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I had a couple of sites bookmarked to circle back on: Nextchat.club and LibreChat. I’m not certain what they really are, just that they were on an AI startup leader board recently. 
 The other AI offering I haven’t visited in some time is Mistral. I liked the early Mistral models for coding. I also like that it’s based in France. 
 Nextchat.club 
 We can sign-up at…
In the last few days I’ve been rather fixated on this YouTube video called “The cure for AI slop is a 1986 aircraft manual” . If you like more of a narrative, pause here and watch the video. 
 First, a bit of context… 
 Simplified Technical English has its starts going all the way back to the 1930s with “Basic English” and later the 1970s with CFE,…
I was recently working in Antigravity trying to fix some stylesheets when I hit my AI Pro limit: 
 
 

 
 That hadn’t happened to me until today (and I bounced over to Github Copilot to finish the task) , but the situation reminded me of a project I had bookmarked some time back, Agy Statusline 
 And once I started setting up status lines, it sparked me to look at a…
Herdr is an interesting project that I noted initially as a TMUX variant, but really is much much more. It’s designed to ‘herd’ your long running LLM agents to make it much easier to dance between sessions. I’m not a AI Agent gangsta like I know some are, but I do like to mutli-task over a lot of windows and wanted to give it a good try. 
 Another tool on my list is a…
Two things I want to tackle today. The first is testing out Auth0 which is a well established Federated IdP provider. However, I really haven’t looked at it in years. No reason for that, just my needs are generally met by just one ore two IdPs which are easy enough to setup. 
 The other area I want to explore is the new Ornith:9b LLM model . It’s supposedly self-improving . That…
Today we’ll take a look at NoteDiscovery , a very interesting Markdown tool that is more geared towards Knowledge management for GenAI then for documentation (Like Docussaurus and the like). We will look at using it in docker and it’s MCP server. Could we make our own self-hosted chatbot system? 
 We will also look at Lockstep , a security auditing tool that helps people focus on…
In recent times I have been looking closely into AI Code Reviews using tools like Github Copilot, which consumes my tokens and uses Azure/Microsoft resources. I have also looked at offerings from Qodo as well as CodeRabbit. 
 All these SaaS tool suites are great, no doubt, but they all cost money. I got to thinking, could I not accomplish the same thing locally? 
 Setup 
 I’ll…
I found out a person from a developer portal company I was looking into had recently moved to OpenObserve . I was chatting with them on LinkedIn about other topics but figured I should really give OpenObserve a look as I’ve often looked at Observability tools, small and large, over the years. 
 Company 
 OpenObserve is a relative up and comer started in 2022 by Prabhat Sharma as…
Of all places, I found Ratatui from a post on Threads . It’s basically a really light fast Rust-based Terminal User Interface (TUI). 
 It has some VHS examples as well. I haven’t used VHS before so let’s see what that is about as we build out our own TUI using the framework with Google Antigravity. 
 Ratatui 
 Let’s start by cloning the GIT repo 
 I realized…
I had a note to circle back on Zed . I had looked nearly a year go in August 2025 at their preview feature for AI. At the time, Windows wasn’t there (only via Scoop). I also was far more tied to VS Code so I wasn’t really looking at Zed as a possible replacement. 
 Times have changed, and Zed has advanced quite a lot. So let’s give it another go and this time I’ll be…
In moving our primary blogging system from Github over to a self hosted Gitea, we need to sort out how to best create a proper HA DR environment. This means having some push mirrors. The first thing I did when i setup Gitea to be the “real” repo for this blog was to mirror it to Forgejo. However that instance is on the same cluster, so if there is a catastrophic outage, then I would…

 

 
 Let’s Make and MCP Server (And Skill)! 
 MCP servers are fundamentally tool-providers to our Agentic Gen AI tools and provide a robust vendor-agnostic solution to building and sharing custom tooling to the overall Open Source community. 
 And making one is not as hard as some might think. Today we’ll explore making an MCP server as well as a Skill and…
Congratulations! You have been flagged for something. 
 Who knows exactly, but you soon are clued in that something is amiss when your gcloud commands began to fail 
 $ gcloud dns --project=myanthosproject2 record-sets list --zone='steepedicu'
ERROR: (gcloud.dns.record-sets.list) PERMISSION_DENIED: Permission denied: Consumer 'projects/myanthosproject2' has been suspended. This command…
I have been rocking a Jekyll blog now since around 2021 . This blogging site started out in 2019 using Ghost which I automated back then with Azure DevOps . 
 Over all this time, I have written over 500 posts and just the CICD updates, for which I have optimized as best i can are 16 to 25 minutes long. The blogs Github repo is nearly 25Gb expanded! 
 I’ll admit that I am a data…
Courses 
 I created a Udemy course on Open Telemetry here 
 
 For the month of July 2026 you can use this code for 50% of ($10 instead of $20): 9D9D6DBB930651C3CC61 
 
 Presentations 
 
 
 May 2026 : “Let’s build an MCP Server (and Skills!)”, presented at OpenSourceNorth : YouTube 
 
 
 May 2026 : “Vertex AI and n8n, low-code…
About Me 
 Isaac is a Cloud Solutions Architect and DevOps/SRE Architect who focuses on cloud migrations and DevOps + SRE processes. He also is a dad to three wonderful daughters (hence the references to Princess King sprinkled throughout the blog). 
 With a background as a Cloud and SRE Architect, I have a passion for process and building out scalable solutions. My career has spanned over…