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The inane mutterings of Alexander Foxleigh

Hi. I'm Alex, I'm a lead frontend engineer and design systems specialist with a passion for building performant, accessible and highly usable web applications.

You can find out more about me by reading my blog, taking a look at my website or having a look at my social links which are below in the footer.

Here is an assorted collection of my rants, ravings and general ramblings. I apologise in advance.

A big YouTube logo overlaid over the top of the Grafana graph I produced in the video

My journey to becoming a YouTuber

Sep 24, 2025

This week I published my first proper YouTube video. It’s not perfect – in fact, it’s a bit crap – but I loved making it. The project itself was a smart home hack to track traffic outside my house using Frigate, Node-RED, InfluxDB and Grafana, but the real surprise was how much fun I had with the whole video-making process. Editing was messy, my Mac fought me every step of the way, and yet I walked away buzzing. I think I might actually be a YouTuber now.

Meandering Insanity