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Simon Green. SVP Workflow Engineering at Pax8. Founder at 1310. Technology leader with Linux and networking roots.

GeneralLinux / UnixAI / MLEngineering management / careers

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41 from 5 Jan 2024 to 17 Oct 2026
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2026 21

  1. Don't Be One of Them
  2. Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?
  3. Could this finally be Microsoft's moment?
  4. A Little Japanese, Every Time You Walk Past
  5. OpenObservatory: I've Been Listening to the Garden
  6. A Hundred Coffee Machines and the Joy of Small Open Source
  7. AI Is Making Us Build Too Much
  8. Your Next "Access Database Problem" Is an AI Agent
  9. When "Secure by Default" Means "Microsoft by Default"
  10. SQRL Wasn't Wrong. It Was Early
  11. The Rules I Try to Do Business By
  12. Working From Home Holds Your Learning Back
  13. Gen 5 AI and the Enterprise Harness War
  14. No, your Agent Skill is not automation
  15. Suspend Battery Drain on the Framework 13 Intel - It's Fine, Actually
  16. Fixing EDID Failures on Resume with a Framework Laptop
  17. The Intel Noise Maker Prank
  18. Forgotten Kickstarter Projects
  19. Texture Engraving and Branded Moleskines
  20. Email Is Not Dead
  21. My First 3D Printer

2025 18

  1. Yet another major outage caused by everybody using the same cloud provider
  2. Reminiscing Over Old Projects
  3. An Eleven-Year-Old Lightpack Still Going Strong
  4. Work, Woodlands, and Geocaches
  5. Which year does your role become redundant? A personal playbook for now through 2045
  6. The 2026 Computer-Literate Bar
  7. Consolidation, Again
  8. The Slack I Loved Is Slipping Away
  9. Firepit Planner
  10. The Shape of Agentic Work
  11. Day 1 at Beyond EMEA 2025: Building from Within
  12. Touchdown in Amsterdam
  13. Open Source, Open Home: A Practical Approach to Home Automation
  14. New Role: SVP, Workflow Engineering at Pax8
  15. Hiring for AI? Look Beyond Certifications
  16. Against the Great Convergence
  17. Operational AI that actually ships
  18. CI/CD for communication: how we ship clarity every week

2024 2

  1. From single region to product pods
  2. Why I still care about DNS, routing, and logs when people want to talk models