Editing My Website from Telegram

19 February 2026

I saw Pieter post on X that he mostly just codes in production now with Claude Code. It reminded me of the early days, editing your site in Dreamweaver and hitting publish straight to the server over FTP. No git, no CI, no deploy pipeline. Just you and the live site. Somehow we’ve come full circle.

Back then you’d open Dreamweaver, connect to your FTP server, and edit files directly. You’d hit save and your site was updated. It was immediate. Then we got version control, CI/CD, staging environments, pull requests, deploy previews. All useful, but a lot of ceremony for changing a typo on your personal site.

This setup brings back that same directness. I send a message to a Telegram bot, Claude Code edits the files on the server, Jekyll rebuilds, and the site is live. The difference is that I don’t even have to open an editor anymore. I just describe what I want in plain language and it happens.

The setup

Jekyll serves the live site via a Cloudflare Tunnel. This is not a preview, this is production.
Claude Code runs with access to the full Jekyll repo and edits the live files directly. There is no deploy step. Jekyll picks up the changes and the site is updated immediately.
A Telegram bot using claude-code-telegram forwards my messages to Claude Code and sends back the responses. It only accepts my Telegram user ID, so no one else can make changes.
An auto-commit watcher detects file changes, commits and pushes to GitHub. The commits are just a backup so I can roll back if needed.
The whole thing runs on Proxmox in my utility closet. Proxmox makes it easy to spin up containers to experiment with. This site is served from there.

The prompt

This is the prompt I gave Claude Code to set it all up:

Can you create a lightweight container for me in Proxmox. It uses
https://github.com/RichardAtCT/claude-code-telegram to make changes.
I want to be able to make changes to the project using Claude Code.

When changes are made, it should automatically create a commit and
notify me via Telegram and push it to github. Use jekyll serve to
run the server.

Add a Cloudflare Tunnel so it is publicly available at
site.jankeesvw.com.

Claude spun up 6 agents in parallel. About 15 minutes later, everything was running.

Why this is useful

It removes the last bit of friction. I don’t need to open my laptop, launch a terminal, or even think about git. I just tell the bot what I want in plain language, in Dutch or English, and it figures out the rest.

This feels like the future. Claude Code is opening doors that were closed before.

Hello, I'm Jankees van Woezik

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