Sumner Evans

I like to keep track of my finances pretty religiously.

I announced offlinemsmtp in 2019.

You’ve almost certainly encountered Conventional Commits before.

I have been asked a few times to review student resumes and in my current position I review quite a few resumes of potential candidates.

The purpose of this trip was (ostensibly) to attend the FOSDEM 2026 conference.

I woke up very late today (like 14h).

This morning, I left Vienna for Prague, and on the way I went to Brno.

This morning, I met Bodie and Georgia at around 08:30 to head to Bratislava.

This morning, I woke up in time for the walking tour.

My plane from Dulles arrived close to on time, but the immigration queue was very long.

I’m once again heading across the pond to attend FOSDEM as I have the last three years.

Over the last month or so, I’ve been using Claude Code for assisting with development tasks1.

A few weeks ago, Typst came back on my radar because Sylvan Franklin’s videos on the topic came into my YouTube feed.

TL;DR Getting an entry-level software job is harder now than at any time in at least the last decade.

I recently read I Know When You’re Vibe Coding by Alex Kondov in which he described certain characteristic “smells” of vibe-coded software.

Warning This post is personal.

A few months ago, I was asked to give the keynote address at the BlasterHacks hackathon hosted at Mines by their ACM chapter.

Donald Trump has made two vice presidential picks.

Disclaimer I would like to make it clear that these endorsements are my opinions only.

Today I am happy to announce that I have joined Can/Am Technologies as a Senior Implementation Tech Lead.

In this article we are going to be investigating how the code you write gets to your users.

For the third year in a row, I attended FOSDEM, a Free and Open Source Software conference.

Today I visited the Waterloo battlefield.

I once again am making a trip across the pond for FOSDEM.

Today I’m announcing that Sublime Music has reached end-of-maintenance.

This week, Beeper had our second meetup after being acquired by Automattic earlier this year.

End-to-end encryption is one of the things which brought me to Matrix, and I’m sure that it’s one of the factors that brought many of you to Matrix as well.

In Matrix, message security is provided by Megolm.

Understanding Matrix cryptography requires understanding some basic cryptography primitives.

Background When we at Beeper started working on the new Android app, based on mautrix-go, we initially tried using goolm as the crypto implementation instead of libolm.

I’m running for the Matrix Governing Board as an Individual Member (see my Platform) and I am only eligible to vote as an individual member, but I would like to endorse a few Ecosystem Member candidates who are well qualified to represent the ecosystem.

On the Saturday after the retreat I did my own sightseeing and adventuring around Porto.

The past few weeks have been exciting for Beeper.

Election Results 2024-06-03: The results of the first Governing Board Election have been posted on the Matrix.org Blog.

I’m making my way across the pond once again, this time for a work retreat.

For the last seven years, Mines ACM has hosted a High School Programming Competition (HSPC) modelled after the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC).

I attended NixCon and SCaLE in Pasadena, California for the first time this year.

“Master of Science in Computer Science”, it sounds so grand, doesn’t it?

Today I went to Waterloo, the town which gave its name to the battle that saw Napoleon’s final defeat at the hands of the Seventh Coalition.

The primary purpose of my trip was to attend FOSDEM, a Free and Open Source Software conference.

Today I went to Bruges, a beautiful city near the Belgian Atlantic coast.

This year, I once again travelled to Brussels for FOSDEM (see my post from last year).

Every year since 2015, Eric Wastl creates a two-part programming problem for each of the 25 days of Advent.

This week, my company (Beeper) had our fall work retreat in Toronto, Canada.

This weekend I flew out to Los Angeles to see my friend Ethan Cranston.

I recently became a homeowner.

For the last six years, Mines ACM has hosted a High School Programming Competition (HSPC) modelled after the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC).

I woke up late on my last day in Amsterdam, and missed breakfast at the hotel.

This week, my company (Beeper) had our first retreat of the new year in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Today I once again am venturing across the pond for a work retreat.