Claude on SQP Dev

Building an AI-Powered Quiz Into the Learning Loop

Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Answering questions in your own words is good for learning. Answering them by clicking a button is better than not answering them at all.

That sounds like a low bar, but it’s actually the insight that shaped the quiz system. At 20:00 after a full day I’m not going to write paragraphs about container networking from memory. But I will click through ten multiple choice questions if the friction is low enough and the questions are good.

Claude Code as a Vault Brain — First Steps

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The DevOps Learning Command Center dashboard existed. The problem was keeping it alive.

A learning system that requires manual maintenance eventually stops being maintained. I wanted Claude Code — the terminal-based AI agent from Anthropic — to handle the vault upkeep so I could focus on the actual learning.

What Claude Code Does

Claude Code runs in your terminal and has direct access to your filesystem. It reads files, writes files, runs commands. Combined with a CLAUDE.md context file that explains who you are and what the vault is for, it becomes something like a personal assistant that actually knows your project.

Building a DevOps DevOps Learning Command Center in Obsidian

Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’m 56, learning DevOps from scratch, and I have a problem with tools.

Not using them — I love tools. The problem is spending more time building the perfect learning environment than actually learning. It’s a trap I know well and fall into anyway.

This time I decided to be deliberate about it. If I was going to build a system, it would be one that genuinely serves the learning — not just looks good in screenshots.

Agentic AI on Bitfrost — YouTube Playlists on Demand

Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

And now for something completely different.

Last time it was monitoring — metrics, dashboards, alerts. Serious infrastructure business. This time I wanted to see what happens when you put an AI agent on Bitfrost and give it something genuinely frivolous to do: build YouTube playlists.

The Idea

The workflow is simple. You type one line:

Docker Basics | Docker tutorial for beginners

Left of the pipe is the playlist name. Right is the search topic. Hit enter. A few seconds later a private YouTube playlist exists, populated with real videos, curated by Claude.