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What I Run as Cron Jobs in My Claude Stack: 6 Automations
6 cron jobs run my studio publishing pipeline on a 2 EUR/month server
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469 entries · latest 2026-10-22
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Claude Files API in Production: 5 Patterns for Document Workflows
Files API replaced my 40KB inline blobs with reusable file IDs across requests
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How I Auto-Publish a Blog Article Per Day With GitHub Actions and Claude
Daily blog automation runs free on GitHub Actions cron at 06:00 UTC
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Building Multi-Agent Workflows With Claude: A Solo Studio Playbook
Three parallel writer agents drafting at once cut my blog turnaround from 6 hours to 90 minutes
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5 Claude Code Slash Commands I Built and Use Daily
/publish replaced a 40-line shell script and 6 manual steps
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5 Anthropic Prompt Caching Patterns That Cut My API Bill 70%
System-prompt caching alone cut repeat-call costs by half
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Why I Run Claude Code Plugins for Brand Voice Enforcement
A brand-voice plugin catches em-dashes and banned words before publish, not after
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Opus 4.8 vs Sonnet vs Haiku: How I Route Work in 2026
Which Claude model for which job in 2026, with Opus 4.8's flat price, cheaper Fast mode, and abstention…
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Opus 4.8 in Practice: A Real Coding Session
A field report from one real agentic coding session on Opus 4.8: where it asked instead of guessing,…
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Claude Code Hooks I Ship in Every Project: 6 Patterns
Brand-check hook catches forbidden words before they reach a draft
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Claude Opus 4.8 Is Here: Everything That Changed
Claude Opus 4.8 landed May 28 with a 4x drop in unremarked code bugs, a 3x cheaper Fast…
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5 Anthropic SDK Streaming Patterns I Use in Production
Token paint with backpressure stops fast streams from crashing slow UIs