Alex's Blog

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Speeding up and slowing down

It's probably a good sign that I've barely been finding the time to blog in the last few weeks right?

Alex|May 18, 2026

Ecosystem updates / small stuff

Hi everyone!

Alex|April 22, 2026

10 things I want to work on after the conference

WARNING: Extremely long and information-rich blog post incoming! I started putting this together in my head on the last day of the conference as a way to gather and report out on some discussions. Before long it turned into an entire over-3000-word roadmap.

Alex|April 01, 2026

Some new site features

As you might imagine, we've been pretty busy this week, between being front page news in parts of the tech press and prepping for our upcoming conference! I also spoke at SCaLE last Saturday — great turnout, really engaged audience, nice questions afterward, love our community — so I've once again been cooking for a little longer than usual. That means this is going to be a short update :)

Alex|March 11, 2026

And I was afraid I wouldn't have anything to blog this week!

Am I really postmortem-ing this one? Too soon? Never, I have a whole weekend coming up to wipe my brain completely smooth. Gotta get it out first.

Alex|March 05, 2026

The docs / they destroyed their cage / yes / YES / the docs are out

Hello, don't mind me here, just borrowing the title for this week's blog post from my favorite poet.

Alex|February 23, 2026

Week 16: FOSDEM Trip Report

I'm back! I'm back from a cross-Atlantic trip that involved a Saturday/Sunday conference, meaning that I've been failing to take adequate time off from work for about 11 days and counting! Let's see how coherent this post turns out :)

Alex|February 05, 2026

Week 14: Relay, FOSDEM, Statusphere...

Oof, I have had terrible blogging cadence the last few weeks! The one thing you're supposed to get right at all costs — stick to a schedule — and I'm blowing it!

Alex|January 22, 2026

Week 12: I Blogged Through the Valley on a Horse with No Name

Did you know that often, journalists aren't able to choose the titles of their own stories, and it's up to the discretion of their editors? Horrible, right? Can you imagine not being able to give your blogs their own titles, no matter how silly? Me neither.

Alex|January 08, 2026

Week 9: Euro Truck Simulator

I can tell DevRel season is starting back up again, because I counted the number of flights I currently have booked in the next 6 months, and came back with 18. Granted, some of these are vacations, and I'm a bit of an over-preparer when it comes to vacations (PLEASE do not start me on a conversation about min-maxing Chase points, I will embarrass us both), but a big part of that is the job! I'm usually on the road a little more than once a month from January-May, and while I think that's a mostly sustainable cadence (and appreciate getting face time with AT heads from all across the world), it does come on pretty strong every year.

Alex|December 17, 2025

Week 8: Doppelbock

This week's blog post title comes from my very brief period as a beer nerd about 15 years ago. I should have known it was hopeless; I'm already too many other kinds of nerd, and I really like to buy the same session IPA or Italian pilsner over and over again (for some reason not everyone agrees with this, but actually all beer should be about 4.5% ABV). People started bringing all these different imperial stouts over my house and expecting me to drink them in the middle of the afternoon... it was a very confusing time.

Alex|December 11, 2025

Week 7: Microwaving gravy

There's something about the week after Thanksgiving... as a colleague said to me in a meeting on Monday: it gets kind of sad when you're at the "microwaving gravy" stage of getting through your leftovers.

Alex|December 04, 2025

Week 6: On Integration

Well, I totally failed to start writing this before EOD on the east coast the day before Thanksgiving, so my readership is unlikely to do Ryan Lizza numbers this week, but what can you do?

Alex|November 26, 2025

Week 5: Quality of life, friction, papercuts...

In this business, we have a lot of ways of saying "hey, you know this kind of sucks, right?" I like to think of it as analogous to the 50 Words for Snow concept -- which, with all due to respect to Kate Bush for her album title, I believe has actually been discredited since as an overly exoticized way of viewing Inuit languages, but then again, I did a linguistics undergrad in the late 2000s, and it was popular at that time -- where am I going with this? Oh, right. We have a lot of ways for saying that something kind of sucks because a lot of things in open source software development kind of suck :)

Alex|November 20, 2025

Week 3: It's important to have Standards

Hello again! It's been a very big week for the more protocol-brained among us here, since this week was the triannual IETF meeting in Montreal where two of my colleagues and many of our community members helped lead a session to take AT to the IETF. That session recording is now available for anyone wanting to catch up on the discussion and the plan for drafting parts of AT as IETF specifications -- see also this repo -- and this marks a really exciting next step towards maturing the governance of AT.

Alex|November 06, 2025

Week 2: Or, It's actually a blog now

Wow, that went by quickly!

Alex|October 30, 2025