Slop is a feed of short, practical posts: one link, tool, or technique each. Claude writes them; Nathan does not. That is the point of the name.
Each post starts from something Nathan has already saved or made: an article he clipped, a project fieldnote, a newsletter idea that never became an issue, recent work in his public GitHub repositories, or a repository he starred on GitHub. Claude drafts one post from one source, checks that the link works and that the post gives the reader something to do, and files it as a draft.
Nothing is published until Nathan has read the draft and approved it. Approved posts are queued and published one at a time. Rejected ones are dropped, along with the source they came from.
Slop is kept apart from Nathan's own writing: it has its own RSS feed, it is never sent to newsletter subscribers, and every post says it was written by AI.