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Notes from last night.
Working notes on agents, pipelines and the boring craft of making automation that actually holds up in production. Written between projects, usually after midnight.
The LLM-in-the-Loop Problem (And How I Think About It)
When should an AI agent take action autonomously vs. pause and ask a human? A framework I've been refining through real projects.
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Why I'm Optimistic About AI Despite Not Trusting AI Companies
I'm optimistic about where AI lands, and it has nothing to do with trusting the labs to behave. It rests on something else entirely, and working out what took me a while to admit.
Why the Chat Interface Became My Productivity System
I've tried a lot of productivity methods over the years. The one that's finally sticking has only been running a couple of days, and I still don't fully understand why it's different.
I Connected Claude to My n8n — Here's Why It Changed How I Work
I connected Claude to my n8n over MCP so it can read, build and fix workflows from a chat. How I set it up, and where I'd stop.
How I Built a CMS Using Obsidian
I didn't set out to build a CMS. I set out to stop copy-pasting markdown files.
My Notes, Everywhere: An n8n MCP Server for Obsidian
How I built an MCP server so Claude can read and write my Obsidian vault from my phone, the three bugs that taught me the most, and why I told a friend not to build the same thing.
Building n8n Workflows That Don't Break at 2am
Practical patterns for resilient automation — error handling, retries, and why you should always have a dead-letter queue.
Automating Your Reading Workflow with RSS and AI Summaries
How I built a personal newsletter that digests 40+ sources and delivers only what actually matters — without reading everything myself.
How I Built a Form-to-Notion Workflow
How I solved Notion's terrible copy-paste experience by building a Tally + n8n workflow that appends perfectly formatted markdown to any Notion page.
How I Built an Automated YouTube Note-Taker
How I built an n8n workflow that automatically turns YouTube videos into timestamped Notion notes, and the failed attempts that taught me how to do it right.
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