Micro blogging with SolveIt and SolveBlog¶
I am trying something new, micro blogging
The plan is to write three or four short posts a week. After every interesting lesson, video or podcast I listen to, I will write something about it. Not a summary. More like what I took away, what I questioned, what connected to other things I have been thinking about. The writing itself is the point, it reinforces learning and recall in a way passive consumption does not.
Answer.AI's tooling makes this practical. I am using SolveBlog inside the Solveit platform. The workflow is remarkably smooth and simple. I create a notebook based dialog within SolveIt, close read and discuss the source material together with the AI LLM of my choice, and edit and then publish only the messages I choose to surface. The blog post literally runs from the notebook dialog as its source. No separate editor. No copy-paste. Just the conversation becoming the post. If I want to revise the post, or sense check any part of the post in the future - I've got all my source materials and notes right there in the source dialog/notebook.
That tight loop between learning and publishing changes the effort of blogging entirely. When the friction is low enough, writing becomes part of the learning process rather than something you do after it.
https://microblog.christhomas.co.uk/blog
Chris Thomas is an AI consultant and solutions developer with over 25 years of programming experience. He has been learning about and using AI since 1997. You can find more of my work at christhomas.co.uk.