I’ve been having a bunch of fun learning n8n during the holiday vacation. I’ve hooked it up so that when I write a blog post in my site, it’s published to RSS and…
- Checks if the URL is already processed, abort if it is
- Content is summarized by an LLM (I’m lazy, sorry)
- Stored in a data-table
Then occasionally, it checks if the post has been shared on social-media:
- If it’s shared already, abort
- Create a post on Bluesky and store a reference to the at-protocol URL
- Create a post on LinkedIn and store a reference to the post
- Add Bluesky comments by fetching the atUri from an n8n web-hook
As a part of this process, I’ve also had to
- Remove all of the social-media posting stuff from my blog. It has always felt like a scope-creep to have it here, so now it’s a part of my n8n setup and if that dies, that’s not the end of the world.
- Redo how I’m generating open-graph images because my earlier way of doing it didn’t feel quite right.
- Setup hosting and automatic deployments on my own server via Dokploy
- Create an alternative open-graph image for code-snippet like posts
