The amazon-ec2-utils package in Fedora makes it a bit easier to find devices in an AWS EC2 instance. ️🌤️

Java applications under Wayland seemed to have all different sizes of cursors, but some were way, way, too big. 🐘

Fedora’s cloud-init package now uses dhcpcd in place of dhclient, which went end of life in 2022. 💀

I gave two talks at this year’s event and ran into lots of old friends and colleagues. 🐧

Static blogs are easy to serve, but so many of the free options have no analytics whatsoever. This post talks about how to serve your own blog from a container with live updating analytics

Caddy offers a great web and proxy server experience with minimal configuration and automated TLS certificates. Learn how to connect Caddy to Porkbun to get TLS certificates by managing your DNS records for you automatically. 🐷

Now that AMD’s Zen 4 CPUs landed in lots of laptops, I picked up a ThinkPad Z13 G2 with an AMD Ryzen CPU. Did I put Linux on it? Of course I did. 🐧

Dark mode lovers rejoice! It’s possible to get (most) applications to show up in dark mode in the Sway window manager. 😎

Diverse teams lead to great outcomes, but how we measure diversity remains a challenge. Enforcing it is even more challenging. 🌎

October brings us the Halloween holiday here in the US and I set off on an adventure into some spooky and unsettling books. 👻