Thanks to Github's generous gift of Copilot for CNCF Contributors, I made a little UI that slaps a UX on the ignition config system into a homelab friendly installer for Flatcar Linux. Which was donated to the CNCF by ... Microsoft. And I helped them do it!…
Dude I get it. You're in your FREEDOM arc and you feel like hosting mail-in-a-box to learn Nix is a good use of your time. Those of you looking for jobs: I am tired of seeing the next generation of open source contributors shooting themselves in the foot.…
(Originally from October 2023, updated August 2025) I'm a strong believer in the next generation Linux desktop model - which splits what is typically one monolithic system into different layers. This has been great for us at Universal Blue because it allows us to reuse Fedora's…
One of the worst things about being a Linux user is that you have to deal with Linux users from time to time. Like the time an extension author had to quit due to being shit on by users. I wasn't able to screenshot it, but my Just…
Sometimes people ask me how I keep track of all the cool new tools that everyone is using. One of the great things about being at the CNCF is that I kind of ended up in the middle of the intersection of lots of tech people. I'm therefore…
Today we "relaunched" ublue-os/bluefin as projectbluefin.io. This is a beta until Spring 2024. Bluefin is a custom image of Fedora Silverblue by a bunch of cloud-native nerds. We want a reliable desktop experience that runs everything but we're too lazy to maintain anything. So…
Of all the things people argue about! Ultimately they both do the same thing – take an existing workflow that I know, and add an abstraction layer that gives us tons of new options. Interactivity within the container's shell is powerful, but there needs to be user experience changes…
Every once in a while I see someone complaining that they've lost work because their toolbox/distrobox got destroyed. I'm going to go over how we can use declarative config to remove this bit of jank from our lives. We don't want distroboxes to…