Short pieces on things that come up in the work — tool choices, architecture trade-offs, lessons from client projects.https://staudt-it-dienstleistungen.de/en-UShttps://staudt-it-dienstleistungen.de/en/notes/n8n-mcp-claude-workflows/https://staudt-it-dienstleistungen.de/en/notes/n8n-mcp-claude-workflows/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.Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTn8nmcpclaudeautomationsmehttps://staudt-it-dienstleistungen.de/en/notes/hourly-billing-fixed-scope/https://staudt-it-dienstleistungen.de/en/notes/hourly-billing-fixed-scope/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.Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTconsultingbusinesshttps://staudt-it-dienstleistungen.de/en/notes/astro-next-angular-2026/https://staudt-it-dienstleistungen.de/en/notes/astro-next-angular-2026/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.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTfrontendarchitecturestackhttps://staudt-it-dienstleistungen.de/en/notes/mqtt-topic-design-rules/https://staudt-it-dienstleistungen.de/en/notes/mqtt-topic-design-rules/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.Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTmqttiotarchitecture