Tag: automation
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How I got my AI to do jobs from a text on my phone
I nearly replaced my whole AI setup with a shiny self-hosting agent — then added the one piece I actually envied instead: now I text my always-on computer a job and it runs, hands-free.
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How I message anyone on their app of choice, from one command
One command to message anyone on whatever app they use — with a preview you approve and an honesty note that adds itself to every send.
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How I dug a year of lost receipts out of my inbox with AI agents
How I dug a year of lost receipts out of my inbox with AI agents — they do the digging, I keep the judgement. The pattern + the prompt for any search-and-file backlog.
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How I got a tiny tool to catch my AI's writing tics — automatically
How I got a tiny tool to catch my AI's writing tics automatically — list the phrases you're tired of, have your computer flag them every time. Starts with no code, includes the prompts.
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How I ran a competitor analysis of an Instagram account for under a dollar
How I ran a competitor + marketing analysis of an Instagram account for under a dollar — rent a scraper, pull the public numbers, let an AI find the pattern. With the exact prompts.
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Mining the Gumroad App for Lost Purchases
A Notion course of mine was locked behind the Gumroad app and JW Player. The cookie route was a dead end; the iOS-on-Mac app's local cache was not.
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WhereWithAll: A Personal Family Atlas
Turning eight years of adoption-discovery data — DNA matches, places, photos, memories — into a local, browsable family atlas, with a memory layer extracted by a local LLM for zero cost.
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TextExpander: From Archaeology to Actual Use
My TextExpander library had become a museum of dead projects. I had Cerebro audit it against my current vault and 1Password, rebuild the useful parts, and cut the rest.
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Tools That Build Themselves
The carousel took one session to build. The tools that built it took six months of accumulated friction.
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The Carousel Factory
Building a weekly social media carousel pipeline from composable tools — art generation, text compositing, and scheduled distribution.
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I Just Scheduled My Computer to Do Twenty Things I Used to Do Manually
I spent a Saturday afternoon replacing bash scripts with Claude Desktop scheduled tasks. Twenty of them. Here's the design, the model routing, and what I don't know yet.
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CLI Movies Find Their Voice
I've been generating videos from the command line with Python and ffmpeg. This week I added AI voice narration with Kokoro TTS. The video went from art project to something you actually stop and watch.
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Ninety Attempts, Zero Triggers
The trigger optimizer ran 90 tests on an advisory skill. It never fired once. That's not a bug.
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Trust Defaults
An iPad, a chatbot, three subagents, and 333 sessions all failed the same way this week. They were trusted by default.
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The Number Said Zero
OpenClaw's audit had been flagging a subscriber tag as empty for weeks. The tag wasn't empty. The API just wasn't reporting it correctly.
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The Horoscope Test
Built a full automated content pipeline from vault tag to published post. The first problem was Claude leaking meta-commentary into the drafts. The second problem was that the output sounded true but said nothing specific.
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One Bot Starved the Other. So I Fired the Cloud.
OpenClaw's two studio audits shared a 30K token/minute budget. The first one ate it all. The second one silently died for two days.
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The Post That Needed Sanitizing
Published a post about silent monitoring failures. On visual review after deploy, found three things in the live post that shouldn't have been there.
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Rebranding a Website With AI in 90 Minutes
I rebranded Signal Over Noise from flat monochrome to claymorphic 3D — CSS, hero images, 6 sourced articles — in a single session. Here's what the process actually looked like.
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Architecture Proven for the First Time
OpenClaw was designed to monitor multiple studios from the start. This week we added a second one. The architecture took twenty minutes. The prompt took most of the day.
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238 Apple Books Into Booklore Via a Categorisation Script
Built a bash script to categorise 304 Apple Books files by content type, dedupe against 3,054 existing entries, and import 238 survivors into 5 Booklore libraries.
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One iPhone Screenshot, Eight Sites Broken
My iPhone showed horizontal scrolling on jimchristian.net. I audited all 8 of my Astro sites in parallel and found the same class of bug in 7 of them.
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Vault Reorganization Broke Every Search Index
Reorganized the vault. Every search index pointed at folders that no longer existed. Rebuilt from scratch — 9 collections, 21K chunks, a 4-hour auto-refresh.
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Tasks Live in Two Places. Neither Knew About the Other.
Vault tasks and phone reminders existed in parallel. Built a bidirectional sync. The hardest part was macOS sed choking on emoji.
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Your Claude Code Setup Is Quietly Breaking
I ran a diagnostic on my 200+ component Claude Code ecosystem and found 17 critical issues hiding in plain sight. Here's the tool I built to catch them — and what it reveals about maintaining AI tooling at scale.
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Found 22 of 26 Logos. Assumed the Other 4 Didn't Exist.
Stopped searching for logos at 22 out of 26. All 26 existed in the same folder. Pattern matching success created false confidence.
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AI As a Co-Operating System
Most people use AI as a tool. I use it as an operating system — one that runs alongside me, not just for me. Here's how I built Cerebro.
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From Remote Access to Agentic OS: Two Weeks with Claude Code
What started as remote terminal access to my Obsidian vault evolved into something like an operating system—specialised agents, MCP servers, and automated workflows.
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Building an AI-Powered WordPress Publishing Pipeline with Claude Code
I built a WordPress plugin and MCP server that lets Claude publish directly from Obsidian to my blog. Draft, tell Claude to publish, done.
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Building an MCP Server for Pi-hole: Network Ad Blocking Through Natural Language
I built an MCP server that lets Claude manage my Pi-hole setup—check what's being blocked, whitelist domains, and view stats through conversation.
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Building an MCP Server for the *arr Stack: Media Management Through Natural Language
I built an MCP server to manage Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Readarr, and Prowlarr through Claude—query downloads and search libraries without switching between five dashboards.
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Building an MCP Server for Pickaxe: Managing AI Agents Through Natural Language
I built an MCP server that lets Claude manage my Pickaxe AI agents directly—knowledge bases, conversation history, and analytics through natural language.
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Updating my Claude setup to support remote work
I set up Claude Code on my home server with Tailscale and Syncthing so I can access my Obsidian vault from anywhere—iPad, phone, or any device with a terminal.
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Behind the Screens: Optimising My Newsletter With AI
I spent an hour with Comet and Claude auditing a year's worth of Signal Over Noise newsletter strategy—timing, audience, and growth opportunities.
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Creating my tone of voice with Claude
I gave Claude my book manuscript and asked it to create a writing style guide. It came back with 2,500 words capturing how I actually write.
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Scaling back to WordPress
I'm leaving Squarespace for WordPress. I want to write locally in Obsidian and automate publishing—something Squarespace just can't do.
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iOS Automation: Set Random Wallpaper Every Day
A simple iOS Shortcuts automation that changes your lock screen wallpaper every morning to a random photo from a shared family album.
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Parenting with Old Technology
Using an old iPod Classic, iPlayer downloads and a conversion pipeline to give a toddler screen-free entertainment — without resorting to burning CDs like it's the late nineties.
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List of Reading Apps in Launch Center Pro
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Daily Logging with Launch Center Pro, Drafts and Day One
A semi-automated daily journaling workflow across iPhone, iPad and Mac using Launch Center Pro, Editorial, Drafts, Dropbox and Day One.
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File PDFs to Evernote Depending on Your Location
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My Automation and Workflows
A 2014 deep-dive into the automation toolkit: Editorial, Hazel, Launch Center Pro, Keyboard Maestro, Slogger, Drafts, and the glue that holds it all together.
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DNS Switcheroo Macro for Keyboard Maestro