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RTO: Cluster Outtages, remote power and more

RTO: Cluster Outtages, remote power and more

Published Apr 4, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

Something I am now just realizing having gone back to the office is that when things go down at home I cannot just get up and bounce a box.

OS Office Apps: Fluid Calendar and WPS Office

OS Office Apps: Fluid Calendar and WPS Office

Published Apr 1, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

In this article, I dig into two really good Open-Source productivity apps - Fluid Calendar and WPS-Office. Fluid Cal works great to front Google or O365 calendars with bi-directional syncing and t...

AI Video Generation Tools

AI Video Generation Tools

Published Mar 28, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

Today we’ll cover a whole range of AI Generation tools. I’m going to skip those like Google’s VEO/VEO 2 which seem rather impossible to get invites in to use as well as Sora from OpenAI which is v...

Azure Pipeline Release Gates and Environments

Azure Pipeline Release Gates and Environments

Published Mar 25, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

Recently it was asked of me to explain how one might control many Azure DevOps pipelines at once. The goal, of course, to make a more robust deployment gate then emails and right click approve.

Misc OS Tools: Kokoro TTS, NZBGet and Kutt

Misc OS Tools: Kokoro TTS, NZBGet and Kutt

Published Mar 21, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

Today we’ll check out Kokoro, a very nice web UI wrapped around a text-to-speech engine. We’ll see it in Docker and then try to get it running in Kubernetes with an exposed TLS ingress. I’ll also...

Azure Pipeline Gating: Az CLI, REST, and WIA

Azure Pipeline Gating: Az CLI, REST, and WIA

Published Mar 18, 2025 by Isaac Johnson

Recently it was put upon me to come up with a variety of approaches to handle Azure DevOps gating on a myriad of related Azure Pipelines. There are a lot of ways to handle this situation.

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