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. My First Merged PR Into Kubernetes Was 25 Lines of Tests. Here's Why That's the Move

    2024-01-24 · 5 min

    My first merged PR into Kubernetes was 25 lines of tests. Why a small, test-only change is the smartest way into a five-million-line repo.

    opensourcegolang

2023

  1. Rebuilding a Site 11 Million People Read, With Antora and Gatsby

    2023-08-18 · 5 min

    Rebuilding the tooling behind jenkins.io, read by 11M+ people, on Antora and Gatsby during GSoC, without breaking a single URL.

    techopensource

  2. 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