Stephen Brennan

To my fellow Linux users who grew up using Windows XP: did you know, you can have Space Cadet Pinball on your Linux machine?

To state the obvious: when reading text on the Internet in 2026, there's really no guarantee that it was written by a human....

LLM-based coding agents like Claude Code & Codex are all the rage right now.

For what feels like a year at this point, I’ve been receiving this wonderful message from pip when I try running pip install --user SOME_PACKAGE:

My article, again posted on the Oracle Linux Blog, goes into “excruciating detail” on the contents of kernel core dumps, or vmcores.

Since April of 2021, I’ve hosted a Mastodon server on the domain snake.club.

My article, posted on the Oracle Linux Blog, goes in depth on how the Linux kernel creates stack traces at runtime.

Today I upgraded a computer of mine from Ubuntu Groovy Gorilla (20.10) to Hirsute Hippo (21.04).

At a previous company, there was an “infamous” commit in our main repository.

Linux kernel mailing lists are really important to watch and learn.