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Saying goodbye to Sendgrid

Saying goodbye to Sendgrid

Published Sep 9, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

It is indeed a sad day for me. Sendgrid, which was an amazing email tool that always had a free tier since it pretty much started in 2009 lasted until 2019 when Twilio bought them.

Container Monitoring: Containery and Dockpeek

Container Monitoring: Containery and Dockpeek

Published Sep 4, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

There have been a couple of posts from Marius in my backlog to check into. One was on Containery, a nice containerized Docker monitoring and administration tool. I plan to show how to test in WS...

OS Apps: Jellyfin and Lauti

OS Apps: Jellyfin and Lauti

Published Sep 2, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

Today I want to look for an alternative to Plex. For a while, Jellyfin has been on my list as that seems to be the most popular drop-in replacement. I’ll try setting it up and using and how one c...

Zed with AI

Zed with AI

Published Aug 28, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

zed now has a preview of AI tools. I last looked at a year ago in Oct 2024 and I managed to get it working in Windows with a mix of scoop and using Nightly.

OS Apps: Kaneo, FossFlow, and IsoFlow

OS Apps: Kaneo, FossFlow, and IsoFlow

Published Aug 26, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

Today we’ll look at Kaneo, a pretty nice open-source PjM tool in docker and SaaS then look to host it externally.

AI Coding: Codex, Kiro, Opencode (w Ollama)

AI Coding: Codex, Kiro, Opencode (w Ollama)

Published Aug 22, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

I have three goals here: Try Codex, a new AI Coding CLI from OpenAI which seems to cover a lot of the same ground as Claude Code. I look at install and usage.

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