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  • 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...

  • 2024 dbt Labs Coalesce Conference

    I traveled for much of the last two months and during that time I went to four conferences. I usually like to write a...