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Practical write-ups on AI, automation and integration work — what broke, what fixed it, and the exact steps to repeat it.

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Running a Bike Hire Shop With a Skeleton Crew

How Waterside Bike Hire, one of North Devon's busiest hire venues, runs day-to-day on a lean team backed by Zippy Booking and Dan OS.

Waterside Bike Hire · Zippy Booking · Dan OS

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The Gap Every Scheduled AI Agent Has

If you're running an AI coding agent on a recurring schedule against its own codebase, there's a specific, easy-to-miss failure mode: it can fix its own bugs and then forget it ever did.

One git default · zero code changes needed

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Notebook of quick task ideas beside a phoneField guide

The Brain-Dump Inbox

Ideas don't wait until you're at a desk. A single no-structure capture box, plus an assistant that reads it before anything else each run, turns a half-formed thought into a properly filed, prioritised task.

2 prompts · one Lovable table · about 15 minutes

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Gmail's Missing From: Header

Claude can read and reply to your inbox — but it can't draft as accounts@yourbusiness.com if that's not the address it's authenticated as. Here's the actual fix, OAuth setup and all.

6 steps · one Google Cloud project · about 20 minutes

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