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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

Would you reply to a message from someone on a dating site with “Why do you want to marry me?”?

I’ve noticed that many job applications require you to submit a short essay in order to apply and that some include the curious question: “Why do you want to work...

Posted by Jesse Portnoy on March 31, 2023 · 3 mins read