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Tuesday, 26 May 2026

  • Zerto Docs MCP — Part 2: Hybrid Search and a Curated Knowledge Layer

    Zerto Docs MCP — Part 2: Hybrid Search and a Curated Knowledge Layer

    Posted on May 26, 2026 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment
    Running a public Zerto Docs MCP server taught me the ceiling of dense-only retrieval. This is the story of finding it, fixing it with BM25 + RRF + reranker, and three other things (KB articles, a curated lessons doc, ingested ZertoPublic example scripts) that needed fixing while I was in there.
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  • AI-Powered Grain Market Tracking for Farmers

    AI-Powered Grain Market Tracking for Farmers

    Posted on May 22, 2026 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
    How I built a self-hosted grain-marketing dashboard for my farm — scraping local cash bids, computing basis against CBOT, summarizing the day with a guard-railed LLM, and exposing the whole thing as an MCP server so an AI crop-advisor chat can see live local prices.
    Read more »
  • My Zerto Docs MCP Server: Ask Claude (or Copilot, or Cursor) Real Questions

    My Zerto Docs MCP Server: Ask Claude (or Copilot, or Cursor) Real Questions

    Posted on May 20, 2026 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment
    A hosted MCP server that lets Claude, Copilot, Cursor, and other LLM clients answer Zerto questions using the actual help.zerto.com docs — 21,000 pages across 360+ bundles plus the entire KB archive. This post covers what it does, how to wire it up to your client of choice, and how I went from a standard dense RAG to a reranked one that's ~3× more…
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  • Introducing Webhook Server: Windows-Native Webhooks for Zerto (and Anything Else)

    Introducing Webhook Server: Windows-Native Webhooks for Zerto (and Anything Else)

    Posted on May 11, 2026 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
    If you’ve ever tried to wire a Zerto pre/post script to “go do something real” on a Windows host — update DNS, kick a Slack channel, restart a service, ping the recovery VMs to make sure they actually came up — you know the story. Zerto fires your script, the script does some PowerShell, and…
    Read more »
  • Troubleshooting Keycloak Authentication

    Troubleshooting Keycloak Authentication

    Posted on January 23, 2026 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
    Keycloak became the cornerstone of the Zerto appliance back in 10.0 (wow, it’s been almost 5 years!) and over that time we have tried to simplify getting started, as well as integrating Keycloak with other identity providers like LDAP OIDC and SAML. But sometimes the IT gods just aren’t smiling when folks are trying to…
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  • DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 2

    DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 2

    Posted on April 28, 2025 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment
    I have good news and great news: The good news is that all my corn is in the ground! The great news is that my DIY fertilizer monitor preformed amazingly. If you havent read part 1 check it out here, but the TLDR recap is: consistency is the name of the game. I need to…
    Read more »
  • DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 1

    DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 1

    Posted on March 16, 2025 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment
    Agriculture has been part of my life forever. I grew up on a farm and worked for my grandpa and dad until I was old enough to go off to university. Computers were a huge interest as well and sometimes those two priorities conflicted when I was growing up. I cannot even count the times…
    Read more »
  • Automated Rotation of Keycloak LDAP Federation Password for Zerto

    Automated Rotation of Keycloak LDAP Federation Password for Zerto

    Posted on October 9, 2024 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
    Maintaining secure integrations between Active Directory (AD) and identity management platforms like Keycloak is a crucial task in any modern IT environment. Password management for service accounts, especially those used in sensitive environments such as LDAP integrations, can become tedious when performed manually. However, automating the process reduces errors, enhances security, and saves time. In…
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  • A Water Heater Breakdown Was the Best Thing for My Utility Bills!

    A Water Heater Breakdown Was the Best Thing for My Utility Bills!

    Posted on September 12, 2024 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
    The back story… Recently I replaced an electric water heater with a manufactured date from 1992. You might be asking yourself how the hell a water heater survived that long to begin with. Long story short, my wife and I purchased a farm which belonged to my great-grandparents in 2021. They had passed about 15…
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  • DIY Stratum 1 NTP Server: Secure Time Sync with Raspberry Pi Under $200

    DIY Stratum 1 NTP Server: Secure Time Sync with Raspberry Pi Under $200

    Posted on August 30, 2024 by Justin Paul | 10 Comments
    In today’s digital world, precise timekeeping is more important than ever. From securing financial transactions to managing networks, accurate time synchronization ensures that all devices are on the same page. This is where the Network Time Protocol (NTP) comes into play. NTP is a protocol designed to synchronize the clocks of computers over a network,…
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Zerto Docs MCP — Part 2: Hybrid Search and a Curated Knowledge Layer

Zerto Docs MCP — Part 2: Hybrid Search and a Curated Knowledge Layer

Posted on May 26, 2026 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment
Running a public Zerto Docs MCP server taught me the ceiling of dense-only retrieval. This is the story of finding it, fixing it with BM25 + RRF + reranker, and three other things (KB articles, a curated lessons doc, ingested…
Read more »
AI-Powered Grain Market Tracking for Farmers

AI-Powered Grain Market Tracking for Farmers

Posted on May 22, 2026 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
How I built a self-hosted grain-marketing dashboard for my farm — scraping local cash bids, computing basis against CBOT, summarizing the day with a guard-railed LLM, and exposing the whole thing as an MCP server so an AI crop-advisor chat…
Read more »
My Zerto Docs MCP Server: Ask Claude (or Copilot, or Cursor) Real Questions

My Zerto Docs MCP Server: Ask Claude (or Copilot, or Cursor) Real Questions

Posted on May 20, 2026 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment
A hosted MCP server that lets Claude, Copilot, Cursor, and other LLM clients answer Zerto questions using the actual help.zerto.com docs — 21,000 pages across 360+ bundles plus the entire KB archive. This post covers what it does, how to…
Read more »
Introducing Webhook Server: Windows-Native Webhooks for Zerto (and Anything Else)

Introducing Webhook Server: Windows-Native Webhooks for Zerto (and Anything Else)

Posted on May 11, 2026 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
If you’ve ever tried to wire a Zerto pre/post script to “go do something real” on a Windows host — update DNS, kick a Slack channel, restart a service, ping the recovery VMs to make sure they actually came up…
Read more »
I Built an Entire Company Out of AI Agents – Part 1

I Built an Entire Company Out of AI Agents – Part 1

Posted on March 13, 2026 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
*This is Part 1 of a two-part series. This post covers how V4D was built, why I decided to staff it with AI employees, and what the “company” looks like at 34 agents. Part 2 is the technical deep dive…
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Troubleshooting Keycloak Authentication

Troubleshooting Keycloak Authentication

Posted on January 23, 2026 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
Keycloak became the cornerstone of the Zerto appliance back in 10.0 (wow, it’s been almost 5 years!) and over that time we have tried to simplify getting started, as well as integrating Keycloak with other identity providers like LDAP OIDC…
Read more »
DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 2

DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 2

Posted on April 28, 2025 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment
I have good news and great news: The good news is that all my corn is in the ground! The great news is that my DIY fertilizer monitor preformed amazingly. If you havent read part 1 check it out here,…
Read more »

BREAKING: Broadcom Announces Radical U-Turn on VMware Pricing

Posted on April 1, 2025 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment
In a shocking turn of events, Broadcom has announced that it will be reversing all of the pricing changes implemented since its acquisition of VMware in 2023. That’s right, folks, no more sticker shock for your VMware bills! According to…
Read more »
DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 1

DIY Precision Agriculture: Fertilizer Monitor with Raspberry Pi Pico Part 1

Posted on March 16, 2025 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment
Agriculture has been part of my life forever. I grew up on a farm and worked for my grandpa and dad until I was old enough to go off to university. Computers were a huge interest as well and sometimes…
Read more »
Automated Rotation of Keycloak LDAP Federation Password for Zerto

Automated Rotation of Keycloak LDAP Federation Password for Zerto

Posted on October 9, 2024 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
Maintaining secure integrations between Active Directory (AD) and identity management platforms like Keycloak is a crucial task in any modern IT environment. Password management for service accounts, especially those used in sensitive environments such as LDAP integrations, can become tedious…
Read more »
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