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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Tuesday, May 20, 2025 | Boston, MA Speakers: Stef Walter & Scott McCarty At Red Hat Summit 2025, Stef Walter and I presented “The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Roadmap: Reimagining a Linux Platform” as part of the RHEL 10 launch. Abstract This session explores how Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 can help teams solve
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Listen to the full podcast here: https://linearb.io/dev-interrupted/podcast/open-source-meets-AI
Articles/News Dev Interrupted Podcast: Open Source Meets AI – Scott McCarty The Open Source AI Definition – 1.0 Stack Overflow Podcast: The world’s largest open-source business has plans for enhancing LLMs – Scott McCarty InfoWorld: Applying the lessons of open source to generative AI – Scott McCarty InfoWorld: Kubernetes shows the way forward for AI
I recently wrote this to highlight real world use cases where I believe LLMs/Generative can actually help. Instead of fluff, I tried to break down real challenges for sysadmins. https://www.infoworld.com/article/3482087/what-generative-ai-can-do-for-sysadmins.html
I wrote an article that explains why community-driven open source is especially important with AI: https://www.infoworld.com/article/2337481/kubernetes-shows-the-way-forward-for-ai.html
Background In Part 1: Asking Other Teams to Do Something Really Hard, we explored two simple examples of when asking a person or team something really simple turns into something really inefficient. In that first article, we used simple examples, like new users asking simple questions over and over on Reddit or a mailing list.
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Background I’ve been using Camscanner since 2017, maybe a bit before. I started using it to collect receipts for expense reports when I was traveling heavily for work as a Technical Marketing Manager. I was easily doing 100-150 nights a year, and the mundane task of keeping track of expenses can get quite tedious. Camscanner
