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Editing my website from my phone

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I just added this post by speaking to an AI on my phone. I’m still a little amazed by that.

The setup is straightforward in hindsight: my website source lives in a GitHub repository, and I can open Claude Code on my phone and just… talk to it. “Add a blog post about X.” It writes the Markdown, commits the change, pushes to GitHub, and a deployment workflow uploads the files to my server automatically. The post is live before I’ve put my phone down.

Why this feels significant

I’ve had a personal website for years but I’ve always found the friction of sitting down at a laptop, opening an editor, writing the Markdown, running the build, and deploying — enough to talk myself out of it. Most half-formed thoughts never made it online.

Removing that friction changes the equation. Speaking is faster than typing, and talking to an AI is lower-stakes than staring at a blank file. The thought doesn’t have to be fully formed. I can just start.

The practical bit

For anyone curious, the pieces are:

  1. A static site (built with Astro) hosted on shared hosting
  2. The site files in a GitHub repository
  3. A GitHub Actions workflow that deploys on every push to main
  4. Claude Code on my phone as the interface to all of it

The AI handles the mechanics — file structure, Markdown, committing, pushing. I just say what I want. It’s a surprisingly good division of labour.

What comes next

I don’t know yet. But I suspect I’ll write more now that the barrier is this low. We’ll see.