Tag: automation

Windmill runs your scripts, Activepieces wires your apps. Compose files, licenses, webhooks, and sandboxing compared so you can pick one for your homelab.

Temporal vs cron plus bash for multi-step home lab jobs: what durable workflows buy you, the setup cost, and when a systemd timer is the smarter choice.

I ran TypeSafe's Jev model against 840 blog posts to fix tag drift. Real cost numbers, benchmarked accuracy, and the failure mode that almost cost pageviews.

Auto-update Kubernetes images and Helm charts with Renovate: the built-in Helm managers, custom regex managers, cron scheduling, and PR grouping rules.

Home Assistant disaster recovery: off-site backups, secrets handling, Z2M coordinator, restore drills that catch missing pieces.

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.