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OpenCode is an MIT-licensed agentic coding assistant.

Recently, I put my Pinebook Pro in something of a zombie state.

When running Open edX on Kubernetes clusters, one of its Pods is the lms Pod, which runs the core of the Open edX Learning Management System (LMS).

As of late, I’ve been doing a number of talks that weren’t so much focused on specific technologies like I’ve done in the past.

A recent trip to PyCon Italia prompts me to add the Tuscan capital to this series.

This is a talk about complexity that I did twice in 2024: First, I presented it at Config Management Camp in Ghent in February.

This is a dessert that’s an excellent use for some stale bread and an apple that’s lost its crunch.

I was recently asked (on Mastodon) how I prepare my lievito madre, and how I make pizza from it.

Something that’s happened a few times over the past few months is a conference organiser, having attended my talk, coming up to me and saying something to the effect of: Had I known you were going to give this good a talk, I’d have put you in a keynote sl…

I’ve been asked to finally add an entry in this series for my hometown.

Continuing the series of selecting 3 places to eat at random in a major city, here is the entry for Stockholm.

In a recent Mastodon discussion, Martin Seeger accidentally coined the phrase “remote office”.

This is a summary of how I run a set of Docker (actually, Podman) containers for my Home Assistant setup on a Raspberry Pi.

You may know that I am fairly active on Mastodon (my profile is here), and one of the things I like a lot are polls.

It recently occurred to me that something I thought was a basic elementary aspect of management at all levels is apparently, in fact, unusual in many organisations.

This year, I traveled to Florence for my first PyCon Italia.

I like Mastodon.

This week, work launched a new documentation web site (Cleura Docs) which my team and I had been building for several months.

The Van Halen “brown M&Ms” story is a classic tale of rock’n’roll lore.

I use Git on a practically daily basis, and although it comes with just about everything including the proverbial kitchen sink, there are a few bits of functionality that I only wish it had.

My Fediverse friends recently encouraged me to share places where I liked to eat in cities I’ve travelled to.

My Fediverse friends recently encouraged me to share places where I liked to eat in cities I’ve travelled to.

This year, DevOpsDays Tel Aviv accepted my talk on creativity (which I submitted as a 20-minute session), and then upgraded it to a 30-minute Spotlight Talk on the main stage to close out the first day.

Dear conference organizer, Please do not attempt to foist a slide deck format on me.

This is just to let you know that as of today, I am no longer active on the birdsite.

Surely you’ve seen a question similar to the following in a survey or request for feedback.

If I had visited you from the future six months ago, and given you today’s headlines to read, you would probably have dismissed me as a lunatic.

At DevOpsDays Berlin 2022, I was slated to give a 30-minute talk titled Writing Professionally.

The current Ubuntu LTS release, 22.04 “Jammy Jellyfish”, does not install a Debian package for Mozilla Firefox anymore.

I am sure that many of you have been summoned to your fair share of quarterly, end-of-half-year, or end-of-year updates which were held by way of a company meeting.

Recently at work we ran into rather strange-looking errors that broke some functionality we depend on.

At work we have an annual1 conference, C!

I have two methods of taking stereoscopic images, both of which I use regularly: The “left foot, right foot” method, which I can do with any camera, including that on my smart phone (I covered this method at length in my 2021 FrOSCon talk).

My social media experiment is still ongoing.

This piece of kit has been a conversation starter everywhere I take it out, so I figured it could use a short writeup.

Drizzle was an open-source project1 that, for all intents and purposes, died in 2016.

This is inspired by a dish that goes by “Mongolian beef” in parts of the U.S., but I opted for the generic title since it’s neither Mongolian, nor does it require beef.

xkcd 927 is a modern internet classic that is frequently brought up in conversations to remind people that a proposal that they’re making will, while being intended to simplify things, actually make them more complicated.

A little while back, I posted on my Twitter and Mastodon feeds1 asking people who kept a personal blog to post their RSS or Atom feed URLs.

I have moved this site to GitHub.

I wanted to share a few thoughts on something I consider a rather important topic in our industry: code review and CI/CD tools, and how they relate.

There’s a common trope in management that goes something like “in order to better scale the organization as we grow, we need to keep it flat.”

As of late, I’ve noticed that when people share one of my articles on asynchronous communications on Twitter (particularly any from the Getting out of Meeting Hell series, or the one on meetings that should have been an email), there’s a reply from a brand

Right now, it’s easy to open a news site and come to the conclusion that the world as we know it is well and truly fucked.

A common feature of organizations in the software technology industry (but certainly not only in that industry) is their fixation on metrics, measurements, and quantifiers.

People skeptical of distributed, asynchronous, written communications sometimes make the understandable objection that it is often difficult to interpret the reactions, specifically the absence of reactions, to written online communications.

Fellow managers, there is an ongoing trope in just about any software technology or knowledge based organization (and probably others, too) that goes like this: This meeting should have been an email.

The original article continues to prompt a lot of thoughts and discussions, so I’ve written a a couple of follow-up pieces: Getting out of Meeting Hell is a short series about getting from a distributed workplace that attempts to duplicate the synchronous…

After No, We Won’t Have a Video Call for That, which covered how productive distributed teams operate, and the Getting out of Meeting Hell series, which focused on how you as an individual can get to being a member of a functional distributed team, let’s…

I like tox.