Automation on Lynx Tech Blog

Merging Two Cover Generators into One: How I Unified the Blog Cover Pipeline with LynxCard and Added Drag-and-Drop Layout

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 01:00:00 +0800

The blog’s cover images used to run on two parallel tracks: AI news posts automatically called the LynxCard service to produce “landscape info cards,” while my hand-written deep-dive articles used a standalone script, gen_cover_dark_terminal.py, to render a “dark terminal” style cover — HTML template + Playwright screenshot + PIL quantization. The two tracks were completely independent, with different styles, parameters, and rendering logic. I finally merged them, a

How to Catch AI Freebies: Quotas, Limited-Time Models, and Not Missing a Window

Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0800

In deal-hunting, information is the arbitrage. Nearly every AI freebie in 2026—free API quotas, temporarily free models, open-source capacity drops—has an explicit window: campaign pages go up for days, signup credits expire, limited-time models stop on schedule. Knowing a day earlier or later gets you the same thing; the difference is knowing at all. This post lists no resources (that’s this survey, verified 2026-09-04—read it first, then apply the methods here). It’s about method:

I Had 114 Research Agents Investigating 'Other Ways to Automate Money-Making' — Only 8 Conclusions Survived

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800

Bottom line up front: On the map of automating income, 2026 really changed two things—GitHub shuffled large bounties into an invite-only VIP tier (the public track’s critical cap dropped to $10K, with a qualification gate), and Huntr rebranded open-source bounties into AI attack-defense tournaments ($15K prize pool, which happens to be the direction my existing pipeline maps onto most cleanly). And every pretty “market size” number mostly gets wiped out after a three-panel adv

I Migrated 45 Cron Jobs into Windmill: Five Lessons from a Migration

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800

45 scheduled tasks. 25 were lying in crontab, 18 were hanging on user-level systemd timers, and 2 were pilot/split-tier tasks on the original cron. At 05:40 on August 24, 2026, I migrated them all into my self-hosted Windmill—45/45 smoke tests green, all original schedules removed. If I’d done this sooner, I would’ve saved a lot of midnight log-diving. But the closer I got to actually doing it, the more I realized the migration itself had more pitfalls than cron ever did.

RSS to Social Media Auto Distribution: A Panoramic Survey of Open-Source Projects (The Peers of LynxPipe)

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800

TL;DR: There’s no single open-source project that handles “RSS aggregation → processing → social distribution” end-to-end, but every layer has mature tools. The combination closest to LynxPipe’s full form is RSSHub (sources) + Huginn/n8n (processing) + Postiz (distribution), with a combined star total exceeding 280k. Here’s the full research: each project’s star count (measured via GitHub API on 2026-08-22), RSS capabilities, and supported social channels.

Solo Multi-Channel Content: How I Built My AI Automation Pipeline LynxPipe

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800

Running a blog, a Telegram channel, and a WeChat public account all by myself—the real bottleneck isn’t running out of ideas, it’s keeping up. Every day there’s an overwhelming flood of valuable AI news, and manually translating, rewriting, sourcing images, laying out, and distributing it all can eat up half a day before you even start. So I architected it as a pipeline I call LynxPipe: raw inputs go in, polished articles come out, and distribution to the blog, TG, and WeChat h

From Manual Post Review to Semi-Automated Improvement: My Telegram Channel Quality Loop, and the Next Step Toward Full Automation

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800

From Manual Review to AI-Driven Loop: How I Automated My Telegram Channel Moderation I run a Telegram channel @Lx_groups focused on free AI resources—free API quotas, limited-time offers, open-source projects, and industry news. The pitch is simple: “genuinely free,” no gray-market stuff, no ads. Behind the scenes, a Cloudflare Worker pulls from upstream TG channel preview pages, GitHub Atom feeds, and major tech company RSS feeds, deduplicates via KV storage, and pushes curated cont

The Gray Tech Chain Behind Cheap Food-Delivery Coupons: From Packet Capture to Bulk Claiming

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0800

Search for “Burger King,” “Pizza Hut,” or “McDonald’s” on Xianyu (China’s biggest secondhand marketplace) and you’ll find piles of meal deals well below official prices — a Burger King signature 8-piece combo coupon for ¥39.9, a Pizza Hut two-pizza coupon for ¥26.4. Sellers note “confirm your phone number before ordering,” “14-day validity,” “instant delivery,” and “one order per purchase, repeatable.

So Efficient It Doesn't Feel Like Me: A Moment of Self-Reflection on This Blog

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:09:00 +0800

Efficiency Is Sometimes the Problem Here’s something a bit awkward: when I write this blog, a lot of the drafts are actually organized for me by AI. It’s not laziness—it’s just that it’s genuinely fast. I throw in a rambling mess of thoughts, a half-formed idea, an article I found interesting, and it churns out a fully structured draft in seconds. It also auto-translates into English, auto-publishes, and auto-backs up. The efficiency is staggering.