/tags/homelab/ Recent content in Homelab on SQP Dev Hugo en-gb Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/2026-05-20-n8n-agentic-playlists/ Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/2026-05-20-n8n-agentic-playlists/ <p>And now for something completely different.</p> <p>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 <strong>Bitfrost</strong> and give it something genuinely frivolous to do: build YouTube playlists.</p> <h2 id="the-idea">The Idea</h2> <p>The workflow is simple. You type one line:</p> <pre tabindex="0"><code>Docker Basics | Docker tutorial for beginners </code></pre><p>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.</p> /posts/2026-05-19-homelab-monitoring/ Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/2026-05-19-homelab-monitoring/ <p>If you run a home server, you probably have a rough idea of whether things are working — you can SSH in, run <code>top</code>, check disk space, maybe peek at some logs. But that&rsquo;s reactive. You only look when something feels wrong. Proper monitoring means you know before something breaks, or at the very least, you know the moment it does.</p> <p>This is the story of how I set up a full observability stack on my home server, <strong>bitfrost</strong> — an Ubuntu 24.04 machine running several Docker-based apps.</p>