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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...

Perl MCP Server with Google Worksheets: Part 2

Perl MCP Server with Google Worksheets: Part 2

Published Jan 15, 2026 by Isaac Johnson

Earlier this week I posted my first article on PerlMCP which I pushed to Codeberg as a version1.0 tag. That code provides a Perl-based MCP server of type httpStreamable tied to a fixed GCP Service...

Perl MCP Server with Google Worksheets

Perl MCP Server with Google Worksheets

Published Jan 13, 2026 by Isaac Johnson

Following the post from last week where I looked into COBOL and FORTRAN, I wanted to try a language I have more at my fingertips; perl. I started my coding life with Perl. In the 90s I had a few ...

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