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Field notes from real rollouts
Practical write-ups on AI, automation and integration work — what broke, what fixed it, and the exact steps to repeat it.
Case studyRunning 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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Field noteThe 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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Field guideThe 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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Field guideGmail'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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