Talks

2026-04-25 in Bellingham, WA for LFNW

date / time / talks TBD. Local Offline AI was accepted.

2019-11-15 in Seattle for SeaGL

Local Offline AI

2025-09-11 in Minneapolis for Apache Community Over Code

  1. Local Offline AI
  2. Local Storage for Data Sovereignty

2024-11-09 for BLU

Steadfast Self-Hosting Workshop

2024-09-18 for BLU

Steadfast Self-Hosting Workshop

2024-09-10 for BELUG

Steadfast Self-Hosting Workshop

2024-08-03 in Portland, OR for FOSSY

Steadfast Self-Hosting Workshop

2024-05-05 for LibrePlanet

Steadfast Self-Hosting

2023-11-04 in Seattle for SeaGL

Steadfast Self-Hosting: Rapid-Rise Personal Cloud

2023-10-20 for Sustain

FOSSY 2023 with Adam Monsen

2023-07-15 in Portland, OR for FOSSY

Steadfast Self-Hosting: Rapid-Rise Personal Cloud

2023-04-24 online for LibrePlanet

The Immortal Cookbook

2021-09-23 at Holden Village

How To Install Linux 🗿

2021-03-20 online for LibrePlanet

Free Software Data Fortress For Your Home (video) (conference workshop info)

2019-11-15 in Seattle for SeaGL

Containerized sourcery 🧙 with Docker and Snap

2019-04-28 in Bellingham, WA for LFNW

Command Line for Kids of All Ages: Demos for everyone, from a kid

2019-04-27 in Bellingham, WA for LFNW

Endless Summer of Code: Building the Foundation of a Community Through Internship Programs like GSOC

2019-03-23 in Cambridge, MA for LibrePlanet

Free Software for Safe & Happy Chickens

2018-05-10 for FLOSS Weekly

SeaGL interview on FLOSS Weekly

2017-10-06 in Seattle for SeaGL

Automatic Chicken Door HOWTO

2016-04-23 in Bellingham, WA for LFNW

The command line – a versatile, future-proof computing environment

2015-10-24 in Seattle for SeaGL

The command line – a versatile, future-proof computing environment

2014-02-20 in Seattle for ADA

Intro to MapReduce with Hadoop

2013-10-11 in Seattle for SeaGL

Intro to MapReduce with Hadoop
Introduction to Git
Intermediate Usage of Git

2013-04-27 in Bellingham, WA for LFNW

Intro to MapReduce with Hadoop on Linux
Git for fun and profit!

2012-04-28 in Bellingham, WA for LFNW

Git Deep: A deep dive into Git, an open source VCS

2012-03-01 in Seattle for The Seattle PHP Meetup Group

Symfony2: BLAM! (example code)

2011-04-30 in Bellingham, WA for LFNW

Beyond :wq … Life-Changing Vim Plugins (notes) (source)

2010-07-23 in Portland, OR for the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON)

Ending Poverty With Software: Using Globally Distributed Teams to Tackle Difficult Problems (slides)

2009-04-25 in Bellingham, WA for LinuxFest Northwest (LFNW)

Vim by Example: Building Your Plaintext Toolkit

2009-01-20 in Minneapolis for TCLUG

18.2 Reasons Why You Can’t Live Without Version Control (announcement)

2008-11-19 for FLOSS Weekly

Mifos interview on FLOSS Weekly

2008-09-27 in Minneapolis for Penguins Unbound

Vim: Advanced Usage and Useful Plugins (announcement)

2008-09-24 in Minneapolis for TCLUG

Selenium: Elegant Automated Web Testing For Anyone (announcement)