writing
Notes & write-ups
Write-ups of problems I worked through: what broke, what I tried, and what fixed it. There’s also an RSS feed.
Closing a 2017 issue in the official Jenkins Docker image
Opt-in environment variable substitution for containerized Jenkins, now shipping in Weekly 2.565 and LTS 2.568.1, on Linux and Windows.
Cutting CI trace volume by 81% with tail sampling
How an OpenTelemetry Collector in front of Jenkins keeps every failure and slow build while dropping most of the noise.
GSoC 2025 at FOSSology, week by week
Thirteen weeks of reviving a 2021 microservices branch: CrashLoopBackOff, a Make to CMake migration, and 26 Kustomize manifests.
My Google Summer of Code 2025 journeyMedium ↗
How I got selected for Google Summer of Code 2025 at FOSSology: Hacktoberfest, first merged PRs, picking the right org, writing the proposal, and tips for new applicants.