Bringing technical clarity to the unknown

Open Source Summit 2026 conference talk

17 May 2026 🔖 professional development
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I presented “Tiny Repos, Big Impact: Level Up Through Open-Source Teaching” at the Linux Foundation’s 2026 Open Source Summit (“#OSSummit”).

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Slides

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Other talk

Come see me again on Thursday afternoon at the Observability Summit.

My homework

Here is my conference recap (#OSSHomework assignment number 1); still a work in progress.

7/20/26 update: I laughed uncontrollably this morning when I saw Andrew Nesbitt’s satirical blog post “Package Management as Org Chart.” If you watched my talk’s video, you saw me ponder whether it was really ethical anymore that my tiny teaching repos avoid dependency manager lockfiles and import packages as latest (which I started as a way of reducing distracting lines of code from the point each repo was actually trying to make), in this era of open-source software supply chain worms. Yes, I tend to commit straight to main on my teaching repos – I feel very called out! 😉😆

  • “No lockfile, latest everywhere: each install resolves fresh against the registry, and the dependency set is whatever’s newest at that moment. The founder still commits to main, had a bad experience with npm-shrinkwrap.json years ago, and won’t touch a lockfile.”
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