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Content Recommendation for March, 2026

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By Yuanjian Liu
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Hey there! Thanks for subscribing to my content recommendation posts. In this series, I share articles, videos, projects, and ideas that I recently found interesting, insightful, or genuinely helpful.

This edition includes content I curated during March, 2026. In this month, we see very powerful AI tools emerged one after another. The technological explosion could affect everyone’s life sooner or later. Catching up early will do more good than bad for you. We also see tragical wars between the US and Iran. May the world be peaceful and I hope everyone can live a life they want.

ONE OpenClaw agent to run in your NAS

OpenClaw turns an LLM into an operational agent that can interact with software, services, and users.

By the time you read this article, you have probably already heard about this project and been amazed by how quickly it has gained popularity. In this guide, I will show you how to install it on a NAS and provide a solid starting point for exploring and experimenting with this powerful AI agent.

I assume you use UGREEN NAS or some kind of computer systems that run 24/7 at your home. OpenClaw is better deployed on such platforms with Docker. Deploying it on your laptop is not covered in this tutorial. For that purpose, you can check OpenClaw’s Official Website.

Configure Openclaw with Feishu

To avoid needing a proxy network, we use the image 1panel/openclaw. The important thing is to map your NAS storage to /home/node/.openclaw, so all the configuration files are visable and editable directly in NAS. In this way, we can use different methods to configrue OpenClaw before running the gateway.

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docker pull 1panel/openclaw
docker run -d \
  --name 1panel_openclaw-1 \
  -v /volume1/shared-shanghai/openclaw-workhome/1panel-claw:/home/node/.openclaw \
  1panel/openclaw

It is important to have the volume mapping because the openclaw container will shutdown itself when you change the configuration. This can be very annoying! We need to configrue it with other tools and then start the actual openclaw container. { .prompt.tip }

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docker run -it \
 -v /volume1/shared-shanghai/openclaw-workhome/1panel-claw:/home/node/.openclaw \
 --rm --entrypoint bash 1panel/openclaw

We can configure everything needed by OpenClaw now with openclaw configure. For simplicity, we just configure one model and then use Feishu’s plugin to connect it to Feishu.

We install the official Feishu plugin to ease the burden. It will give you a QR code to register a robot.

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npm config set registry http://mirrors.cloud.tencent.com/npm/
npx -y @larksuite/openclaw-lark-tools install

You can exit to the host machine and start the actual openclaw container now.

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docker start 1panel_openclaw-1

To configure other things unrelated to OpenClaw, we can enter the container with the following command.

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docker exec -it 1panel_openclaw-1 bash

If you want to use proxy for some foreign websites, we need to start the container in another way with some environment variables. As for how to set the proxy service up in a container, keep reading.

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docker run -d \
  --name 1panel_openclaw-1 \
  --network proxy-net \
  -v /volume1/shared-shanghai/openclaw-workhome/1panel-claw:/home/node/.openclaw \
  -e HTTP_PROXY=http://xray:1087 \
  -e HTTPS_PROXY=http://xray:1087 \
  -e NO_PROXY=localhost,127.0.0.1,*.feishu.cn,*.larksuite.com,*.zhipuai.cn,bigmodel.cn,open.bigmodel.cn \
  1panel/openclaw

# We can test the proxy inside the container with the following command.
curl -x http://xray:1087 https://www.google.com -I

Install Claude Code for OpenClaw to use

Read this article by Zhipu to install Claude Code.

Use the following command to enter the container as the root user.

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docker exec -u root -it 1panel_openclaw-1 bash

Install Claude Code and configure with GLM API.

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npm config set registry http://mirrors.cloud.tencent.com/npm/
npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
npx @z_ai/coding-helper

Configure Network Proxy (For Discord and other foreign platforms)

At this moment, using a proxy to access Discord still have problems. I succeeded with TUN mode but failed to obtain a response using Docker’s network. The more reliable way to use OpenClaw is to use Feishu.

I cannot assist you to set up your proxy step-by-step. If you never heard of v2ray, xray or shadowsocks, vmess, it is probably hard for you to finish this. But if you used at least one of these, I am sure you can follow along with maybe a little help from ChatGPT.

We need to configure the network proxy first as always. You need a proxy usable in the first place (usually your macOS’s proxy or your Windows’ proxy). Then you can borrow that proxy for docker and configure docker’s proxy in this path: /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/http-proxy.conf.

The file’s content should look like this. I assume 192.168.73.26 is your laptop’s proxy and you have a service that exports port 1087 for HTTP and HTTPS proxies.

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[Service]
Environment="HTTP_PROXY=http://192.168.73.26:1087"
Environment="HTTPS_PROXY=http://192.168.73.26:1087"
Environment="NO_PROXY=localhost,127.0.0.1,192.168.*.*"

Also set the proxy in ~/.bashrc.

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export proxy_url="http://192.168.73.26:1087"

function pon() {
    export http_proxy=$proxy_url
    export https_proxy=$proxy_url
    export no_proxy="localhost, 127.0.0.1, 192.168.*.*"
    echo "Proxy on -> $proxy_url"
}

function poff() {
    unset $http_proxy
    unset $https_proxy
    echo "Network Proxy turned off"
}

Use pon to turn on the proxy and test it with curl google.com. If you see a response like the following, your proxy worked! If not, make sure you run your proxy service in your host machine with 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1.

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<HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<TITLE>301 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
<H1>301 Moved</H1>
The document has moved
<A HREF="http://www.google.com/">here</A>.
</BODY></HTML>

Then restart your docker service to apply this proxy setting.

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sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl restart docker
# Check docker's status and verify it is running
sudo systemctl status docker

And you can then create a dedicated proxy container for future network proxy, so you no longer need your laptop nearby for NAS to have network proxy.

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sudo docker run -d \
  --name xray \
  -v /etc/xray:/etc/xray \
  -p 1081:1081 \
  -p 1087:1087 \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  teddysun/xray

# Create a docker network and connect the container x2ray to it.
docker network create proxy-net
docker network connect proxy-net xray

Then we can start the openclaw container and connect it to the proxy-net network. We need to set a folder on the NAS for OpenClaw to work with. This folder is better to be a dedicated folder that is newly created, so OpenClaw has no rights to access your existing files and could not cause detrimental problems to your data.

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# Start the container for openclaw
# !Attention: Change -v option, the working directory mapping to your own. 
docker run -d \
  --name openclaw \
  --network proxy-net \
  -p 18789:18789 \
  -e HTTP_PROXY=http://xray:1087 \
  -e HTTPS_PROXY=http://xray:1087 \
  -e ALL_PROXY=socks5://xray:1081 \
  -e GLOBAL_AGENT_HTTP_PROXY=http://xray:1087 \
  -v /volume1/shared-shanghai/openclaw-workhome:/data \
  ghcr.io/openclaw/openclaw

Use docker network inspect proxy-net to check if the docker network is configured properly.

Let’s test the network in openclaw container.

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docker exec -u root -it openclaw bash
docker exec -it openclaw bash
docker exec -it openclaw sh -lc "curl google.com"
docker logs openclaw --tail 200

Let’s see if Discord can be reached from this container:

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curl -I https://discord.com/api/v10/gateway

If you see HTTP/1.1 200 Connection established, then your network works! We should be able to use OpenClaw freely now.

SEVEN English words to learn for the week

I recommend visiting Merriam-Webster Dictionary to understand each word better and find more examples.

reparation: the act of making amends, offering expiation, or giving satisfaction for a wrong or injury. Example: They’ve offered no apologies and seem to have no thoughts of reparation. She says she’s sorry and wants to make reparations.

explicit: fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication or ambiguity. Example: In some cases, the role of sporting director is focused on the long-term, but Berta was explicit about coming to Arsenal to work closely with Arteta, to win, and to do so immediately.

clout chaser: A “clout chaser” is a derogatory term for someone who desperately seeks fame, attention, or social media popularity.

publicity stunt: A publicity stunt is a planned, often theatrical event designed to generate media coverage and public attention for a person, brand, or cause.

cuckold/cuck: A cuckold is a man whose wife has committed adultery, a term with deep historical roots often implying mockery of the husband as a fool.

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