We unfortunately have to change @Cockpit 's CI platform every few years. So today I re-evaluated AWS EC2 and Google Cloud Engine for Cockpit's CI needs, and was pleasantly surprised that the latter works fine now! It was still a disaster in 2022.

https://piware.de/post/2026-02-13-google-cloud-platform-nested-virtualization-revisited/

#gce #CI #NestedVirt #DayOfLearning

Revisiting Google Cloud Performance for KVM-based CI

Martin Pitt

#DayOfLearning again! Today I collected some basic #MCP knowledge, and tested out #GitHub #MCP with #claude for triaging/gardening our @Cockpit project issues.

TL/DR: Useful for some tasks, but sadly much less capable than I was hoping for. Still, this is am impressive development -- it's now mostly a question of scaling up a bit, not any more of "does this work at all".

https://piware.de/post/2025-11-14-mcp-servers/

Learning about MCP servers and AI-assisted GitHub issue triage

Martin Pitt

I played with a local install of #InstructLab #LLM today and tested it with some questions about #Ansible and #wordle. I really wanted to be surprised, but ... wasn't 😢

This is part of my AI research, I'll post a bigger summary about the other parts soon.

https://piware.de/post/2025-05-09-instructlab/

#DayOfLearning #AI

InstructLab evaluation with Ansible and Wordle

Martin Pitt

Today at @redhat we had a #DayOfLearning ! I had lots of fun brushing up my knowledge of web components and dipping my toe into #PatternFly elements, creating a starter-kit fork which uses that, and starting to work on a new "<Alert>" component.

https://piware.de/post/2024-11-08-patternfly-elements/

#WebComponents #PatternFly @Cockpit

Learning web components and PatternFly Elements

Martin Pitt

#Rust for #CPlusPlus #developers:

Understanding Rust as a C++ developer - DEV Community
https://dev.to/daaitch/understanding-rust-as-a-c-developer-2o28
Bird's eye overview.

nrc/r4cppp: Rust for C++ programmers
https://github.com/nrc/r4cppp
More in-depth.

#learning #learn #programming #program
#DayOfLearning

Understanding Rust as a C++ developer

Rust has a steep learning curve and I would also say, not even for professional C++ developers it's a...

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