Matt Spear

Content Collections Transform your content into type-safe data collections.

Technically speaking, I'm using content-collections.dev along with a folder of .md files to manage the data. It's static, generated at build time, tracked in Git, and easy for an LLM to write!

Check it out at mattspear.co/places, I'm open to recommendations too!

/places on mattspear.co website, title "Places", description "A space for sharing places I love and think you should check out!" with a list of filter by country/city/tag

📍 I love sharing travel recommendations.

For a few years, I kept a simple list organised by city on my site.

✨ It was long overdue for a refresh, so I've updated it to include filtering by country, city, and tag.

GitHub - matthewspear/claude-danger: A docker container to run claude with --dangerously-skip-permissions and feel slightly safer A docker container to run claude with --dangerously-skip-permissions and feel slightly safer - matthewspear/claude-danger

I put together a quick Docker setup for those interested in trying "claude --dangerously-skip-permissions", that don't want to put their whole machine at risk:

github.com/matthewspea...

✅ Service is now restored.

In full transparency, I left a trial API key in the function call.

The 350+ questions asked are being reprocessed and will appear on the site soon. You can re-ask the exact question or visit the previous URL.

I hope to learn from this 👍

Chart showing API queries to Ask WWDC ask endpoint, with the last 5th red with errors.

😱 The ask function on askwwdc.com was down for over 24 hours, and I wasn't even aware. I need to set up better alerts and uptime monitoring.

What are people using for this?

GitHub - matthewspear/WWDCTracker: Numbers file that helps you track which dub dub sessions you've watch and would like to watch! 🚀 Numbers file that helps you track which dub dub sessions you've watch and would like to watch! 🚀 - matthewspear/WWDCTracker

In its 5th year of updates 🤯, I've released my WWDC session tracker.

This straightforward Numbers document includes all the sessions to help you filter and focus on what matters: github.com/matthewspea... #wwdc25

🤖 askwwdc.com is now live

Apple just dropped 42.5 hours of content on us

Get your questions answered here

#wwdc25

- Apply 'claude -r' to resume a specific chat
- Use modes (accept edits, plan mode)
- # memorize
- Integrate with an IDE
- Experiment with Git worktrees

What tips am I missing?

I've been getting into quite a flow with Claude code over the last few days, building out features for Ask WWDC ⚡

A few discoveries:
- Connecting a Pro/Max account to save money
- Using /init to set up the project
- Utilising 'claude -c' to continue the last conversation
...

askwwdc.com landing page with search box and text "What's new in SwiftUl?" all in a new light mode theme

💡⚡🔦 Hello, light mode – it's that time of year, I'm updating askwwdc.com to match this year's theme!

Next up:
- question topics
- improving the results
- trending questions
- readable slugs

Previous version of mattspear.co, block slate gray colour. Navigation, profile section and projects list.

New version of mattspear.co, more refined bordered slate gray colour. Navigation, profile section and projects list.

I just gave my personal site a subtle refresh – small changes, but it feels cleaner!

What do you think? mattspear.co

CLAUDE.md file contents with sections, command, code style, conventions and content

Interesting how the /init command scanned my repo for .cursorrules while generated a CLAUDE‎.md, @AnthropicAI have been real smart to invest in tooling that drives API usage!

Claude coding /cost command, showing $0.2534 spent

The /cost command is also super useful for progressively checking how much you're spending:

Claude Code terminal screen

Example Claude code session asking "Summarise the project and review how modernised it is", it thinking then returning "This is a modern personal website built with: 1. Latest Next.js 15 using App Router architecture 2. React 19 with Server Components 3. TypeScript 5.7 4. Tailwind CSS with multiple plugins 5. tRPC and Tanstack Query for data fetching 6. Content Collections for MDX blog posts and pages 7. shadcn/ui component system The site appears to be a developer portfolio with blog, CV, projects section, and a collection of travel places. The codebase uses all the latest Next.js best practices and modern tooling available in 2025."

I like how Claude Coding can be run directly from the CLI. It feels much more lightweight than opening an editor, like Cursor. I've already found a use for it:

> Summarise the project and review how modernised it is

It returned a nice, clear summary of my site setup. 🚀

Content Collections Transform your content into type-safe data collections.

📝 For anyone building a blog or experimenting with MDX – I recently migrated my blog from Contentlayer to Content Collections, and it's great!

The DX, Zod support, and MDX compile functionality are particularly impressive. I recommend trying it out:
www.content-collections.dev

ChatGPT page with error message saying "Failed to play message" in red warning at the top

Anyone else having trouble with Open AI reading long text aloud? It cuts off after a minute for me, making it unusable. I love listening to articles, so it's really frustrating.

Do you have any workarounds you'd recommend?

I've built a little tool and want to see if there's any interest...

👀 Visit asksite.co to track the progress and sign up to the waiting list!

Ask site landing page, quite minimal design with headline "We're building a hosted platform + API that allows anyone to build their own Al-powered Ask Site."

Work on Ask Site is going strong, and the core product is nearly complete.

Excited to dive into @robhope's Show Them course – Give me a week, and we'll see what we can do with this landing page...

Playlist for the day is set 💯

I think I've messed up my goal of reading 52 books in 2024 🙈

I've read 15 books, with about 5 partially completed...

What should I do?

- See how far I can get
- Reset in 2025 and try again
- Aim for 100 by the end of 2025

🤤 Daammnn, doing it right!

For this year's Black Friday, I decided to gather all the Tailwind CSS related deals together 🙌 Components, devtools, templates, etc!

Check them out here 👉 Tailbundle.com

Plenty of options from 25% all the way to 70% discount!
But only this week so don't sleep on it!

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/peek-ai-api-monitoring/id6447682119?ct=blackfriday

Screenshot of Peek macOS menubar app, shows overall OpenAI spend $1.28 and a breakdown of the project spends.

👁️ Updated my menu bar app, Peek. For those unfamiliar, it's a developer tool that tracks your Open AI spending directly from the menu bar.

- Updated onboarding
- Added project spend breakdowns

Running 50% off until next Wednesday for Black Friday.

Link in the next tweet 🔗

Ohh him, that’s the last guy who failed to ship ☠️

What’s up bsky?