Recently I had the opportunity to join a few other Red Hatters to talk about software supply chains with SiliconAngle. They did a writeup "Controlling software supply chain security will require new tools, automation and vigilance" that was great and included the full series of videos.

The interview I did with Luke Hinds can also be seen on YouTube: Vincent Danen and Luke Hinds, Red Hat | Managing Risk In The Digital Supply ...

I think, like many people, I did not expect to be writing this at the end of 2021 and still be in the COVID-19 pandemic. Simply to get it out of the way because COVID certainly wasn’t the most exciting thing this year, the entire family got COVID in the summer. It wasn’t pleasant, but I’ve had worse. Interestingly, that was when I had the flu in Boston shortly after Spectre/Meltdown was ...

It's taken me some time to even get to the place where I wanted to stop and think about 2020. We're just over 2 months into 2021 and I've been thinking about writing this since December, but between being plain old tired (physically and mentally) and being busy, every time the thought of writing this came up I shied away, finding some excuse or another not to write it.

But 2020 was too much of ...

While the Alberta government has some excellent visualizations about COVID-19 statistics in Alberta, I felt there was a little too much missing. The province is quite transparent and you can export the data in CSV. Since these days most of my "technical work" is dorking around in spreadsheets, I fiddled with the data a bit. It's not quite to my liking because the data isn't complete. For example it doesn't ...

Yesterday we had someone at our home to look at replacing the front and back doors. The rep for the company was exceptionally personable and we probably spent more time with him than the simple transaction of selecting and ordering new doors for our home warranted, but my wife and I are "people" people so we enjoyed the conversation and engaged with this young man. He told us about his life, how he ...