[!quote] You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. > - Steve Jobs 2025 was a year of rebuilding. After losing my wife and partner of 20 years in 2024, I became a single parent overnight. This year was about finding my footing again - spending time with friends and family, travelling to new places with my daughter, and rediscovering the joy of being alive and making things. Some of that making happened at work, some in open source, and some at the kitchen table with a Raspberry Pi and a 7-year-old. But if there's a thread that ties it all together, it's this: the best moments came from building alongside people I care about. Docker The year started with a project I had pitched and nurtured for over a year getting killed. It stung, but the decision made sense - AI was moving fast, Docker wanted to go all in, and they needed people there. I got offered a chance to join the AI team. > [!quote] When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. > - Alexander Graham Bell MCP Catalog We launched the Docker MCP Catalog - a curated registry of MCP servers integrated into Docker Hub. The idea was simple: developers want a secure, containerized way to extend their AI agents, not arbitrary code running via npx or uvx with full system access. The catalog now hosts 220+ containerized MCP servers from partners like Stripe, Elastic, Neo4j, Heroku, Grafana Labs, and more - each with proper isolation and security.

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