Writing

Long-form notes on Go, infrastructure and the CNCF projects I work in, with the real code and the tradeoffs. Sometimes a career lesson too.

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2025

  1. From Scared of the Repo to Mentoring People Into It

    2025-02-20 · 4 min

    Going from scared of a big repo to mentoring people into open source in two years, told through the real merged PRs that built the path.

    opensourceideology

2024

  1. Fail Forward

    2024-11-01 · 1 min

    Two kinds of failure: the kind that leaves you where you started, and the kind that leaves you a foundation. How to make each failure the second kind.

    ideology

2023

  1. How I Got Into GSoC (and Stopped Being Scared of Jenkins)

    2023-05-22 · 3 min

    How I got into Google Summer of Code with Jenkins by showing up early at the edges, and why you contribute to get good, not after.

    opensourceideology