Tweaking my webcam setup (Logitech C930e, Fedora Linux, v4l)

I came really close to making some large purchases to improve my video call situation, and I may still do so, but I did spend some time and found a few quick wins maybe will help others:

  1. I use Fedora as my workstation.  Won’t change it.
  2. I have a Logitech C930e.  Logitech doesn’t publish anything on how to tweak the camera on Linux.  Figure out how to tweak it.
  3. I like (love) working in the dark.  So I never have any lights on.  That has to change.
  4. I have a window behind me in my home office.  Shutting the blinds is not enough.  Repositioning my desk won’t work in the space I’ve got.  Get a blackout curtain.
  5. My webcam is sitting on top of my monitor, dead center.  This makes it really awkward to look directly at.  It’s about 8″ above my eye-line.  I don’t think I’m going to change this. My eyeline has to remain at the center of the monitor or I get neck pain.

Here are the tweaks I made that do seem to have improved things:

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Choose Your Own Adventure: SRE Life at Red Hat

Red Hat does managed services. We do DevOps in the style of the Google SRE Book. We’re a decent sized and growing org that supports customers 24/7.  Our team is at the forefront of operationalizing OpenShift 4’s revolutionary set of capabilities, and are a way-to-market for many of Red Hat’s newest portfolio offerings.

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Service Delivery: Eight weeks in …

I wrote this post in May 2019, shortly after changing roles into the Red Hat Service Delivery SRE team, which is the group building Red Hat’s -as-a-Service tech, at the time largely OpenShift itself (but since has grown wildly). The external version you’re reading has been very lightly edited for internal stuff not relevant to the overall message.

I’ve found myself going back to it often to remind myself of my core own core values, sharing and re-sharing it internally when I feel we get off course, and also putting it in front of new hires so they understand where I am coming from. As expected, some of my thinking has evolved in the intervening years, but I feel the content has aged fairly well.

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