Here’s a fun story of when I met Linus Torvalds back in 2018. I told him about my experiences at Sun and OpenSolaris and also the time I spammed the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML).

I still have bitter/sweet feelings about Sun and OpenSolaris. It's a shame how it all ended for me. I went from working on the hottest project at Sun at the time and being Sun's #1 blogger (see: BSC front page) to losing those platforms overnight. That wrecked my career and forced me to reset — yet again. I have a lot of experience with train wrecks.

More here: Spamming the Linux Kernel Mailing List

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