Another year begins, another orbit complete. The nacelles are stable, the consoles are humming, and the view-screen is full of familiar patterns repeating themselves — just at a slightly different scale. If 2025 was about correcting course, 2026 looks like a year of...
Captain’s Log, Stardate 2025.12: We’ve completed another orbit. The nacelles are glowing, the cloud bills are astronomical, and the spreadsheets are still trying to take over the bridge. It’s time for the 2025 Year-End Retrospective. For the developers, IT Directors,...
The writing has been on the wall for a while, but it feels like we’ve finally reached the "It’s dead, Jim" moment for MinIO’s open-source support. Whether they call it "maintenance mode" or just a strategic pivot to the enterprise / AI, the message to the self-hosting...
I’ve been daily driving the new COSMIC desktop environment on Pop!_OS 24.04 for a while now. If you’ve seen my previous posts, you know I’m not here for the eye candy (though there is plenty)—I’m here for the workflow. I care about how fast I can get from a blank...
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know I have a bit of a mantra: keep it boring. We live in an era where "Modern Data Stack" usually translates to "six different SAAS subscriptions and a mortgage payment in cloud credits." Everyone wants a Data...
As we warp 9 our way toward The Year of the Linux Desktop, an exciting new desktop environment has dropped. System76's COSMIC beta. Under the hood COSMIC (at least by default) is built upon System76's Pop!_OS (though there are versions with other distributions...
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