Good to be Back It was good to be back in Ghent! It’d been 6 years since I was last here for Cfgmgmtcamp, but the memories flooded back quickly. The last time I was here was in 2020… I was speaking about Testing Infra as Code I’ve changed a lot since then, including growing a stache and wearing a baseball cap I guess! ...
I’ve got a lot of ideas of what I want to post about in 2026, a mix of plans for the future and catching up on the things I was meant to be posting about in 2025. So here’s a bunch of things I did in 2025 and 2026 I’ve been meaning to go back and talk on, and you can think of this as a sneak preview of all the things I’ll eventually blog about in some capacity this year. ...
Day 21 in the #vDM30in30 I’ve written about my trips to FOSDEM, but I thought it’d be good to have a general survival guide, as it’s a massive event and I encourage everyone to come to it at least once. So here’s my breakdown of tips: It’s super, super busy FOSDEM has no entry-free or registration process, you simply turn up. This, combined with the fact it’s the largest open-source event in Europe means that things get a little crowded sometimes. I’ve heard estimates are about 40-50k people over the two days. ...
Straight after FOSDEM was CfgMgmtCamp. I actually made a bunch of notes about the event, as it was super-fun, but my tablet had to be factory-reset and I lost most of them which hadn’t been synced. But thought I’d write some of my general thoughts anyway! Regardless it was a pretty cool event, and it was cool putting names to faces I’d talked to on the #puppet and #puppet-dev freenode channels. ...
So, my I may have slightly miscalculated how early I needed to get to the airport for my flight to Brussels for FOSDEM 2014… I try to get to the airport super early, as I’ve managed to never miss a flight, I’m normally before checkin even opens. So, I look at my ticket and I mentally add in 2 hours before I need to get there and book a taxi. Somewhere along the line, I’d managed to do this 2 hour calculation twice. So I stayed up all night and got a lift from my friends place to Heathrow. ...