
I Had 12 Unpublished Articles Sitting in Drafts. An MCP Server Fixed That.
I'm a developer who learns by writing. The problem is I almost never finished writing. The graveyard of half-finished articles on my hard drive tells the real story: 12 drafts I genuinely intended to publish. Topics I found interesting, problems I'd solved, things I thought were worth sharing. Each one abandoned somewhere between "rough idea" and "good enough to post." It wasn't writer's block. It was friction. The research to figure out what's already been covered. The back-and-forth between editor, Dev.to, and my notes. The formatting, the tags, the series selection. None of it is hard — but all of it adds up to enough resistance that your brain finds something more immediately rewarding to do instead. Like fixing one more bug. Or reading one more article someone else already finished. I work with AI tools every day. Claude Code handles the heavy engineering work. I gave it my codebase and it refactored, debugged, and planned alongside me. But when it came to writing — the thing I ke
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