dustinkirkland

Joined 13 years ago

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SVP Eng at Chainguard. Former PM at Google, VP Product @Ubuntu at Canonical, Author of few dozen Open Source projects, including eCryptFS and Byobu
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Comment · 6 days ago
man.cgr.dev has every manual page in Chainguard OS rendered as HTML, as you’d expect. It also has the original roff source and a Markdown version of every page. More importantly, it has an MCP server, so the same documentation is machine-readable and searchable from within your own AI development environment and by your agents.
Comment · 4 months ago
Wow, I'm really sorry to here that. I'm 8+ years removed from leading Canonical's product management team, but I still love Ubuntu.
Comment · 4 months ago
How so?
Comment · 4 months ago
Oh no! Not that! :-)
Comment · 4 months ago
Dustin Kirkland here, author of Byobu, among other things.

For me, Claude has brought the joy back to creating again. I have a very busy schedule -- working a full time job, managing a huge team, raising a family.

For many years (some have noticed the gap in git history) -- I haven't had the time to work on Byobu (or, my employment arrangement made it difficult to contribute to open source software).

But now, I'm employed by a company that welcomes open source contribution. And Claude has given me a small army of interns, for $20/month -- that have been working around the clock fixing bugs and adding features that I've always wanted to work on, but haven't had the time to do so.

Comment · 1 year ago
Dustin Kirkland here. I lead the Engineering team at Chainguard. We've just published a beta of a Chainguard OS image for Raspberry Pi (v4 and v5), built using the same hardened compilers, libraries, tool chains, and applications as our commercial catalog of container images. We're sharing here for HackerNews' most insightful feedback and comments!
Comment · 6 years ago
(Author of Byobu here) Byobu does run "best" on Ubuntu + Gnome-Terminal + Tmux, mainly because that's the primary environment in which I test it. However, I and others have ported and used it on many other Linux and Unix systems, and I'm always happy to take bug reports and patches that fix issues on other OSes.
Comment · 6 years ago
Try using ssh-import-id to fetch your (or a friend or colleague's) public key from Github!
Comment · 6 years ago
Hi there! I'm the author and maintainer of Byobu (byobu.org) here. Byobu started as "Screen for mere mortals", but eventually pivoted to work with Tmux, as well. Nowadays, Byobu is much more tightly tied to Tmux. You can think of it, as a super opinionated set of Tmux settings, easily portable across all of your machines. Happy to answer any questions here!
Comment · 6 years ago
It's a very reasonable concern. I used to have a Google Assistant in my home office. I've muted the mic and just use it as a Bluetooth speaker.

However, the much bigger concern should be your phone, which has a mic, is internet connected, and almost always listening. You need to also disable the Google Assistant, Sciri, etc. there too.

Oh, and that doesn't just go for your home. That's in the office, at a client, on the train, in an Uber... Everywhere you take your phone.

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