Local-first publishing

My website now has slide decks built in. I took my existing code I wrote about yesterday and had Claude make a read-only version for my website.

The slide decks are now part of my publishing pipeline.

• I finish editing my weekly article.
• I trigger a Claude Skill in Cowork.
• Claude turns my article into a slide deck using my words.
• I add a link to the slide deck at the top of my newsletter.

So, is WordPress dead, or will it, too, transform in the age of AI? With my Writing Streak website I’ve been using a paradigm I call local-first publishing. I no longer need a complex JavaScript framework or a bloated CMS to maintain my site. Everything lives on my computer, which means I don’t need a production-grade publicly-secure web application. My computer is my security clearance.

I can use AI to make a hodgepodge of applications to manage data. Or, I use AI directly to manage the data until the friction pushes me to invest tokens toward building an application. Then I can focus on making simple online apps that are more secure because they only read data from the server and do most of their work in the browser. No writing to file, no executing on the server, no managing user profiles and access. All the work is done in my own hard drive.