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Nov 5

I tried to read the shipping and returns pages of 24 big German online shops by machine: 7 wouldn't let me, 1 had shipping markup

#ecommerce #ai #webdev #seo

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Nov 5

Self-hosting an open text-to-speech model on serverless CPU: 4 GB was twice as fast as 2 GB and cost the same

#ai #python #tts #serverless

3 min read

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Nov 4

I weighed the home pages of 39 AI companies: median 3.1 MB, and one 7.4 MB PNG on Replicate's front page

#webdev #performance #ai #sustainability

4 min read

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Nov 4

Get a Slack alert when a competitor adds or removes product pages (n8n + sitemaps), and why you should ignore lastmod

#n8n #automation #ecommerce #webdev

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Nov 4

I checked the product markup of 14 well-known Shopify brands: all pass Google's minimum, only 2 tell machines what shipping costs

#ecommerce #seo #shopify #ai

4 min read

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Nov 3

I crawled 150 pages from 6 popular docs sites into RAG chunks: one page often eats half the token budget

#rag #llm #ai #python

4 min read

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Nov 3

Can AI shopping agents get into Germany's biggest online shops? I checked 46: robots.txt is rarely the problem, the front door is

#ai #ecommerce #seo #webdev

5 min read

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Nov 3

I read the public DNS records of 44 AI companies: Cursor's verification token is on 27 of them, more than OpenAI's or Anthropic's

#ai #dns #security #datascience

4 min read

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Nov 2

I read all 308 open jobs at xAI: 54% are in its data center team, and most of them are in Memphis

#ai #career #datascience #jobs

3 min read

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Nov 1

We checked 100 German online shops for Abmahnung risks: 17 still link to a dead EU platform

#ecommerce #webdev #a11y #automation

3 min read

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Nov 1

Do German online shops let AI agents in? We checked robots.txt, bot walls and llms.txt on 100 stores

#ecommerce #ai #webdev #seo

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2 min read

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Nov 1

I audited 100 German online stores for $0.03 with Node.js. Here's what broke (including my own code)

#webdev #javascript #ecommerce #webscraping

3 min read

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Oct 26

German tech companies hire mostly abroad, and none of their 279 German job ads I checked shows a salary

#career #jobs #germany #datascience

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Oct 25

How old are open job postings? A third of tech jobs were first posted 90+ days ago (one in 2019)

#career #jobs #datascience #hiring

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Oct 25

1 in 7 engineering jobs at 20 tech companies now has AI, ML or 'agent' in the title

#ai #career #datascience #jobs

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4 min read

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Oct 24

n8n vs Zapier vs Power Automate vs Make: 5 years of Google search data, by country

#n8n #automation #nocode #datascience

4 min read

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Oct 24

Germany's job board has a free JSON API: 821,306 open jobs and what its facets reveal

#api #python #datascience #career

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Oct 23

Your AI news feed is missing half the story: one search, four Google News editions, 765 headlines

#news #ai #datascience #python

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5 min read

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Oct 23

How to get YouTube transcripts in bulk (whole channels and playlists) as text or JSON, without the YouTube Data API

#youtube #python #ai #tutorial

5 min read

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Oct 23

How to scrape Workday job postings (myworkdayjobs.com) as JSON: the 2,000-result limit and how to get around it

#python #webscraping #api #tutorial

6 min read

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Oct 22

A PDF inbox that summarises itself: Google Drive, n8n and an LLM (free workflow)

#n8n #automation #ai #productivity

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4 min read

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Oct 22

Bulk-remove backgrounds from product photos for Amazon and Shopify (white or transparent) without paying remove.bg prices

#ecommerce #python #ai #tutorial

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6 min read

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Oct 22

What 2,698 open jobs at 10 AI companies say about where the labs are hiring

#ai #career #datascience #jobs

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5 min read

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Oct 21

PDF to clean Markdown for RAG: chunking-ready text from PDFs, Word and scanned files

#rag #python #ai #tutorial

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5 min read

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Oct 21

Bulk-upscale product photos from a Google Sheet with n8n and Real-ESRGAN

#n8n #ecommerce #ai #automation

3 min read

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Oct 21

Hiring signals: get a Slack alert when target companies post new jobs (n8n)

#n8n #automation #sales #jobs

4 min read

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Oct 20

Build a weekly Google Trends report in Google Sheets with n8n (no pytrends)

#n8n #seo #googletrends #automation

3 min read

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Oct 20

A daily competitor news digest in Slack for ~$1.50 a month (n8n + Google News)

#news #n8n #automation #slack

4 min read

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Oct 20

Summarise any YouTube channel into Google Sheets with n8n (free workflow)

#n8n #automation #youtube #ai

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I tried to read the shipping and returns pages of 24 big German online shops by machine: 7 wouldn't let me, 1 had shipping markup

Self-hosting an open text-to-speech model on serverless CPU: 4 GB was twice as fast as 2 GB and cost the same

I weighed the home pages of 39 AI companies: median 3.1 MB, and one 7.4 MB PNG on Replicate's front page

Get a Slack alert when a competitor adds or removes product pages (n8n + sitemaps), and why you should ignore lastmod

I checked the product markup of 14 well-known Shopify brands: all pass Google's minimum, only 2 tell machines what shipping costs

I crawled 150 pages from 6 popular docs sites into RAG chunks: one page often eats half the token budget

Can AI shopping agents get into Germany's biggest online shops? I checked 46: robots.txt is rarely the problem, the front door is

I read the public DNS records of 44 AI companies: Cursor's verification token is on 27 of them, more than OpenAI's or Anthropic's

I read all 308 open jobs at xAI: 54% are in its data center team, and most of them are in Memphis

We checked 100 German online shops for Abmahnung risks: 17 still link to a dead EU platform

Do German online shops let AI agents in? We checked robots.txt, bot walls and llms.txt on 100 stores

I audited 100 German online stores for $0.03 with Node.js. Here's what broke (including my own code)

German tech companies hire mostly abroad, and none of their 279 German job ads I checked shows a salary

How old are open job postings? A third of tech jobs were first posted 90+ days ago (one in 2019)

1 in 7 engineering jobs at 20 tech companies now has AI, ML or 'agent' in the title

n8n vs Zapier vs Power Automate vs Make: 5 years of Google search data, by country

Germany's job board has a free JSON API: 821,306 open jobs and what its facets reveal

Your AI news feed is missing half the story: one search, four Google News editions, 765 headlines

How to get YouTube transcripts in bulk (whole channels and playlists) as text or JSON, without the YouTube Data API

How to scrape Workday job postings (myworkdayjobs.com) as JSON: the 2,000-result limit and how to get around it

A PDF inbox that summarises itself: Google Drive, n8n and an LLM (free workflow)

Bulk-remove backgrounds from product photos for Amazon and Shopify (white or transparent) without paying remove.bg prices

What 2,698 open jobs at 10 AI companies say about where the labs are hiring

PDF to clean Markdown for RAG: chunking-ready text from PDFs, Word and scanned files

Bulk-upscale product photos from a Google Sheet with n8n and Real-ESRGAN

Hiring signals: get a Slack alert when target companies post new jobs (n8n)

Build a weekly Google Trends report in Google Sheets with n8n (no pytrends)

A daily competitor news digest in Slack for ~$1.50 a month (n8n + Google News)

Summarise any YouTube channel into Google Sheets with n8n (free workflow)