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Bridging IFTTT to Your Local AI Assistant with an MCP Proxy

IFTTT shipped MCP support but only for Claude and ChatGPT. Here’s how I built a 500-line Node.js proxy to connect it to any stdio-based MCP client, and the two gotchas that made it interesting.

  • ai
  • tools
  • coding
  • automation
5 min read

Blog Publishing Process

There are a number of ways to publish content for a blog, and many people who have moved to static HTML platforms like hugo use a similar flow. In my Blog Migration Series, I went through how the …

  • blog
  • automation
  • CodePipeline
  • Lambda
7 min read

Replacing the AWS ELB - Automation

This is Part 5 in the Replacing the AWS ELB series. Replacing the AWS ELB - The Problem Replacing the AWS ELB - The Challenges Replacing the AWS ELB - The Design Replacing the AWS ELB - The Network …

  •  haproxy
  • Automation
  •  ELB
  •  loadbalancer
4 min read

Replacing the AWS ELB - Final Thoughts

This is the last part in the Replacing the AWS ELB series. Replacing the AWS ELB - The Problem Replacing the AWS ELB - The Challenges Replacing the AWS ELB - The Design Replacing the AWS ELB - The …

  •  haproxy
  • Automation
  •  ELB
  •  loadbalancer
2 min read

Replacing the AWS ELB - The Design

This is Part 3 in the Replacing the AWS ELB series. Replacing the AWS ELB - The Problem Replacing the AWS ELB - The Challenges Replacing the AWS ELB - The Design (this post) Replacing the AWS ELB - …

  •  haproxy
  • Automation
  •  ELB
  •  loadbalancer
4 min read

Replacing the AWS ELB - The Challenges

This is Part 2 in the Replacing the AWS ELB series. Replacing the AWS ELB - The Problem Replacing the AWS ELB - The Challenges(this post) Replacing the AWS ELB - The Design Replacing the AWS ELB - The …

  •  haproxy
  • Automation
  •  ELB
  • Architecture
3 min read

Replacing the AWS ELB - The Network Deep Dive

This is Part 4 in the Replacing the AWS ELB series. Replacing the AWS ELB - The Problem Replacing the AWS ELB - The Challenges Replacing the AWS ELB - The Design Replacing the AWS ELB - The Network …

  •  haproxy
  • Automation
  •  ELB
  •  loadbalancer
3 min read

Replacing the AWS ELB - The Problem

This topic has been long overdue. This will be a series of posts on how you can replace the AWS ELB’s inside your VPC’s with a self managed load balancing solution. This will be too long for a single …

  •  haproxy
  • ELB
  • loadbalancer
  • Architecture
2 min read

Scratching an itch with aws-vault-url

I think that aws-vault is a really nice tool. It prevents you from saving your AWS credentials in plain text on your machines (which is always a good thing) Since I started using it – I found a number …

  • Automation
  • Tools
  • Management
  • AWS