Devtools

Tools that multiply developer productivity

Developer tooling, CLI workflows, IDE integrations, and automation patterns that save hours of manual work.

5 articles in this pillar

Guide3 articles
·11 min

5 n8n Patterns I Use for SSH-Based Server Monitoring

Concrete n8n patterns from building a homelab health dashboard: compound SSH commands with section delimiters, deduction-based scoring, dual-trigger workflows, structured JSON AI output, and graceful first-run handling.

·14 min

Practical Claude API Prompt Engineering: Lessons from 500+ Automated Article Analyses

Hard-won prompting patterns from building a production pipeline that analyzes 25+ articles daily with Claude. Scoring calibration, structured JSON output, dual-model economics, and the single phrase that fixed everything.

·4 min

Prerequisites Reference: API Keys, Tools, and Infrastructure for nxsi.io Projects

Central reference for every API key, tool, and infrastructure component used across nxsi.io tutorials and build logs. Direct links to official setup pages.

Tutorial1 article
·27 min

Build an AI News Digest with n8n and Claude: Complete Tutorial (27 Nodes, $0.10/day)

Step-by-step guide to building an automated AI news pipeline that monitors 10 RSS feeds, deduplicates articles, extracts full text, analyzes each one with Claude, and delivers a curated digest to Discord, Slack, or email.

Build Log1 article
·14 min

I Built an AI News Digest with n8n and Claude API — Here's Everything That Went Wrong (and How I Fixed It)

A chronological build log of creating a 27-node n8n workflow that fetches 10 RSS feeds, deduplicates with Levenshtein matching, extracts full text via Jina Reader, analyzes with Claude Haiku, compiles with Claude Sonnet, and delivers to Slack — for $0.10/day.