Martin Pitt

I wholeheartedly dislike GMail (ethically, technically, and UX), and for my personal email I have always run my own server.

In December 2016 I left Canonical with one sad and one happy eye, with lots of good memories.

Summary from 2022 Back then, I evaluated Google Cloud Platform for running Cockpit’s integration tests.

Today is another Red Hat day of learning.

Goal In the Cockpit team we spend a lot of our time on PR reviews.

During this quarter, all employees are asked to become familiar with using AI technologies.

Today at Red Hat is day of learning again!

For the last quarter I have worked in Red Hat’s Testing Farm (TFT) and “Operating System CI” (OSCI) and teams, on a temporary rotation.

I spent this day of learning on evaluating the three popular high-level Rust frameworks for HTTP/websocket servers.

I recently found myself needing to write a dynamic reverse HTTP/websocket proxy.

Today was another Red Hat Day of Learning.

Cockpit CI demands Testing Cockpit is not an easy task – each pull request gets tested by over 300 browser integration test cases on a dozen operating systems.

Why Rust?

In the Cockpit team we recently started to generate and export metrics about our CI, and collect/graph them by a Red Hat internal Prometheus and Grafana instance.

Email: A source of stress Email has been a significant source of stress for me.

Today is another Red Hat Day of Learning.

Work rotation Today is may last day at work for this year.

Introduction One and a half year ago I switched to a self-built OSTree based minimal i3 desktop and never looked back.

Last Friday at Red Hat the fourth Day of Learning happened.

Being a paper hater, I have kept all my work and private notes in digital form pretty much forever.

Motivation Last Friday at Red Hat we have another “Day of Learning”, the third one now.

Motivation Today at Red Hat we have another “Day of Learning”.

Da wacht man nun eines schönen Morgens auf, und schwupps ist man vierzig!

Motivation Today at Red Hat we have a “Learn something new” day.

Background A major future goal for Cockpit is support for client-side TLS authentication, primarily with smart cards.

Introduction I’ve always liked a clean, slim, lightweight, and robust OS on my laptop (which is my only PC) – I’ve been running the i3 window manager for years, with some custom configuration to enable the Fn keys and set up my preferred desktop session l…

A year or two ago I bought Lindsey Stirling’s Album Brave Enough.

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Three weeks ago I blogged about how to get rid of non-free Google services and moving to free software on my Android phone.

I’ve been a professional Free Software developer in the GNU/Linux area for 14 years now, and a hobbyist developer and user for much longer.

Being a web interface, Cockpit has a comprehensive integration test suite which exercises all of its functionality on a real web browser that is driven by the tests.

Annett und ich waren drei Wochen im Nordwesten der USA unterwegs und sind wieder wohlbehalten zuhause gelandet.

Hot on the heels of landing Cockpit in Debian unstable and Ubuntu 17.04, the Ubuntu backport request got approved (thanks Iain!)

Cockpit has now been in Debian unstable and Ubuntu 17.04 and devel, which means it’s now a simple $ sudo apt install cockpit away for you to try and use.

It has now been two and a half months since I started working at Red Hat in the Cockpit team.

systemd 233 is scheduled to be released next week, and there is only a handful of small issues left.

My WordPress blog got hacked two days ago and now twice today.

I’ve had the pleasure of working on Ubuntu for 12½ years now, and during that time used up an entire Latin alphabet of release names!

I don’t want to criticize the outcome of the UK’s EU referendum — first of all I’m not wiser than everyone else, and second in a democracy you always have the right to decide both ways.

Historically, the “adt-run” command line has allowed multiple tests; as a consequence, arguments like --binary or --override-control were position dependent, which confused users a lot (#795274, #785068, #795274, LP #1453509).

This week from Tuesday to Thursday four Canonical Foundations team members held a virtual sprint about the proposed-migration infrastructure.

The last two major autopkgtest releases (3.18 from November, and 3.19 fresh from yesterday) bring some new features that are worth spreading.

Almost every new autopkgtest release brings some small improvements, but 3.14 got some reboot related changes worth pointing out.

Wir sind wieder zurück aus unserem tollen Winterurlaub!

ROS what?

I’m on my way home from Düsseldorf where I attended the LinuxCon Europe and Linux Plumber conferences.

It’s great to see more and more packages in Debian and Ubuntu getting an autopkgtest.

Last week’s autopkgtest 3.5 release (in Debian sid and Ubuntu Utopic) brings several new features which I’d like to announce.

I have used LaTeX and latex-beamer for pretty much my entire life of document and presentation production, i. e. since about my 9th school grade.

Yesterday’s autopkgtest 3.2 release brings several changes and improvements that developers should be aware of.