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Notes
Short pieces on things that come up in the work — tool choices, architecture trade-offs, lessons from client projects.
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~ 4 min
- n8n
- mcp
- claude
- automation
- sme
Building n8n workflows with Claude and MCP — instead of clicking them together
n8n has been the pragmatic self-hosted Zapier for years. With the official n8n MCP server and Claude in the IDE, production-grade workflows now grow out of a plain-prose description — validated, version-controlled, deployable. Notes from a few recent SME projects.
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~ 3 min
- consulting
- business
Why I bill by the hour, even on fixed-scope projects
Fixed-price contracts feel safer to the client. In practice they hide risk in padding, misalign incentives, and reward whichever side is better at scope-policing. A short defense of hourly billing with a hard cap.
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~ 3 min
- frontend
- architecture
- stack
Astro, Next.js, or Angular in 2026 — a decision tree that actually works
The frontend framework question still lands in almost every project. The honest answer is not about benchmarks or developer experience; it is about which problem class fits which tool. Here is the tree I use.
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~ 2 min
- mqtt
- iot
- architecture
MQTT topic design: rules that survive contact with a real fleet
Topic structures look tidy on a whiteboard and embarrassing six months into production. A short list of design rules I keep coming back to, after running several MQTT backends in the wild.
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