Mauro Morales Blog

On Thursday morning I merged a security fix from the agent after 71 CI checks passed (kairos#4569).

A colleague asked me this week how the part of my agent factory that reads GitHub mentions actually works.

The netboot server for my lab moved from my Mac to a Linux box this week.

In "The Birth of My Homelab" I mentioned a new project called Mowa, short for MacOS Web API, and said more would come in a follow-up post.

Kairos is at 100% on the OpenSSF Best Practices badge, at the passing level.

Last week ended on 4.2.0 shipped and a reviewer agent reading every change before I do.

I was putting Home Assistant OS on a spare Raspberry Pi 4, booting off a USB SSD, with an HDMI capture card plugged into the board so I could watch the boot on my main monitor.

Last week ended on a version that had shipped but not released, and a review load I was not keeping up with.

Last week I wrote that I wanted to get the agents working on actual Kairos tickets, and that the next post would either have results or another pile of postmortems.

I picked up Ruby because of how expressive it was.

The email landed on Friday, 17 July 2026, three days before I was due to leave for vacation.

Last week I realized I had put myself in front of people 30 times since I started promoting Kairos 3 years ago.

When I watch teams evaluate open source projects, I notice most of them check two things: the license, and whether the project looks active.

Disclaimer I'm one of the maintainers of Kairos, an operating system built for cloud-native workloads.

I want to introduce kairos-lab, a small CLI built to remove friction from first-time Kairos experiments on macOS and Linux.

I've been working on ARM images lately.

Ten years ago I gave my first talk at FOSDEM.

2025 felt like a continuation of the momentum I built last year with Kairos: more code, more people, and more proof that collaboration beats any solo sprint.

Ever since I started working on Kairos, I've wanted to test out Fedora Silverblue on the desktop.

We are the lessons we've learned along the way, and we try to apply them at different levels of our experience.

Last week, the open-source team at Spectro Cloud held a Hackweek.

This post documents what it felt like to build software with AI, from a clean slate, minimal tooling, and a curious mindset.

As we approach the end of 2024, I find it important to reflect on the milestones achieved this year and how they've shaped my journey as a software developer, technologist, and contributor to the Cloud Native ecosystem.