Rediscovering Reading (Without the Social Media Part)
One January morning I relaxed on my couch in the mid-morning light of a slow-starting day. The kid had been delivered to school and I was back home. It was a...
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Nostalgic Noises
While walking through my hall yesterday, I heard the sound of rushing water. No, wait—some kind of machine? A window open to the wind? No. It was my NAS (Net...
2025 Open Source Predictions
Inspired by Ben Cotton’s 2025 Open Source Predictions, I decided to do a little predicting of my own. My mind has been on AI and how I can leverage it so tha...
Archiving Rarely Quotable and Happiness Packets
As part of evolving this site to better reflect my current priorities, I am archiving two pages: Rarely Quotable and Happiness Packets. Both pages served mea...
Based on everything you know about me, draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like.
Wow - I hadn’t realized I have written nothing this whole year. I have had a lot going on:
Intentionally losing things and the curse of backlogs
Use it or lose it
Man Rides Tram
No, not that tram
Capacity for Work
While sharing some advice with a friend, the concept of capacity for work to come up. I wanted to preserve these thoughts and share them with you.
Obsidian, podcasts, and more
This is all Apple’s fault
Both/And Thinking - Paradox System (Chapter 7)
Smith, Wendy; Lewis, Marianne. Harvard Business Review Press
Both/And Thinking - Paradox System (Chapter 6)
Smith, Wendy; Lewis, Marianne. Harvard Business Review Press
Both/And Thinking - Paradox System (Chapter 5)
Smith, Wendy; Lewis, Marianne. Harvard Business Review Press
Both/And Thinking - Paradox System (Chapter 4)
Smith, Wendy; Lewis, Marianne. Harvard Business Review Press
Both/And Thinking - Paradox System (Chapter 3)
Smith, Wendy; Lewis, Marianne. Harvard Business Review Press
Both/And Thinking - Vicious Cycles (Chapter 2)
Smith, Wendy; Lewis, Marianne. Harvard Business Review Press
Both/And Thinking - Last 2 Paradox Types
Smith, Wendy; Lewis, Marianne. Harvard Business Review Press
Both/And Thinking - First 2 Paradox Types
Smith, Wendy; Lewis, Marianne. Harvard Business Review Press
Both/And Thinking - Introduction
Smith, Wendy; Lewis, Marianne. Harvard Business Review Press
The Challenge of Virtual Speaking
Reading the Room
I am a Youtube Rock Star!
Narrator: Not Really
A new podcast
Srsly? I can’t even.
Fedora job opening: Fedora Community Action and Impact Coordinator (FCAIC)
posted on the Fedora Magazine
The new Coinbase Card
The interesting part isn’t the BTC, it’s this arbitrage
The new Apple Card
We May Be Missing the Revolution
FCAIC in the House, part III
posted on the Fedora Magazine
Fixing ERP Systems
my new ‘kickstarter’ idea
We Need a Password Change API
because I got pwned
FCAIC in the House, part II
posted on the Fedora Magazine
Avoiding Double Taxation with Tax Treaties
It’s about way more than the FEIE
FCAIC in the House
posted on the Fedora Magazine
New Life Happenings
Some days you can have your cake and eat it too.
Your Phone isn’t a Victim of Planned Obsolescence
Apple and Android Don’t Hate You
The European Project
Could you be less committed?
The Sky is Falling
BRExit Edition
Dealing with the Time Change
A Project Proposal
Happy New Year
It’s the year of …
Technology
Did I vibe code?
My Experience with Vibe Coding: Successes, Challenges, and the Road to Production
Easily see your declined events in Google Calendar
Not every declined event is to be forgotten
rsync+iCloud: A proposal
This is all Apple’s fault but we can make it work
Git Clone Commands
My colleague1 Veronika Kabátová wrote a great piece on setting up your environment to work with remote repositories. In it she outlines the strategy of lett...
How to encrypt files with gocryptfs on Linux
posted on opensource.com
Sending custom emails with Python
posted on opensource.com
Check your password security with Have I Been Pwned? and pass
posted on opensource.com
Contributors are Empowered When They Know the Process
posted on the Red Hat Community Blog
How to manage multiple SSH keys
posted on opensource.com
How to import your existing SSH keys into your GPG key
posted on opensource.com
How to enable SSH access using a GPG key for authentication
posted on opensource.com
What’s Your Best Advice for Attracting New Contributors?
posted on the Red Hat Community Blog
LATAM Organizational FAD
Event Report
Open Source Summit Japan
Event Report
OSCAL (Open Source Conference Albania)
Event Report
OSCON (O’Reilly Open Source Convention)
Event Report
GrimoireCon
Event Report
Community Leadership Summit
Event Report
Red Hat Summit
Event Report
Community Managers Sit Everywhere. Should They?
posted on the Red Hat Community Blog
Onboarding New Contributors in the Fedora Project
posted on the Red Hat Community Blog
I Packaged DayJournal
with apologies to Jill Sobule
Fedora Goes to FOSDEM
posted on the Red Hat Community Blog
The Fedora Diversity FAD
Event Report
Flock 2017 Bids Now Open
Due 28 Feb 2017
When Do Drive-By Documentation Contributors Start to Matter?
a/k/a When do you build it?
Write The Docs Europe 2016 - Prague
Conference Session Notes
AsciiBind all the things!
A Fedora Docs Toolchain Proposal
A Semantic Markup Proposal for AsciiDoc
And Fedora Docs
Docs Project update from Flock 2016
posted on the Fedora Community Blog
Flock to Fedora: Krakow, PL Edition
Community Means Hanging with Your Friends
Docker Brno—Back in the Saddle Again
posted at ProjectAtomic.io
Demoing the Atomic Developer Bundle
at the CentOS Dojo in Brussels and DevConf.cz 2016
Nulecule: Packaging, Distributing & Deploying Container Applications the Cloud Way
Delivered at Config Management Camp EU 2016
No Docs, No Commit
Playing with travis-ci.org
What Happened at the 2nd Big Docker Meetup in Brno, Czech Republic on 15 October
posted at ProjectAtomic.io
Getting to DevOps with Docker
presented at DevStars.cz on 19 Oct 2015
Report on the Container Keynote Panel from LinuxCon EU 2015
posted at ProjectAtomic.io
A Containers-Eye View of LinuxCon EU
posted on the Red Hat Community Blog
Project Atomic or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Containers
posted at Linux.com
Testing Nulecule on Debian
posted at ProjectAtomic.io
First Docker Meetup in Brno, Czech Republic
posted at ProjectAtomic.io
Travel
Your Rights to Food, Lodging, and Compensation per EC261
Very few people talk about when the airline needs to provide food and lodging
A Study in Process
Adventures in an Indian Airport