Dear Jeff,
We made this site to bring relevant posts from your blog into view alongside your role organizing HomelabFest. You chose to publish your personal views, making them part of public discourse. They appear on the same site as your professional media and technology work, including homelab content and sponsored material. Your recent work appears to focus less on these subjects, but the original posts remain available beside that work. We link to the originals, quote briefly, and provide context so readers can judge them for themselves.
We believe some of these posts contain harmful statements about LGBTQ+ people and reproductive rights. Your site carries a general warning that older posts may be outdated or incorrect. One post also says you would write many things differently. Neither explains whether any of your views have changed or what your current position is. Readers are left to decide whether the old statements still represent you.
In the Hacker News discussion about HomelabFest, you wrote that some Reddit users wanted only to prove they were righteous and you were evil. You followed that with the saying, “Never wrestle with a pig: You both get dirty and the pig likes it.” You said you now ignore those threads. You may have meant specific past interactions, not everyone who raises concerns. Still, that framing can make critics sound like bad-faith people who are not worth answering. It shifts attention from the public statements people are asking about and can discourage good-faith discussion.
These posts matter to people deciding whether HomelabFest and the wider homelab community are welcoming to them. Attendees, creators, sponsors, and other supporters should be able to review the record and decide for themselves. This site is not a call to harass you, cancel the event, or target anyone connected with it. It is here to support awareness and informed discussion.
How we will share the record
We plan to contact the people and organizations HomelabFest publicly identifies as involved, including its organizer, featured creators, venue, and listed sponsors. We will provide links to your writings and invite them to comment.
If you want to clarify or update any statements, we will link your comments beside the original posts. Any comments you make about the project can be published here in full, with their source and context, or linked to your own response. If you point out an error or provide relevant context, we will review and update our material.
Readers should be able to understand what you wrote and what you think now, in your own words.
Sincerely,
No Hate in Homelab