I was chatting with a friend last week, who made me realize that open source skills are a lot like Linux skills these days. Everyone in tech has heard something about Linux. Many of us have had the word Linux in our job titles, or could have. Linux powers most of the internet. Disney+, Netflix, Google, Amazon, Verizon, Meta, NASA, CERN, and many, many other organizations, big and small, for-profit and not-for-profit, use Linux to run their workloads.

Linux expertise is now a big part of an organization's knowledge base. Many of these organizations also run Kubernetes at scale. Which means Kubernetes is going to become like Linux, a skill most folks have. Open source skills, much like Linux skills, have become far more widespread. This is a part of the reason our friends in Open Source Program Offices are struggling to either keep their jobs or find new places that want their expertise (myself included).

My job hunt is going okay. The outpouring of support is greatly appreciated. Thank y'all so much! But, if you're looking for a technical storyteller to up-level customers using your product or service, look no further (especially if you're in the cloud native space), as I'm looking for a new role.

KubeCon Exhibiting for Success: A Simple 3-Phase Plan - If you’re exhibiting at KubeCon this year, Kim McMahon put together a short playbook to help teams make the most of it with clear messaging, better booth conversations, and post-show follow-up that turns into momentum.

A decade of open source in CNCF with 300,000+ contributors and counting - CNCF celebrates reaching 300,000+ contributors across its hosted projects spanning over 11,500 organizations worldwide

Bring Back Ops Pride - Charity Majors argues that operations is a legitimate, respected engineering discipline requiring separation of concerns from product development

Will Your AI Teammate Bring Bagels to Standup? - An exploration of why vendors use "AI teammate" terminology and what it reveals about how companies want us to perceive AI's role in the workplace

Anthropic’s Claude Cowork Is an AI Agent That Actually Works - Cowork is a user-friendly version of Anthropic’s Claude Code AI-powered tool that’s built for file management and basic computing tasks. Here’s what it's like to use it.

Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft (archive.is) - Microsoft sells GitHub Copilot to its customers, but it increasingly favors Claude Code internally.

Drowning in AI Slop Reports, curl Ends Bug Bounties - curl project ends bug bounties due to flood of low-quality AI-generated reports

Nvidia leans on emulation to squeeze more HPC oomph from AI chips - Nvidia uses software emulation to achieve 200 teraFLOPS FP64 performance on AI GPUs, though AMD researchers question its IEEE compliance

Sadly, I can't recommend KeePassXC anymore - Author withdraws endorsement of KeePassXC due to the project's adoption of generative AI tools for quality control in security-focused software

Just the Browser - A project that removes AI features, telemetry, and unwanted content from popular desktop browsers using group policy settings

Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills - Communication and interpersonal abilities have become essential as AI coding tools make technical implementation less of a bottleneck

How to write a great agents.md: Lessons from over 2,500 repositories - GitHub's guide to creating effective custom agent personas for Copilot based on analysis of 2,500+ repositories

How to write a good spec for AI agents - Aim for a clear spec covering just enough nuance (this may include structure, style, testing, boundaries) to guide the AI without overwhelming it. Break large tasks into smaller ones vs. keeping everything in one large prompt. Plan first in read-only mode, then execute and iterate continuously.

Anthropic’s Amodei on AI: Power and Risk - Dario Amodei, Co-Founder & CEO, Anthropic sits down with Bloomberg's Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait to discuss the future of AI, focusing on harnessing its power while managing risk, at Bloomberg House in Davos on the sidelines of the 2026 World Economic Forum.

jlevy/the-art-of-command-line - Comprehensive guide to mastering command-line skills for improved flexibility and productivity as an engineer

amir20/dozzle - MIT - Realtime log viewer for containers. Supports Docker, Swarm and K8s.