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Today, April 27, marks exactly one month since I was told my job was over. Looking back, the signs were there - when the mass layoffs started and good people began disappearing, it was hard not to read it as a signal that nobody was safe, including me. And yet, when the moment actually came, it still landed differently than I expected. That gap between knowing it is possible and having it happen to you is where the shock lives. Do not be surprised by it. It does not mean you were naive or unprepared. It means you are human. ...

At the end of March 2026 I was laid off from Linaro as part of a round of cuts. After 3.5 years working on upstream kernel enablement, embedded security, and CI/CD infrastructure for ARM-based platforms, it came as a surprise - but I am using the time well. What I have been doing since The upstream work did not stop. I currently have three active patch series under review: An 18-patch WiFi 7 series on linux-wireless@ adding full support for the MediaTek MT7927 (Filogic 380) to the mt76/mt7925 driver. The series is at v4, community-tested across 10+ hardware platforms with 9 Tested-by tags from ASUS, Lenovo, Foxconn, and AMD. Phoronix covered it: MediaTek MT7927 WiFi 7 Linux Support Coming Together. ...