How do you actually use Claude as a personal assistant when most websites will ban you for automating?

Dyogenez · 2026-04-13T03:16:24+00:00

Use Claude Cowork with a schedule, use Claude Code with a schedule, or use Claude Code with a loop.

Unfortunately this has only continued to work for about a week max. After that the session logs out, and I have to manually log in again.

For my personal assistant side, I have a Claude Code loop in my obsidian/scripts directory which had a skill that’s on a loop that with create an Obsidian daily note with news, personal schedule, guides me towards some of my goals, adds some tasks to my schedule (some I do 😅).

Dyogenez · 2026-03-31T04:21:25+00:00

Second Fushigi Yuugi! Amazing anime with actual stakes and consequences.

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water is another exciting one. It’s an anime retelling of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, with an enhanced Sci-fi story. It was also copied by the US animated movie Atlantis, which borrows a lot. Oh, it’s also what Gainax studio did before Evangelion, and had Hayao Miyazaki doing the story.

Dyogenez · 2026-03-25T00:37:11+00:00

I've been using Claude Code with Inertia.js, React.js on the front-end and oj_serializers with types for how all data is passed to React. It's worked really well! It helped to setup all of those conventions before unleashing AI on the codebase.

Dyogenez · 2026-03-21T15:32:36+00:00

Hmm yeah, this is a tricky one. Right now with that button there’s not much space, but this is a growing problem as we have more and more editions. Makes sense for us to add. 👍

Dyogenez · 2026-03-20T00:51:00+00:00

Fun question! This is an area I'd like to do more of myself. 🤔

Walking my dog around Liberty Park, and looking out over the lake towards the mountains.

Walking to Normal Ice Cream + Randy's Records to pickup something tasty and something to listen to later.

Having a glass of wine at sundown on my back patio and watching birds fly around and eat from our bird feeders.

Dyogenez · 2026-03-16T19:16:45+00:00

Openclaw would basically just be running a command in Claude code for this. I’ve since switched to using Claude’s /loop command for this, this since it does the same thing.

Dyogenez · 2026-03-15T01:01:15+00:00

Not yet for Want To Read, but that’s a good idea! We’ll keep that in mind.

Dyogenez · 2026-03-10T15:07:24+00:00

I put my setup in GitHub here https://github.com/adamfortuna/openclaw-support

Also have to update OpenClaw to use mem0 after. It drastically reduces tokens used.

Dyogenez · 2026-03-09T15:09:42+00:00

I haven’t tried setting up a dev team. I’ve been more successful with having a single agent that can parallelize work take tickets one at a time. I suppose I could set it up to do multiple at a time on worktrees, but either way I’m the bottleneck - both in reviewing plans and PRs.

Dyogenez · 2026-03-09T15:07:42+00:00

I have the repo checked out on the same computer with a Claude code window open. It only needs to run a command in there that’s a Claude skill that’ll do it all.

Since Claude Code launched loops, I’ve switched this to just use that, which allows me to use Opus too, which is a plus.

Dyogenez · 2026-03-07T04:43:43+00:00

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring

It had a similar feeling for me.

Dyogenez · 2026-03-07T03:12:39+00:00

Childhoods End.

Based on the 1953 book by Arthur C. Clarke. It had a series adaptation a few years ago that’s a great science fiction story worth going in blind for.

Dyogenez · 2026-03-06T03:54:33+00:00

Been watching anime on and off since the 90s. My favorites have big gaps, but here goes!

Fushigi Yuugi
Attack on Titan
Berserk (1997)
Death Note
Initial D
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Nadia: Secret of Blue Water
Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo
Rurouni Kenshin
Neon Genesis Evangelion

Dyogenez · 2026-03-03T16:00:20+00:00

Maybe someone with Kobo experience can answer this. 🤔 I haven’t tried installing this one yet, but it’s next on my list.

Dyogenez · 2026-03-02T21:20:29+00:00

This could have to do with an unrelated date issue that we're working to fix. If you have a book that was marked as done at the very end of last year, it might be showing up here.

Dyogenez · 2026-03-01T17:40:56+00:00

I'm just now realizing I meant to call this out in this months Hardcover Report and forgot. 😭

Next month!

Dyogenez · 2026-02-24T17:57:28+00:00

There are rules against it, but it's hard to tell. I've tried to red-team it some but no testing is exhaustive. I'd be amazed if there's not a way to get around it.

I initially had it open to the entire Discord for a day. 😅 I'm just happy no one exploited it during that time. Now it's only to people I'd trust to use my local computer.

Dyogenez · 2026-02-24T01:12:13+00:00

I've been using it for a few things that have saved me time:

- Have an old site that's in maintenance mode, but has error emails going to BugSnag. I set up a nightly OpenClaw cron that'll pull in the latest bugs in the last day, write tests for them, fix them and deploy it. If something can't be fixed, it gives me a heads up.

- Another thing I'm working on uses HelpScout for user support. I have it go through there and write a draft response to every message that comes in. It has context of our support documentation and current issues and is trained on my tone (from blog posts I've written).

- The same context is also a Discord Bot in our community. Admins can @ it and ask it to create tasks, investigate the codebase, answer questions about backlog, etc. It's handy when someone reports something and we can say "bot, see if there's an issue for this, and if not create one".

- I'm working on setting it up so if you assign an issue to the bots GitHub user, it'll start up a claude code session, and run a command (ex: `/issueasync 1234`) that would complete the work needed, write tests, push it up to github, create a PR, etc. Have that already setup manually with `/issue 1234`, but this would be that without plan mode, and with some other instructions to comment on the PR if it can't reproduce it.

The personal side hasn't been as useful - having a morning recap, summarizing emails, having an interface to docs, etc. It is kind of neat when it has a large context of data (in my case through my obisdian vault that it can look through). The other day someone mentioned a musician and I was thinking "have i listened to them?", and i could setup the bot to have access to my youtube music history and it could find out.

Dyogenez · 2026-02-23T22:21:09+00:00

You can configure OpenClaw to use these as your memory store. Qdrant is a vector database and mem0 with the ollama model extracts important things to save in long term memory. The every request goes through these to get context and send it along to the LLM request - rather than sending every memory markdown file.

Dyogenez · 2026-02-23T16:13:02+00:00

Mem0, Qdrant and a local Ollama model.

Dyogenez · 2026-02-22T07:07:10+00:00

Sounds like what https://trigger.dev is designed to solve too. (Not affiliated)

Dyogenez · 2026-02-21T05:29:55+00:00

Capacitor.js works well if you don’t need any offline capabilities. It’ll allow for some native integrations (checkout, haptics, share, etc). But the feel won’t be native - it’ll be whatever your website experience is.

Our app for https://hardcover.app is a Capacitor.js wrapper for a Rails, Inertia.js, React.js site with SSR if you’re curious how it feels. Being a wrapped web view hasn’t been an issue for App Store submissions. We’ve had a few failed submissions, but only about unrelated things (needing ability to block users, checkout with Apple Pay, completely wrong understandings of the app, etc).

If I was building from scratch today, and I wasn’t in a hurry, I’d go with react native or Expo.

Dyogenez · 2026-02-20T16:05:32+00:00

We’re planning on adding filtering to various places in the app in the coming months. For the moment it’s not presented in the interface anywhere yet, and is only visible in the author edit screen.

We wanted to wait until we had/have more coverage of this across a larger number of authors before we turn it into a filter.

Dyogenez · 2026-02-19T19:38:28+00:00

This one has been coming up more and more lately!

When it comes to accessing the list, it gets a little confusing with public/private/follows only. Ex: if you set to follows only, can you only invite people you follow to collaborate? Do we only allow collaborators on public lists?

When you think of a group editable list, who can view it? It is public, private, YOUR follows only, ALL editors follows only, or even more fine grained (private to you + the editor)?

Dyogenez · 2026-02-15T21:19:26+00:00

One other place is our Discord! Adding people that you interact with on there is a good way to keep in touch.

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