Elizabeth K. Joseph

I don't want to be here. It's another company that controls a platform that can ruin things at any time. Find me on Mastodon at pleia2@floss.social where I believe in the platform, consider joining me! That said, I'm feeling the network effect, so here I am again 👋

Joined the Expert Sarah Julia Kriesch at her "Open Source on the mainframe - All you should/want to know" session in the Champions lounge right before lunch! #IBMTechXchange

This morning I could be found at the IBM Z Workbench 2 where I had some great conversations about open source on IBM Z and LinuxONE! Still have questions? Come find me! I also have some little fluffy penguins to give away 🐧 #IBMTechXchange

We did a GPG keysigning at The Open Mainframe Project event today at #IBMTechXchange 2 keys signed by active OMP project members (yes, one was mine) Lots of information dispensed for next time! It's still early days for the ZTRUST Working Group, so I'm calling this a success 🔐😁

Standing room only for The Open Mainframe Project keynote! We're off to a great start! #IBMTechXchange

Minding my own business, making waffles at 6:45AM because little kids don't understand weekends. Kid 1, zooming through the kitchen: "I'm not eating that!" Kid 2, shouting from the bathroom: "MOM, THE TOILET IS OVERFLOWING!" Good morning 🥱

RIP the tiny microwave we bought 8 years ago when I was pregnant because "omg we're having a kid I think we need a microwave!" and then used a million times a day. I thought that meant it was garbage. It turns out that's a respectable lifespan of a modern microwave. Basically, they're all garbage.

I guess I should be grateful that the stress levels I'm experiencing this week aren't constant. Still, not optimal.

Being wide awake at 3AM is a bummer, but scrolling through Mastodon drove home how critical this PHP bug is and gave me the opportunity to shut down Apache on my personal sites until there's a fix. And I woke up in the actual morning to a fix. Thanks Debian! 👏 lists.debian.org/debian-secur...

Happy Halloween from our car Zara, who found a lap to sit on that doesn't wiggle around or need bio breaks

Over the weekend I started learning Mahjong through a 2 hour session put on by some ladies at our synagogue. It's a lot! But I had fun. Some day I hope to play with the beautiful set we inherited from my husband's grandmother.

In the September Open Source Software Report for Linux on IBM Z & LinuxONE we saw updates to Alfresco, Cilium, and Ruby. And while on Ruby... the Ruby FFI project added CI, and ffi-llvm-jit was among the projects we on-boarded to our GitHub Actions service! Report: community.ibm.com/community/us...

Just 11 days until IBM TechXchange 2026 in Atlanta! During our keynote, I'll be covering the Software Discovery Tool, the Mainframe Software Hub for Linux, and the ZTRUST Working Group (plus hosting a keysigning!) Full event details here: openmainframeproject.org/event/join-u...

I have my "Z" earrings we made all ready to give away at IBM TechXchange 2026 in Atlanta in a couple weeks 🥳

Even as an established woman in tech, the iconic image of Margaret Hamilton next to the pile of printed code was inspiring. It was fascinating to learn about her and the work of so many other women in STEM during the space race, and beyond. People like her made me feel like I belong. RIP.

I need a better hiding place for Hanukkah gifts 😅

Happy #HugYourMainframeDay 🤗 Last year I had the pleasure of assisting PJ Catalano and Camillo Sassano with an IBM LinuxONE (and IBM Z 😉) unboxing in the IBM TechXchange 2025 expo hall, and I got in the first hug!

Went to a pumpkin patch, saw the most precious two week old baby donkey 😍 And did a hayride, petted some goats, bought some pumpkins, and the boys enjoyed lots of activities

Retired BART car 1203 is being turned into a beer and pizza spot in downtown Hayward and we got our first glimpse of the in-progress construction the other day 😁 Right next to Buffalo Bill's brewery, my favorite pizza and beer spot in downtown Hayward. Oh no! I hope they'll be friends. 🍻🍕

Today is my birthday 🥳🎂 I'm now 45 years old, which feels like a lot of years.

Stepped on a toy last night and now there's a painful bruise on the bottom of my foot 😭 Shoes with zero sole support: assemble! The toy is ok.

One of the most exciting things I've seen in my seven years at IBM is how much open source software originally developed for cloud-native environments is coming to IBM z/OS. Ansible! Apache Kafka! And OpenTelemetry! SHARE has posted a nice intro article about it here: blog.share.org/Article/what...

IVRs keep getting worse 😭 I would be DELIGHTED if your website did the thing I want to do. I hate phone calls. But your uncanny valley robot is never helpful for complicated things that lead me to pick up the phone.

Annual flu and COVID-19 boosters ✅ ✅

My hobby this year, apparently: Riding vintage Melbourne trams 😍

In San Francisco today for MUNI Heritage Weekend! Our first chariot (vintage streetcar) is number 162 from 1914

I join everyone else in being perhaps unusually excited about a new cat species 😍 Things are BLEAK. (but honestly, it's not that unusual for me, I love animals, and CATS, have you met me?) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/s...

"Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom" is now in theaters! So it's basically a holiday over here 🐑 shaunthesheepthebeastofmossybottom.co.uk/home/ (practically speaking, we'll see it this weekend)

Second kiddo got glasses this weekend. We've completed the family set! 👓👓👓👓

Therapist: You need to rest more and take time for yourself. Life: LOL. No.

Shanah tova! We've had a nice Rosh Roshanah, and still have more apples and honey for tomorrow 🍎🍯 Along with the pomegranate we picked up at the farmers market this morning 😋

While I was at IBM zForum last month I had the pleasure of meeting Andrew Mattingly I'm sure I was wearing some computer-geeky earrings, which led him to share that he made some "Z" ones, and shared the STL file with me! This week we printed out a few pairs. Ta-da!

Made some apple cake with the kiddos last night because the green apple tree in our back yard has too many apples. It used 2 apples 😂 What do you love that can be made with apples? Last year I made apple butter, which I enjoyed and it used a lot of apples, but no one else in my house ate it.

My personal desktop dropped me into initramfs this morning and my work laptop took about 20+ minutes to apply firmware updates and do secret silent things at boot for a while. All is well now, but I did get strong "Maybe I should go back to bed 🤔" feelings for a chunk of time there 😂

I grew up in coastal Maine 🦞 Every show and movie you've watched about Maine is basically true 😂 (Just finished Best Medicine, and starting Widow's Bay, plus decades of Stephen King)

Here we are, the Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE Open Source Software Report for August 2026! 🐧 The team worked on Bazel, Consul, and Zabbix, along with 30 other projects. In the community we saw binaries released and/or CI enabled for another 7 🎉 Full report: community.ibm.com/community/us...

Concluded the long holiday weekend with a complicated reorganizing project (several spots with cascading dependencies) in the "it looks like a bomb went off" phase. So that's deeply unsatisfying 😝

Zara has been with us for a year now! Hard to believe it's been that long, but we also can't imagine our lives without her 😻

"Mom, I don't want to go grocery shopping 😭😭😭" "Me neither, nobody wants to go grocery shopping!" "What?" As if adults go grocery shopping recreationally 🤣 No, we just have no fresh food left.

Excited to share that the Wallace and Gromit Lego set is now a reality and available for pre-order! wallaceandgromit.net/2026/09/04/w...

My hobby: Telling people the AS/400 is not a mainframe.

Yo, why isn't there a museum with a good dinosaur exhibit in the San Francisco Bay Area? It's very strange for a place with such a high density of adults who have a favorite dinosaur (brontosaurus, thanks for asking 🦕)

*reads name of new Slack channel she was added to* OH, NO THANK YOU. 😅

"What are you doing?" "Working" The Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE Open Source Software Report for July 2026 is now out! From quantum computing to Dgraph and a new MCP server to help with porting, it's all here: community.ibm.com/community/us...

Via @inquirer.com "The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia is closing its museum" Oh noooo 😭😭😭 That's our dinosaur museum! We love it there! 🦖 I'm glad the boys got to go over the summer 🥺 share.inquirer.com/rHU3XO

The Wallace and Gromit Lego Set (21371) is finally up on the Lego site for pre-order. I'm so excited!!! www.lego.com/en-us/produc...

We all benefited from Dolly Parton's love and acceptance, and spectacular music, some more directly than others I learned today that her Imagination Library inspired PJ Library, the program that sends free Jewish books to children each month. Including my children 💕 www.nytimes.com/2011/06/25/u...

Forgets that she has a chonky VM running and wonders why her laptop is so slow. Good morning.

I have a wicked sinus headache that's making my teeth hurt. On the bright side, other symptoms of my cold are winding down 🥳

At the Hot Chips conference yesterday IBM announced our next mainframe processor! "each processor core can natively execute Arm and IBM Z" (arm64 & s390x) This. Is. So. Cool. newsroom.ibm.com/2026-08-24-i...

"You get it, I'm not your butler." "Mom, you are our butler, you take care of the house!" 👀