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GCP Next26

I just got back from a week in Vegas for Google Cloud Next26. It was about AI and Agents (and that's about it). I really enjoyed meeting other GDE's, and some of the Developer Expo hall talks on Gemini CLI and MCP setups. I'll cover some of the more interesting uses of MCP and Skils in the coming weeks
MAI part 2: Transcribe and Voice, image 2e

MAI part 2: Transcribe and Voice, image 2e

Published Apr 28, 2026 by Isaac Johnson

In my last MAI post we just focused on the MAI-Image-2 image generation model. It was basic but functional.

Hugo and Serverless in GCP

Hugo and Serverless in GCP

Published Apr 21, 2026 by Isaac Johnson

In Part 1 we explored setting up a Hugo based blog in Azure using Azure Front Door and Storage Buckets. Earlier this week we followed up with Part 2 in GCP using Application Load Balancers and Sto...

Hugo and Static Sites in GCP

Hugo and Static Sites in GCP

Published Apr 21, 2026 by Isaac Johnson

In our last post we explored Hugo static sites with Azure, focusing on Azure Front Door and Storage Buckets. Today, we will look at doing a similar thing in GCP with Hugo and Cloud CDN and Applica...

Hugo and Azure Static Sites with Front Door

Hugo and Azure Static Sites with Front Door

Published Apr 16, 2026 by Isaac Johnson

I’ve been using Jekyll for a long time - mostly since 2019 and in that time it’s grown a bit out of control.

Microsoft AI Image Gen: MAI

Microsoft AI Image Gen: MAI

Published Apr 13, 2026 by Isaac Johnson

Microsoft recently rolled out MAI, a Microsoft AI playground that can do images. Just images. I learned about it from this Decrypt article. I wanted to try it and compare its performance and out...

Gemma4, Claude and Pi

Gemma4, Claude and Pi

Published Apr 9, 2026 by Isaac Johnson

I had two things I wanted to tackle today: Comparing using Anthropic via Pi CLI versus Claude Code, then taking a look at Gemma4 - the new open model Google released last week. In this article, I ...

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