Rituals
A personal reflection on the small, meaningful rituals of daily life, centered on the morning walk to school with my first-grade daughter.
Posts by Year
2025
Day 5: Microsoft Hackathon — Model Grading, Parameter Friction, and Next Questions
Pipeline runs, thread summaries graded, and model friction surfaced. Next test: can insights drive action?
Day 4: Microsoft Hackathon — Threading Failure, Recursion Repair, and Model Limits
Debugged a broken email threading approach, replaced it with a simple recursive pass, and resumed grading LLM-generated summaries.
Day 3: Microsoft Hackathon — Thread Heuristics, Importance Signals, and Agent Editing
Filtered 424 threads to ~250 candidates, added package/entity tagging, and built an agent writing editing workflow.
The Couple Across the Way
A whimsical moment observing a retired couple’s daily ritual and a surprise silly hat.
Day 2: Microsoft Hackathon — Distractions, Brainstorming, and Infrastructure
Distractions derailed metadata work; brainstormed importance heuristics and moved the MVP to SQLite for scale.
Day 1: Microsoft Hackathon — Building a Focused Summarizer for Upstream Linux
Hackathon MVP: building a lightweight LLM-driven summarizer for Debian mailing lists — architecture, data collection, and early lessons.
A Quarter of a Billion Laptops … #Endof10
A reality check on ‘#EndOf10’ panic: numbers, the used laptop market, and practical ways to help users migrate safely.
My Notes on The Goal, by Eliyahu M Goldratt
Notes and key takeaways: the Theory of Constraints, five focusing steps, and practical change questions.
Email was a bad idea, or: How I Learned to Love DNS records
A practical, non-technical tour of SPF, DKIM, DMARC and ARC — why modern email needs DNS help and what to do about it.
My Daughter Made A Strands Game
A dad-and-daughter twist on the NYT Strands game — play the custom ‘Stella’ puzzle and share the results.
Did I vibe code?
My Experience with Vibe Coding: Successes, Challenges, and the Road to Production
Your Rights to Food, Lodging, and Compensation per EC261
Practical guide to EC261 passenger rights: when airlines must provide meals, lodging, transport, and how to claim what you’re owed.
Rediscovering Reading (Without the Social Media Part)
How stepping away from social media and using library borrowing rekindled a slower, more pleasurable reading habit.
Nostalgic Noises
On the small pleasures of owning a NAS — the sounds of background jobs and how they reconnect you to what your machines are doing.
2025 Open Source Predictions
Predictions on how AI and open source tooling will reshape contributor flows, tooling, and conferences in 2025.
2024
Archiving Rarely Quotable and Happiness Packets
Why I archived two older pages — context, decisions, and a curated archive of quotes and happiness packets.
Based on everything you know about me, draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like.
An AI-generated ‘day in my life’ illustration — the prompt used and the image it created.
2023
Intentionally losing things and the curse of backlogs
… because backlogs turn into junk drawers.
Easily see your declined events in Google Calendar
Not every declined event is to be forgotten
Man Rides Tram
A tram-side anecdote about language, small kindnesses, and teaching through casual conversation.
Capacity for Work
Practical thoughts on estimating personal capacity: why task size, context, and health matter more than raw checkboxes.
rsync+iCloud: A proposal
Proposal for making rsync and iCloud Drive work together so evicted files are included in backups.
Obsidian, podcasts, and more
A ramble about notes, journaling, and whether Obsidian or a diary app fits my workflow.
A Collection of Thoughts on Both/And Thinking
Consolidated notes: paradox frameworks and practical tools for messy decisions.
2022
Why web3 supposedly isn’t a scam
A skeptical look at web3 claims: which projects solve real problems and which are rebranded crypto scams.
2021
The Challenge of Virtual Speaking
Notes on the difficulty of ‘reading the room’ for virtual speakers and practical ideas to improve engagement.
I am a Youtube Rock Star!
A tongue-in-cheek look at my brief YouTube debut and the perils of home networking.
Less is More: New Year’s Resolution
Why doing less (less frequent tasks) can free time to do more of what matters.
2020
Git Clone Commands
My colleague1 Veronika Kabátová wrote a great piece on setting up your environment to work with remote repositories. In it she outlines the strategy of lett...
A new podcast
Srsly? I can’t even.
2019
How to encrypt files with gocryptfs on Linux
posted on opensource.com
Sending custom emails with Python
posted on opensource.com
Fedora job opening: Fedora Community Action and Impact Coordinator (FCAIC)
posted on the Fedora Magazine
Check your password security with Have I Been Pwned? and pass
posted on opensource.com
Contributors are Empowered When They Know the Process
posted on the Red Hat Community Blog
How to manage multiple SSH keys
posted on opensource.com
How to import your existing SSH keys into your GPG key
posted on opensource.com
How to enable SSH access using a GPG key for authentication
posted on opensource.com
The new Coinbase Card
The interesting part isn’t the BTC, it’s this arbitrage
The new Apple Card
We May Be Missing the Revolution
2018
What’s Your Best Advice for Attracting New Contributors?
posted on the Red Hat Community Blog
2017
LATAM Organizational FAD
Event Report
Open Source Summit Japan
Event Report
OSCAL (Open Source Conference Albania)
Event Report
OSCON (O’Reilly Open Source Convention)
Event Report
GrimoireCon
Event Report
Community Leadership Summit
Event Report
Red Hat Summit
Event Report
FCAIC in the House, part III
posted on the Fedora Magazine
Fixing ERP Systems
my new ‘kickstarter’ idea
Community Managers Sit Everywhere. Should They?
posted on the Red Hat Community Blog
Onboarding New Contributors in the Fedora Project
posted on the Red Hat Community Blog
We Need a Password Change API
because I got pwned
I Packaged DayJournal
with apologies to Jill Sobule
Fedora Goes to FOSDEM
posted on the Red Hat Community Blog
The Fedora Diversity FAD
Event Report
FCAIC in the House, part II
posted on the Fedora Magazine
Flock 2017 Bids Now Open
Due 28 Feb 2017
Avoiding Double Taxation with Tax Treaties
It’s about way more than the FEIE
2016
When Do Drive-By Documentation Contributors Start to Matter?
a/k/a When do you build it?
FCAIC in the House
posted on the Fedora Magazine
Write The Docs Europe 2016 - Prague
Conference Session Notes
AsciiBind all the things!
A Fedora Docs Toolchain Proposal
A Semantic Markup Proposal for AsciiDoc
And Fedora Docs
New Life Happenings
Some days you can have your cake and eat it too.
Docs Project update from Flock 2016
posted on the Fedora Community Blog
Your Phone isn’t a Victim of Planned Obsolescence
Apple and Android Don’t Hate You
Flock to Fedora: Krakow, PL Edition
Community Means Hanging with Your Friends
The European Project
Could you be less committed?
The Sky is Falling
BRExit Edition
Docker Brno—Back in the Saddle Again
posted at ProjectAtomic.io
A Study in Process
Adventures in an Indian Airport
Dealing with the Time Change
A Project Proposal
Demoing the Atomic Developer Bundle
at the CentOS Dojo in Brussels and DevConf.cz 2016
Nulecule: Packaging, Distributing & Deploying Container Applications the Cloud Way
Delivered at Config Management Camp EU 2016
No Docs, No Commit
Playing with travis-ci.org
Happy New Year
It’s the year of …
2015
What Happened at the 2nd Big Docker Meetup in Brno, Czech Republic on 15 October
posted at ProjectAtomic.io
Getting to DevOps with Docker
presented at DevStars.cz on 19 Oct 2015
Report on the Container Keynote Panel from LinuxCon EU 2015
posted at ProjectAtomic.io
A Containers-Eye View of LinuxCon EU
posted on the Red Hat Community Blog
Project Atomic or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Containers
posted at Linux.com
Testing Nulecule on Debian
posted at ProjectAtomic.io
First Docker Meetup in Brno, Czech Republic
posted at ProjectAtomic.io