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 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