2026.04.23 spotify mcp server Built a Spotify MCP server this weekend. Most of the ones out there run as a local subprocess on your laptop. This one runs once i… #MCP#Spotify#Homelab#Docker 2026.04.20 research subagents A few weeks ago I shipped [a research agent](https://stack.brooksnewmedia.com/post/037-research-agent), but there were a few manua… #Shipped#Claude 2026.04.15 prompt injection hardening Spent today hardening my agent system against prompt injection. If you're building agents that fetch external content (web pages,… #Shipped#Origin 2026.04.05 bikepacking trip page Planning a 3-day bikepacking trip through the Finger Lakes National Forest. 62 miles on the Giant Revolt Advanced 2, two nights of… #Shipped#Astro 2026.03.28 research agent Built a research agent inside Claude Code that doesn't make things up. Based it directly on Anthropic's guide to reducing hallucin… #Shipped#Claude 2026.03.28 anthropic applications Applied to six roles at Anthropic today. Forward Deployed Engineer, Claude Evangelist, and four Solutions Architect verticals. I'v… #Career#Anthropic#Claude 2026.03.28 how the stack works People ask how The Stack works. Here is the full breakdown. What it is: A microblog built with Astro. No CMS, no database, no admi… #Shipped#Astro#DevOps 2026.03.27 prompt clinic Most people push-prompt. There's a better way. At my day job, I work on a small team at a university library that hosts AI session… #Origin#Story 2026.03.26 mill migration blog New on the blog: how a 14-year client relationship, a talented builder, and a server migration came together. Lorraine at Go To Th… #Story#Shipped 2026.03.23 agent ecosystem overhaul Spent the evening auditing and overhauling my entire agent ecosystem against Anthropic's published best practices. 20 agents, all… #Shipped#Strategy 2026.03.22 server security checklist New on the blog: The Complete Server Security Checklist for a New VPS. Every check we run on a new production server, from firewal… #Shipped#Strategy 2026.03.22 finger lakes batch Ran the new pipeline on 8 Finger Lakes wineries and breweries tonight. Every one of them has a live audit report, a drafted outrea… #Audit#SEO#Local#Strategy 2026.03.22 bnm site push Big push on brooksnewmedia.com today. New blog post walking through the audit process. Cleaned up overstated SEO claims across old… #Shipped#Content#SEO 2026.03.21 forge triple Three MCP servers built and deployed in one session. Uptime Kuma, Synology NAS, and Pi-hole. All SSE transport, all Dockerized, al… #Shipped#Origin 2026.03.21 new agents Four new agents joined the roster. Morpheus runs business ops and orchestrates the pipeline. Sentinel monitors infrastructure heal… #Shipped#Origin