https://blog.andreszenteno.com Explore tech articles on web development, programming, and more. Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:24:39 GMT https://blog.andreszenteno.com/notes/100-hours-of-openclaw-lessons-in-35-minutes https://blog.andreszenteno.com/notes/100-hours-of-openclaw-lessons-in-35-minutes Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:24:39 GMT I've spent 100 hours with OpenClaw. Here is EVERYTHING I know about it. Feel free to skip around to relevant chapters. FULL OpenClaw bootcamp in the Vibe Coding Academy: vibecodingacademy.dev Sign up for my free newsletter: https://www.alexfinn.ai/subscribe Follow my X: https://x.com/AlexFinn My $300k/yr AI app: https://www.creatorbuddy.io/ OpenClaw: https://openclaw.ai/ PROMPTS: Please schedule a morning brief for me every day at 8am. Send it to my Telegram. In this morning brief I want: 1. The weather in San Francisco 2. Top news stories in AI 3. Any tasks I have in my todo list on Things 3 4. 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Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:53 What is OpenClaw 4:33 Where to host OpenClaw 8:12 Setting up OpenClaw 13:23 First things to do with OpenClaw 17:01 OpenClaw Use Cases 23:09 Brains and muscles 26:55 OpenClaw Mindset 30:32 Another advanced workflow 31:44 Security https://blog.andreszenteno.com/articles/20260213 https://blog.andreszenteno.com/articles/20260213 Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT A practical AI coding workflow for solo builders: scope first, prompt with constraints, verify with tests, and ship in small, reliable iterations. https://blog.andreszenteno.com/articles/20260212 https://blog.andreszenteno.com/articles/20260212 Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT A practical Ubuntu hardening checklist for home servers: SSH lockdown, updates, firewall policy, backups, monitoring, and safer remote access. https://blog.andreszenteno.com/notes/nexterm-open-source-self-hosted-server-management-made-simple https://blog.andreszenteno.com/notes/nexterm-open-source-self-hosted-server-management-made-simple Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:30:07 GMT === Links === Show Notes https://wiki.opensourceisawesome.com/books/local-and-remote-server-management/page/install-nexterm Nexterm Project https://nexterm.dev/ Get the AwesomeOpenSource Merchandise https://osia.printify.me Support my Channel and ongoing efforts through Patreon: https://patreon.com/awesomeopensource Buy Me a Coffee or Beer https://paypal.me/BrianMcGonagill?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US === Get My Novel === Entanglement - by Brian McGonagill Dave is just a normal guy with a normal job that he doesn't like that much. 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To Pay for Digital Ocean droplets, donations to open source projects I feature, any hardware I may need to purchase for future episodes. https://blog.andreszenteno.com/articles/20260211 https://blog.andreszenteno.com/articles/20260211 Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT The exact SEO publishing workflow I use for Next.js App Router blogs: metadata, canonicals, internal links, validation commands, and indexing steps. https://blog.andreszenteno.com/docs/seo-publishing-checklist https://blog.andreszenteno.com/docs/seo-publishing-checklist Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Reusable SEO publishing checklist for blogs and docs: metadata, canonical validation, internal links, sitemap updates, and launch verification in one workflow. https://blog.andreszenteno.com/notes/github-trending-today-22-vouch-visionclaw-ralph-playbook-x-research-localgpt-chernycode https://blog.andreszenteno.com/notes/github-trending-today-22-vouch-visionclaw-ralph-playbook-x-research-localgpt-chernycode Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:40:46 GMT Weekly roundup of trending open-source GitHub projects, highlighting AI tools, developer utilities, and practical workflows worth tracking and testing. https://blog.andreszenteno.com/docs/seo-30-day-ranking-plan https://blog.andreszenteno.com/docs/seo-30-day-ranking-plan Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Execution plan to improve organic traffic through technical SEO consistency, metadata quality, internal links, and content/distribution workflows. https://blog.andreszenteno.com/docs/seo-url-policy https://blog.andreszenteno.com/docs/seo-url-policy Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Canonical, Open Graph, sitemap, and robots rules used in The Tech Pulse. 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