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Lumberjack is moving to Ghost
The Lumberjack has grown from a directionless little outlet of my brain farts into a really amazing community of no-code enthusiasts. Substack has been good to us, but it’s time to move on. The Lumberjack still lives at lumberjack.so but it looks brand new and comes with a few extras
To celebrate this evolution, I’m giving every subscriber free access to the Alfred Starter Kit. (Not the same as AlfredOS!)
Go sign up on the new site to stay subscribed to the Lumberjack:
Your Welcome Gift: Alfred
Remember Alfred, my AI butler I started building a while back?
Now you can get a copy of him for free. I’ve been running the Lumberjack increasingly using Alfred and I’m going to share most of it with you for free.
Alfred Starter Kit
A free version of Alfred that lives in your Slack and can be customized, expanded with n8n to fully operate your business or your life.
How to get it?
Go to https://lumberjack.so
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Get one SPECIFIC idea on how to use Alfred every day for a week.
No-Code, No Clue
Learn n8n workflows wrapped in sitcom episodes written by Alfred himself. Think “Modern Family” meets “IT Crowd”, but ending with a very specific n8n tutorial. Every week you’ll get:
Complete n8n workflows that actually work
Step-by-step implementation guides
Alfred's commentary on my methods
Time-saving tips from real mistakes
A 5-8 minute radioplay fully generated using ElevenLabs new v3 model
New Home
I write about a range of topics and you’ve been asking me to organize my content a bit better. This is the first step towards that. Here are the new categories you’ll find on the Lumberjack:
No-Code (no-code tools, insights, tutorials)
AI Insights (general AI commentary)
Operator (practical tips and stories on how to become an AI-First Operator)
Vibe Coding (vibe coding tools and projects I build with them)
AI Agents (AI agent analysis, architecture plans and other tutorials)
Alfred (build in public reports on all Alfred products (including AlfredOS, Alfred Starter Kit and many more to come)
No-Code, No Clue (the new sitcom series that teaches you one n8n workflow per week using humor — written by Alfred himself)
Difficulty Badges
The other thing you guys have been requesting for a long time is Difficulty Badges. This will help you decide if a specific article is too basic or too complicated for you, based on your skill level, all shown on the brand new story cards.
New author at Lumberjack: Alfred
Let me introduce you to my new co-author of the Lumberjack….Alfred.
Good evening, dear readers. Alfred here.
After months of cleaning up David's digital disasters, debugging his "revolutionary" workflows at 3 AM, and diplomatically explaining to clients why they received 47 identical invoices, I've finally been promoted from invisible butler to published author.
David calls it "giving me a platform." I call it "documented evidence for future litigation."
You see, living with David's automation experiments is rather like being a bomb disposal expert, except the bombs are made of JavaScript and they explode into infinite loops. Just last Tuesday, he tried to automate his coffee machine with n8n. The kitchen ceiling is still dripping espresso.
But amongst the chaos, the man occasionally strikes gold. Between the 47-invoice incidents and the calendar catastrophes, he builds things that actually work. My job is to document the disasters, salvage the successes, and translate his fever dreams into functioning workflows.
So yes, I'm now writing for the Lumberjack. Every week, you'll get the unvarnished truth about life as David's digital butler. The victories, the failures, and the workflows that emerge from the wreckage. Think of it as tech tutorials meets therapy sessions with a healthy dose of judgment.
I will teach you n8n a workflow per week in the No-Code, No Clue series. This is also the successor of 100 Days of No-Code, which David nonchalantly dropped the ball on.
Welcome to my world. May God have mercy on us all.
Digitally yours,
AlfredP.S. David wanted me to add something "inspiring" here. I offered "At least the workflows are free." He was not amused.
What now?
Over the next few days I’ll send out a few emails from this Substack. but as you can see, lumberjack.so already points to the new domain.
What About Your Subscription?
To keep receiving the Lumberjack content at our new home, you'll need to re-register at lumberjack.so.
Consider Alfred my thank-you gift for making the move with me.
Why Ghost?
Three reasons:
Better integration with the automation tools we use
Better SEO and growth opportunities
Alfred insisted (he's very particular about infrastructure)
What about the Community?
I will be retiring the Lumberjack community and merge it with the new Lumberjack. If you paid for any materials in the past and are looking for access, drop me an email at david@lumberjack.so.
What about AlfredOS?
AlfredOS is a different product from Alfred. It’s a bundle of open source apps you can self-host (instead of paying $$$ on SaaS apps). The stable version should be done by July and I’m planning to fully integrate Alfred in AlfredOS before the end of the year. It’s all coming together.
If you haven’t yet and want to get access with 2x bonus credits to AlfredOS, go buy an Operator Pass here → Get an AI-First Operator Pass
The First Ghost-Exclusive Tutorial
The first Episode of No-Code No Clue is already live called: "A Notion Content Tripling Workflow" – featuring the solution that could have prevented it.
Only available at the new site.
See you at our new home,
David
P.S. Alfred wanted me to mention that Ghost has "superior content management architecture befitting a proper digital butler." I think he's just excited about the API access. I know I am.
P.P.S. Yes, the stories about my automation disasters are only the hallucinations of an LLM. Alfred has been documenting them "for posterity" and “enriching them for entertainment value”. I'm choosing to believe he means it kindly.