OSS Summit 2023

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I had the opportunity to attend the OSS Summit 2023 in Vancouver, BC. Probably the easiest conference I've ever attended, travel-wise, as it was about three hours door-to-door. Contrast that to Red Hat Summit in Boston, which is about 12 hours door-to-door.

The conference was great, I believe there were …

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Joplin server on TrueNAS Scale

I'm an avid note taker and have migrated through a series of different tools to take notes, some proprietary and some open source. I've gone through Quiver, Inkdrop, Agenda, and recently I migrated everything to Joplin. But I wanted to be able to sync my notes between devices and I …

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OpenSSF spotlight

Recently I had the opportunity to be interviewed as a member of the OpenSSF governing board. In fact, I'm not sure I mentioned this here before... I've been an observer on the board for all of 2022 and at the beginning of 2023 I joined the governing board as a …

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2022: A Retrospective

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Well, here we are at the end of 2022 and frankly, I'm hoping 2023 will be better. Is it just me or do things seem to continue getting worse? The economic uncertainty, war, inept governments, broken medical systems, intolerance across the board, and everyone seeming angry about everything... this year …

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... And a pelican in a pear tree

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For a number of years, since getting more and more into management, I've had less time to do any real programming. So a highlight of the year, for the first few years at least, was to take time during the Christmas break to do some work, mostly on this blog …

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Interview: When is it secure enough?

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I had the awesome opportunity to interview professor Daniel Gruss and one of his PhD students, Martin Schwarzl, a while back and the article recently was published in the Red Hat Research Quarterly magazine. For those who don't know, Daniel was one of the folks behind the discovery of the …

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