Building in Public
9 posts in this series
My journey from running Ollama with Qwen locally (too slow) to setting up an Anthropic account and discovering Claude Code - the AI CLI tool that changed how I build software.
A detailed, step-by-step guide to vibe coding a production website from the ground up using Claude Code, from someone whose last website ran on Apache with hand-written HTML. Every service, every config, every command.
A deep dive into configuring Claude Code for real-world use - from modular rules and session logging hooks to MCP servers and the everything-claude-code plugin ecosystem.
A walkthrough of building cryptoflexllc.com from scratch - the tech decisions, the component architecture, and what I learned about modern web development along the way.
A detailed, hour-by-hour account of my first day with Claude Code - starting with Ollama frustrations, discovering Opus 4.6, building a complete website, and deploying to production. 30 commits, 4 repositories, and one very long day.
One cybersecurity nerd, one AI coding assistant, one week, 117 commits, 24 pull requests, 17 blog posts, 410 tests at 98% coverage. This is the story of building a production website from scratch with Claude Code, including every mistake, meltdown, and meme along the way.
Two open-source UniFi MCP servers existed. Neither did what I wanted. So I built a third that combines their strengths, lazy-loads per product, and ships as a Claude Code plugin you can install with two slash commands.
Someone filed issue #5 against my UniFi MCP: two port-forward bugs, one of them a silent no-op that reported success. Here is the whole journey from bug report to a published v0.4.1 release, and the open-source hygiene that makes a merge into something users can actually install.
Plex and Jellyfin are both good. I still built a private Netflix-style app for my home with Claude Code. It streams from my PC and a cloud storage account, with Jellyfin hidden inside it as a transcoder.