GenAI on Fresh/Brewed

Auth0 and Ornith 9b

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Two things I want to tackle today. The first is testing out Auth0 which is a well established Federated IdP provider. However, I really haven’t looked at it in years. No reason for that, just my needs are generally met by just one ore two IdPs which are easy enough to setup.

The other area I want to explore is the new Ornith:9b LLM model. It’s supposedly self-improving. That said… I have concerns… such as their announcement text has multiple misspelled words (not a good sign)

Small OS: Notediscovery (with MCP) and Lockstep

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500

Today we’ll take a look at NoteDiscovery, a very interesting Markdown tool that is more geared towards Knowledge management for GenAI then for documentation (Like Docussaurus and the like). We will look at using it in docker and it’s MCP server. Could we make our own self-hosted chatbot system?

We will also look at Lockstep, a security auditing tool that helps people focus on best practices and compliance.

NoteDiscovery

Let’s take a look at NoteDiscovery which I saw in this Marius post a while back.

AI Code Reviews with Ollama

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500

In recent times I have been looking closely into AI Code Reviews using tools like Github Copilot, which consumes my tokens and uses Azure/Microsoft resources. I have also looked at offerings from Qodo as well as CodeRabbit.

All these SaaS tool suites are great, no doubt, but they all cost money. I got to thinking, could I not accomplish the same thing locally?

Setup

I’ll want to use an Ollama host in my network.

Zed Editor

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500

I had a note to circle back on Zed. I had looked nearly a year go in August 2025 at their preview feature for AI. At the time, Windows wasn’t there (only via Scoop). I also was far more tied to VS Code so I wasn’t really looking at Zed as a possible replacement.

Times have changed, and Zed has advanced quite a lot. So let’s give it another go and this time I’ll be looking at it as a real possible replacement for VS Code (especially as my primary machines are all now Linux based).