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Friday, 30 October 2026

  • zDeploy: a one-binary wizard for deploying the Zerto appliance on HPE HVM

    zDeploy: a one-binary wizard for deploying the Zerto appliance on HPE HVM

    Posted on October 20, 2026 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments
    If you’ve installed Zerto for HPE Morpheus / HVM (VM Essentials), you know the appliance doesn’t show up as a nice single OVA you point a wizard at. Zerto for HVM ships as a zip of qcow2 disks and the documentation has you build everything around those disks by hand in Morpheus. That process seems…
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  • 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 that speaks MCP, and you need to know how to add a custom connector to…
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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 isn’t the world we live in anymore). Let’s talk about the differences and why I…
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  • 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,
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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Your AI Already Writes Good Code. That’s Not Your Problem.

Your AI Already Writes Good Code. That’s Not Your Problem.

Posted on June 25, 2026 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment
I built a free course for IT pros who can already get an AI to write
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 | 2 Comments
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,…
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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…
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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 | 2 Comments
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…
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