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n8n Zoom Transcript Analysis Workflow (and Download)

Chat transcripts are often packed with valuable information, much of which can be missed during a conversation. The quick mention of items that deserve more time than they were given, statements that are more powerful or clearly understood on paper rather than spoken, and serious statements masked by humor happen all the time - and the ability to extract the good stuff from them can lead to solving problems that may otherwise go overlooked:

Starting a Homelab the Right Way - With the Why

There’s a pattern I’ve noticed in Homelab culture: people start with hardware.

Racks of it. Blinking lights, enterprise gear pulled from datacenters, computing clusters before identifying a single problem they’re trying to solve.

It looks impressive, but it skips the most critical step: intent. If you want to start a Homelab the right way, you start with intent. I like shiny things as much as the next person, and this lesson took me more than twenty years to fully understand.

The Self-Hosting Responsibility Spectrum

Not all self-hosting is equal. The difference isn’t hardware, its operational accountability.

I took good look at my responsibility matrix and decided it was time for an upgrade to clarify where systems sit and what it all really means in practice:

Now let’s talk about what each level implies.

Homelabs, self-hosting, and doing whatever the fsck you want.

“Homelab” is one of those worlds that mean everything and nothing at the same time.

Depending on who you ask, it’s one of these:

• A rack of retired enterprise gear in a basement
• A single mini-PC running Docker
• A media server with ambition - and probably a storage array
• A philosophical commitment to independence

The same drift has taken place with “self-hosting.” For some, it only counts if the hardware is physically located in your home. For others, a VPS you manage yourself qualifies just as well.

Bullshit as a Service

The modern keyboard warrior has evolved into something much worse, and all it took was access to free generative AI services - and no, this isn’t about AI-powered scams, it’s about poor judgment and getting lost in fantasy.

We used to deal with people who hid behind distance and anonymity. There were loud opinions, inflated confidence levels, and zero accountability - annoying, but manageable. Sprinkle a dash of AI on top and watch everything explode into absurdity that feels like National Lampoon’s take on The Lawnmower Man.