Playbooks

The way I actually
build things.

Long-form, opinionated walkthroughs of the systems I run for myself and for clients. No hand-waving. Real commands, real config, real warnings about what tends to go wrong.

Self-hosting

Deploying n8n on a VPS

A production-ready n8n install on a £6/mo VPS — Docker, Caddy, Postgres, backups, the lot. The setup I run for myself.

20 min read

Stack setup

Setting up Supabase with Vercel

Wiring Supabase to a Next.js app on Vercel without the auth foot-guns. RLS, server actions, type-safe queries.

18 min read

Automation

Migrating from Zapier to n8n

Cutting a £400/mo Zapier bill to £6 without breaking the business. A real migration plan with patterns and pitfalls.

22 min read

AI engineering

Building a Claude-powered receipt scanner

A real, useful internal tool: OCR plus structured output with Claude, stored in Supabase, exposed through a clean API.

25 min read

Databases

Zero-downtime database migrations

Expand-contract, dual writes, backfills, feature flags. The patterns that mean nobody has to schedule a Saturday at 2am.

24 min read