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.

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.