On January 18th, I'll be presenting "Type driven configuration management with Propellor" at Linux.Conf.Au in Hobart, Tasmania. Abstract

Linux.Conf.Au is a wonderful conference, and I'm thrilled to be able to attend it again.

Update: LWN wrote up the talk here https://lwn.net/Articles/713653/

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Update: My presentation on keysafe has also been accepted for the Security MiniConf at LCA, January 17th.

Drought here since August. The small cistern ran dry a month ago, which has never happened before. The large cistern was down to some 900 gallons. I don't use anywhere near the national average of 400 gallons per day. More like 10 gallons. So could have managed for a few more months. Still, this was worrying, especially as the area moved from severe to extreme drought according to the US Drought Monitor.

Two days of solid rain fixed it, yay! The small cistern has already refilled, and the large will probably be full by tomorrow.

The winds preceeding that same rain storm fanned the flames that destroyed Gatlinburg. Earlier, fire got within 10 miles of here, although that may have been some kind of controlled burn.

Climate change is leading to longer duration weather events in this area. What tended to be a couple of dry weeks in the fall, has become multiple months of drought and weeks of fire. What might have been a few days of winter weather and a few inches of snow before the front moved through has turned into multiple weeks of arctic air, with multiple 1 ft snowfalls. What might have been a few scorching summer days has become a week of 100-110 degree temperatures. I've seen all that over the past several years.

After this, I'm adding "additional, larger cistern" to my todo list. Also "larger fire break around house".