Fresh/Brewed

Small OS: Notediscovery (with MCP) and Lockstep

A fully self contained scheduling system with MCP

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

Review code. Stay local

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.

OpenObserve

An Open Source Observability Suite

I found out a person from a developer portal company I was looking into had recently moved to OpenObserve. I was chatting with them on LinkedIn about other topics but figured I should really give OpenObserve a look as I’ve often looked at Observability tools, small and large, over the years. Company OpenObserve is a relative up and comer started in 2022 by Prabhat Sharma as ZincSearch before pivoting to Observability. Its still relatively small with an estimated 11-50 employees and based in Menlo Park, CA. That said, it’s recently closed some Series A in April with Nexus Venture Partners and Dell Tech Capital so perhaps it’s poised to grow.

Ratatui (and VHS)

A Rust based TUI

Of all places, I found Ratatui from a post on Threads. It’s basically a really light fast Rust-based Terminal User Interface (TUI). It has some VHS examples as well. I haven’t used VHS before so let’s see what that is about as we build out our own TUI using the framework with Google Antigravity. Ratatui Let’s start by cloning the GIT repo I realized my local rust environment was way out of date $ cargo version cargo 1.74.0 (ecb9851af 2023-10-18) so i did a brew install rust to update it to current.

Zed Editor

Finally, a real contender...

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).