Editor @ LWN. My primary beat is Linux distributions, but I also cover security, conferences, Linux desktops, FOSS development, as well as community and project news. Reach me at jzb at LWN.net if you have tips or suggestions.
I'm all about open source, writing, product marketing, developer relations, communications, and community. Also music, books, and cats if you want to talk about non-work things.
Have been working in tech for more than 20 years, usually doing some combination of the above.
- Trinity keeps KDE 3 on life support: On LWN, for users who still prefer the "classic" KDE desktop, there's Trinity.
- Modernizing accessibility for desktop Linux: On LWN, coverage of the Newton project to improve accessibility on the Linux desktop.
- Gentoo bans AI-created contributions: On LWN, the Gentoo discussion and decision around banning AI-generated contributions.
- The race to replace Redis: On LWN, now that Redis has a non-free license, there are multiple efforts to establish a free fork.
- Red Hat and the Clone Wars: A multi-part series about Red Hat and the "clones" of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) over the past 20 years.
- Of Mastodon and Twitter: "All the perfect drugs and superheroes...", "Taming Mastodons for a better web"
- On open source: "Give nothing, expect nothing: GitLab’s the latest punching bag for entitled users", "Why don't people just...?"
- On Music: "My favorite 100 albums", "You can't find that on streaming"
- LWN LWN.
- Blog Dissociated Press for thoughts on all the above, music, and cats.
- Mastodon as @jzb@mastodon.social shorter thoughts...
- LinkedIn to connect professionally and elsewhere.
- More about me on my portfolio site.
- My personal email is jzb at that first domain or Zonker.net.