WIP stuff

config.yaml

@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ menu:
   - identifier: about
     name: About Jay
     url: /about
+  - identifier: portfolio
+    name: Open Source Contributions
+    url: /portfolio
   - identifier: colophon
     name: Colophon
     url: /colophon

content/about.md

@@ -18,4 +18,5 @@ I also enjoy video games, and sometimes streaming them on twitch as [TastyMcRib]
 If you enjoy my blog, let me know! I can be reached several ways:
   - [@jayofdoom on Twitter](https://twitter.com/jayofdoom)
   - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayfaulkner/)
-  - JayF on [libera.chat](https://libera.chat) and [OFTC](https://www.oftc.net)
+  - #jayf on [libera.chat](https://libera.chat)
+  - Various channels as "JayF" on [OFTC](https://www.oftc.net)

content/portfolio.md

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+---
+title: "Open Source Portfolio"
+date: 2022-05-13T12:17:37-07:00
+draft: true
+---
+
+I've spent almost my entire adult life learning, configuring, and consuming open source software. This has led me down
+a path where I have been able to contribute to open source as well.
+
+This page exists to document the projects I've contributed to, and when possible, indicate the contributions made. I'm
+building this so that I'll never be able to forget that I've been lucky enough to write code which (likely) runs on
+millions of machines across the world.
+
+These contributions have come from all stages of my career, and reading some of the code now makes me cringe -- but it was
+good enough to be merged, and provided value at the time, and I can be proud of that anyway. The only items I'm not
+including on this list are contributions to repositories that, while technically under an open source license, are not in
+use by the general population.
+
+Contributions:
+ - [Fog](https://github.com/fog/fog) - a ruby cloud client toolkit
+   - [Cleaned up, added tests for, and upstreamed existing fog plugin for Rackspace Monitoring API](https://github.com/fog/fog/commits?author=jayofdoom)
+ - [gelfj2](https://github.com/mashintsev/gelfj2) - a GELF appender for log4j2
+   - [Added GelfConsoleAppender](https://github.com/mashintsev/gelfj2/pull/1)
+ - [etcd-watcher](https://github.com/jayofdoom/etcd-watcher)
+   - Written entirely by me, etcd-watcher is a prototype in ruby utilizing etcd to heartbeat a key to monitor liveness.
+

content/posts/why-gentoo.md

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++++
+title = "Open Source, and why it's meaningful to me"
+date = "2022-03-07T15:52:52-07:00"
+author = "Jay Faulkner"
+authorTwitter = "jayofdoom"
+tags = ["blog", "open source", "personal"]
+keywords = ["blog", "open source", "personal"]
+description = "The attempt to summarize the last two decades of my life into a blogpost"
+showFullContent = false
++++
+
+I can't remember a time when computers weren't a part of my life. When I was five, my parents purchased a PC-XT clone, 
+and quickly I was learning how to operate DOS after learning how to read and write. This obsession grew, as I would
+disassemble and reassemble computers for fun -- and most of the time they kept working! Sure, computer gaming in the 90s
+wasn't easy, but for me, part of the fun was just getting it working. As I grew older, I was insistent that my career 
+lie outside of computing -- I wanted to help people, and leave working on computers to a hobby. That started
+to change when I went to college, and heard about this new thing called linux.
+
+Red Hat Linux, specifically, of course. I was at North Carolina State University after all. The local linux user group
+[TriLUG](http://trilug.org) even met at the Red Hat HQ at NCSU's Centennial Campus. As that point, I didn't know or care
+what "open source" meant, but I was impressed. One thing that especially stood out to me was OpenOffice.org -- and when
+I looked into if I could help, I found they had a marketing project. I volunteered and shortly after was whisked off on
+a couple of trips to staff booths about OpenOffice.org. A large number of people I met there showed me through their
+generosity of time and spirit that open source might be a place where my desire to help people may intersect with my
+interest in computers.
+
+This fleeting interest turned into a tangible need quickly. I was given stewardship of [oldos.org](https://oldos.org),
+and I couldn't afford expensive hosting. The kind folks at [Linode](https://www.linode.com) helped by donating one of
+their smallest cloud servers (then called a "VPS") and kept us running for several years. That just started the hard 
+part for me: sustaining over 1 million hits a month for a large PHP wiki and forum software. I was able to teach myself
+how to do this by reading documentation, asking questions, and running the same sort of software that, back then, might
+have been running the largest websites on the web.
+
+The knowledge I learned from keeping [oldos.org](https://oldos.org) online combined with the contacts I gained in the
+local community kickstarted my career.