Published Feb 17, 2026 by Isaac Johnson

Recently I decided to take some time and really try to understand AI Agents, specifically creating them with Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK) using their learning path. I know it’s open-source...

Published Feb 12, 2026 by Isaac Johnson

Google is now starting to roll out native OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) endpoints for logs, spans and traces. From a recent email, it will be the preferred unified endpoint starting in early March.

Published Feb 10, 2026 by Isaac Johnson

I saw a recent Marius post on Atlantis which is a containerized Mermaid diagram suite. It can actually do quite a lot as we’ll see below.

Published Feb 5, 2026 by Isaac Johnson

I came across a PowerPoint MCP Server recently and really wanted an excuse to try it out. I often have to make presentations and was curious if this MCP server could help with that initial blank p...

Published Feb 3, 2026 by Isaac Johnson

I saw this LinkedIn post about the new IBM/Hashi Agent Skills. While their repo didn’t cover Gemini CLI, I felt it would be easy to add and test now that Gemini CLI supports Skills (in beta).

Published Jan 29, 2026 by Isaac Johnson

I came across PozNote from a Marius Post about installing to a NAS. As we just looked at Alexandrie, I wanted to compare and contrast this similar self-hosted document suite.