JJ Asghar
jjasghar.bsky.social
JJ Asghar
@jjasghar.bsky.social
🧔 Father 🤓 Husband 🦅 Eagle Scout 🥃 sometimes whisky 📀 computer nerd 👨‍💻 Job: Developer Advocate for @IBM KG5TLJ 73!
How's your day going? Mine? Yeah I'm gonna need more coffee.

➜ project-tracker git:(main) which #python
python not found
➜ project-tracker git:(main) which #python3
python3 not found
➜ project-tracker git:(main) brew install python
November 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Not gonna lie, the longer I'm away from #gerrit the more I miss it.

www.gerritcodereview.com

You never know how much better you have it when you're in the thick of it.
Gerrit Code Review | Gerrit Code Review
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October 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Just watched Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and the Enterprise finally got a proper upgrade—sharp writing, swaggering Spock, and a crew that makes the final frontier feel like a weekend road trip. This show is stellar!
October 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Reposted by JJ Asghar
🚨HUGE update for #aiagent interoperability🚨

Agent Communication Protocol (#ACP) is officially merging with Agent2Agent (#A2A) Protocol under the @linuxfoundation.org. One open standard for agents to communicate.

📄Migration guide: ACP → A2A
🔗Announcement

The future of agent communication is open!
August 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Wow, claude-4-sonnet-max throwing some shade!
"# Get VPC image (Ubuntu LTS - more reliable than Fedora)"
August 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Do you want to use Ollama with a trusted AI model like #granite from #IBM on #slack #discord or good ol' #IRC?

So I'd like to show you this: github.com/jjasghar/ai-....
GitHub - jjasghar/ai-irc-slack-discord-ollama-bot: An Ollama wrapper for IRC/Slack/Discord, you want to run your own AI for chat? Here ya go.
An Ollama wrapper for IRC/Slack/Discord, you want to run your own AI for chat? Here ya go. - jjasghar/ai-irc-slack-discord-ollama-bot
github.com
July 31, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Hey @scalzi.com I mean we all age…but I gotta say this avatar should be updated right?
July 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
If you didn't know there are 3 different types of #github action runners.
The free tier, self-hosted, and GitHub-hosted. The API can report on both self-hosted and GitHub-hosted, but not the free tier, it seems. Even though the free tier _is_ GitHub-hosted.

Guess which one I need information on?
July 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Honest question: Does the Trump administration consider the National Weather Service and the FAA to be the same organization?
July 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Great ive learned enough about #docusaurus now that im seeing the benefits. Still can’t spell it the first time correctly though.

So #mkdocs vs docusaurus what do you think?
June 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
What's stopping you #python #program like this?
June 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
How are you spending your Tuesday? Me? Ah yeah, I had to rediscover how to cross-compile containers with #podman on a Mac M3 to deploy on an x86 #OpenShift cluster. Yeah, you know a good time.

Thank goodness this was here; otherwise, I wouldn't have figured it out.
developer.ibm.com/tutorials/ru...
IBM Developer
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June 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Reposted by JJ Asghar
Hey all -- this is not happening -- Slack will be comped for CNCF communities in perpetuity.
June 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
That moment when you do your #vim macro once, then do `99@a` and it does exactly what you want. :chefkiss: no better way to start a Monday.
May 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Reposted by JJ Asghar
This week at @devopsdaysaustin.bsky.social I will be speaking on our journey from Bare Metal to Abstraction (Cloud Native)... Who's going to be there with me?

talks.devopsdays.org/devopsdays-a...
From Bare Metal to Abstraction: A There and Back Again Tale to the Heart of Cloud-Native Computing DevOpsDays Austin 2025
Over the past 30 years we've seen a quick evolution from bare metal servers and infrastructure to a reliance on Cloud Native practices, principles, and services. But have you ever stopped to think abo...
talks.devopsdays.org
April 28, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Reposted by JJ Asghar
I’m giving a TED talk tomorrow. Surreal experience but an interesting one. www.tedxportland.com/year/13 I believe it’ll be live streamed as well. Adulting is crazy sometimes.
April 26, 2025 at 6:01 AM
My feels right now thinking about #kubernetes: namespaces are for nerds.
a cartoon of a man standing next to a car that says nerrrrrrrdd !!!
ALT: a cartoon of a man standing next to a car that says nerrrrrrrdd !!!
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April 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Hey @lunarjade.bsky.social or @bengineering.bsky.social any chance we can get the Let's Nope Express(es) back? I loved them, and realize they are a ton of work, but they were perfect for my lunch breaks.
I can't find 2 hours to watch the whole stream, and the 30 minutes was perfect for me.
April 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
What ever happened to Airzookas? Or was that a fever dream I had?
April 20, 2025 at 1:08 AM
IYKYK:

I’ll see you in the Dungeon.
April 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
With all these federal layoffs, can you layoff soldiers? Real question, wouldn’t that save us a bunch of money too?
April 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Does anyone else get annoyed that "*" "(" are right by each other on the keyboard? ":*" and ":(" mean to _very_ different things.
April 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Reposted by JJ Asghar
I figured out how to bring 🎉AGENTIC🥳 AI to D&D. Here, I go over writing a Model Context Protocol Server that acts as a solo roleplaying oracle. I walk through all you need to do to get it running with Claude, using Spring AI to write a simple, Java MCP Server. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iROi...
Solo roleplaying D&D with agentic AI. 01: Make an oracle with an MCP Server in Java with Spring AI
YouTube video by Michael Coté
www.youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
My feeling today: E_TOO_MANY_ACCOUNTS
April 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM