Writing This Post from My Car While I Wait for Pizza

October 15, 2026

I went to pick up pizzas for my family tonight, but when I got there, the app said they weren’t ready yet. So I parked, checked that my website’s MCP server was enabled, and started playing around. A few minutes later, I decided to write this blog post from my car.

I’m not typing it into a CMS or a text editor. I’m talking to Claude Code, and it’s creating the draft on my website through my site’s MCP server.

How it works

My website is a Django app now (more on that in Moving My Websites from Jekyll and Hugo to Django), and it has an MCP server at jefftriplett.com/mcp. I built the server with django-mcpz, Adam Johnson’s "easy peasy MCP servers in Django" package. The server exposes tools to list, create, update, and publish my posts. Once I connected it to my Claude account, every Claude Code session I start can talk to my website.

Yesterday, I used it to find my Default Apps 2026 draft, compare it against the copy in my Obsidian vault, and publish it. Now I’m using it to write a new draft from the front seat of my car.

Why I like it

What I like most about enabling MCP is that I can use it from other applications. I can call it from the Claude app, the ChatGPT app, or Codex, and in voice mode, it requires no UI at all. Talking to my website and searching for something feels different from what I’m used to. I don’t mind the chat features, but voice mode feels different.

Being able to talk through a blog post casually and have AI put it all together is pretty neat. In this case, I started drafting while parked. After picking up pizzas, I had Claude read the post back to me on my five-minute drive home.

The best part was that I never had to take my eyes off the road. Some people might argue that even talking on speakerphone while driving isn’t safe, but I draw the line there. For me, it’s about not having to look down at a screen.

I wish heads-up displays (HUDs) were more common in cars. We shouldn’t have to look down just to get directions or even check how fast we’re going.