Isaac Johnson
@isaacj.bsky.social
SRE Architect, Cloud junkie, open source, GCP, Azure and Datadog fan. Husband and father to three amazing daughters. Outdoor enthusiast, fisherman, canoes and boundary waters.
It's pretty straightforward to make MCP servers in modern languages like Go, Rust, Python, C and NodeJs. But what about the more, shall we say, dated ones? Today we look at two webserver frameworks, one for COBOL and one for FORTRAN and see if we code them up to be an... https://kutt.tpk.pw/uFHpez
January 9, 2026 at 12:41 AM
It's pretty straightforward to make MCP servers in modern languages like Go, Rust, Python, C and NodeJs. But what about the more, shall we say, dated ones? Today we look at two webserver frameworks, one for COBOL and one for FORTRAN and see if we code them up to be an... https://kutt.tpk.pw/uFHpez
A nice dive into three open-source suites: Alexandrie for MD editing and site hosting, Bytestash for code snippet sharing and Snipe-IT for full featured IT Asset management hosting. In the article I use a mix of docker and Kubernetes and do a full walk-through of each ... https://kutt.tpk.pw/nHFUE8
January 5, 2026 at 1:47 PM
A nice dive into three open-source suites: Alexandrie for MD editing and site hosting, Bytestash for code snippet sharing and Snipe-IT for full featured IT Asset management hosting. In the article I use a mix of docker and Kubernetes and do a full walk-through of each ... https://kutt.tpk.pw/nHFUE8
FBS 03 - Giving MinIO the boot for RustFS and Garage:
In this short tutorial, I walk through using RustFS and Garage on docker on a Synology NAS then how to access with AWS S3 CLI. Good MinIO replacements
youtu.be/6qPpvlonzPk
In this short tutorial, I walk through using RustFS and Garage on docker on a Synology NAS then how to access with AWS S3 CLI. Good MinIO replacements
youtu.be/6qPpvlonzPk
FBS 03 - Giving MinIO the boot for RustFS and Garage
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December 31, 2025 at 9:31 PM
FBS 03 - Giving MinIO the boot for RustFS and Garage:
In this short tutorial, I walk through using RustFS and Garage on docker on a Synology NAS then how to access with AWS S3 CLI. Good MinIO replacements
youtu.be/6qPpvlonzPk
In this short tutorial, I walk through using RustFS and Garage on docker on a Synology NAS then how to access with AWS S3 CLI. Good MinIO replacements
youtu.be/6qPpvlonzPk
As MinIO continues to shed its open-source roots, we now look for alternatives. Two that have gained a lot of popularity lately are RustFS and Garage. They both handle S3-compliant block storage but in very different ways. In this article we explore both via docker on... https://kutt.tpk.pw/ZXxDgm
December 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM
As MinIO continues to shed its open-source roots, we now look for alternatives. Two that have gained a lot of popularity lately are RustFS and Garage. They both handle S3-compliant block storage but in very different ways. In this article we explore both via docker on... https://kutt.tpk.pw/ZXxDgm
This article tackles two big updates that I need to do but have been avoiding - n8n and code-server. In the post I show updating my primary n8n containerized instances and verifying the flows. but probably more interesting to everyone else is updating Code Server, laun... https://kutt.tpk.pw/HwCVKW
December 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
This article tackles two big updates that I need to do but have been avoiding - n8n and code-server. In the post I show updating my primary n8n containerized instances and verifying the flows. but probably more interesting to everyone else is updating Code Server, laun... https://kutt.tpk.pw/HwCVKW
Dockhand is a super powerful open-source docker management suite that can cover everything from cleaning up old containers, launching new stacks from private GIT repos, shelling into containers and even pushing updated containers from one registry to another. In this p... https://kutt.tpk.pw/BYg7NW
December 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Dockhand is a super powerful open-source docker management suite that can cover everything from cleaning up old containers, launching new stacks from private GIT repos, shelling into containers and even pushing updated containers from one registry to another. In this p... https://kutt.tpk.pw/BYg7NW
MinIO, once the queen of s3 compliant storage provisioning, has finally sunset the open-source community edition. RustFS is a drop-in replacement that is not only faster, but quite well supported and includes a decent webui. I'll also take a quick look at OpenBao for ... https://kutt.tpk.pw/k44ha2
December 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
MinIO, once the queen of s3 compliant storage provisioning, has finally sunset the open-source community edition. RustFS is a drop-in replacement that is not only faster, but quite well supported and includes a decent webui. I'll also take a quick look at OpenBao for ... https://kutt.tpk.pw/k44ha2
Gemini CLI has added a lot of new telemetry metrics in recent months. In this post we look at sending Gemini CLI telemetry to GCP and using GCP monitoring for metrics, logs and traces as well as alerting policies. https://kutt.tpk.pw/N2MkLw
December 16, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Gemini CLI has added a lot of new telemetry metrics in recent months. In this post we look at sending Gemini CLI telemetry to GCP and using GCP monitoring for metrics, logs and traces as well as alerting policies. https://kutt.tpk.pw/N2MkLw
KeepassXC is a nice local password safe we can use in any OS, PruneMate is a simple system for cleaning up unused docker images on a schedule and Journiv is a fast and responsive containerized journaling app. https://kutt.tpk.pw/wfKk2P
December 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
KeepassXC is a nice local password safe we can use in any OS, PruneMate is a simple system for cleaning up unused docker images on a schedule and Journiv is a fast and responsive containerized journaling app. https://kutt.tpk.pw/wfKk2P
Zencoder.ai is another GenAI coding assistant offering. It has a reasonable free tier and a pretty lightening fast coding assistant. We'll give it a test on a work-in-progress webapp to see how well it can do. https://kutt.tpk.pw/uN2uf9
December 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Zencoder.ai is another GenAI coding assistant offering. It has a reasonable free tier and a pretty lightening fast coding assistant. We'll give it a test on a work-in-progress webapp to see how well it can do. https://kutt.tpk.pw/uN2uf9
DevFest.MN 2025 was this Saturday and I was honored to present a talk "Let's Make an MCP Server!" which covered end to end creating, testing, updating and publishing MCP servers with a focus on Codeberg and OS. Here is the pre-recording: kutt.tpk.pw/devfest25yt #DevFest #GCP
Let's Build An MCP Server (Devfest.MN 2025)
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December 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
DevFest.MN 2025 was this Saturday and I was honored to present a talk "Let's Make an MCP Server!" which covered end to end creating, testing, updating and publishing MCP servers with a focus on Codeberg and OS. Here is the pre-recording: kutt.tpk.pw/devfest25yt #DevFest #GCP
Stan at FossFlow reached out inviting me to checkout their latest updates to the Open Source diagraming tool. In this post we look at some of those updates as well as use Antigravity to add a feature I've been wanting - diagram cloning. https://kutt.tpk.pw/QN2pnB
December 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Stan at FossFlow reached out inviting me to checkout their latest updates to the Open Source diagraming tool. In this post we look at some of those updates as well as use Antigravity to add a feature I've been wanting - diagram cloning. https://kutt.tpk.pw/QN2pnB
Warp.dev is an agentic AI coding suite with a nice cross platform UI. I would put this in the realm of Cursor and Antigravity. It has a solid native windows client and a free tier so it was worth giving a shot. I explore usage building out a new status page that expo... https://kutt.tpk.pw/tEWTUa
December 2, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Warp.dev is an agentic AI coding suite with a nice cross platform UI. I would put this in the realm of Cursor and Antigravity. It has a solid native windows client and a free tier so it was worth giving a shot. I explore usage building out a new status page that expo... https://kutt.tpk.pw/tEWTUa
I had a few MCP servers on my list to really explore and today I wanted to dig into them. I look at two from Microsoft; Azure DevOps and Playwright which, while designed for testing, can be used for more interesting capture activities. The other is a Kubernetes MCP se... https://kutt.tpk.pw/8ExDtb
November 27, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I had a few MCP servers on my list to really explore and today I wanted to dig into them. I look at two from Microsoft; Azure DevOps and Playwright which, while designed for testing, can be used for more interesting capture activities. The other is a Kubernetes MCP se... https://kutt.tpk.pw/8ExDtb
Today we'll followup on last weeks post about SumoLogic. I explore K8s monitors, Logs, and monitors in general. We look at alert conditions (triggering Datadog) and 'apps'. I touch on integrations, logs, dashboards and costs. https://kutt.tpk.pw/m8GEYB
November 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Today we'll followup on last weeks post about SumoLogic. I explore K8s monitors, Logs, and monitors in general. We look at alert conditions (triggering Datadog) and 'apps'. I touch on integrations, logs, dashboards and costs. https://kutt.tpk.pw/m8GEYB
Gemini 3 rolled out this week and with it came a new code editor, Google Antigravity. Of course it has AI like Cursor, but I was more curious to compare it to VS Code. In this post I set it up and use it with a python MCP app to compare and contrast with VS Code in Wind... https://kutt.tpk.pw/MnBAMS
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Gemini 3 rolled out this week and with it came a new code editor, Google Antigravity. Of course it has AI like Cursor, but I was more curious to compare it to VS Code. In this post I set it up and use it with a python MCP app to compare and contrast with VS Code in Wind... https://kutt.tpk.pw/MnBAMS
November 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I lately dug into UpCloud, a fantastic Finish Cloud Provider with an amazing backend. What was to be just a quick post turned into back-to-back blog articles covering Setup, CLI, K8s, DB then in Part 2, OpenTofu and more: p1: kutt.tpk.pw/8fS2p4 p2: kutt.tpk.pw/zFS36L #UpCloud #sovereignty #Cloud
November 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I lately dug into UpCloud, a fantastic Finish Cloud Provider with an amazing backend. What was to be just a quick post turned into back-to-back blog articles covering Setup, CLI, K8s, DB then in Part 2, OpenTofu and more: p1: kutt.tpk.pw/8fS2p4 p2: kutt.tpk.pw/zFS36L #UpCloud #sovereignty #Cloud
There are some cloud providers I do not use. Namely, Oracle and IBM. IBM seems to have made it clear that they just do not want my business. In this post, I dig into trying, yet again, to gain access to IBM cloud and then compare to those cloud providers that thrive v... https://kutt.tpk.pw/kPAh43
November 4, 2025 at 8:26 AM
There are some cloud providers I do not use. Namely, Oracle and IBM. IBM seems to have made it clear that they just do not want my business. In this post, I dig into trying, yet again, to gain access to IBM cloud and then compare to those cloud providers that thrive v... https://kutt.tpk.pw/kPAh43
Some TLDs are fine, com, org, etc. Space, lately, has been quite flakey. Beyond that, .space are now over US50 to renew. So today we look at how to ditch a domain name and migrate over to something new; space to the icu. I will explore IONOS as a registrar and show ... https://kutt.tpk.pw/CtQpSW
October 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Some TLDs are fine, com, org, etc. Space, lately, has been quite flakey. Beyond that, .space are now over US50 to renew. So today we look at how to ditch a domain name and migrate over to something new; space to the icu. I will explore IONOS as a registrar and show ... https://kutt.tpk.pw/CtQpSW
Some TLDs are fine, com, org, etc. Space, lately, has been quite flakey. Beyond that, .space are now over US50 to renew. So today we look at how to ditch a domain name and migrate over to something new; space to the icu. I will explore IONOS as a registrar and show ... https://kutt.tpk.pw/CtQpSW
October 30, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Some TLDs are fine, com, org, etc. Space, lately, has been quite flakey. Beyond that, .space are now over US50 to renew. So today we look at how to ditch a domain name and migrate over to something new; space to the icu. I will explore IONOS as a registrar and show ... https://kutt.tpk.pw/CtQpSW
Vert is a nice OS app that converts just about any media type to any other. I test it locally in docker (and their free SaaS offering) with both video and image files. Watchtower and Tugtainer are all about automatically updating containerized apps. I show both off a... https://kutt.tpk.pw/TyCeBv
October 28, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Vert is a nice OS app that converts just about any media type to any other. I test it locally in docker (and their free SaaS offering) with both video and image files. Watchtower and Tugtainer are all about automatically updating containerized apps. I show both off a... https://kutt.tpk.pw/TyCeBv
NGrok just came out with a Docker Desktop plugin that makes it really easy to expose containers publicly. We can do this with the free account easily (and I show demos). MermaidChart is a commercial SaaS offering to build and update Mermaid Diagrams. We've used merma... https://kutt.tpk.pw/s7KQMS
October 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
NGrok just came out with a Docker Desktop plugin that makes it really easy to expose containers publicly. We can do this with the free account easily (and I show demos). MermaidChart is a commercial SaaS offering to build and update Mermaid Diagrams. We've used merma... https://kutt.tpk.pw/s7KQMS
NGrok just came out with a Docker Desktop plugin that makes it really easy to expose containers publicly. We can do this with the free account easily (and I show demos). MermaidChart is a commercial SaaS offering to build and update Mermaid Diagrams. We've used merma... https://kutt.tpk.pw/s7KQMS
October 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
NGrok just came out with a Docker Desktop plugin that makes it really easy to expose containers publicly. We can do this with the free account easily (and I show demos). MermaidChart is a commercial SaaS offering to build and update Mermaid Diagrams. We've used merma... https://kutt.tpk.pw/s7KQMS