Fedora 31 on the Razer Stealth GTX (Late 2019) Author: Harrison Ripps Categories: Uncategorized My hunt for a shiny new laptop always starts with the best of intentions, but well-intentioned laptops usually don’t come with gaming-ready GPUs. What do I mean by a “well-intentioned” laptop? I have a lot of respect for System76 and Star Labs for their lovely Linux-first systems, and particular respect for Purism‘s holistic approach to […]

2019: Year of the Spartan Author: Harrison Ripps Categories: Uncategorized In October of 2018, I got my annual physical and came face-to-face with the reality of my current weight and fitness levels. I was at 30 BMI and at my lowest amount of regular physical activity in years. The trend was not good. My wife encouraged me to try Noom – I signed up for […]

Perl’s not that bad :-) Author: Harrison Ripps Categories: Uncategorized nixcraft: “If you put a million monkeys at keyboards, one of them will eventually write a Java program. The rest of them will write Perl programs.” — Unknown

Fake it ’till you make it Author: Harrison Ripps Categories: Uncategorized nixcraft: “Every great developer you know got there by solving problems they were unqualified to solve until they actually did it.” — Patrick McKenzie I don’t hold myself in the same stratosphere as the amazing software developers that I work with every day. But given that I started my career with a degree in writing, […]

TGIF Author: Harrison Ripps Categories: Uncategorized Cocktail Hour Here at The Internet Shipyards, Friday night is cocktail night. Today’s special guest: the Rusty Nail, also known as the World’s Simplest Cocktail. 1 part Drambuie 1 part cheap scotch I can’t overstate how cheap the scotch should be. If it doesn’t come in a bottle with a white label that says “SCOTCH” […]

That App You Love – Headed to DevConf.cz! Author: Harrison Ripps Categories: Uncategorized Starting back in September I published a series of articles for the Red Hat Developer Blog under the series title “That App You Love”. I’m psyched to announce that “That App You Wrote”, my followup presentation, has been accepted as a talk at [DevConf.cz](https://devconf.cz) this month! Didn’t read the original series? You can follow along […]

A Sunbeam for Mia Author: Harrison Ripps Categories: Uncategorized We lost Mia today. I’ve always read posts like this with some amount of indifference because in the back of my head I am thinking “this is just an animal” and “this is not a person”. And so I forgive you for feeling the same way. I understand that response. This stream of thoughts is […]

Advice From an Open-Source Hiring Manager Author: Harrison Ripps Categories: Uncategorized In Decemeber of 2014 I transitioned from fifteen years of being a developer into being one of the people managers on a really amazing team here at Red Hat. All told, my first year in this role has been a tremendous learning experience for me. If you are interested in becoming a part of a […]