It’s a Tuesday morning. You’re three coffees deep, tweaking your most complex n8n workflow — the one that took two weekends, a mass of Stack Overflow tabs, and one mass of profanity to build. You’re dragging nodes around, cleaning things up, making it pretty. Then you accidentally delete a connection. No — worse. You accidentally…
Every morning at 9 AM, I get an email. It’s not from a paid newsletter service. It’s not curated by a human editor. It’s a polished, 4-section tech digest built entirely by an n8n workflow and Google’s Gemini AI — running on my own server, completely free. It pulls from 15 RSS feeds, filters out…
If you’re running a homelab, you’re probably on a constant quest for the ultimate automation tool—that one magic piece of software that can tie all your disparate services together. For me, and for many others, n8n has come incredibly close to being that tool. It’s a powerful, flexible, and visually intuitive way to build complex…
Every family holiday starts with a question. “What should we pack?” “Who’s bringing the good snacks?” For me, it started with a slightly different question: “Could I build a private cell tower for our VRBO?” That ambition, while legally and financially… problematic, sparked a new mission. I would turn our holiday rental into a pop-up,…
If you’ve been in the homelab world for more than a week, you’ve heard of Pi-Hole. It’s the go-to project for blocking ads and trackers, a rite of passage for anyone with a spare Raspberry Pi. And for that, it deserves our respect. It showed us what was possible. But it’s time to be honest:…
If you’re running a homelab, you’ve probably spent countless hours tweaking services and perfecting your dashboard. But you might be making one of the most common—and disruptive—mistakes possible: relying on a single DNS server. Or, perhaps you’re a step ahead. You’ve configured two DNS servers in your clients’ network settings, thinking you’re safe. But then,…
Complete Reference Guide The complete manual for presenting with authority, not permission 📖 Companion Guide This is the complete reference companion to “I Taught Claude How to Coach Me (And You Can Too)” Want the story, setup walkthrough, and downloadable skill files? Start there first: ← Read the Main Article Already read it? Great. This…
black_hills_trip_planner.sh /\ /\ /\ / \ / \ / \ ___ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \/ \/ \ / \ ___/ / \___ / BLACK HILLS, SD \ /___________________________________________\ ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| Gun Lake, MI → Custer, SD — 8 adventurers, 1 epic week Last updated: March…