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Tunneling Local LLMs to the Cloud with Tailscale
5/24/2025
Hooked up my local LLMs (running with Ollama) to my VPS using Tailscale, letting apps like n8n and other web tools query them over HTTPS. It's been great for cost-effective testing and small-scale workloads before pulling in heavyweight APIs.
AI-Powered RSS Digest Emails with n8n
5/17/2025
Built an automation with n8n to pull from multiple RSS feeds, summarize the content with AI, and send a clean email digest. Here’s how I structured the workflow, tackled data formatting, and kept things scalable with tools like SendGrid and Google Sheets.
Self-Hosting n8n on a VPS with PostgreSQL, Docker, and SSL
5/10/2025
I self-hosted n8n on a VPS to ditch execution limits and get full control without the monthly price tag. PostgreSQL for multi-user support, Docker for easy deployment and updates, and a polished subdomain setup — here's how it came together.
Ecommerce Image Scraper
3/28/2025
Built a custom Python scraper to help a client download their entire product catalog with images, alt text, descriptions, and prices. Here's how I approached it, plus some lessons learned along the way.