Whatever happened to “be descriptive”? Some thoughts with regards to ridiculous job descriptions I’ve encountered on LI in recent years (it’s an ongoing and worrying trend): Posted by Jesse Portnoy on April 16, 2023 · 1 mins read
Don’t forget to FLOSS! A bar circa 1950. Four women enter. Thanks to special magic employed by certain Hollywood professionals, the leading girl grabs everyone’s attention. The camera cuts to a group of nerdy... Posted by Jesse Portnoy on April 08, 2023 · 9 mins read
Docker is not a packaging tool — intro This series of posts will take you all the way from chrooted ENVs to Docker containers and attempt to explain why, while Docker is a great tool, proper packaging of... Posted by Jesse Portnoy on April 04, 2023 · 4 mins read
On changes, differences and risk management Everyone who knows me, even slightly, will tell you that I do not like change. It’s a narrative that I myself promote but in reality, it’s a simplification of a... Posted by Jesse Portnoy on April 01, 2023 · 6 mins read
Stop asking “What’s Linux’s GUI?” I am often asked a variation of this question and other similar ones that simply do not make any sense when you understand how things actually work. Up until now,... Posted by Jesse Portnoy on March 31, 2023 · 6 mins read