Weekly Tinkering by Junod.dev

New newsletter, who dis? I knew many of the names who subscribed this first week, thank you all for making space in your inbox for me.

I intend this list to enable the readers to be bionic. I plan to post a short list of impactful things.

If you have a specific needle you’re looking to move with AI, drop me a message and let’s see if we can find a way.

Anthropic has no lack of headlines, but don’t let this blog entry from Dec slip through the cracks. This article on Agents explains high level agentic patterns, and will help you understand how to properly think about agents.
- Anthropic Blog Post
In this video Coding the Future with AI goes through the entire dev process, asking AI to make requirements, stories, then code. I didn’t watch every minute, but scanning this really helped me align my thinking.
- AI Coding Tools: Prompt Libraries & Workflow Strategies for Maximum Impact! 💥

Cline is an AI coding assistant for your IDE. I use it in vscode. I use it with openrouter, and have been leaning heavily into Claude, and experimenting with DeepSeek. Do a quick search on clinerules before you go too far. Also has MCP support (I will post on that soon).
- Cline
Aider is an AI coding assistant for your CLI. I keep a terminal window open on half my screen, and vscode on the other half. I chat with Aider, then review it’s work. I have a hard time picking if I prefer Cline or Aider.
- Aider

I’m spending a lot of time with Ghost these days, as you might imagine. I have been using Cline to modify the Ghost theme, and a lot of AI image generation with fal. I’m also going to be making an Astro site with my kid this week, so there may be some post fodder from helping my 19 year old AI.
- Ghost
- Fal
- Astro
I’ve been using Claude and MCPs a whole lot lately. I will be posting more on that in time as well, but the MCP pattern continues to take off. New servers are announced daily, and adoption is growing just as fast. New products support MCP all of the time.
- MCP home
- A very active Awesome MCP list

I hope you enjoyed this first post. Please let me know if you have any feedback, and thank you for making it to the end.