Field-tested, step-by-step guides for building your own AI, automation and self-hosting projects. The articles take you from the prerequisites through installation and configuration to a working system, document common pitfalls and show how to reliably verify functionality, security and results.
A complete build guide for an automated podcast, from the Google key through a small Docker service on the NAS to the listing on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. There is a kind of weekend that everyone knows who deals with artificial intelligence professionally or out of curiosity: Saturday morning, coffee, and a bad conscience, because
A Press Review with AI That Is Ready Every Monday as a Finished Email Draft, Without a Server, Without a Database, Without Docker Imagine it is Monday morning. You sit down at the computer, and in the project folder there is a finished email draft: three thousand words of weekly review covering everything that has
16 sources, a good 100,000 words of raw material per week, 2,800 words of result. Step by step: 32 nodes, every click sequence, every code node complete and ready to copy. There is a moment that everyone knows who tries to follow a subject area. You have built yourself a news stream, a few newsletters,
A hands-on experiment with Claude Cowork or ChatGPT Codex, browser control and Process Mining, with a look at MCP and SAP Joule. On the slide was a percentage. Next to it a country comparison, below it a recommendation with a business case that was to be decided on within a few weeks. The only question
A field-tested step-by-step guide, including the stumbling blocks from a real-world build A single missing line break was all it took. Hermes could no longer read the configuration file and silently fell back to default values. The container kept running, the dashboard kept responding, nothing flashed red only every security rule that had been set
Imagine that every night someone walks through your house once, checks whether a window is jammed somewhere, a battery is running low, or a smoke detector has gone silent, and in the morning leaves you a short note: “Everything’s fine” or “Take a look at the sensor in the bathroom.” This guide creates exactly that
There is a particular moment in almost every large corporation that always plays out the same way. Someone from Controlling asks: “Are we actually efficient? How do we compare to our own subsidiaries?” And then comes the reflexive follow-up: “Shouldn’t we bring in a consultancy for that?” Consulting firms specialize in answering exactly this question
A step-by-step guide for an AI agent that is allowed to capture notes and make suggestions, but must never secretly rewrite your own knowledge archive. How the retrieval behind it works, and why a RAG pipeline is more than full-text search, is explained in From Second Brain to Real AI Knowledge Management. Why a second
How a Synology NAS becomes an editorial nervous system — with Paperclip as director, OpenClaw as the Claude bridge, and Obsidian as memory. The thinking behind this division of roles — why AI agents need an org chart at all — is set out in Paperclip: When AI Agents Get an Org Chart. This guide
A practical guide for everyone who no longer wants to run their website like a café in the fog but finally wants to see who shows up, stays, clicks, and disappears again.Imagine you run a café. Every morning you unfold the chairs, polish the counter, put the cake in the light and have no idea
A technical step-by-step guide for Docker environments, illustrated with a Synology NAS – reproduced and rebuilt from scratch, complete with a backup harness, cost brake, and a few tripwires you’re better off spotting in advance. What OpenClaw is, and why it needs model access on this scale in the first place, is explained in OpenClaw
A field report featuring Ko-fi, PayPal, PHP and a touch of trademark law Do you want to add a donation button to WordPress without a subscription model, without advertising, without technical effort? This guide shows you step by step how to add Ko-fi to WordPress: from creating the account to the payment method to the finished button on
Your website speaks only German. Your visitors might not. That’s not a problem, it’s a solvable problem. With Polylang, a free WordPress plugin, your site gets a second language. No expensive upgrade, no agency, no fresh start. Just one plugin, a few settings – and at the end, a small DE | EN switcher in the header that
What is OpenClaw – and what will you have at the end? OpenClaw is an AI agent you run locally on your Synology DiskStation. Instead of running in the cloud, it runs at your home – you keep control of your data, pay only for the API requests you actually use, and access your personal
What you’re building in this tutorial is not an answering machine. It’s an AI phone assistant that automatically answers calls, conducts a structured conversation – asking for the caller’s name, their request, and its urgency – and then sends you a complete email summary. All in natural language, in German. The whole thing runs on your Synology
What you are building in this tutorial is not a Google Alert. It’s a fully autonomous AI editorial system that researches AI topics every day, writes complete articles, generates cover images with AI, and publishes them on WordPress. The system automatically scans the internet for the most important developments in the field of artificial intelligence. The brain
There is a moment many know: n8n is running cleanly in your own network (an exact step-by-step guide for setting up n8n via Docker can be found here). You’re clicking your first workflows, webhooks are working locally – and then comes the desire to go public. Access from anywhere. Reliable URLs for Stripe, GitHub, or
Automation was long considered the domain of large enterprises: expensive, complex, difficult to control. With n8n, that has changed. Suddenly, enterprise-grade automation can run on a device that many people already have sitting in their basement or home office: a Synology DiskStation. In this guide, I’ll show you step-by-step how to self-host n8n – cleanly
Do you want to create your own website with WordPress? In this guide, I show you how I built foundic.org with self-hosted WordPress – without a website builder, without an agency, and with full control over content, data, and costs. This guide is designed for everyone who: Wants to operate WordPress independently Values data protection