Replacing Three Client Dashboards With One Local n8n
A client needed recurring reports from three different dashboards. One local n8n instance can take over the work, cut SaaS costs, and keep their data closer to home.
Tools
Honest takes on the tools I use daily. What earned its place in my stack, what I dropped, and why most "best of" lists are useless. 20 posts
Why my posts now start with five bullets
I stopped asking my automation to invent posts from topics and started feeding it five ugly bullets from real life instead. The system did not change much, but the writing did.
The client code I will not paste into an AI tool
A practical line between “helpful AI code review” and “leaking your client’s business model,” based on operational privacy rather than legal fine print.
The Schema.org Markup Every Client Site Should Ship With
The structured data I ship on almost every client project fits on a single page. This is the JSON-LD I actually deploy, not theory.
Shooting With Restraint: iPhone, Lightroom, And A Component Mindset
Photography got way better for me when I dropped the gear chase and treated images like components in a system: shot on an iPhone, finished in Lightroom, used on the web.
Killing CalendarBridge and RankPill: An Honest Audit of My Setapp Stack
I killed CalendarBridge and RankPill, then audited my entire Setapp stack. This is how I trimmed the bloat without losing any real capability.
The Tower Workflow That Keeps My Mac Studio And MacBook Air Perfectly In Sync
How I keep a Mac Studio and a MacBook Air in sync using Tower, Git and a few strict rules, so I can jump between desk and couch without merge hell.
Mac Studio As My Daily AI Workhorse (And How I Actually Use The GPU)
How I use a Mac Studio as a daily AI development box, where Apple Silicon shines for AI workloads, and how to avoid the usual GPU bottlenecks.
Notion vs Obsidian for a Solo Developer: What I Actually Use
After 2 years using Notion and Obsidian side by side, I stopped pretending they compete. Here is what I genuinely use each one for as a solo developer.
How I Automated My Ghost Member Welcome Flow With Make.com
I wired Ghost into Make.com so new members hit a proper conditional welcome flow instead of a single bland email. Here is the exact scenario, modules, and gotchas.
Make.com Error Handling Patterns That Actually Work
The worst Make.com scenarios are not the ones that crash. They are the ones that silently stop working. Here is how I design every scenario to make failure loud and obvious.
How I Evaluate a New Dev Tool (My 3‑Question Filter)
I run every new dev tool through the same 3‑question filter before it touches my real workflow. Here is how Cursor, Tower, and SecondsPro managed to earn their place.