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Build LogFebruary 25, 2026·15 min read

I Built a GitHub Release Watcher for My Homelab — Here's How n8n and Claude AI Keep My Stack Updated

A chronological build log of creating a 35-node n8n workflow that monitors GitHub releases and Docker registries, analyzes changelogs with Claude Haiku, and delivers color-coded digests to Discord, Telegram, Slack, and ntfy — for $0.02/day.

TutorialFebruary 25, 2026·26 min read

Build a GitHub Release Watcher with n8n and Claude: Complete Tutorial (43 Nodes, 4 Channels, $0.02/Day)

Step-by-step guide to building a 35-node n8n workflow that monitors GitHub releases and Docker registries, uses Claude Haiku for AI-powered changelog analysis, and delivers color-coded update digests across four channels.

GuideFebruary 21, 2026·11 min read

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.

GuideFebruary 21, 2026·14 min read

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.

TutorialFebruary 21, 2026·27 min read

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 LogFebruary 21, 2026·14 min read

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.