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2025

Introducing Debcrafters

·1120 words·6 mins
Introducing Canonical’s new Debcrafters team, dedicated to maintaining the health of the Ubuntu Archive, but also to fostering collaboration among Linux distributions, including paid time to contribute elsewhere in the open source ecosystem.

From NixOS to Ubuntu

·3084 words·15 mins
This year, I moved from NixOS to Ubuntu. This post outlines my experience through that process, as well as a new philosophy for how I manage my machine and configuration which embraces the defaults and more contemporary applications.

Own Your Calendar

·2424 words·12 mins

Managing your time can be hard, particularly when occupying leadership positions. This is exacerbated by remote work, where the importance of owning your calendar is paramount both for you, and the people working with you.

A departure from my usual technical content, this post covers my lessons learned in managing my time, and my calendar while working remotely at Canonical over the past 4 years.

2024

How I Computer in 2024

·2637 words·13 mins
An extended “uses” post that outlines the hardware I’m currently using, the software and tools that I use to get things done, and how I configure things.