Categories

Education

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Articles in this category are biased towards education. They mostly focus around my own experiences as a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology, such as academic or project work I’m doing. It may include other general content.

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  • How Five Queen Songs Went Mainstream in Totally Different Ways

    Originally published on the MusicBrainz blog. Making graphs is easy. Making intuitive, easy-to-understand graphs? It’s harder than most people think. At the Rochester Institute of Technology, the …

  • 2017 - My Year in Review

    I can’t remember how writing an annual reflection became a tradition, but after writing them for the last two years, it is now a habit. Every time I look back on all that the last year brought into my …

Fedora Linux

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Articles about Fedora Linux. Fedora Linux is a free and Open Source Linux distribution. The Fedora Community is built around Four Foundations of Freedom, Friends, Features, First. Some articles are useful for users, but most are written with other Fedora Community contributors in mind.

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  • Infra & Releng Hackfest @ Fedora Flock 2024

    This blog post summarizes the discussions and action items from the Infrastructure and Release Engineering workshop held at Flock 2024 in Rochester, New York, USA. This post is also an experiment in …

  • Outreachy May 2024: A Letter to Fedora Applicants

    To all Outreachy May 2024 applicants to the Fedora Project, Today is May 2nd, 2024. The Outreachy May 2024 round results will be published in a few short hours. This year, the participation in Fedora …

MetaBrainz

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This category covers my contributions and interest in the MetaBrainz projects. This includes open source projects like MusicBrainz, ListenBrainz, or other cool open source music-related topics.

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  • How Five Queen Songs Went Mainstream in Totally Different Ways

    Originally published on the MusicBrainz blog. Making graphs is easy. Making intuitive, easy-to-understand graphs? It’s harder than most people think. At the Rochester Institute of Technology, the …

  • 2017 - My Year in Review

    I can’t remember how writing an annual reflection became a tradition, but after writing them for the last two years, it is now a habit. Every time I look back on all that the last year brought into my …

Music

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I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music… I get most joy in life out of music." – Albert Einstein

Personal musings, writings, and reflections about music.

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Open Source

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This category broadly covers any and all topics to do with Free and Open Source software (FOSS). Topics include software, Open Source, sustainability, community management, experiences from specific communities, contemporary issues, and more.

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Perspective

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This is my soap box. These articles are more personal and intimate. The best way to describe this category is “the way I see things.”

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  • "I Am the Wilderness": On Trust & Community

    Trust is a word and a concept that is on my mind lately. Trust is an idea that permeates all levels of our waking consciousness, and impacts how we build connections and relationships with other human …

  • Middle Path.

    The answer suddenly appeared that the only way to solve my dilemma of two split worlds was to find the middle path. This thought emerged to me, as I stood under the warm stream of water in the same …

Poems

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My poetry and other creative literature formats. Unless cited otherwise, poetry found here is original.

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  • This Moment

    A short poem that I was inspired to write after a short drive running errands, and I was absorbed momentarily into the beauty of the natural world around me. Read more of my poetry on my blog. The …

  • Eventually for Eternity.

    A poem to describe love from a constantly suspended state of waiting and wonder. Read more of my poetry on my blog. The air carries a breeze, In from the eastward-facing window. The breeze carries …

Red Hat

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This category covers my contributions, interests, and experiences with Red Hat. This includes my experience at the Red Hat OSPO, Fedora Project, Linux ecosystem, and more.

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  • Infra & Releng Hackfest @ Fedora Flock 2024

    This blog post summarizes the discussions and action items from the Infrastructure and Release Engineering workshop held at Flock 2024 in Rochester, New York, USA. This post is also an experiment in …

  • Outreachy May 2024: A Letter to Fedora Applicants

    To all Outreachy May 2024 applicants to the Fedora Project, Today is May 2nd, 2024. The Outreachy May 2024 round results will be published in a few short hours. This year, the participation in Fedora …

Technology

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These posts focus towards technical audiences. They are broadly about technology, such as how-to articles or an overview of Linux packaging. Some articles are related to culture and contemporary issues in the technology industry.

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Travel

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Traveling presents great opportunities to learn more about others and also yourself. This category captures my travels and adventures to foreign places. Most posts are event reports, but there are personal reflections and travel stories too.

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  • Përshëndetje Nga Tiranë 🇦🇱

    Përshëndetje nga Tiranë, or in Albanian, hello from Tirana! I am residing for a short time in Tiranë (pronounced Ti·ra·na), Albania. After a previous visit in June, I decided to make Tiranë my home …

  • FOSDEM 2020, Pt. 2: Can Free Software Include Ethical AI Systems?

    This post is a follow-up to FOSDEM 2020, pt. 1: Play by play. This post summarizes the talk given by me and my colleague, Mike Nolan, at FOSDEM 2020. FOSDEM 2020 took place from Saturday, 1 February, …

UNICEF

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This category covers my contributions, interests, and experiences with the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF. This includes Open Source endeavors at the UNICEF Office of Innovation, the Ventures Team, the UNICEF Innovation Fund, the Digital Public Goods Alliance, Giga Connect, and more.

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  • XPOST: Spurring New Digital Public Goods

    Originally published on 27 September 2022 via unicef.org. This year, the UNICEF Venture Fund celebrates five graduating companies from a recent investment round. For the first time, many of these …

  • 4 Metrics to Measure Sustainable Open Source Investments.

    How do we understand value when we talk about sustainability? What does investing in open source mean? The meaning is different for many people because of an implicit understanding of what open source …