I first installed Linux over 30 years ago, downloading Slackware floppy disk images over dial-up... One. At. A. Time.
Many roads since. All seem to run through the same country: operating systems, infrastructure, and open source software underneath.
These days I'm a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. The title is current; the habit of taking computers apart to see what else they can do is considerably older.
This is my personal site. Opinions here are my own and don't necessarily reflect those of Red Hat.
Outside of work, I maintain uCore in the Universal Blue ecosystem and am a contributor to Frostyard. Much of that work explores image-based Linux: how to make operating systems reliable, understandable, and still flexible enough for real servers and desktops.
There has always been a lab
I run computers at home because I enjoy it. Over the years that has meant Linux servers, ZFS, Ansible, hypervisors, containers, Kubernetes, networking, automation, and hardware that was almost, but not quite, intended for the job I gave it.
Most projects begin with some variation of "surely this can't be that difficult." History suggests this is not a reliable estimate. It is, however, a productive one.
The rest of the person
I'm a Jesus follower, husband, father, and US Army combat veteran. I served in Iraq with the Iowa Army National Guard. Those things matter more than the technology, even if the technology is what gets most of the words here.
The Forge includes a field notebook: part current work, part long-running experiment, and part record of rabbit holes that might save someone else an afternoon.