Writing
Writing
Notes on AI, Infrastructure, build & release engineering, developer experience, and whatever else is keeping me curious.
Shipping Snap Revert to Ubuntu App Center
A feature that I worked on brings the snap revert out of the terminal and into Ubuntu's graphical App Center, shipped today with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
Shipping Selective state recursion optimization to LXD
A feature I worked on for LXD that lets clients ask the server for only the instance-state fields they need. Shipped end-to-end across the LXD server, pylxd, and lxd-ui.
Shipping cluster failure-domain feature to LXD
A new lxc cluster failure-domain subcommand I contributed to LXD, replacing the "edit the member YAML by hand" workaround for managing per-member failure domains.
Adding a stale-snap warning on snapcraft.io
A small UI change I worked on for snapcraft.io. When the channel you're looking at hasn't seen a release in over two years, the page now tells you so before you click Install.
Adding an autostart daemon to get.docker.com
A feature I worked on for Docker's official install script running the one-liner now leaves you with a running daemon, and a new --no-autostart flag is the opt-out for flows tha...
Rewriting the queue-position message in testflinger-cli
A small CLI change for Testflinger that replaces the misleading "Jobs ahead in queue 0" line with a clearer "Queue position next in line", and pairs absolute position with jobs-...
Autofilling the repository name on snapcraft.io GitHub-build setup
A change for the snapcraft.io publisher dashboard that fills the repository name on the GitHub-build setup form from the snap ID and runs the validation step automatically.
A clearer error for invalid slice names in Chisel
A small Chisel change that turns "invalid slice name" into a message that actually tells you what the rule is.
Adding job rollups to testflinger-cli queue-status
A CLI change for Testflinger that folds job counts into queue-status, with a verbose mode that lists individual job IDs and a JSON mode that keeps existing consumers working.
Adding human-readable durations to Testflinger reservation timeouts
A server-side change for Testflinger that lets reservation jobs use durations like 2h30m instead of forcing operators to convert hours into seconds.