Coding
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The Missing Piece: Bundled Components Plugin
Building a Metalsmith plugin with Claude revealed that effective AI collaboration isn't about prompt engineering—it's about exploring problems through dialogue until solutions emerge naturally.
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The Anatomy of Section Components
A look at real Metalsmith components to understand how they work, why they're designed this way, and the patterns that make them powerful. From configuration to templates to optimized bundles.
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Introducing Metalsmith SEO
The Metalsmith SEO plugin automatically generates HTML meta tags, Open Graph properties, Twitter Cards, JSON-LD structured data, a robots.txt file and a sitemap from a single source of truth.
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Introducing the Structured Content Starter
Transform how you build static sites with structured content. The Metalsmith2025 structured content starter brings component architecture, smart dependency bundling, and fluid responsive design - no frameworks needed.
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MCP Server Development: Evolution
Metalsmith Plugin MCP Server is a good example of how AI can assist in development. But what started over a weekend turned into a real development framework, shaped by real-world usage, trial-and-error, and a growing understanding of how AI needs to be guided, not just invited.
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MCP Server Development: Integrating Claude AI
Discover how to use Claude AI and MCP servers to automate plugin development. A step-by-step weekend project that transforms repetitive Metalsmith plugin creation into an AI-powered conversation, complete with testing examples and practical insights.
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Beyond Markdown: Building Sectioned Webpages
Instead of starting with content and adding MDN components, what if we began with components and composed them into pages?
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The JavaScript Framework Carousel
Developers celebrate migrating blogs to Astro or Next.js, describing complex build processes as 'easier than React.' But why does a blog need to fly? Sometimes simple tools are the sophisticated choice.
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Metalsmith Plugin Template
While working on the blog series Metalsmith Redux (Static Site Generation in 2025), I developed several new plugins with the assistance of Claude AI, which led me to create a standardized template for Metalsmith plugins.
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Beyond Markdown: Structured Components
We explore a common challenge when working with Markdown-based content: how do you include structured, reusable components within your long-text content?