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Revisits: Opencode and Resend

Revisits: Opencode and Resend

Published Mar 20, 2026 by Isaac Johnson

In a post last year, I looked briefly at Opencode, comparing it with Claude Code, and said then, “circle back… I want to explore some of its other features like agent model and maybe MCP servers.”....

K8s VPAs now GA in 1.35

K8s VPAs now GA in 1.35

Published Mar 18, 2026 by Isaac Johnson

I had bookmarked this article on NewStack about VerticalPodAutoscaling finally going GA. It’s been around for a while, and can be really useful with StatefulSets. I wanted to try in on Deployment...

Chats: IRC and Matrix

Chats: IRC and Matrix

Published Mar 12, 2026 by Isaac Johnson

Let’s talk about Chat clients. I got to wondering what every happened to IRC. Internet Relay Chat (IRC) has been around since 1988, but I certainly got to know it later in 1996. It was my usual ...

Misc Apps: Toolstack and Homehub

Misc Apps: Toolstack and Homehub

Published Mar 10, 2026 by Isaac Johnson

I had bookmarked this Marius post on Homehub, a nice family hub app. I wanted to check that out and maybe see if I could tweak it a bit.

Desloppify

Desloppify

Published Mar 5, 2026 by Isaac Johnson

Desloppify is a GenAI skill by Peter Omallet that can easily be run inline to improve code quality and readability. The way it does this is to run a series of checks and ask the AI coding assisten...

Gemini 3.1, Lyria and Nano Banana 2

Gemini 3.1, Lyria and Nano Banana 2

Published Mar 3, 2026 by Isaac Johnson

Recently Google rolled out Gemini 3.1 Pro (and Flash). Most notable for many users was the new access to Lyria (music) by way of the AI portal. Lyria did exist before, but one needed to use AI S...

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