Developer's black hole


Hi. I’m Flavio Percoco (a.k.a flaper87), and I’m a Software Engineer at Red Hat, where I spend my days working on OpenStack, speaking at conferences. In my spare time I contribute to Rust, write, read, surf, travel, smoke my coffee and drink my pipe.


So, you're an ATC. Let me tell you something

You may be probably wondering what the heck is wrong with me. If you haven't, please, keep reading. If you have, though, please, keep reading.

It's that time of the cycle - ha! you saw this comming, didn't you? -, in OpenStack, when we need to elect new members for the Technical …


Let me tell you something about being a PTL

It's that time of the cycle, in OpenStack, when projects need to elect who's going to be the PTL for the next 6 months. People look at the, hopefully many, candidacies and vote based on the proposals that are more sound to them. I believe, for the PTL elections, the …


Back from Vancouver, towards Liberty

Fever is gone (actual fever), energies are coming back and the next six months are blurried by all the things we have ahead. Besides the fever, I'd say this is what a normal summit feels like. Or well, what the feeling after the summit is like.

Just like in every …


Rust's cartridge for OpenShift

Now that we're getting closer and closer and closer to the Rust 1.0 release - May 15th, in case you missed the announcement - it becomes more and more important to create an ecosystem around the language. This ecosystem will allow for more people to adopt Rust, to build new amazing …


Lets make something good out of this 'joke'

I normally don't jump into this kind of discussions because I'm ok with most of the reactions and I believe creating some random noise won't help. However, this time is different, this time it's hit something that I've been fighting for and something that I've committed myself to improve this …