Tag
automation
Posts, lab notes, and experiments related to automation.
- Local AI, Old GPUs, and the Real Reason People Use N8NDec 13, 2025 homelab N8N Automation projectA hands-on homelab experiment running local AI and discovering that N8N exists to solve problems most people don’t want to write code for.
- Forced local AI to run on old hardware and mostly behave
- Wired logs and data into N8N to make something actually useful
- Kept the entire stack self-hosted and under my control
- Too Many ProjectsMay 22, 2025 homelab automation updateBeen just a bit busy...
- Documented the growing lab hardware stack from Proxmox hosts to Unifi networking
- Captured the software/services mix spanning Docker hosts, Wazuh, Puffer Panel, and more
- Outlined plans for AWX, Terraform, and IaC-driven rebuilds to keep experiments repeatable