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 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 switch the computer on, and in the project folder there is a finished email draft: three thousand words of weekly review covering everything that has happened
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