Tag: automation

Browser-Use and Skyvern let LLMs drive real browsers via natural language goals. Here's what they can actually do, where they break, and when Playwright is still the right call.

Renovate vs Dependabot for self-hosted teams: config depth, ecosystem coverage, self-host paths, and which bot wins for Forgejo/GitLab shops.

BorgBackup is great. Borgmatic makes you actually run it: config-driven schedules, hooks, healthchecks, and a backup system that pages you when it breaks.

I pointed a parallel swarm of AI agents at 840 technical posts to fact-check and refresh them, the architecture, the token bill, and the guardrails.

Dify is an open-source LLM-app builder you can self-host. Visual workflow editor, RAG, agents, tool use, without writing 500 lines of LangChain glue.

Local LLMs can call tools, query APIs, and run code if you set them up right. Function calling on Ollama and llama.cpp explained, patterns that actually work.

Model Context Protocol turns your LLM into a tool-using agent, file access, APIs, your home lab. Build your first MCP server in under 50 lines of Python.

Cron has been scheduling your jobs since before you were born. Systemd timers do everything cron does, plus logging, dependencies, and missed-run recovery.

Forget bash scripts scattered across your repo. make is a simple task runner that's been around for 50 years and works everywhere.

Your CI rebuilds node_modules from scratch every build. BuildKit, Docker's default builder since 23.0, fixes it with cache mounts, parallel stages, real secrets.

Terraform vs Pulumi compared head-to-head: HCL state files and the plan/apply workflow against real programming languages. Includes OpenTofu and when to choose each.

Your CI job waits 4 minutes for npm install every run. One caching strategy cuts it to 15 seconds. Here's how.