Major Hayden

@mhayden

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AWS

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I love building people as much as I love building technology.

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I'm open to

open source contributions,

live streaming,

speaking on podcasts,

making introductions,

talking to journalists,

and brainstorming.

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Resume

Mar 2018 - Present

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Dec 2006 - Mar 2018

Principal Architect, Rackspace

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I wrote a brief post for work about the value of host firewalls in cloud. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/do-host-firewalls-matter-cloud-deployments

I love my new X1 Nano! I wrote up a blog post about it: https://major.io/2021/10/23/thinkpad-x1-nano-gen1-review/

Podman runs all kinds of containers, but you can run containers with xorg applications, too. I wrote up a guide for running a simple graphical application with podman on Fedora: https://major.io/20...

I got a new laptop and realized that backlight control in i3 isn't documented all that well in various places. Here's to changing that! 💡 https://major.io/2021/10/14/backlight-control-with-i3/