I wanted to take a few minutes to give a shout out to DK House in Sapporo, as a great option to get affordable housing for mediumish to longer stays in Japan. I spent a month there in September.

They specialise in short-term accommodations, normally starting from 3 months but …

Last week I ran a 3-hour training on how to get started contributing to OpenStack at EuroPython. The aim was to give a high-level overview of how the contribution process works in the project and guide people through making their first contribution, from account creation to submitting a patch.

I've been getting back into PC gaming for the last couple of months, and that has involved a lot of checking out what Steam on Linux looks like nowadays (i.e. playing lots of games). Most of the time everything works just fine and smoothly, but sometimes there are hiccups …

Last week I participated in a 3 day-long "Train the Trainer" course at Hibernian College in Dublin. My goals were to get a better understanding of how to teach to adults and learn how to design and deliver effective training sessions, in order to improve my technical courses and workshops …

Belatedly, here are the notes for the design session/tutorial I gave about testing in Horizon at the OpenStack Summit in Portland, back in April. The etherpad is available over there. Session description: