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Thursday, 8 October 2026

chat.jpaul.me: Ask Zerto, HPE Morpheus, and OpsRamp Questions From a Browser

chat.jpaul.me: Ask Zerto, HPE Morpheus, and OpsRamp Questions From a Browser

Posted on October 8, 2026 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Back in May I wrote about my Zerto Docs MCP server, the thing that lets Claude, Copilot, or Cursor answer Zerto questions straight from help.zerto.com with citations. It works well, but it has one catch: you need an AI client…

DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 3

DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 3

Posted on August 31, 2026 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Part 2 went up on April 28, 2025, right after the corn went in. I ended it with a list of things I wanted to fix and a promise that Part 3 would cover fertilizer application. That took a little…

The Full Loop: One Feature, End to End (and the End of the Copy-Paste Problem)

The Full Loop: One Feature, End to End (and the End of the Copy-Paste Problem)

Posted on August 20, 2026 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

The finale of The Workflow. We take one small feature from prompt to running

Letting the AI Off the Leash (Without Getting Bitten)

Letting the AI Off the Leash (Without Getting Bitten)

Posted on August 18, 2026 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Unit 5 of The Workflow puts agents inside your pipeline, from AI that

Giving the AI Hands: Extending It Into Your Real Systems

Giving the AI Hands: Extending It Into Your Real Systems

Posted on August 13, 2026 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Unit 4 of The Workflow. How to connect AI to your real tools and data

Why I replaced MetaMCP with a custom MCP gateway I designed

Why I replaced MetaMCP with a custom MCP gateway I designed

Posted on August 12, 2026 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Recently I started moving my MCP tools from a MetaMCP instance to a new MCP gateway call torii. Torii is a replacement for MetaMCP that I wrote the requirements for (I won’t attempt to say I coded it because that…

AI Made Writing Code Cheap. Now Automate the Catching.

AI Made Writing Code Cheap. Now Automate the Catching.

Posted on August 11, 2026 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Unit 3 of The Workflow. Seven modules: tests, CI, security scanning,

Your AI Just Force-Pushed Over a Day of Work. Now What?

Your AI Just Force-Pushed Over a Day of Work. Now What?

Posted on August 6, 2026 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

Recovery is its own skill. Here's the right undo for every Git

Half Your Teammates Aren’t Human (and the Loop Doesn’t Care)

Half Your Teammates Aren’t Human (and the Loop Doesn’t Care)

Posted on August 4, 2026 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

The full coordination loop: issue, branch, PR, review, merge, issue

The AI’s Code Looks Right. That’s the Problem.

The AI’s Code Looks Right. That’s the Problem.

Posted on July 30, 2026 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

AI writes uniformly clean code whether it's correct or not, which breaks the