paultagskitchen:

Ingredients

• 1 tsp soylent
• 1 tsp simple syrup
• 1 oz Palo Cortado sherry
• ½ oz Rosso Vermouth
• ½ oz Campari

Assembly

Combine Soylent and Simple Syrup. Create what I’m going to start to call “Soylent Syrup”. Enjoy that one, folks.

Add ice to a rocks glass, pour Soylent Syrup over ice. Add Sherry, Vermouth and Campari. Stir. Garnish with an orange twist.

Big thanks to Matthew Garrett for sparking this one.

Hello, World

Been a while since my last blog post - things have been a bit hectic lately, and I’ve not really had the time.

Now that things have settled down a bit – I’m in DC! I’ve moved down south to join the rest of my colleagues at Sunlight to head up our State & Local team.

Leaving behind the brilliant Free Software community in Boston won’t be easy, but I’m hoping to find a similar community here in DC.

Slowly, but I’ll be in by Tonight, PST (early morning EST!)

Hope to see everyone soon!

I’ll be there this year!

Talks look amazing, I can’t wait to hit up all the talks. Looks really well organized! Talk schedule has a bunch that I want to hit, I hope they’re recorded to watch later!

If anyone’s heading to PyGotham, let me know, I’ll be there both days, likely floating around the talks.

I’ll be giving a short talk on Debian and Docker!

I’ll prepare some slides to give a brief talk about Debian and Docker, then open it up to have a normal session to talk over what Docker is and isn’t, and how we can use it in Debian better.

Hope to see y'all in Portland!

Why oh why are they so hard to write?

Even using the built in modules it is insanely hard to debug. Playing a bootsplash in X sucks and my machine boots too fast to test it on reboot.

Basically, euch. All I wanted was a hackers zebra on boot :(

Hello, World!

For those of you who enforce my Sundays on me (keep doing that, thank you!), I’ll be changing my Saturdays with my Sundays.

That’s right! In this new brave world, I’ll be taking Saturdays off, not Sundays. Feel free to pester me all day on Sunday, now!

This means, as a logical result, I will not be around tomorrow, Saturday.

Much love.

More hardware adventures.

I got my Dell XPS13. Amazing.

The good news: This MacBook Air clone is clearly an Air competitor, and easily slightly better in nearly every regard except for the battery.

The bad news is that the Intel Wireless card needs non-free (I’ll be replacing that shortly), and the touchpad’s driver isn’t totally implemented until Kernel 3.16. I’m currently building a 3.14 kernel with the patch to send to the kind Debian kernel people. We’ll see if that works. Ubuntu Trusty already has the patch, but it didn’t get upstreamed. That kinda sucks.

It also shipped with UEFI disabled, and was defaulting to boot in ‘legacy’ mode. It shipped with Ubuntu, a bit disappointed to not see Ubuntu keys on the machine.

Touchscreen works; in short -stunning. I think I found my new travel buddy. Debian unstable runs great, stable had some issues.

A few interesting things happened after I got a macbook air.

Firstly, I got a lot of shit from my peers and friends about it. This was funny to me, nothing really bothered me about it, but I can see this becoming really tiresome at events like hackathons or conferences.

As a byproduct, there’s a strong feeling in the hardcore F/OSS world that Apple hardware is the incarnation of evil.

As a result of both of the above, hardcore F/OSS (and Distro hackers) don’t buy apple hardware.

Therefore, GNU/Linux is complete garbage on Apple hardware. Apple’s firmware bugs don’t help, but we’re BAD.

Some might ask why this is a big deal. The fact is, this is one of the most used platforms for Open Source development (note I used that term exactly).

Are we to damn these users to a nonfree OS because we want to maintain our purity?

I had to give back my Air, but I still have a Mac Mini that i’ve been using for testing bugs on OSX in code I have. Very soon, my Mac Mini will be used to help fix the common bugs in the install process.

Some things you can do:

• Consider not giving off an attitude to people with Apple hardware. Be welcoming.
• Consider helping with supporting your favorate distro on Apple hardware. Props to Fedora for doing such a great job, in particular, mjg59 and Peter Jones for all they do with it.
• Help me make Debian Apple installs one-click.