I suspect my approach is even more controversial… I just open Claude code and type /routine-maintenance and it reads the skill file, logs into all my systems on my home network and runs updates, validate backups are still healthy, update any docker images, checks SMART stats, reviews some logs, and then fires off an email using brevo to tell me any future maintenance concerns I might have.

Edit: zero minutes old already downvoted.

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bilekas 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

But using AI is not the point of the article.

	▲	cheschire 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		The headline: “It's true. I don't maintain my homelab… it maintains itself.” So using AI is not the point of the article but neither was it mine. My point was I also attempt to implement homelab automation rather than manual maintenance, and I listed a few things that are onerous to do regularly by hand just like the article. But I totally expected people to just skim my message, see “AI” and dismiss it, so I’m not terribly upset.

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aleksiy123 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Manual type? No cron job?

Practically Luddite

	▲	cheschire a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		And here I am the next day wondering why the heck I don’t just set the cron jobs for 1am Sometimes having people ask the obvious questions can cause some useful reflection
	▲	cheschire 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yeah lol I considered it but i hit my token max so often that I didn’t want to be deep in a development cycle and suddenly have to wait 4 more hours because my maintenance chat boiled over. So keeping the trigger manual at least gives me the ability to skip it while I work.