It took 500 contributors from 100 organizations authoring over 9,000 changes to create OpenStack’s 2026.1 “Gazpacho” release. A key part of that journey was that 40% of those contributors were... Read More The post Code you can’t see isn’t trustworthy. Code you can’t govern isn’ … | Continue reading
Monitoring a handful of servers is one thing. Monitoring 40,000 across multiple data centers without drowning in configuration errors is something else entirely. In this presentation at All Things Open,... Read More The post Icinga: Exploring the capabilities of a modern monitor … | Continue reading
Choosing a Linux distro feels impossible when you’re drowning in options. In this video from Learn Linux TV, you’ll learn how the “Last Distro Standing Challenge” helps you decide through structured... Read More The post How to choose your Linux daily driver and stop distro hopp … | Continue reading
AI accelerates boilerplate code and documentation 10x, but there’s a catch: If you’re not careful, you might lose critical thinking in the process. In this episode, Adhithi Ravichandran, Software Consultant... Read More The post From coding to orchestration, why critical thinkin … | Continue reading
Choosing your first Linux distribution can feel overwhelming. With hundreds of options available, where do you even start? I’ve been exploring Linux distributions since 1999, starting with Red Hat 6.1,... Read More The post A beginner’s guide for choosing your first Linux distri … | Continue reading
While many teams may not want a more intelligent general-purpose model, they probably do want one that’s familiar with their product, their help desk ticket issues, their documentation, their internal... Read More The post Fine-tuning is no longer just an AI research process. It … | Continue reading
Most developers can name every direct dependency in their project. But how many can account for the hundreds, sometimes thousands, of indirect dependencies hiding beneath the surface? In his presentation... Read More The post You don’t know what you’re actually shipping appeared … | Continue reading
Starting with Linux feels overwhelming when you’re not sure what to watch out for. In this video from Learn Linux TV, you’ll learn five common mistakes new Linux users make and... Read More The post The 5 most common mistakes new Linux users make appeared first on All Things Op … | Continue reading
AI agents start going in circles when tasks get complicated, requiring critical thinking to proceed to the next development step. In this episode, Kedar Kulkarni, Senior DevOps Architect, joins the... Read More The post What to do when your AI starts going in circles appeared fi … | Continue reading
While browsing on my Ubuntu 26.04 system, my browser session suddenly locked up. A verbal warning claimed my system had been hacked and displayed a phone number to call “Microsoft”... Read More The post ClamAV and BleachBit: A one-two punch for Linux security and system maintena … | Continue reading
Every developer has a handful of bash commands they type without thinking. But how many are wasting keystrokes on things bash can already handle? In his presentation at All Things... Read More The post Linux command line tips: HISTCONTROL, frozen screens, and more appeared first … | Continue reading
The ls command works fine, but what if you want colorized output, Git integration, and a tree view all in one tool? In this video from Learn Linux TV, you’ll learn how eza modernizes directory... Read More The post Meet eza: The modern replacement for the ls command appeared f … | Continue reading
Machine learning is not a software problem, it’s a science problem that happens to use code. In this episode, Juan Gomez Lagandera, a Masters student at the time of recording,... Read More The post Why grabbing a model and playing won’t get you what you want appeared first on Al … | Continue reading
Leaders in open source projects or Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) often struggle with a fundamental question: “Where is our community?” Finding your community online can be easy if you’ve... Read More The post How to find your open source community hiding outside the repo a … | Continue reading
You’ve shipped a customer service chatbot for an insurance company. Its system prompt is tight, its RAG pipeline is well-tuned, and in your own testing, it behaves impeccably. Then, three... Read More The post Agent drift is real and your unit tests won’t catch it appeared first … | Continue reading
What is open source software? In this 2-minute explainer, we break down open source in plain English. No jargon, just a cookie recipe analogy that makes it click. Open source... Read More The post What is open source? A plain English explainer appeared first on All Things Open. | Continue reading
Certifications promise to boost your career and land you that dream job, but do they actually deliver? In this video from Learn Linux TV, you’ll learn what hiring managers really think... Read More The post Do IT certifications really help you get hired? appeared first on All T … | Continue reading
Front-end development and AI will coexist, not replace each other, making building faster and more productive. In this episode, Haimantika Mitra, Developer Advocate at DigitalOcean, joins the We Love Open... Read More The post Can front-end development and AI coexist? appeared f … | Continue reading
The evolution of software installation on Linux began with compiling software from compressed packages known as tarballs. Red Hat developed the package managers yum and later dnf, while Debian introduced... Read More The post Snap vs Flatpak: Which Linux packaging solution is ri … | Continue reading
TL;DR: Nobody’s compiling your stats for you. Keep a ship log of your impact, update it weekly, and use it to fight recency bias, ace self-assessments, and build your promotion case.... Read More The post Invisible people don’t get promoted. Your brag doc fixes that. appeared fi … | Continue reading
A few weeks ago we open-sourced Warp, our agentic development environment, under AGPL. It’s been remarkable to see developers not just star the repo, but actually jump in and start building:... Read More The post How Warp built an agent-first open source contribution workflow th … | Continue reading
Ubuntu releases come and go, but long-term support (LTS) versions stick around for years. In this video from Learn Linux TV, you’ll learn what makes Ubuntu 26.04 worth upgrading to and... Read More The post Should you upgrade your Linux desktop to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS? appeared fir … | Continue reading
Vibe coding puts developer flow first, but standardizing quality requires verifying code integrity whether it’s generated by humans or AI. In this episode, Itamar Friedman, CEO and Co-founder of Qodo... Read More The post Vibe coding for POCs, viable coding for production appear … | Continue reading
I’ve been using Ubuntu for twenty years, and it remains one of my favorite Linux distributions. Ubuntu 26.04 (Resolute Raccoon) is the latest long-term release, and after hearing about its new features... Read More The post Getting started with Ubuntu 26.04: Your Linux installat … | Continue reading
Why vector similarity doesn’t equal relevance and what to do about it. LLMs hallucinate. Vector-only RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) helps, but it’s not enough when you need answers that depend on... Read More The post Is your LLM lying to you? appeared first on All Things … | Continue reading
Three years ago, generative AI tools were a curiosity in most open source projects. Today they are everywhere, and every major open source foundation has been forced to publish a... Read More The post Assisted-by: How open source projects are drawing the line on AI contributions … | Continue reading
AI tools promise to speed up development, but can they handle real system administration without creating disasters? In this video from Learn Linux TV, you’ll learn what happened when Jay... Read More The post Can AI handle real system administration tasks? appeared first on All … | Continue reading
Staying stuck on your laptop means never solving deployment, secrets, or configuration. In this episode, Calvin Hendryx-Parker, CTO at Six Feet Up and AWS Hero, joins the We Love Open... Read More The post Spawning parallel AI agents with git subtrees and meta prompts appeared f … | Continue reading
In our small public library, where I volunteer weekly, we have several ten-year-old all-in-one desktops with i5 CPUs and 8 GB of RAM. They’re currently running Windows 10, and the... Read More The post How immutable Linux can save libraries thousands on Windows 11 upgrades appea … | Continue reading
Learning Linux feels overwhelming when every topic branches into endless subtopics. In this video from Learn Linux TV, you’ll learn five unconventional strategies to learn faster, stay motivated, and actually retain... Read More The post 5 practical tips for learning Linux tools … | Continue reading
The first real bug you solve delivers dopamine that makes you want to climb the next mountain. In this episode, Bree Hall, Senior Developer Advocate at Atlassian, joins the We... Read More The post Building a D&D productivity tracker with generative music appeared first on All T … | Continue reading
In traditional top-down employment structures, if a manager asks an employee to do something, there is an expectation that they will do what was asked. In the manager / employee... Read More The post Power vs. influence: What open source teaches that business school doesn’t appe … | Continue reading
Apache Grails has powered tens of thousands of production Java apps for nearly two decades. Until May 2024 it lived under single-organization stewardship. At Community Over Code 2025, I shared... Read More The post How we migrated a 20-year-old open source project to the Apache … | Continue reading
Large language models look incredibly reliable in demos. You type a prompt, get a response, and everything feels fast, clean, almost effortless. It is easy to think the hard problem... Read More The post The hard part of LLMs isn’t the model. It’s everything around it appeared … | Continue reading
During a visit to Phoenix, AZ, I had my first Waymo ride. A friend’s suggestion came after I’d seen dozens of Waymo vehicles whizzing by. Initially, I felt some trepidation,... Read More The post My first Waymo ride: How open research shaped autonomous driving appeared first on … | Continue reading
Logging into a server and immediately seeing system information beats running commands manually to check what’s running. In this video from Learn Linux TV, you’ll learn how to build a custom... Read More The post Replace Neofetch with your own Linux MOTD system appeared first on … | Continue reading
A Raspberry Pi can run 4 billion parameter models, democratizing AI beyond proprietary APIs and paid services. In this episode, Cedric Clyburn, Senior Developer Advocate at Red Hat, joins the... Read More The post From specialized coder to orchestra conductor: How AI changes dev … | Continue reading
Recovering a WordPress site from the Internet Archive is not a single-step operation. While tools exist to download archived content, turning that data into a WordPress-importable state requires additional processing:... Read More The post From Wayback to WordPress: Designing a … | Continue reading
Protein research once took months or years of intensive lab work. Today, transformer-based models can predict protein structures and provide functional insights far more quickly. In this lightning talk at... Read More The post You don’t need a biochemistry degree to analyze prot … | Continue reading
Protein research used to require months or years of lab work. Now transformer models can predict protein structures and functions in minutes. In this lightning talk at All Things AI,... Read More The post You don’t need a biochemistry degree to analyze proteins appeared first on … | Continue reading
CachyOS is a popular, performance focused Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. CachyOS has been gaining a lot of popularity lately for its speed and modern hardware support, which has drawn the attention... Read More The post How to install CachyOS manually, the Arch Linux wa … | Continue reading
At a local library volunteer shift, five Dell Optiplex All-in-One computers were being replaced by newer All-in-One PCs running Windows 11. The library’s tech support does not support Linux, so... Read More The post How Linux Mint gave five “obsolete” library PCs a second life a … | Continue reading
Finding the right notes app feels impossible when sync constantly breaks or sharing isn’t an option. In this video from Learn Linux TV, you’ll learn how Notesnook became Jay’s go-to solution... Read More The post Notesnook review: Is this the best notes app for Linux? appeared … | Continue reading
Open source program managers are the wheel greasers who make sure developers have the resources they need to get stuff done, whether that’s inbound integration, outbound contributions, or upstream projects.... Read More The post Inside an OSPO: What open source program managers … | Continue reading
I perform live regularly as Messica Arson, and I create experimental electronic music with code and modular synthesizers. I’ve been creating visuals for my music as a form of world-building.... Read More The post Creating live concert visuals in React with Shaders appeared first … | Continue reading
NASA faced a problem in 1961 when Kennedy declared the United States would put a man on the moon by decade’s end. They needed to design and test spacecraft for... Read More The post How synthetic data accelerates AI development without privacy risk appeared first on All Things O … | Continue reading
It’s Monday morning and like many of my colleagues, I open my inbox and get a report from a business partner as an attachment. And like every morning, I find... Read More The post Your documents aren’t really yours: The case for decentralized document management appeared first o … | Continue reading
Random terminal jokes might seem pointless, but what if they could actually make logging into servers more enjoyable? In this video from Learn Linux TV, you’ll learn how the fortune command turns mundane... Read More The post The completely useless fortune command on Linux appea … | Continue reading