Podcasts, videos, and recorded talks from my work on shows, livestreams, and at conferences.
I ran a hands-on introduction to tabletop role playing games at SouthEast LinuxFest for a room full of Linux nerds, most of whom had never rolled a die in their life outside of a D20 keychain. The talk covered the…
Getting a package into Fedora is more than writing a spec file. There’s a review queue, a sponsorship process, and a contribution pipeline that can feel opaque to newcomers. Episode 055 is a deep dive into how that pipeline actually…
CIQ at Open Source Summit 2026: Minneapolis Recap I spent three days on the expo floor at Open Source Summit 2026 in Minneapolis with Howard Van Der Wal and Stephen Simpson, and it was one of the better events we…
Community Days 2026 was a different kind of conference experience for me. No booth to staff, no talk to deliver, no social media queue to manage. Just me, a badge, and a schedule full of sessions I actually wanted to…
Home Lab in 2026: Is It Still Worth It? | The IT Guy Show Episode 023 Josh from Keep It Techie joins me for a conversation about home lab ownership in 2026, what it actually costs, what it gets you,…
AI and the Human in the Loop: What Actually Gets Replaced | IT Guy Show Ep. 022 Episode 22 of The IT Guy Show is a milestone for me, and not just because the number is round. Karl Abbott was…
LinuxFest Northwest 2026: Worth the Trip I made it to Bellingham this spring for LinuxFest Northwest, and I get why this event has been earning its reputation for 27 years. This is not a conference where corporations show up to…
Bootc in Production: What It Actually Looks Like | Fedora Podcast Ep. 054 Episode 54 of the Fedora Podcast is out, and this one digs into something I am genuinely curious about for my own homelab: what does bootc look…
GPU-Ready in Minutes: Running AI on Azure with RLC Pro AI Getting from the Azure Marketplace to actual inference used to mean a day of driver archaeology. This webinar with Brian Dawson, Damon Knight, and Hugo from Microsoft Azure’s core…
Flock to Fedora 2026: What to Expect in Prague Flock to Fedora 2026 is heading back to Prague this June, and on episode 53 of the Fedora Podcast, Noah and I sat down with Justin Wheeler and Emma from the…
From Fresh Install to AI Inference in Under 4 Minutes Getting a GPU box ready for AI workloads is way harder than it should be, and we proved that live on the CIQ Webinar Series on April 2nd. I brought…
What Enterprise Linux Support Actually Means (And Why It Matters) Rocky Linux is everywhere, and for good reason. But community is not always enough, and this webinar is where Brady Dibble and I got into exactly what changes when you…
Tech Burnout Recovery: What I Shared at SCaLE 23 This one was personal. I gave this talk at SCaLE 23 in Pasadena as part of Open Source Career Day, and I will be honest, I almost did not write it…
From Bash to Burnout: My SCaLE 23x Talk I gave this talk at SCaLE 23x in Pasadena as part of Open Source Career Day, and it is probably the most personal thing I have ever put on a stage. 2025…
Proactive Linux Security: How RLC Hardened Goes Beyond Patching Reactive security is table stakes at this point, and it is not keeping up. I sat down with Nathan Blackham, Brady Dibble, and Sultan Alof from CIQ to talk about what…
Sovereign AI Infrastructure: Training, Inference, and Exploration in One Workflow This was my first CIQ webinar and I walked away genuinely excited, which is not something I say lightly. Dave Godlove and Jonathan Sparks showed off Fuzzball’s new service endpoints…
How to Install Nvidia Drivers on AlmaLinux I hosted this short tutorial for the official AlmaLinux YouTube channel covering how to install Nvidia drivers on AlmaLinux 10, one of those setup steps that trips people up if they have not…
How to Start Contributing to AlmaLinux by Submitting a Pull Request I hosted this short tutorial for the official AlmaLinux YouTube channel walking through how to submit your first pull request to an open source project without ever opening a…
I hosted this solo webinar for TuxCare making the case that you do not actually have to choose between community Linux and enterprise-grade support. The whole pick-a-camp framing is a false choice, and that is what the session is built…
AlmaLinux Enterprise Support: TuxCare Webinar with Benny Vasquez I hosted this webinar for TuxCare with Benny Vasquez, chair of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation. We covered a lot of ground in about an hour, and honestly the pre-show conversation was just…
Run AI Locally on Fedora with Ollama: Live Ops 005 I wanted to run AI locally on Fedora using an Nvidia GPU I had sitting in my Dell PowerEdge R730 — and an hour and a half later, I actually…
Building a Golden Image | Live Ops 003 The goal was simple: build a reusable Fedora golden image homelab template I can clone whenever I need a new server. Nothing about it was simple. The plan was to use Image…
RHEL Hypervisor Homelab Setup: Live Ops 003 A Dell PowerEdge R730 that’s been sitting in the rack collecting dust finally has a job: and this stream is the whole messy process of giving it one. The goal was straightforward: install…
WordPress Migration to Homelab: Live Ops 002 The WordPress migration homelab project that started as a quick detour turned into a two-hour deep dive — because nothing in the homelab ever goes exactly to plan. If you caught Live Ops…
Self-Hosted Matrix Server Rebuild: Live Ops 001 I fired up a livestream to do something I’ve been putting off way too long: bringing my self-hosted Matrix server back from the dead, live, in real time, with no safety net. The…