Last month I had the pleasure of attending the Open Source Summit in Minneapolis. For the first time, I didn’t have a speaking slot or booth duty, I was there as an attendee with a list of people and projects I wanted to meet up with, and sessions I wanted to see. On Sunday I […]
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Open Source and AI brain dump
June 4th, 2026 by pleia2
I hadn’t been to the Open Source Summit in a couple years, and boy was I in for a shift. It was a shift I expected, because AI/ML has taken over tech a big way, but experiencing it was a whole different thing. I also don’t think I’ve every heard the word “human” said so […]
SCaLE 23x
March 16th, 2026 by pleia2
Last week I had the pleasure of attending SCaLE 23x in Pasadena, California. I love SCaLE, it’s probably my favorite conference. It’s big, but it still feels so local, and I always walk away having met new, exceptional people, and with the warmth of connection I feel from seeing some of my closest friends in […]
Finally back at OLF!
December 17th, 2025 by pleia2
Back in 2018 spoke at Ohio LinuxFest and had a wonderful time with the community there. It’s a great mix of folks who are very local, and open source experts from across the country who come in for the event. Beth Lynn Eicher, who leads the event, is a champion in getting more folks involved […]
Immersed in GitHub Universe 2025
November 18th, 2025 by pleia2
Back in May we announced the availability of a hosted GitHub Actions runner for IBM Z and LinuxONE. Saying this is a big deal for me is a bit of an understatement. I’d been working on this project for nearly two years, and others involved had been working on things like .NET enablement on the […]
Some of the gems at IBM TechXchange 2025
November 10th, 2025 by pleia2
IBM does cool stuff, and looking back, this is no surprise given the portfolio the company has had since inception. There are a few conferences where this is showcased, but IBM TechXchange is the one that they’ve had a lot of fun with that’s targeted at developers and other folks who are deep in the […]
Local Fall Festival and old-ish computers
September 18th, 2025 by pleia2
A few people have remarked recently about how activity-driven we are as a family. It’s true, we have a lot of adventures! But the fact is, we also spent 2.5 years at home during a pandemic when our children are little, so part of it is making up for lost time. Another part is that […]
A VisionFive 2 and a Raspberry Pi 1 B
April 3rd, 2025 by pleia2
A couple weeks ago I was playing around with a multiple architecture CI setup with another team, and that led me to pull out my StarFive VisionFive 2 SBC again to see where I could make it this time with an install. I left off about a year ago when I succeeded in getting an […]
Open Source Summit 2024
May 1st, 2024 by pleia2
My journey to the Open Source Summit North America came on the tail of the Texas Linux Fest, so I flew to Seattle from Austin on Sunday afternoon. A quick ride on light rail put me in downtown Seattle where a short walk got me settled in to my hotel that I’d call home base […]
Texas Linux Fest 2024
April 14th, 2024 by pleia2
The last Texas Linux Fest I attended was all the way back in 2014, which means it had been a full 10 years since I’d been. I was supposed to speak at the event in 2020, but no one spoke in 2020, so I was really happy to finally, finally be back. But first, I […]