Category Archives: luke
Trying to restart
I’m hoping I can start posting to my personal blog again, after a long-ish hiatus. I’ll be sticking Puppet posts on the company blog and hopefully posting more personal posts here – things that aren’t necessarily of interest to Puppet … Continue reading
Puppet on the IT Management Podcast
I was a guest on last week’s IT Management Podcast again last week, and we ended up talking a lot about Puppet and the difficulties in running an open source software company. As always, John Willis and Coté are informed … Continue reading
In Praise of Snobbery
I’m all kinds of snob: Bike snob, beer snob, whisky snob, shoe snob, pants snob (yes, pants), and much more. I get called this by friends and family because nearly everything I own I’m particular about — I don’t just … Continue reading
A short history of Puppet, pt.1
I was asked recently for more information on Puppet’s history, and although it seems to me that I’ve talked about it plenty, I guess I might not have written it all out, nor is it necessarily all in one place. … Continue reading
Project vs. Company (and a bit of me)
Strangely, I’ve heard complaints that I’m focusing too much on the company and not enough on the project, and as a result the product is suffering. I find this strange because the project doesn’t pay my bills, feed my children, or buy my beer, the company does, and without those things, the project itself couldn’t exist. If, instead, I had taken some corporate sysadmin job, I’d have been spending maybe 5-10 hours a week on Puppet, instead of between 10 and 60 hours a week like I’ve been doing for the last three and a half years. This, I think, is the thing that people tend to forget about open source — yes, you can make money doing open source, but in doing so you almost always put yourself in conflict between making money and writing code. Continue reading
A Short Update
There’s no way to catch up for the last four months or so of not posting at all, so I’m not really going to try. Instead I’ll just introduce a few of the topics that are taking my brain space, … Continue reading
Luke lives!
Yes, I’ve finally posted again, as unlikely as that seems. My blog has been in need of transitioning for the last few months (it was being hosted by Spike and he needed the server back), and it’s taken me this … Continue reading
iPhone thoughts so far
Yes, I know, I owe you the third and final Puppet history post, and I’ve got a few other posts brewing in there, but, well, I just can’t seem to muster up the energy in the hour or two between … Continue reading →