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9 min read

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
7 min read

Your Coding Assistant Is Not You

Developers everywhere are panicking when their AI coding assistant goes silent. The dependency patterns are real and the skill erosion is measurable. But these tools don’t define you. Awareness …

  • AI
  • coding
  • addiction
  • GenAI
8 min read

The Next Casualty of the GenAI Revolution

I was at an event this morning where someone said something that really resonated with me. “The new programming language is English.” And you know what? They’re right. Jensen Huang …

  • GenAI
  • LLM
  • Agents
  • Tools
19 min read

The Hidden Cost of AI Coding: Technical Debt You Can't See

I had an interesting conversation with a colleague a few weeks ago. He was looking at his team’s metrics, sprint velocity up 40%, PRs merging faster than ever, test coverage sitting pretty at …

  • GenAI
  • LLM
  • Agents
  • Tools
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
2 min read

The AWS PowerShell Docker Container

I cannot believe it is over 3 years since I created the openstack-git-env container. At the time I was really frustrated at how hard it was to get started with setting up an environment to start …

  • Tools
  • docker
  • Powershell
  • AWS
2 min read

Introducing VIRL Personal Edition

This is an internal Cisco tool which is so useful – that I am really pleased that it is finally available for public consumption. VIRL Stands for Virtual Internet Routing Lab What Is VIRL? VIRL is …

  • Automation
  • Tools
  • OpenStack
  • Miscellaneous
3 min read

You Can’t Use Onyx with the Web Client

The Web Client will be VMware’s direction going forward. It was stressed more than once. There was even a slide from one the sessions to state that 5.1 will be the last windows based client – as I …

  • Automation
  • Tools
  • Orchestrator
  • PowerCLI
2 min read

NetApp Virtual Storage Console 4.0 Released

Thanks to Christopher Wells for the heads up #NetApp Virtual Storage Console (VSC) 4.0 for #VMware vCenter... Now available for download! http://t.co/JUW75aqv (NOW account required) — …

  • Tools
  • vSphere
  • Storage
  • Administration