I’ve loved Tron since I was a kid. When I was about seven or eight years old (early 1980s!!!), my Mom took me to see Walt Disney’s Magic Kingdom on Ice at the Richfield Coliseum, which was this massive arena between Cleveland and Akron (sadly, torn down in 1999). The show had a Tron segment,
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There’s a conversation happening in every Slack channel, at every meetup, and honestly in every bar near a tech conference right now. The “old guard” of software engineering, and I count myself among them, is worried about the next generation of developers. The concern goes something like this: if young developers are just using AI
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I recently wrote about giving Claude Code persistent memory using the MCP Memory Service. Go read that if you want the why. This post is about something else entirely. This post is about speed. I needed a feature in an open source project. I used an agent to write the code. A different agent reviewed
I want to highlight a great post by Brendan Gregg: Linux Crisis Tools. He does a walk through of a scenario that strikes me as very realistic, and brings back memories from my 15 years managing Linux servers. You can tell he has real-world sysadmin experience. I think that’s key for being a good thought
The Red Hat Universal Base Image has generated a tremendous amount of buzz, which is great. This also means, I get a ton of questions about it. One of the most popular area of questions is around licensing. If you have licensing questions this blog might help you frame your questions better, but I always
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Recently, I read another article that critiqued Kubernetes as having a steep learning curve. At conferences, I also hear a lot of people in the Kubernetes community talk about how we need to make it more easy to onboard people. While I think it’s a noble goal to make Kubernetes more usable, I don’t think
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Background Red Hat Software Collections 1.2 was recently released and with it, comes a different message to developers on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS. Unless you need 10 years of support for your application stack (MySQL, PHP, Ruby, Rails), use Red Hat Software Collections (RHSCL). RHSCL provides developers with the latest version of tools
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Are you a programmer, architect, or systems administrator that leverages Open Source, Red Hat technology in a business critical environment? Do you wish that you could go to Red Hat Summit, but can’t find budget for travel? Then, this local user group is for you.
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Scott McCarty will give a short introduction to Docker and the ecosystem around forming around it. This will include a short presentation followed by a “live demo.”
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Chet Ramey, the longtime developer and maintainer of the Bourne-Again Shell (Bash) and the Readline library, will offer his perspective on their history and development.
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