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MCP Servers: PowerPoint, Google Maps, Azure Maps

MCP Servers: PowerPoint, Google Maps, Azure Maps

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...

Agent Skills in Gemini CLI: Hashi and Anthropic

Agent Skills in Gemini CLI: Hashi and Anthropic

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).

OS Apps: Poznote and Joplin

OS Apps: Poznote and Joplin

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.

OS Revisit: Ghostty and Alexandrie

OS Revisit: Ghostty and Alexandrie

Published Jan 22, 2026 by Isaac Johnson

I tried out Mitchel’s Ghostty last February and wasn’t impressed then, but at the time it was very new. I see more and more folks using it so I figured it might be a good time to revisit.

OS Apps: BentoPDF, DiscountBandit, Dashlit, NTFY and Gotify

OS Apps: BentoPDF, DiscountBandit, Dashlit, NTFY and Gotify

Published Jan 22, 2026 by Isaac Johnson

Today I wanted to catch up on some interesting Open-Source apps that have been in my queue.

n8n, Perl MCP and Google Sheets

n8n, Perl MCP and Google Sheets

Published Jan 19, 2026 by Isaac Johnson

Last week we tackled creating a Perl-based httpStreamable MCP server by first building out an MCP server that fetches Google Sheets and then refining it to work with n8n and update sheets. In tho...

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