Published Sep 19, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

I have had setting up Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers on my to-do for quite some time now. I am not sure why I just keep draggin my heals on this one.

Published Sep 16, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

I can handle power blips. I can even handle a few hours out; between the laptops that serve as nodes and my variety of APC battery backups - it can go a while. But 7 hours, which is how long yest...

Published Sep 11, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

Marius has brought up a couple of good Open-Source project/task management tools lately. First is a very simple clean board, TaskTrove which we will explore in docker and Kubernetes. We’ll also t...

Published Sep 9, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

It is indeed a sad day for me. Sendgrid, which was an amazing email tool that always had a free tier since it pretty much started in 2009 lasted until 2019 when Twilio bought them.

Published Sep 4, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

There have been a couple of posts from Marius in my backlog to check into. One was on Containery, a nice containerized Docker monitoring and administration tool. I plan to show how to test in WS...

Published Sep 2, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

Today I want to look for an alternative to Plex. For a while, Jellyfin has been on my list as that seems to be the most popular drop-in replacement. I’ll try setting it up and using and how one c...