I rebuilt my entire Zabbix monitoring stack — consolidating three Alpine containers into a single UBI 10 image, wiring up CloudFlare health checks, and building an IT Services dependency tree. With Claude Code and an MCP server, AI can now troubleshoot my infrastructure directly.
A practical walkthrough of setting up CI/CD for a RHEL 10 bootc workstation image using GitHub Actions, Podman, and Quay.io — including the workarounds you’ll actually need.
We’ll be heading to Atlanta this May for Red Hat Summit 2026 and I’m pleased to share that my session has been accepted. The Roadmap Beyond RHEL 10: Building RHEL the open source way (RM1169) RHEL 10 is barely out the door and people are already asking what’s next. Fair enough — it’s the right
How I set up a fully local voice pipeline for Claude Code on RHEL 10 using Whisper.cpp, Kokoro TTS, and Intel Meteor Lake GPU acceleration via PyTorch XPU — achieving a 22x speedup with no cloud dependencies.
There’s a lot of negativity toward AI in the Fedora and RHEL communities right now. I get it — the hype cycle is real, and a lot of the marketing is insufferable. But I think the negativity is causing people to tune out, and when you tune out, you miss genuinely cool work that’s directly
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Friday, January 30, 2026 | Brussels, Belgium Speakers: Brian Stinson & Scott McCarty At CentOS Connect 2026, Brian Stinson and I presented “Inside the RHEL 11 Planning Room: How Fedora and Stream Shape the Next Enterprise OS.” Abstract Red Hat is unveiling an early “60% plan” for RHEL 11, currently in development. This presentation explores
I just released my first MCP server: mcp-cloudflare-crunchtools. It lets Claude Code (and other MCP-compatible AI assistants) manage Cloudflare DNS records, Transform Rules, Page Rules, and cache. But this post isn’t really about Cloudflare—it’s about how I built this server and why I think it matters for the emerging MCP ecosystem. As I’ve gotten deeper
January 29 – February 1, 2026 | Brussels, Belgium I’ll be heading to Brussels at the end of January for CentOS Connect 2026 and FOSDEM 2026. CentOS Connect (January 29-30) CentOS Connect is the premier contributor conference for the CentOS Project, happening as part of the FOSDEM Fringe. This year it’s at the DoubleTree Brussels
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This is the way….. Have three day planning meeting with 15 people, for a large product with 2000+ people involved in total Use Jira or other tracking software to refine Market Problems and Features Use auto-transcribe for most meetings, but have a couple of non-recorded meetings to discuss sensitive topics Share the transcripts with the
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It was late last night. The kids were finally in bed, the house was quiet, and I found myself with that dangerous combination of exhaustion and curiosity. I had a couple of hours of freedom, and I decided to tackle something that had been itching to do for a while: getting Claude Code running on
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