JJ Asghar
@jjasghar.bsky.social
🧔 Father 🤓 Husband 🦅 Eagle Scout 🥃 sometimes whisky 📀 computer nerd 👨💻 Job: OSPO for @IBM
I made this design in 2019, and it’s been ripped off by countless creepy little Temu shops, as well as by Shein. Seeing it in an AI ad is ruining my day, ngl. If you like it, buy one from me - link in bio. I actually give money to queer mutual aid and medical care groups.
Super excited to share that the GitHub Actions runner that we host for IBM Z, LinuxONE, and Power is now in GitHub Marketplace. We're easier to find now! community.ibm.com/community/us... Thanks @jjasghar.bsky.social and about a dozen other folks we've worked with for MONTHS to make this happen!
From Enablement to Discovery: IBM Power, IBM Z, and LinuxONE Now in GitHub Marketplace
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I just used 3 different calendar apps, (two Microsoft) to cross 4 personal and 6 other peoples calendars to find a 30 min slot. How's your day going?
I'm writing #jinja2 in a Word Doc to auto-create templated docx files today. Did anyone ever tell you Word is a terrible IDE? Yeah, they were right. How's your day going?
I just realized I said this in a call to answer "Hey JJ what's up?" Oh hey, yeah I'm building #nethack in a #python container to run on my proprietary enterprise #OpenShift cluster. Holy hell, I didn't realize how nerdy I was till I said it out loud.
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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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!
🚨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!
Wow, claude-4-sonnet-max throwing some shade! "# Get VPC image (Ubuntu LTS - more reliable than Fedora)"
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
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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?
Honest question: Does the Trump administration consider the National Weather Service and the FAA to be the same organization?
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?
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...
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Hey all -- this is not happening -- Slack will be comped for CNCF communities in perpetuity.
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.
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...
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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.
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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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.
What ever happened to Airzookas? Or was that a fever dream I had?
With all these federal layoffs, can you layoff soldiers? Real question, wouldn’t that save us a bunch of money too?
My grey beard is proud!!! I'm speaking at: www.nagios.com/conference/ #careergoal
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Does anyone else get annoyed that "*" "(" are right by each other on the keyboard? ":*" and ":(" mean to _very_ different things.
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
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