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Myself and some GR-OSS colleagues will be guests at the Major League Hacking panel tomorrow around noon -- come check it out! events.mlh.io/events/13144

YouTube video by GR Open Source Software GR-OSS OUT Podcast Episode 14: Priyanka Ravi - Platform Engineering From Inner Source to GitOps

Priyanka Ravi and I talk about the history of DevOps, how automated infrastructure has enabled "vibe coding" and taking open source concepts and applying them to internal corporate repositories.

Listen here:
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=T86s...
- podcast.gr-oss.io/14-inner-sou...

Just got the email -- RIP Linux Format magazine.

YouTube video by GR Open Source Software GR-OSS OUT Podcast Episode 11: Mark Burnett - Open Source and Collective Intelligence

In the latest GR-OSS OUT episode, I talked Mark Burnett, Head of Tech. Innovation for G-Research. We talked about how businesses can use oss to experiment with new technology and how AI is changing the industry.

Listen at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qa2...
podcast.gr-oss.io/11-oss-colle...

YouTube video by GR Open Source Software OpenStack Ironic 2025.2 (Flamingo) PTG Recap

I know most folks don't always have time to attend the PTG or read all the documentation that comes out of that planning; so for OpenStack Ironic I made a video summarizing the event; starting with the Ironic retrospective and ending with a look into znext cycle.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE5G...

YouTube video by GR Open Source Software GR-OSS OUT Episode 10: Building AI with Databricks

For the latest GR-OSS OUT podcast episode, I got to speak with Benjamin Wilson from Databricks. Ben was a great guest, and I really enjoyed learning about how Databricks has built a successful business using OSS!

Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nJH...
Audio: podcast.gr-oss.io/10-ai-with-d...

Congratulations to CID for getting Ironic reviewer status, and Satoshi and Mehdi for their first OpenStack contributions!

...and we can't forget the work done on BM API coverage in gophercloud by Adam!

"I contributed to OpenStack Epoxy 2025.1, an OpenInfra Foundation Supported Project"

OpenStack Epoxy is out; this is the 23rd OpenStack release that I've contributed to; many in small ways but others in bigger ways.

GR-OSS also broke our record for total independent contributors at 5; our contributions were over 18% of the total commits in Ironic projects this cycle.

A reminder for this Transgender Day of Visibility:

Trans people have always existed, and we always will. 

No president, politician, or court can change that.

YouTube video by GR Open Source Software GR-OSS OUT Episode 9: OpenDev Collaboratory with Jeremy Stanley and Clark Boylan

GR-OSS OUT podcast just landed about the OpenDev Collaboratory this week. It's really an interesting dig into a segment that's often ignored: the infrastructure that enables OSS development. Thanks Clark and Jeremy for participating!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n32_... or podcast.gr-oss.io/9-opendev

Jay Faulkner, OpenStack in the Real World @ openinfra.dev/days March 6-9

If you're going to be in Pasadena for SCALE / OpenInfra days, come find me!

Please refrain from putting advertisements with violent imagery (cannibalism certainly counts) in my replies.

Like, listen, do you think I am *not* a wobbly ball of horror whenever I let myself think about anything but the immediate task in front of me? But that feeling accomplishes nothing by itself, so I post about birds and the dog and coveting weird little cactus.

This is why I closed my Twitter/X account yesterday.

YouTube video by GR Open Source Software GR-OSS Episode 7: Open Source Foundations with Julia Kreger

GR-OSS OUT Episode 7 has dropped; I got to talk with a longtime friend and colleague: the Chair of the Open Infrastructure Foundation, Julia Kreger. Come listen as we discuss the role of foundations in open source.

Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY67...
Audio: podcast.gr-oss.io/7-oss-founda...

Have hit the stage of trying to negotiate with the wailing cat. “Sweetie, I know. You think if you yell loud enough, the world will change. I’ve been trying that for forty-seven years and it hasn’t worked for me either.”

MLH & Cultivating OSS Developers with Alex Gornet Major League Hacking? More like Major League Helping! Find out how MLH and GR-OSS are developing the future of open source.

Latest episode of GR-OSS OUT just landed: Cultivating a new generation of OSS developers.

Thanks to Alex from MLH for chatting with me.

We have a responsibility to "hold the door" for those coming after us -- MLH has helped w/that!

podcast.gr-oss.io/6-major-leag...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LFc...

Thanks for coming over here! Need more hockey folks over here (or in the fediverse/mastodon) :D

I <3 this: if good people can find each other across a gulf of data and pixels, I have to think we will overcome.

Maybe there's so many people with imposter syndrome because it's easier to assume people know what's going on than to accept the truth that most other humans are just trying to figure it out just like you are and somehow society exists anyway.

Safety stuff? Fire extinguisher, CO/Smoke detectors, etc

F# and Functional Programming with Florian Verdonck Learn about F# and Florian's contributions to the F# ecosystem in the latest episode of the GR-OSS OUT podcast.

Spent some time with Florian Verdonck recently learning about F# and Functional Programming -- it was a blast! Check out the audio here: podcast.gr-oss.io/5-fsharp-fun... and video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2t6...
Please like/subscribe/comment to the podcast/youtube if you enjoy it!

Nobody has ever in the history of this image type called it an "ah mee" outside of Amazon offices, right? RIGHT?

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. Shaka, when the walls fell.

When buying my house, I had to sign something promising I wasn't the "Jason Faulkner" who apparently owes a CRAPTON of back child support.

YouTube video by GR Open Source Software Ironic Security Alert - OSSA-2024-003 / CVE-2024-44082

There was a recent security issue in @openstack.org Ironic; OSSA-2024-003 / CVE-2024-44082. Patch immediately!

I created a short video summarizing the issue and remediation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz71...

..or get the text from the OSSA directly: security.openstack.org/ossa/OSSA-20...

Can you name the registrar? Just wanna make sure my domains aren't gonna go YOINK on me.

YouTube video by GR Open Source Software GR-OSS OUT Episode 4: Kubernetes & Armada Development

Just dropped episode 4 of the GR-OSS OUT Podcast! I got to talk to Dejan about his experience working on Kubernetes and Armada.
Have a look!
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7feH...
Audio: podcast.gr-oss.io/4-k8s-armada...

Julius Peppers - Wikipedia

Julius Peppers ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_... ) holds basically every basketball and football record at my high school. He graduated right before I started going there.

MiG Media article complaining that briefing Harris is stressful because she reads the briefings and wants to understand the content

Reporting that being prepared for a meeting with someone as important as the Vice President is stressful because Harris is competent is a problem that really sums up the wholly deserved imposter syndrome fears of Big Journalism.