First drop of my Skylark coffee subscription arrived today 😍 If you’ve not heard of them, they’re amazing people who roast amazing coffee. https://skylark.coffee

And the #ubuntu Debcrafters team wrote about our tool to help merge packages from Debian -> Ubuntu, as well as some recommendations for its future! :) https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/merge-o-matic-recent-updates-and-future-plans/75830

#ubuntu 26.04 LTS Snapshot 3 was released today! https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/resolute-snapshot-3-released/75832

[AI, LLMs] Had a go this week at building a custom LLM-based agent for a specific task at work. I built it in #rust using the Rig crate, which I found to be very intuitive, and Gemini 3 Pro as the backend. The agent has 3 tools, one for scraping a list on my Todoist account, one for gathering […]

BBQing in black tie last night for Burns Night. We did a traditional burns night supper with haggis, neeps and tatties, but augmented with a nice piece of BBQ’d beef fillet. I was already dressed when it needed cooking, though 😅

Just did my first brew with my new 1ZPresso ZP6 Special and boy it’s such an upgrade on my trusty Porlex Mini II grinder for travel. Unimodsilty of the grind is much closer to that of my EG-1 than other grinders I’ve owned! 😎

[AI, LLMs] AI-assisted tooling is becoming more and more common in the workflows of engineers at all experience levels. As I see it, our challenge is one of consideration, enablement and constraint. We must enable those who opt-in to safely and responsibly harness the power of these tools […]

@AKernelPanic many thanks! 🤩

Unexpected show tonight!

Picked up this rather nice Ethiopian natural coffee during my short stay in Vienna, courtesy of No Panic Coffee. Came out really well with a double bloom in the Orea V4, with a slightly finer grind to account for Ethiopian Heirloom’s tendency to produce fines.

#ubuntu Server Gazzette - Issue 11 - AI-bots shall eat my docs! A nice write up of some adventures with GitHub Copilot in the pursuit of Ubuntu Documentation which includes comparisons of models, prompts and other details! […]

Hotel coffee doesn’t have to suck 😃

Also heading to #vienna tomorrow. Who knows where to get a decent filter brew? Perhaps @tobhe? 😃

Brewed my first cup of Skylark’s Ethiopian Ashu Syoum Anaerobic coffee today! Quite a delicate coffee, brew came out well but I might be able to get some of the flavours more pronounced with some tweaks 🙂 https://skylark.coffee/products/ethiopia-ashu-syoum-anaerobic-natural

First brew with Orea/Sibarist is this delightful Colombian natural coffee 😍

If you know, you know #coffee

@katexochen I have a question for you! 🙂 Trying to get a nix package together for tsgolint - it uses Go workspaces, which it uses to point a a submodule-d go package. I can't seem to figure out the runes to do that in nix, since setting GOWORK=off means it can't find the local package (of […]

Net-booting #ubuntu on #riscv - a new post from the Ubuntu Foundations team! https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/network-booting-pxe-ubuntu-on-risc-v/74550

As a coffee nerd and frequent hotel guest (for work), I’m pretty excited about this little travel (titanium!) pouring kettle with folding handles and removable spout! Might just swap my Aeropress for a proper pour over setup on my next trip!

[Meat, BBQ] First attempt at Beef Short Ribs on the smoker yesterday! Came out pretty well after just about 10 hours on the grill!

[Fish, BBQ] First hot smoked salmon today! Dressed one in bourbon and maple syrup and the other with honey and mustard while smoking. Bad photos, but came out very well!!

Coffee nerd Christmas gifts! ☕️ 🎁

Today I opened a bag of this extraordinary coffee, and to top it off the roastery sounds like it’s run by proper human beings https://skylark.coffee/products/colombia-angela-rojas-orange-bourbon

Boxing Day Pizza! 🍕

Treeeeeeeeeeeee

A pro chainsaw might be overkill for cutting the bottom inch or so off a Christmas tree, but it *is* fun 😎😄

This was a lot of fun

A lovely write up about a jolly Python library for working with #juju from #python! ‘jubilant’ is an example of keeping it simple with ‘subprocess.run’, yet providing a huge uplift in developer experience for that community. Good work, Ben & team! https://benhoyt.com/writings/jubilant/

Lapland has been jolly good fun so far!! 😎 ⛄️

Flying off to Lapland today! 🎅 ⛄️

#ubuntu 26.04 Resolute Raccoon Snapshot 2 has been released! https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/resolute-snapshot-2-released/73478

An update on how telemetry is changing on #ubuntu Desktop with Ubuntu Insights. This is similar to what we did before for collecting reports at install time, but this new version also releases the server-side component as open source! Get all the details on Discourse […]

Following the announcement that we'll be shipping NVIDIA CUDA libraries in the #ubuntu archive for 26.04 LTS, yesterday we announced that we'll also be shipping AMD ROCm as well! The combination of these two should make development on these stacks significantly simpler to get started with in […]

Addressing Linux’s Missing PKI Infrastructure "we’re starting the development of upki: a universal PKI tool. This project initially aims to close the revocation gap through the combination of a new system utility and eventual library support for common TLS/SSL libraries such as OpenSSL, GnuTLS […]

Earlier this year, LWN.net featured an excellent article named "Linux's missing CRL infrastructure", and today I'm pleased to announce our plans to address that with a utility named 'upki'. Canonical will be working with Dirkjan Ochtmann and Joe Birr-Pixton over the coming weeks to start […]

Recently I’ve been playing with a Snapdragon X Elite laptop from HP running Ubuntu, and I must admit to being pretty impressed. Kernel support for power management such is a little sketchy at times, and I often have to source software from different places to get arm64 builds, but overall it’s […]

I think we're collectively some way from knowing the long-term impact of AI on modern work, but it's becoming increasingly clear to me that it can excel for certain kinds of tasks. This week, Matthieu from the #ubuntu Foundations team did some experimentation with Google AI Studio to assess the […]

New garden cooking toy! 🍕 A #gozney Arc!

This was fun to record! Thanks to @mre fo having me! https://mastodon.social/@mre/115622548416918392

Lots of nice #ubuntu things have happened in the last 24 hours! Firstly, the first development snapshot of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS was released: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/resolute-snapshot-1-released/72760 Our Ubuntu Desktop Director also posted in detail about their roadmap for the cycle […]

[Meat, BBQ] Work in progress 😎 🐷

Some very neat work by the #ubuntu Foundations team this week, who managed to get #flutter working properly on #riscv, meaning that the Ubuntu Security Center, Firmware Updater and Installer can all now be built natively (or cross-compiled!) for RISC-V […]

Surprisingly excited to learn that Firefox v147+ will respect the XDG base directory specification! It's the little things in life... 😅 https://hg-edge.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/8a6d6c094cb5

Do I know anyone who works on the Google Chrome team who can talk about packaging, or know anyone who knows anyone? 🙂

#debcrafters Digest Vol 3 – An Unexpected Attempted Migration in Devel Release The latest edition of our weekly #ubuntu Engineering updates, which covers an unfortunate mishap in archive operations recently, and how the team dealt with it! […]

Benti Nenka from Man Vs Machine roastery. This is absolutely delightful and a very thoughtful gift from @tobhe! So fruity, absolutely spot on my flavour profile! 🍒

@juliank that Black Hat geisha is 🔥 🔥 🔥 Thank you!!

And this morning I’m brewing a 1440hrs fermented coffee from Wilton Benitez, and it’s pretty wild 🔥😍 https://taithcoffee.com/shop/p/wilton-benitez-typica-1440-hr-advanced-process-1440-hr-bioreactor-typica-colombia

Went to see Bastille in Birmingham last night and they were sensational as usual. Wasn’t expecting No Scrubs from TLC on the set list, but it was incredible to see live! 😎

Finally got around to applying new thermal paste and a new fan to my Intel Skull Canyon NUC and now I feel stupid for waiting so long as it sits there working completely silently after months of me quietly cursing the noise it makes 😅