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  • Happy Anniversary: Revisiting the AGPL and CLAs

    The first post I made on this blog was on this date in 2003. Rather than engaging in my usual anniversary navel-gazin...

  • Home Assistant and DNS

    One of my New Year’s initiatives is to move even more of my services from third-party providers back under my control...

  • Billie the Platypus

    As I mentioned in my re:Invent post I got to meet Corey Quinn back in December and I follow his “Last Week in AWS” bl...

  • 2025 re:Invent - How AWS Stole Christmas

    First off, apologies for the click-baity title, but as this year marked the fourth re:Invent since I joined AWS I wan...

  • Zürich and Vaduz

    I wasn’t quite sure if I should put this post on this blog or my personal one, but since it is about two people who h...

  • NixCon 2025

    Apologies for such a late post on my trip to NixCon back in September, but my life has recently been overtaken by eve...

  • It's Always a Physical Layer Problem

    When I moved a few years ago I needed to re-think my networking architecture. At the old place I ran a lot of Cat6 ca...

  • Introducing hugo-planet

    Months after migrating from Wordpress to Hugo, I’m still pretty happy about the switch. Whenever I read about a new W...

  • Open Source, GenAI and the Post-Truth Society

    One of my favorite TV shows of all time is The Big Bang Theory. It is somewhat divisive among my circle of friends, b...

  • Flox Box

    Back in March I was at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) in Pasadena and I had to go directly from there to ...

  • A Generative AI Cautionary Tale

    There has been a lot of speculation and investment around Generative AI and how it will transform our society, but in...

  • Amazon Web Services - Three Years In

    Today is my third anniversary with Amazon Web Services (AWS). If I had to describe this last year with one word it wo...

  • 2025 MariaDB Database Performance Meetup (London, UK)

    A few months ago, Anna Widenius, the CEO of the MariaDB Foundation, reached out to me about hosting a meetup in Londo...

  • 2025 FOSSAsia - Bangkok, Thailand

    Hot on the heels of SCaLE 22x I found myself on the way to Bangkok for the 2025 edition of FOSSAsia Summit. This mean...

  • SCaLE 22x

    NOTE: When I initially wrote this article I used “they/them” pronouns when referring to Hazel Weakly instead of the p...

  • Some Thoughts on Mozilla, Apple and Linux Mint

    This post was inspired by the fact that I am going to be traveling and I needed a new laptop. I am not a “laptop” guy...

  • Why I Love the Fediverse

    I am not as much of a free software user as I was in the past. There was a time where almost all of the technology I ...

  • Obligatory 22 Year Anniversary Post

    Apparently I started this blog 22 years ago. Sheesh. This anniversary is a bit more nostalgic than most because I jus...

  • Preventing Homebrew from Upgrading a Formula

    For a variety of reasons I run a local version of dovecot on my computer, which let’s me access older mail files stor...

  • Bye WordPress, Hello Hugo

    I’ve been writing blogs since March of 1999. Yes, I’m old. When I started, my friend Ben suggested Moveable Type, and...