Thoughts on DevOps, emerging tech, and open source
TL;DR — I ve lost a ton of weight from mid-2023 to early 2024 and maintained the vast majority of that loss. I ve also begin exercising and had great results in my fitness and strength. Here, I m sharing what I ve learned as well as a bunch of my tips and tricks. Overall on the diet side, it s Continue reading The lazy technologist’s guide to staying healthy
In the past 8 months, I’ve lost 60 pounds and went from completely sedentary to well on my way towards becoming fit, while putting in a minimum of effort. On the fitness side, I’ve taken my cardiorespiratory fitness from below average to above average, and I’m visibly stronger (I can do multiple pull-ups!). Again, I’ve Continue reading The lazy technologist’s guide to fitness
[Last update: 2024-02-16] In the past 8 months, I’ve lost 60 pounds and went from completely sedentary to becoming much more fit, while putting in a minimum of effort. I have no desire to be a bodybuilder, but I want to be in great shape now and be as healthy and mobile as possible well Continue reading The lazy technologist’s guide to weight loss
Since joining an enterprise (the world’s largest business-travel company) 6 months ago to drive their DevOps transformation, my ongoing mental evolution regarding the value of technology has gone through an almost religious rebirth. I now think in a completely different way than I did 10 years ago about what technology is important and when you need Continue reading How to be a 10x engineer:…
Got a talk coming up? Want it to go well? Here s some starting points. I give a lot of talks. Often I m paid to give them, and I regularly get very high ratings or even awards. But every time I listen to people speaking in public for the first time, or maybe the first few Continue reading How to give a great talk, the lazy way
After nearly 12 years working on Gentoo and hearing blathering about how Gentoo is about choice and Gentoo is a metadistribution, I ve come to a conclusion to where we need to go if we want to remain viable as a Linux distribution. If we want to have any relevance, we need to have focus. Everything for Continue reading Gentoo needs focus to stay relevant
Students, this Friday at 1900 UTC is the deadline to apply for this year s GSoC. It s an awesome program that pays you to work on open-source projects for a summer (where you == a university/college student). It s by no means too late, but start your application today. You can find more information on Gentoo s projects here (click on Continue reading 3 days left to apply for the Google Summer of…
It s been a few years, but I used to have an OSCON tradition of getting a bunch of interesting people together for lunch, from a variety of free-software and open-source communities. This year I m suggesting we do the same, on Wednesday of OSCON week. Let me know in the comments or via email if you re Continue reading OSCON meetups: FLOSS lunch, RedMonk beer
If you re a university student, time is running out! You could get paid to hack on Gentoo or other open-source software this summer, but you ve gotta act now. The deadline to apply for the Google Summer of Code is this Friday. If this sounds like your dream come true, you can find some Gentoo project Continue reading Get paid to write open-source software this summer
When I ve wanted to play in some new areas lately, it s been a real frustration because Gentoo hasn t had a complete set of packages ready in any of them. I feel like these are some opportunities for Gentoo to be awesome and gain access to new sets of users (or at least avoid chasing away Continue reading Opportunities for Gentoo