Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist Blog

The BlackOps MCP connects Claude directly to your content system.

AI tools are making the software development process visible for the first time.

AI Isn’t Replacing Developers.

OpenClaw controlling Blender/Figma/After Effects is the real unlock for AI in creative teams: not generating art, but automating the click-loop work around creation.

Larry drove 8M views in a week by running distribution on autopilot.

Someone showed OpenClaw controlling Blender this week.

Eight real failures from running an AI operations agent for a month.

Last year I predicted the future dev team: one senior engineer and an army of AI agents.

Obsidian 1.12 shipped a CLI with obsidian eval.

A Razorfish call, an Oakley project, and two and a half years of flying every other week changed how I worked—and turned me into a consultant.

A great video just described the AI development revolution happening right now.

Instead of shouting into the void, I built a system to notice patterns in real conversations using OpenClaw to measure real product-market fit signals.

I spent 10 days building an AI workforce.

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A real feature shipped in hours — not because of AI magic, but because the architecture already fit.

Notes from two weeks of real-world building with Claude Code—what changed, what didn’t, and what became visible once the tools stayed open during actual work.

Discover what junior developers should focus on in 2026, from AI-assisted coding to core fundamentals, and learn how to adapt your skills to modern workflows.

Discover why vibe coding is not the real problem in AI-assisted development and how clear thinking, intent, and constraints turn it into a powerful workflow

Does archiving ChatGPT chats save space?

What Sunday Nights Have Been Telling Me

Discover how AI can expose deeper leadership and communication problems, and learn what it really reveals about trust, culture, and decision making in teams

Discover why travel, hotels and movement spark my most creative ideas, boost deep work, and strip away fake productivity so real focus finally shows up

CTOs face a growing AI power gap as quiet users gain leverage and honest engineers fall behind.

BlackOps Center: The Accidental Product That Became My Next Chapter

AI can 10× developer productivity, but enterprise culture blocks it at every turn.

Learn how Mission-Command Development lets a senior engineer direct AI agents to deliver faster, higher-quality software in 2025’s competitive tech landscape.

How a single senior developer with AI agents can replace entire development teams, transforming software delivery from slow team coordination to rapid mission command execution.

How a vacation without my laptop led me to build VoiceCommit - an AI-powered voice-first tool that turns spoken commerce and development ideas into GitHub Issues, PRs, and updates.

How I created and use a command-driven system in my everyday commerce development process with Claude Code to document progress with visual screenshots - giving me complete control over when and how enterprise development gets documented.

A casual evening with Claude Code turned into shipping a fully-featured Asteroids easter egg

Discover how combining Claude Code with a simple ROADMAP.md file transformed my personal project management and delivered consistent progress on my blog.

Reflections on the challenges of working with AI agents in development and how teams can adapt

Career guidance from 30 years in commerce development - from accidental start to Commerce Frontend Specialist.

Use iOS (or macOS) Shortcuts to add the day's weather for my location to my Obsidian Daily Note.

Use iOS (or macOS) Shortcuts to add the day's weather for my location to my Obsidian Daily Note.

How I use iOS Shortcuts to automatically create and populate my daily note.

A quick walkthrough of how to add VSCode to your iPad home screen.

How I automate importing my Obsidian daily note's meeting schedule from my Outlook calendar events.

Essential VSCode extensions for commerce frontend development and team leadership.

I created an Obsidian Dataview query to view my latest Readwise highlights daily.

A rundown of the official Obsidian plugin from Readwise

How I use Obsidian to track my day-to-day.