Made a lot of progress yesterday and last night migrating my daughter’s site from Etsy to Shopify. After some running around, I will be continuing the migration work.

I want to dig deeper into the capabilities of Claude Desktop today, especially getting to know projects as well as expand my knowledge of MCP.

The more I played with Claude Desktop, the more impressed I was with the whole Model Content Protocol (MCP). I’m going to upgrade to the pro subscription today, which will allow me access to more powerful AI models.

I built a simple MCP server in Python this afternoon that Claude Desktop was able to use. I created 2 simple tools: a stock price checker and a tool to control my office Lifx lamps. Next, I want to create a CLI that can talk to the MCP server without the need for Claude Desktop.

It turns out the QuickBooks integration I had written for Google Sheets had a serious bug, not picking up all of the data. So I used the QB interface to create a custom report and manually copied the numbers into my Google Sheet. Lo and behold, I showed the same losses that QuickBooks had been reporting, thus wiping out the tax liability. The business had been underwater all last year, so I knew that when my tax person emailed me, I had really made an embarrassing mess. All’s well that ends well! 😊

My tax person emailed me yesterday about some oddities in the data I had given her for my daughter’s taxes. I had been experimenting with my own integration with the QuickBooks API, and it seems that I screwed it up. Luckily, she saw something wrong and questioned it, so today I am going to manually go through QuickBooks and find the correct data. Maybe this summer I can experiment with the API once again.

Still on the cool side today, but it’s bright and sunny this morning, which always makes me smile! 😊

Happy St. Patrick’s day! Somehow we have slipped back into winter with flurries and cold temperatures today!

Rain and thunderstorms throughout the day today. I guess we are getting some of the effects of the storm that has been pushing across the country.