Open Source

Nathan Haines and I talk about what makes Ubuntu different at a human level after more than twenty years of community.

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 because it meant putting some very uncomfortable…

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.