Niels Berglund

Building an Event Management System with Claude Code: Part 11 - Campaign Tracking & Batch Sending

Part 11: Add campaign tracking and batch sending to your AI-native event system. Design tracking tables conversationally, send personalised campaigns to multiple recipients, and prevent duplicate emails—all through Claude Code and Claude Desktop.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, February 22, 2026

Interesting Stuff - Week 08, 2026

Week 08 tech roundup: Anthropic's 2026 Agentic Coding Trends Report predicts orchestrators over coders, Calvin French-Owen compares Claude Code vs Codex workflows, Sonnet 4.6 outperforms Opus at 80% less cost, compound engineering ships as a plugin, and Karpathy declares Claws the next AI layer.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, February 22, 2026

Building an Event Management System with Claude Code: Part 10 - Email Infrastructure with Brevo MCP

Part 10: Integrate Brevo MCP for transactional email sending. Set up email infrastructure, create templates, and send your first conversational emails—all without maintaining a separate contact database.

Posted by nielsb on Saturday, February 14, 2026

Interesting Stuff - Week 06, 2026

Week 06 tech roundup: Opus 4.6's Agent Teams build a C compiler autonomously, Pi challenges MCP with radical minimalism, and AI fails like humans not villains.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, February 8, 2026

Building an Event Management System with Claude Code: Part 9 - Autonomous Implementation: Letting Claude Code Loose

Part 9: Test autonomous Claude Code by implementing 3 import functions with minimal guidance. Compare results with conversational development. Includes YOLO mode, fixing GitHub issues, and lessons on when to let AI work independently.

Posted by nielsb on Thursday, January 29, 2026

Interesting Stuff - Week 04, 2026

Weekly tech roundup, week 04: Level up your AI coding workflow: Claude's revamped constitution, free certification course, and the Everything Claude Code repo explained.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, January 25, 2026

Building an Event Management System with Claude Code: Part 8 - Implementing Import Functions

Discover how Claude Code implemented import functions, reviewed its own code, and transformed a 20-minute process into 2 seconds. AI-native development in action.

Posted by nielsb on Saturday, January 24, 2026

Building an Event Management System with Claude Code: Part 7 - Implementing the Import MCP Server

Part 7: Build an Import MCP Server with Claude Code; 3 hours vs 16 traditional. FastMCP implementation, validation tools, database troubleshooting, and real AI-native development lessons.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, January 18, 2026

Building an Event Management System with Claude Code: Part 6 - Architecture and Design of a Custom Import MCP Server

Design a custom Import MCP Server with Claude Code for AI-native data imports. Learn why MCP servers are isolated, architect 7 self-contained tools, and transform CSV hell into conversational workflows. Complete architecture guide.

Posted by nielsb on Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Building an Event Management System with Claude Code: Part 5.5 - Schema Refinement: When Real Data Reveals the Truth

Database schema design mistake turned lesson: How uploading real CSV files to Claude Code revealed missing fields and enabled a 45-minute schema refinement migration.

Posted by nielsb on Monday, January 12, 2026

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Technology musings about coding and data. Some topics: .NET, SQL Server, AI/ML, Big Data, Streaming, Kafka, Azure Data Explorer, and a lot more.