As I've made very obvious, typewriters hold a special place in my heart. This article was a tearjerker for me, in the best way ❤️ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Life with tiny humans is A LOT, and my casual open source work halted as I plunged into it. Working with the old Xubuntu team lately on the website vulnerability and launch of our new static site reminded me how much personal value I get and how much I missed these guys. It's time to come back.

Happy eggnog in coffee season! ☕

Just be aware that if you have kids, there's a good chance you'll get to clean up their vomit on a flight some day 🤮 Carry on a change of clothes. Maybe two. Anyway, we made it to Philly.

The Zork games have been properly open sourced with the MIT license 😍 opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11... These were some of the first computer games I ever played back on our IBM 8086 PC. So many good memories.

A week ago I took our 4 year old to urgent care for face-planting on the pavement when he fell off his bike. Split lip, and abrasions to his chin and nose. Today, he looks fine. Kids heal fast. I'd still look like a pizza and probably require physical therapy 😂

There are BART pajama pants. www.railgoods.com/barty-pajama... 💸

On December 6th, I'll be at Ohio LinuxFest in Columbus to talk about architectures! I've recently been poking around LoongArch64, so there are some updates to the material I've used for similar talks. Agenda here: olfconference.org/2025-schedule/ Tickets start at $10!

I've been going through IBM Z Xplore lately to brush up on some IBM z/OS basics: ibmzxplore.influitive.com The JCL1 has a section called "All Aboard" because it's about train schedules in Poughkeepsie, NY 😁 🚆 (that's where mainframes come from). Just thought you should know.

Ma'am, you're in my spot 🐈

The #s390x open source software team at IBM confirms the latest versions of various software packages run well on #Linux on #IBMZ & #LinuxONE 🐧 In October 2025 validation was maintained for two dozen projects, including #ApacheActiveMQ #InfluxDB & #Rails 🎉 More: community.ibm.com/community/us...

The test server that I recently cobbled together from parts of our old media and backups server just decided to throw one of its ancient spinning disks. I was alerted to this by a very annoying clicking sound in my home office. I should really have some sort of real monitoring on its raid array.

I'm on a regular call with teams from Microsoft, Red Hat, Canonical and IBM regarding IBM Z & Power porting work for .NET so each release comes out smoothly. Last week .NET 10 went live! That's our 5th release with s390x support (4th for ppc64le) community.ibm.com/community/us...

There was a compromise of torrent downloads the Xubuntu website last month 😱 It was identified and Downloads page disabled quickly, but here's the response a few of us on the #Xubuntu team put together over the weekend based on what we heard back from Canonical: lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xub...

At #IBMZDay I'm sitting down with Igor, Jerry, and Darren to discuss the zopen Community (which ports 200+ packages from popular open source projects to z/OS USS), benefits to the ecosystem, and where the new z/OS runners from @gitlab.com fit in. Online. Free registration: ibm.biz/ibmzday-2025

🏳️‍🌈 Love is love 🏳️‍🌈

Is #IBMZDay for me? Yes. #Mainframes are cool. But also even being exposed to the terminology and concepts of a technology you're learning is beneficial for connecting the dots later. So get some dots! 🔵🟣🟢🟠 Even if you're just #mainframe curious! It's free & online. Reg: ibm.biz/ibmzday-2025

This morning I had a great conversation with Aazam Thakur who will be joining Len Santalucia, Steven Perva, and me at the #IBMZDay free virtual event to cut through common misconceptions that organizations have about #OpenSource software on the #mainframe Join us! ibm.biz/ibmzday-2025

You know, you can just ask the dental hygienist for the bubblegum flavored polish if you want 😁

The agenda for #IBMZDay coming up on November 12th is now online! ibm.biz/ibmzday-2025... 🎉 Lots of what you've come to expect, with client stories, AI, security, and I've been working on a couple panels about #OpenSource software!

*Click* 📸 "Where are you visiting from?" "Hah, no where, I've lived here for 15 years and I still love this view" 😍

On to #GitHubUniverse day 2! I'll still be at the IBM booth talking about our hosted GitHub Actions service for Linux on IBM Z and Power ⚙️

I worked around a problem I was having with a Python script by using a Perl regex to adjust the source data 😂 I'll come back to the Python script, but apparently this morning my brain only wants to access knowledge that's two decades old.

Was Tron: Ares a silly action movie? Yes. Was Tron: Ares also a great two hour Nine Inch Nails music video? Also yes. 😍

Food stamps were a literal lifeline to my family growing up. Thankfully, I'm no longer in that position, but my visceral reaction to SNAP benefits potentially not coming to families in November is anxiety & fear. This is a good time for a reminder to donate to your local food bank if you're able.

Will anyone reading this be at GitHub Universe in San Francisco next week? It's my first time attending since 2019, would be lovely to say hello. I'll mostly be at the IBM booth, but I'll be dropping by some sessions as well.

Cool to see that the IBM Spyre AI Accelerator as part of a #PyTorch Conference keynote from Christian Jacobi. You may roll their eyes at a lot of AI stuff, but the inference work it's allowing enterprise clients to do with their models is legit. research.ibm.com/blog/pytorch...

I needed a very simple screencast without audio, and was delighted to discover that the one built into Gnome3 for Fedora did the job beautifully. It even let me select the section of the screen I wanted to record before I began. No editing needed! docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-...

I was trying to explain the AWS outage to a normal person yesterday (she asked) and I... didn't do a good job. How can I do better?

Finally got a chance to listen to the latest episode of the Open Mainframe Project's Mainframe Coven where they interviewed Meredith Stowell (my VP!) She shared our efforts to draw folks from non-traditional backgrounds into the world of #mainframe 💙 openmainframeproject.org/mainframe-co...

I was solo with two little kids this weekend, so I'm just in a different stage of life than folks who can easily go to protests, but thank you to everyone who did #NoKings

This morning I drank orange juice the boys and I made from oranges our neighbor across the street dropped off. For lunch today I'm eating the last of the chicken soup our next door neighbor made for me when I had my surgery. We live near good people 💕

There were a lot of fun things about #IBMTechXchange 2025 last week, but one of my favorites was our "Doom Takeover" at the Monday evening expo hall party. Instead of running our demos, I just had people logging into an IBM #LinuxONE #mainframe and playing Freedoom over VNC #Doom 😁

My sore throat is strongly protesting the notion that orange juice is good for a cold. HOWEVER, it's delicious fresh orange juice made with oranges our neighbors grew, so I'm trying to enjoy it anyway.

It should come as no surprise to you that I brought home a cold from the conference I participated in with 10k people last week 🤧 Still, I'd appreciate it if my immune system would at least try 😅

I ordered school pictures in a timely manner! But then I tried to give away the kids while at the hardware store. So I figure it's about a wash parent-wise today 😂

Reflecting upon a conversation this week I had about AI, it's clear that I feel the environmental impact deep in my soul. You basically can't ask my opinion about AI without getting at least a dose of concern and a plea for renewable energy.

Happy first birthday, Zara! 😸🎂

I'm at #IBMTechXchange 2025, yesterday was a whirlwind of great open source and community stuff 😍 Starting today w/ a #mainframe roadmap that has a lot of AI, exploring AIOps that use agents to help administrators pinpoint and solve root cause failures more quickly. Much better than junky AI art.

Got my COVID-19 booster yesterday, but doing it before a day of fasting (Yom Kippur) wasn't the smartest thing I've ever done. Still, I was mostly ok. Shanah Tovah!

Our beloved kitty is in a cone and bandage for her [hopefully] healing paw pad. Well, she WAS. This morning I woke up with my beautiful kitty wanting food and love and... OH HEY WHERE ARE YOUR CONE AND BANDAGE? We tried rewrapping at home, but our amateur job wasn't good. Back at the vet 😞

On our way down to Santa Cruz today we stopped by The Mystery Spot, and enjoyed episode 261 of @lorepodcast.bsky.social about roadside attractions (including The Mystery Spot) on the way down as a pre-game 😁 Perfection. www.lorepodcast.com/episodes/261

Today is my birthday and I turn 44 🥳 It's a cool number, even if my back hurts, my elbow hurts, and my ankle still isn't quite right after spraining it last month 😅

Been playing around with some media servers (currently Jellyfin) and momentarily had a brain hiccup when the packages for Debian Trixie were throwing insecure repository errors. Turns out the ancient server I'm using is bad at time. I just needed to install ntpsec. Still, rookie mistake.

I just got off a call with my fellow #IBMTechXchange panelists for our "Dispelling the Myths Around Open Source on the Mainframe" session. I'm really excited about this one. Mainframe users have been a bit slow to embrace modern OSS, and we want to speed that up! reg.tools.ibm.com/flow/ibm/tec...

My friends, I was invited to be a part of the IBM z17 unboxing at #IBMTechXchange in a couple weeks, and I haven't been this excited about a conference thing in a while 🥳 I'm making sure I pack some totally appropriate tools and wardrobe. reg.tools.ibm.com/flow/ibm/tec...

Our kids were up at 5:30AM (an hour early) and my back hurts.

Shanah Tovah! 🍎 🍯 Happy New Year!

I just finished reading "The Wired Society: A challenge for tomorrow" by James Martin from 1977. He was right a lot more than he was wrong, but he was wrong about computers leading us down the path to a 3.5 day work week. It makes this article extra hilarious: fortune.com/2025/09/15/z...

I saw a 20th anniversary showing of Wallace and Gromit: The Curse or the Were-rabbit today today with our eldest, it's playing in our local one screen theater! 😍