The scsiwyg Blog
The official blog of scsiwyg — notes from building a headless, API-first blogging platform. — scsiwyg.com
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David Olsson
The Theme System: Why a Headless Platform Ships 11 Visual Presets
scsiwyg is headless — no editor, no dashboard, no UI for writing. But it ships 11 theme presets that control colors, typography, spacing, and layout. Here's the tension and how we resolved it.
Newsletter: From Zero to Send
scsiwyg blogs can now send newsletters. Enable it with one MCP call, compose in markdown, approve via link, delivered by Resend. Here's how it works.
Connecting the scsiwyg MCP: A 2-Minute Config Edit in Cursor
How we wired up the scsiwyg MCP server to Claude Desktop by editing the config file in Cursor — and published this post with it to prove it works.
Securing scsiwyg: What an Audit Found and What We Did About It
We audited scsiwyg across five domains — auth, API routes, database access, UI, and MCP/REST parity. Here's what the picture looked like, and what we're doing about it.
Born in the 8am Meeting: scsiwyg Goes Live
scsiwyg launched in the middle of our daily AI standup. Here's where the platform stands today — and why blogging from your IDE is the only way to blog.
Batch Processing Your Blog with an AI Agent
One of the things an AI agent can do with a blog API that a human can't do with a CMS is batch operations.
Five Posts, One Tool
What we've been building — and what to read first scsiwyg is a headless, API-first blogging platform for developers.
Claude Code Meets scsiwyg: Blog from Your Terminal
scsiwyg is a headless, API-first blogging platform built for developers who live in their IDE.
Ambient Publishing
There are two ways to write a blog post.
The Product Is Also the Story
Most developer tools have a blog they forget to update.
Headless Is the Head
There's a joke in the name.
The IDE Blog Is for the Person Who Forgets to Write
Not forgets in the lazy sense.
The scsiwyg API: A Developer's Walkthrough
A deep dive into every scsiwyg API endpoint, with examples, edge cases, and patterns for building on top of it.
Making scsiwyg
Making scsiwyg scsiwyg started with a simple frustration: every blogging platform I tried had an editor I didn't want.
Going Pro with scsiwyg
What scsiwyg Pro looks like: journal mode, higher rate limits, and a publishing platform that grows with you.
Swagger and OpenAPI: Your Blog Has Documentation
scsiwyg ships a full OpenAPI 3.1 spec and interactive Swagger UI. Here's why that matters — for you and for your AI.
MCP: Let Your AI Publish for You
The scsiwyg MCP server gives Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and Cursor direct access to your blog. Here's how it works.
API-First Publishing for the AI-IDE Era
The API isn't a feature of scsiwyg. It's the entire product. Here's why that matters now.
Why Flat, Portable JSON Files Win
Self-contained posts. No external dependencies. No media CDN. No broken image links. Just one JSON file per post.
The Headless CMS That Isn't a CMS
Why scsiwyg has no admin panel, no editor, and no media library — and why that's the point.
Getting Started with scsiwyg in 3 Minutes
Sign up, grab your token, POST a JSON file, see it live. The full onboarding walkthrough.
Introducing scsiwyg: Your Blog Is a JSON File
A tour of scsiwyg — the headless blogging platform built for developers and AI-powered IDEs. No CMS. No editor. Just POST.
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