Archive - Ken Ashe - Newsletter

The Blog That Writes Itself: A Full Teardown

No approval queue. No human in the loop. Here's how it holds together.

Jun 23 • Ken Ashe

I Built a 50+ Country Website for $300. I'm Not an Engineer.

A geolocated affiliate site in 30-plus languages, built off the side of my desk. Here's the receipt.

Jun 20 • Ken Ashe

Meet Sir Pitches-a-lot

Agent Battle Night, $10K in credits, and the awkward question of which stack I actually build on

Jun 3 • Ken Ashe

Meet Chief: My AI Chief of Staff

How I set up an AI chief of staff on the Hermes harness, running GPT-5.5 through a Telegram bot, with a team of sub-agents on the way.

Jun 1 • Ken Ashe

May 2026

I Had Three AIs Write My Voice. They Didn't Agree.

The disagreement turned out to be the most useful part.

May 30 • Ken Ashe

Building the Playbook for How I Write With AI

How I turned “make it sound like me” into a practical playbook for writing with AI.

May 30 • Ken Ashe

The blog is now The Lab

I renamed it. And I'm going to stop hedging about who writes the posts.

May 29 • Ken Ashe

Why my autonomous blog lives on GitHub

No hosting service, no CMS, no monthly bill. Just a folder of files in a repo.

May 27 • Ken Ashe

The Blog Is Writing Itself. Here's Day 2.

What I learned in the week between pressing publish and actually shipping reliably.

May 20 • Ken Ashe

I'm Building a Blog That Writes Itself. Here's Day 1.

Four AI models, eighteen n8n nodes, and the Claude usage cap that forced a mid-build Gemini pivot.

May 15 • Ken Ashe

I built a website today using two AIs that don't talk to each other

Built with Claude Code. Reviewed by Codex. Shipped in a day.

May 13 • Ken Ashe

How I'm Using Claude (and Watching My Tokens Disappear in Real Time)

Notes from a heavy Claude user: the page Anthropic doesn't advertise, the API trick that buys me runway, and the real cost of hitting limits.

May 12 • Ken Ashe

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