Jon Seager
@jnsgr.uk
A {linux,cloud,coffee,car,bike} geek.
VP Engineering for Ubuntu at Canonical 🐧 🚀
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VP Engineering for Ubuntu at Canonical 🐧 🚀
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://hachyderm.io/@jnsgruk, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
First drop of my Skylark coffee subscription arrived today 😍
If you’ve not heard of them, they’re amazing people who roast amazing coffee. https://skylark.coffee
If you’ve not heard of them, they’re amazing people who roast amazing coffee. https://skylark.coffee
February 1, 2026 at 7:49 PM
First drop of my Skylark coffee subscription arrived today 😍
If you’ve not heard of them, they’re amazing people who roast amazing coffee. https://skylark.coffee
If you’ve not heard of them, they’re amazing people who roast amazing coffee. https://skylark.coffee
And the #ubuntu Debcrafters team wrote about our tool to help merge packages from Debian -> Ubuntu, as well as some recommendations for its future! :)
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/merge-o-matic-recent-updates-and-future-plans/75830
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/merge-o-matic-recent-updates-and-future-plans/75830
Merge-o-Matic: Recent updates and future plans
Hi everyone, Today I want to share an update on the work that has recently been happening on the Ubuntu Merge-o-Matic service, as well as some thoughts on where we could go from here. 1. What is Merge-o-Matic? As you probably know, Ubuntu is based on Debian. It means most of our packages come from there. We try to contribute fixes and improvements back upstream and to keep our packages “in sync” as much as possible, but we have to carry changes (which we also call “delta”) in some of our packa...
discourse.ubuntu.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:30 PM
And the #ubuntu Debcrafters team wrote about our tool to help merge packages from Debian -> Ubuntu, as well as some recommendations for its future! :)
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/merge-o-matic-recent-updates-and-future-plans/75830
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/merge-o-matic-recent-updates-and-future-plans/75830
#ubuntu 26.04 LTS Snapshot 3 was released today! https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/resolute-snapshot-3-released/75832
Resolute Snapshot 3 released
Hello everyone, I’d like to announce the third successful publication of the monthly snapshot - Resolute Snapshot 3 (but also the first of 2026!). You can find the images on cdimage.ubuntu.com, for instance: https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/releases/26.04/snapshot-3/ https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/26.04/snapshot-3/ https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-budgie/releases/26.04/snapshot-3/ …and so on. 🙂 Few teams have already started to update release notes, which coul...
discourse.ubuntu.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:25 PM
#ubuntu 26.04 LTS Snapshot 3 was released today! https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/resolute-snapshot-3-released/75832
[AI, LLMs]
Had a go this week at building a custom LLM-based agent for a specific task at work.
I built it in #rust using the Rig crate, which I found to be very intuitive, and Gemini 3 Pro as the backend.
The agent has 3 tools, one for scraping a list on my Todoist account, one for gathering […]
Had a go this week at building a custom LLM-based agent for a specific task at work.
I built it in #rust using the Rig crate, which I found to be very intuitive, and Gemini 3 Pro as the backend.
The agent has 3 tools, one for scraping a list on my Todoist account, one for gathering […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
January 30, 2026 at 4:29 PM
[AI, LLMs]
Had a go this week at building a custom LLM-based agent for a specific task at work.
I built it in #rust using the Rig crate, which I found to be very intuitive, and Gemini 3 Pro as the backend.
The agent has 3 tools, one for scraping a list on my Todoist account, one for gathering […]
Had a go this week at building a custom LLM-based agent for a specific task at work.
I built it in #rust using the Rig crate, which I found to be very intuitive, and Gemini 3 Pro as the backend.
The agent has 3 tools, one for scraping a list on my Todoist account, one for gathering […]
BBQing in black tie last night for Burns Night.
We did a traditional burns night supper with haggis, neeps and tatties, but augmented with a nice piece of BBQ’d beef fillet.
I was already dressed when it needed cooking, though 😅
We did a traditional burns night supper with haggis, neeps and tatties, but augmented with a nice piece of BBQ’d beef fillet.
I was already dressed when it needed cooking, though 😅
January 25, 2026 at 5:09 PM
BBQing in black tie last night for Burns Night.
We did a traditional burns night supper with haggis, neeps and tatties, but augmented with a nice piece of BBQ’d beef fillet.
I was already dressed when it needed cooking, though 😅
We did a traditional burns night supper with haggis, neeps and tatties, but augmented with a nice piece of BBQ’d beef fillet.
I was already dressed when it needed cooking, though 😅
Just did my first brew with my new 1ZPresso ZP6 Special and boy it’s such an upgrade on my trusty Porlex Mini II grinder for travel.
Unimodsilty of the grind is much closer to that of my EG-1 than other grinders I’ve owned! 😎
Unimodsilty of the grind is much closer to that of my EG-1 than other grinders I’ve owned! 😎
January 21, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Just did my first brew with my new 1ZPresso ZP6 Special and boy it’s such an upgrade on my trusty Porlex Mini II grinder for travel.
Unimodsilty of the grind is much closer to that of my EG-1 than other grinders I’ve owned! 😎
Unimodsilty of the grind is much closer to that of my EG-1 than other grinders I’ve owned! 😎
[AI, LLMs]
AI-assisted tooling is becoming more and more common in the workflows of engineers at all experience levels. As I see it, our challenge is one of consideration, enablement and constraint.
We must enable those who opt-in to safely and responsibly harness the power of these tools […]
AI-assisted tooling is becoming more and more common in the workflows of engineers at all experience levels. As I see it, our challenge is one of consideration, enablement and constraint.
We must enable those who opt-in to safely and responsibly harness the power of these tools […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
January 20, 2026 at 11:03 AM
[AI, LLMs]
AI-assisted tooling is becoming more and more common in the workflows of engineers at all experience levels. As I see it, our challenge is one of consideration, enablement and constraint.
We must enable those who opt-in to safely and responsibly harness the power of these tools […]
AI-assisted tooling is becoming more and more common in the workflows of engineers at all experience levels. As I see it, our challenge is one of consideration, enablement and constraint.
We must enable those who opt-in to safely and responsibly harness the power of these tools […]
Picked up this rather nice Ethiopian natural coffee during my short stay in Vienna, courtesy of No Panic Coffee.
Came out really well with a double bloom in the Orea V4, with a slightly finer grind to account for Ethiopian Heirloom’s tendency to produce fines.
Came out really well with a double bloom in the Orea V4, with a slightly finer grind to account for Ethiopian Heirloom’s tendency to produce fines.
January 16, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Picked up this rather nice Ethiopian natural coffee during my short stay in Vienna, courtesy of No Panic Coffee.
Came out really well with a double bloom in the Orea V4, with a slightly finer grind to account for Ethiopian Heirloom’s tendency to produce fines.
Came out really well with a double bloom in the Orea V4, with a slightly finer grind to account for Ethiopian Heirloom’s tendency to produce fines.
#ubuntu Server Gazzette - Issue 11 - AI-bots shall eat my docs!
A nice write up of some adventures with GitHub Copilot in the pursuit of Ubuntu Documentation which includes comparisons of models, prompts and other details! […]
A nice write up of some adventures with GitHub Copilot in the pursuit of Ubuntu Documentation which includes comparisons of models, prompts and other details! […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
January 15, 2026 at 3:28 PM
#ubuntu Server Gazzette - Issue 11 - AI-bots shall eat my docs!
A nice write up of some adventures with GitHub Copilot in the pursuit of Ubuntu Documentation which includes comparisons of models, prompts and other details! […]
A nice write up of some adventures with GitHub Copilot in the pursuit of Ubuntu Documentation which includes comparisons of models, prompts and other details! […]
Hotel coffee doesn’t have to suck 😃
January 12, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Hotel coffee doesn’t have to suck 😃
January 10, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Brewed my first cup of Skylark’s Ethiopian Ashu Syoum Anaerobic coffee today!
Quite a delicate coffee, brew came out well but I might be able to get some of the flavours more pronounced with some tweaks 🙂
https://skylark.coffee/products/ethiopia-ashu-syoum-anaerobic-natural
Quite a delicate coffee, brew came out well but I might be able to get some of the flavours more pronounced with some tweaks 🙂
https://skylark.coffee/products/ethiopia-ashu-syoum-anaerobic-natural
Ethiopia Ashu Syoum Anaerobic Natural
It's finally back!! A truly exceptional coffee from a farm that embodies our values here at Skylark, this is quite possibly the best Ethiopian coffee we’ve ever released. It was a delicious fan favourite last year, and this year it's juicier and fruitier than ever — bursting with sweet notes of strawberry, pineapple,
skylark.coffee
January 10, 2026 at 9:15 AM
Brewed my first cup of Skylark’s Ethiopian Ashu Syoum Anaerobic coffee today!
Quite a delicate coffee, brew came out well but I might be able to get some of the flavours more pronounced with some tweaks 🙂
https://skylark.coffee/products/ethiopia-ashu-syoum-anaerobic-natural
Quite a delicate coffee, brew came out well but I might be able to get some of the flavours more pronounced with some tweaks 🙂
https://skylark.coffee/products/ethiopia-ashu-syoum-anaerobic-natural
First brew with Orea/Sibarist is this delightful Colombian natural coffee 😍
January 8, 2026 at 10:21 AM
First brew with Orea/Sibarist is this delightful Colombian natural coffee 😍
@katexochen I have a question for you! 🙂
Trying to get a nix package together for tsgolint - it uses Go workspaces, which it uses to point a a submodule-d go package.
I can't seem to figure out the runes to do that in nix, since setting GOWORK=off means it can't find the local package (of […]
Trying to get a nix package together for tsgolint - it uses Go workspaces, which it uses to point a a submodule-d go package.
I can't seem to figure out the runes to do that in nix, since setting GOWORK=off means it can't find the local package (of […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
January 6, 2026 at 6:25 PM
@katexochen I have a question for you! 🙂
Trying to get a nix package together for tsgolint - it uses Go workspaces, which it uses to point a a submodule-d go package.
I can't seem to figure out the runes to do that in nix, since setting GOWORK=off means it can't find the local package (of […]
Trying to get a nix package together for tsgolint - it uses Go workspaces, which it uses to point a a submodule-d go package.
I can't seem to figure out the runes to do that in nix, since setting GOWORK=off means it can't find the local package (of […]
Net-booting #ubuntu on #riscv - a new post from the Ubuntu Foundations team!
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/network-booting-pxe-ubuntu-on-risc-v/74550
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/network-booting-pxe-ubuntu-on-risc-v/74550
Network booting (PXE) Ubuntu on RISC-V
Recently, I investigated the status of the RISC-V netboot tarballs. Those were initially composed of only an initrd and a kernel image. They now ship with a bootloader and menu as well (grub), which makes them bootable, at least under QEMU. This post explores how to use them. The first available tarball is the daily build from December 15, 2025 of Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon development preview. netboot Network booting, or netboot, is the process of booting a computer from the network rather than...
discourse.ubuntu.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Net-booting #ubuntu on #riscv - a new post from the Ubuntu Foundations team!
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/network-booting-pxe-ubuntu-on-risc-v/74550
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/network-booting-pxe-ubuntu-on-risc-v/74550
As a coffee nerd and frequent hotel guest (for work), I’m pretty excited about this little travel (titanium!) pouring kettle with folding handles and removable spout!
Might just swap my Aeropress for a proper pour over setup on my next trip!
Might just swap my Aeropress for a proper pour over setup on my next trip!
January 5, 2026 at 3:52 PM
As a coffee nerd and frequent hotel guest (for work), I’m pretty excited about this little travel (titanium!) pouring kettle with folding handles and removable spout!
Might just swap my Aeropress for a proper pour over setup on my next trip!
Might just swap my Aeropress for a proper pour over setup on my next trip!
[Meat, BBQ]
First attempt at Beef Short Ribs on the smoker yesterday! Came out pretty well after just about 10 hours on the grill!
First attempt at Beef Short Ribs on the smoker yesterday! Came out pretty well after just about 10 hours on the grill!
January 4, 2026 at 12:41 PM
[Meat, BBQ]
First attempt at Beef Short Ribs on the smoker yesterday! Came out pretty well after just about 10 hours on the grill!
First attempt at Beef Short Ribs on the smoker yesterday! Came out pretty well after just about 10 hours on the grill!
[Fish, BBQ]
First hot smoked salmon today! Dressed one in bourbon and maple syrup and the other with honey and mustard while smoking.
Bad photos, but came out very well!!
First hot smoked salmon today! Dressed one in bourbon and maple syrup and the other with honey and mustard while smoking.
Bad photos, but came out very well!!
December 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
[Fish, BBQ]
First hot smoked salmon today! Dressed one in bourbon and maple syrup and the other with honey and mustard while smoking.
Bad photos, but came out very well!!
First hot smoked salmon today! Dressed one in bourbon and maple syrup and the other with honey and mustard while smoking.
Bad photos, but came out very well!!
Coffee nerd Christmas gifts! ☕️ 🎁
December 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Coffee nerd Christmas gifts! ☕️ 🎁
Today I opened a bag of this extraordinary coffee, and to top it off the roastery sounds like it’s run by proper human beings
https://skylark.coffee/products/colombia-angela-rojas-orange-bourbon
https://skylark.coffee/products/colombia-angela-rojas-orange-bourbon
Colombia Edinson Argote Orange Bourbon
Here's a vibrant new coffee from MiCafe Trading, a small importer that brings coffee to the UK from their own farm (El Jaragual) as well as coffees grown by their friends. This is one of the most remarkable we've received from them so far, and everyone in the team tasting loved it: Em thought it tasted like Aperol Spri
skylark.coffee
December 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Today I opened a bag of this extraordinary coffee, and to top it off the roastery sounds like it’s run by proper human beings
https://skylark.coffee/products/colombia-angela-rojas-orange-bourbon
https://skylark.coffee/products/colombia-angela-rojas-orange-bourbon
