Comparing 7 Ways to Build 5 Slides: The Most Expensive Scored Lowest
I built the same 5 slides seven ways and measured cost, time, and spec compliance. The most expensive path followed the spec the least.
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16 posts tagged automation
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- Concepts
What Is Google Apps Script? Running Your Code on Google's Servers
What Google Apps Script is, how your code runs on Google's servers, and how time-based and event-based triggers keep automations running.
- Insights
Discord grading bot for an n8n challenge: from submissions to similarity scoring
How a Discord bot graded advanced missions for 319 n8n challenge applicants via similarity checks against the book's originals, plus a costly storage mistake.
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n8n Seoul Meetup 3rd Recap: Three Real-World n8n Adoption Cases
Notes from a talk on adopting n8n at a hospital, a large Korean company, and a solo business, including the failures and the lessons learned.
- Concepts
AI automation terms explained: MCP, agent, context, skill, and secret
Five AI automation terms (MCP, agent, context, skill, secret) explained in one line each, with everyday analogies and a diagram of how they connect.
- Concepts
What Is a Webhook? Understanding It With a Restaurant Waiting Ticket
Stuck at 'register a webhook' in an AI answer? A snack-shop waiting ticket explains polling vs. webhooks, then you receive a real signal on webhook.site.
- Guides
How to Create a Discord Webhook URL (and Why It Works Like a Password)
Find the Discord webhook menu in channel settings, create a webhook URL, and learn why that URL must be treated like a password, plus fixes if it leaks.
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GitHub Actions secrets: why secrets fail in an if condition
Adding a secret to GitHub Actions is easy. Using it directly in an if condition fails the workflow in 0 seconds. Here's the cause and a one-line workaround.
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Why n8n Won't Connect to Gmail: Five Checks Before You Recreate the Credential
Checklist for failed Gmail connections in n8n: causes of redirect_uri_mismatch, Unauthorized, and invalid_client, plus a custom-domain trap.
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n8n 6-week challenge review: what participants built and what stuck
A record of the n8n 6-week finish-the-book challenge: 319 sign-ups, weekly student projects, a 4.9 review rating, and what changed after six weeks.
- Guides
Your First n8n Automation: Build a Morning News Briefing Without Coding
A beginner's step-by-step n8n tutorial. In about 30 minutes, build a no-code workflow that delivers your chosen news to your inbox every morning.
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Archiving Threads Drafts vs. Published Posts with a Hybrid Supabase and File Pipeline
Log every Threads draft-to-published edit with a Mac mini pipeline: Supabase for metrics, files for text and diffs, and a manual push gate.
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How to Turn a Mac mini Into a 24/7 Home Server and Connect It with SSH and Tailscale
Set up a Mac mini as an always-on home server, connect it over SSH and Tailscale, and avoid the sleep failures that break laptop-based automation.
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Claude Code under launchd: debugging five stacked failures in headless automation
Five stacked failures broke a Claude Code briefing run by macOS launchd. Here is how each layer was found and fixed for headless automation.
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Claude Code Recurring Execution: /loop vs /schedule vs CronCreate Compared
Compare /loop, /schedule, CronCreate, and Routines in Claude Code to pick the right recurring run for local tools, cloud execution, or external triggers.
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Claude Code + Obsidian: Automatically Capture Sessions and Generate a Daily Work Log
Set up a Claude Code Stop Hook that saves sessions to Obsidian as Markdown, then uses Gemini to draft a daily work log. Setup takes about 15 minutes.