Monitoring a competitor who publishes no feed is the case every RSS guide skips. Twenty-one platforms sorted by which of three jobs they do, and the finished setup is business process automation you own outright, with no seat licence to renew.
Blaming the content is the reflex when a post underperforms, and it is usually the wrong diagnosis. A second reader decides distribution before any human sees the post, and most of what it checks is mechanical enough to automate business processes around, on five platforms at once.
Gloves on, tape measure in hand — nobody types a query. Three voice surfaces for ai automation tools (terminal, Telegram, Discord), 10 TTS and 6 STT providers compared on cost and latency, plus a setup that costs nothing.
Anthropic agentic coding tool
Everyone says build a Skill for anything you do twice. Most workflows are not Skill-shaped. Eight built, five still running, three deleted: full SKILL.md source for the survivors, honest post-mortems on the rest, and the 5-gate test before the next one.
Twelve MCP servers tested over three months: five earned a permanent spot, seven got removed. The short list for non-programmers, with real usage frequency, an honest reason for each cut, and a copy-paste .mcp.json.
Syncthing, a Git repo with cron, or iCloud Drive plus one symlink - I ran all three across six months. Only one avoided becoming a part-time sysadmin job. Honest comparison, exact commands for the winner, a Gist backup plan, and when heavier workflow automation software is right.
When I rebuild one with AI agents, you get the write-up — including the parts that didn't work. No weekly roundup, no "5 tools you need."