Jupiter Extras

Brunch with Brent: Brandon Bruce

February 28th, 2020  |  47 mins 42 secs

analytics, anthony bourdain, bill buford, brandon bruce, brunch with brent, bsides, bsidesbcs, bsidessatx, career, chef, community, conflict resolution, cook, customer support, extras, interview podcast, jupiter broadcasting, kitchen, kitchen brigade, kitchen confidential, linux, linux academy, linux bible, medium raw, metrics, open source, remote, remote work, scale, skills, support

Brent sits down with Brandon Bruce, Director of Customer Support at Linux Academy. We explore the world of support, how his former role as professional chef informs his "Kitchen Brigade" approach to building a support team, analytics data's ability to reveal surprising user experience patterns, and more.

Mastering Cyber Security Basics: James Smith

February 25th, 2020  |  33 mins 54 secs

a cloud guru, blueteam, certification, ctf, cybersecurity, infosec, jupiter broadcasting, jupiter extras, linux, mentoring, overthewire, penetration testing, pentesting, podcast, redteam, security, training, windows

Wes and Ell sit down with James Smith to have an honest conversation about what skills are needed to start a career and be successful in Tech and Information Security.

Brunch with Brent: Heather Ellsworth

February 21st, 2020  |  48 mins 42 secs

brunch with brent, bug report, canonical, cathedral and the bazaar, cern, cherrytree, coder, community, documentation, engineer, experimental, extras, free as in freedom, free software, free software foundation, fsf, gnome, gnome foundation, heather ellsworth, higg boson, high energy physics, interview podcast, jupiter broadcasting, librem 5, libreoffice, linux, open source, open source summit, physics, programmer, purism, research, snap, snapcraft, snapd, software engineer, ubuntu

Brent sits down with Heather Ellsworth, Software Engineer on Canonical's Ubuntu Desktop Team, a GNOME Foundation Member, and former Purism Librem 5 Documentation Engineer. We discuss her deep history in experimental high energy physics at CERN, the similarities and synergies between the sciences and software engineering, her love of documentation, her newly established maintainership of LibreOffice, and how empathy factors into good bug reporting.

Brunch with Brent: Broadus Palmer

February 14th, 2020  |  40 mins 59 secs

aws, banking, broadus palmer, brunch with brent, career, career coach, certification, cloud, coaching, community, extras, interview podcast, job, jupiter broadcasting, level up, level up with broadus, linux, linux academy, mentor, music, musician, open source, sneaker bots, student, training architect

Brent sits down with Broadus Palmer, Google Cloud Training Architect at Linux Academy and Cloud Career Coach at Level Up with Broadus. We explore his history as a musician and banker, sneaker bots, the value of mentorship, what gets people hired in tech, leveling up as a lifestyle, and more.

Brunch with Brent: Peter Adams Part 2

January 31st, 2020  |  57 mins 18 secs

ai, all things open, art, artificial intelligence, awk, bell labs, brunch with brent, carl malamud, community, computational photography, darktable, eff, electronic frontier foundation, extras, faces of open source, generative artwork, gimp, interview podcast, javascript, jupiter broadcasting, krita, linux, open access data, open data, open source, p5.js, peter adams, peter weinberger, phase 1, photographer, photography, photoshop, portrait, processing.js, public.resource.org, red hat summit, sfc, silicon art, software freedom conservancy, unix

Brent sits down with Peter Adams, professional photographer and former founder and CTO of several internet-technology startups in New York and Silicon Valley. In this Part 2 we explore open source and photography through workflows, lighting controls, and camera OSs, artificial intelligence and the future of photography, and more.

Brunch with Brent: Peter Adams Part 1

January 28th, 2020  |  59 mins 24 secs

art, awk, brunch with brent, community, darkroom, dot-com bubble, extras, faces of open source, film, grep, interview podcast, jupiter broadcasting, linus, linus torvalds, linux, open source, open source advocate, oracle, osscon, peter adams, photographer, photography, portrait, sed, sun microsystems, unix, usenet

Brent sits down with Peter Adams, professional photographer and former founder and CTO of several internet-technology startups in New York and Silicon Valley. We explore his photography project "Faces of Open Source", his history in the dot-com bubble era, how he came to love open source, and more.

Brunch with Brent: Peter Adams Part 2 comes out this Friday.

Brunch with Brent: Jim Salter

January 21st, 2020  |  51 mins 21 secs

ars, ars technica, brain pickings, brunch with brent, bsd, code, coding, community, extras, gadfly, interview podcast, jim salter, jupiter broadcasting, leader, licensing, linus, linus torvalds, linux, navy, nebula, open source, stoicism, techsnap, the cathedral and the bazaar, vpn, zfs

Brent sits down with Jim Salter, co-host of Jupiter Broadcasting's TechSNAP and technology reporter at Ars Technica. We explore his relationship with computers via the US Navy, when code has it's place in either proprietary or open source licensing, the value in being a social gadfly, and Jim's motivations behind his writing and who he is hoping to reach and inspire.

Infrastructure Engineer: Seth McCombs

January 17th, 2020  |  19 mins 45 secs

a cloud guru, apple, aws, career growth, cloud, cloud engineering, containers, day in the life, desktop support, dev, devops, failing, getting started in tech, growth, help desk, impostor, impostor syndrome, infrastructure, jupiter broadcasting, jupiter extras, kubecon, kubernetes, linux, linux academy, networking, opsdevs, security, software, sysdig, transparency, windows, wsl

Ell and Wes are joined by Infrastructure Engineer Seth McCombs for a chat about how he got started in tech, the hard transition from legacy data centers to the cloud, and why being honest about both success and failure can lead to a better open source community.

Brunch with Brent: Chase Nunes

January 14th, 2020  |  49 mins 38 secs

brunch with brent, chase nunes, community, extras, interview podcast, jupiter broadcasting, lfnw, linux, linuxfest northwest, no agenda, nunes, open source, pi-hole, pinball, raspberry pi, retropie, twitter, unfilter, weight loss

Brent sits down with Chase Nunes, co-host of Unfilter, Jupiter Broadcasting's former weekly media watchdog. We discuss his beginnings in podcasting and how Unfilter came to be, his contributions to LinuxFest Northwest, his love for Linux in the media broadcasting industry, and his recent 15-month life-changing personal transformation journey.

Chase is a Broadcast Engineer for KOMO-TV 4 ABC in Seattle, and founder of gaming & pinball eSports platform GeekGamer.TV.

Self-Hosted: Fixing Brent's WiFi

January 10th, 2020  |  13 mins 59 secs

a cloud guru, cloud key, ethernet, firewall, firmware, hardware, hardware upgrades, home assistant, home networking, internet, jupiter broadcasting, jupiter extras, linksys, linux, low power computing, modernization, networking, open source, open source firmware, poe, power over ethernet, raspberry pi, router, router firmware, self hosted, self-hosted, single board computers, throughput, tomato, ubiquiti, unifi, unifi controller, vpn, wifi, wireguard, wrt54g

Join Alex and Brent for a chat about upgrading your home network with an eye towards stability, simplicity, and hosting things yourself.