Kebe Says - Dan McDonald's Blog

So recently I acquired @danmcd on Twitter. It was a long time coming. I was relatively late in early-adopting twitter: late spring 2009. By then someone else had claimed the handle danmcd, to my chagrin.

I was chagrined (in 2009) because I’ve been danmcd at SOMEWHERE since 1988. First .edus, even a .gov and .mil, and of course a series of .coms including my own kebe.com

(Who and/or what is Kebe might be another blog post in and of itself. In the meantime, this answer will suffice:

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Names are important. Especially in the virtual world, they establish not only presence, but often place as well. I ended up being @kebesays on twitter for a long time. Luckily, Twitter makes handle-swapping relatively easy, so anyone who was following @kebesays got moved over to @danmcd without issue. I still keep /* XXX KEBE SAYS … at the top, because if you see that in my code, it indicates work-in-progress issues; and aren’t we all works-in-progress?

Speaking of names and places: one name and one place that has been associated with Triton and SmartOS - Joyent - will no longer be associated with SmartOS or Triton. Samsung has decided to use other in-house technology for their future, and that work will continue with Joyent. SmartOS and Triton are being spun off to MNX Solutions, where I will be continuing SmartOS development. See the MNX Triton FAQ and my email for more.

Oh and yes, I’ll get to be ‘danmcd‘ at MNX as well.

Let's throw out the first pitch.

I've moved my blog over from blogspot to here at kebe.com. I've recently upgraded the hardware for my Home Data Center (the subject of a future post), and while running the Blahg software doesn't require ANY sort of hardware upgrade, I figured since I had the patient open I'd make the change now.

Yes it's been almost five years since last I blogged. Let's see, since the release of OmniOS r151016, I've:

• Cut r151018, r151020, and r151022.
• Got RIFfed from OmniTI.
• Watched OmniOS become OmniOSce with great success.
• Got hired at Joyent and made more contributions to illumos via SmartOS.
• Tons more I either wouldn't blog about, or just plain forgot to mention.

So I'm here now, and maybe I'll pick up again? The most prolific year I had blogging was 2007 with 11 posts, with 2011 being 2nd place with 10. Not even sure if I *HAVE* a half-dozen readers anymore, but now I have far more control over the platform (and the truly wonderful software I'm using).

While Blahg supports comments, I've disabled them for now. I might re-enabled them down the road, but for now, you can find me on one of the two socials on the right and comment there.