Fresh/Brewed

Herdr and Hunk

slick split sessions & dandy durable diffs

Herdr is an interesting project that I noted initially as a TMUX variant, but really is much much more. It’s designed to ‘herd’ your long running LLM agents to make it much easier to dance between sessions. I’m not a AI Agent gangsta like I know some are, but I do like to mutli-task over a lot of windows and wanted to give it a good try. Another tool on my list is a command line Diff viewer, Hunk. I saw Hunk used in a YT video and thought it looked pretty slick. We’ll check that out as well.

Auth0 and Ornith 9b

Some fresh LLM with a bit of Auth to wash it down

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

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.