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DevFest.MN 2025

What an amazing DevFest.MN 2025! Huge thanks to the DevFest.MN organizers for putting on such a great event. I had a blast presenting "Let's Build an MCP Server" and getting to meet so many great folks in the local developer and SRE communities. Looking forward to next year already!
Python Diagrams and Graphviz

Python Diagrams and Graphviz

Published Jul 18, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Recently, a colleague of mine pointed out “Diagrams as Code” from diagrams.mingrammer.com. The examples on the main page looked a lot nicer than what I usually kick out with MermaidJS so I figure ...

OS Apps: SFTPGo and Filegator

OS Apps: SFTPGo and Filegator

Published Jul 16, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

I’ve been meaning to get back to some Open-Source apps that would allow me to remotely upload and download files. With an eye for simplicity, I decided I would look at SFTPGo and Filegator as both...

Triggering Ansible: Part 2: Pubsub, CloudRun, EventArc, Datadog, Azure Event Hubs, Dapr and more

Triggering Ansible: Part 2: Pubsub, CloudRun, EventArc, Datadog, Azure Event Hubs, Dapr and more

Published Jul 11, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Today we’ll pick up where we left off last time on triggering AWX (Ansible) jobs with a variety of tools. In last weeks post, we covered Rundeck, AWS SQS and Lambdas and Azure DevOps webhooks.

Triggering Ansible: Part 1: Rundeck, AWS SQS to Lambda, AzDO and GH Workflows

Triggering Ansible: Part 1: Rundeck, AWS SQS to Lambda, AzDO and GH Workflows

Published Jul 9, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Recently I was at Open Source North where, in an effort to reduce Toil, it was demonstrated a tool for triggering AWX templates with webhooks.

OS Apps: Dufs and Pastefy

OS Apps: Dufs and Pastefy

Published Jul 4, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Today we are going to talk about a couple of Open Source apps I recently came across, Dufs and Pastefy. Pastefy falls into the same camp as OpenGist or pastebin. It’s just a quick simple way we c...

ScrapingAnt and ScrapingBee

ScrapingAnt and ScrapingBee

Published Jul 2, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

I think ScrapingAnt landed in my “things to check out” from a web advert. I recently had some cycles to signup and give it a go. I’ll explore the WebUI as well as using ScrapingAnt with curl.

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