Open Source

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.

I open 2026 with a reality check on subscription fatigue and kick off a new arc on building a personal homelab.

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 terminal.

Brodie Robertson and I dig into the end of X11 and the rise of Wayland on the Linux desktop.

AlmaLinux Enterprise Support: TuxCare Webinar with Benny Vasquez

A conversation with Erik Mols about Lomiri, the convergent open-source shell that runs the same way on your phone, tablet, and desktop.

A quick, honest reset point on where I have been since leaving Red Hat and what is coming next.

A companion to RHEL Presents episode 82, where Nate and I talk with Noah Chelliah about community, careers, and getting people on-ramped into open source.

A quick companion to Fedora Podcast episode 45, where we talked through what it really takes to contribute code to Fedora and open source. Watch or listen right here.

A guest appearance on Ask Noah Show 420.

JJ Asghar of IBM makes the case for open, transparent AI development and introduces the InstructLab project.

My first guest, Karl Abbott of Element, walks through the Matrix protocol and decentralized, encrypted communication.