Claude Code agent in the git hub repository. Then if I want to make changes to the site when I’m out and about I just raise an issue and ask @claude to do something. Also, I have been using Netlify functions to do quite a few different things as well, like sending SMS messages when a form is completed. Also the paid version of Netlify allows background functions that can run too.
The most frustrating problem I have had with Firebase Studio is Gemini 2.5 attempting to create firebase rules... it was completely unworkable in my experience - just constant permissions errors. I pivoted to Claude Code a few weeks ago with Prisma ORM and NEON db running on Netlify. It's been pretty good so far. I will give InstantDB a go soon I think.
Back in January 2010 I went on a blind date with a lady who’s now my wife — an astrophysicist. We talked about this instrument and how Google would shuffle petabytes of raw observations, then distilling them into datasets researchers could actually use (don't know if Google is still involved?). We’ll celebrate 15 years of marriage this January, and I have been following the progress of this telescope since 2007 or so. It's amazing how long it takes for these instruments to come online, but the benefits are significant.
When my wife and I lived in Canberra, we made friends with a few couples who met at alternate homes every Sunday night, almost without fail. I miss that so much. All I want to do is have dinner with the same group of people every week. We moved to Melbourne and then back to Brisbane, but we were never able to replicate that.
Has to be, even a small model is 4gb of RAM. Open up any O365 based product in Chrome and kiss another 2gb goodbye if you only have 8gb you're left with very little after the OS...
iOS apps tend to drop support for older versions very quickly due to that the overwhelming majority of users are at most one version behind, but macOS apps generally don't. Okta Verify appears to be the only third-party app I have installed which requires >11, and that's something that has no reason to support older versions (one of the things it specifically does is stop me from logging into work things if I haven't fully updated my system).
