Listened to Open Source Security Podcast: Episode 429 - The autonomy of open source developers Post details and talk about open source and autonomy. This is even related to some recent return to office news. The conversation weaves between a few threads, but fundamentally there's … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted Tofu Golem (@tofugolem@mastodon.social) Post details Attached: 1 image We are trained to make excuses for the inexcusable. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted Corey Quinn (@Quinnypig@awscommunity.social) Post details "It's called X now,' bleats the World's Smartest Man®, for the first time in his life concerned about deadnaming. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted the happy leftist (@MnemosyneSinger@kolektiva.social) Post details Attached: 1 image Hello | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Bookmarked Brane Dump: "Is This Project Still Maintained?" Post details | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to https://teamcoco.com/podcasts/conan-obrien-needs-a-friend/episodes/minecraft . | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to Building the Patreon for developers with Birk Jernström, founder / CEO of Polar (Changelog Interviews #591) Post details Birk Jernström from Polar joins the show to tell us all about the creator platform for developers: why he built it, how it works, why it works how … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Week Notes 24#20

A busy week of on call, and the start of my ON Week (hackathon) at work: Cookie was in daycare on Monday - as it was meant to be my hackathon week and I wanted to have a bit of space to get stuck into things with Anna out for a couple of dyas this week - but Cookie was a little p … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted Inspirational Skeletor💀 (@skeletor@mas.to) Post details Attached: 1 image | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to FROM guests SELECT Andrew with Andrew Atkinson (Ship It! #104) Post details Andrew Atkinson joins Autumn & Justin to tell them why folks should (and are) picking PostgreSQL as their database in 2024 and how to scale it. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted Tee Wood (@t_l_wood@mastodon.social) Post details Things I teach my kids: • “No” is a complete sentence. • If you’re not having a good time you can leave. • Never make yourself smaller just to make other people more comfortable. • It’s okay not to be okay. • Don’t take c … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to Self-hosted media server goodness with Alex Kretzschmar (Changelog & Friends #44) Post details Alex Kretzschmar joins Adam to discuss their experiences with building the “perfect media server” and all the hardware and software involved to make it happen — LinuxSer … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted Hrefna (DHC) (@hrefna@hachyderm.io) Post details After watching execs talk about the #GoogleLayoffs, all I can really say is this: If you are in tech you need a strong union. If you are in tech you need a strong union. If you are in tech you need a strong #union. After s … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted Miriam (still) (@mia@front-end.social) Post details We need unions. And we also need employee-owned collectives that reject eternal growth, increased production, and shareholder profit as the goals of our labor. The infinite growth model is destroying our world. We can b … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to Cup o' Go | This just in! When is a constructor that returns an interface appropriate? 🤔 Post details Upcoming conferences🇯🇵 June 8: Go Conference 2024 @ Tokyo, Japan🇩🇪 June 17-20: GopherCon EU @ Berlin, Germany🇳🇱 … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to a post on engineering-founders.simplecast.com Post details | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to a post on engineering-founders.simplecast.com Post details | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to Emily Fox, Red Hat | IT Ops Query by PodBean Development Post details Emily Fox has held multiple roles at household-name organizations in her 13-year IT career and is currently senior principal software engineer at Red Hat. Previously, she worked as an engineer at Ap … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted Cat Hicks (@grimalkina@mastodon.social) Post details So one of my first conference trips after focusing my research on software teams, I'd worked really hard & shared innovative science in a talk that was widely acclaimed. But what I remember most is I was crossing the s … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted tef (@tef@mastodon.social) Post details moore's law but it's the number of clowns in the clown car doubling every 18 months | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted Corey Quinn (@Quinnypig@awscommunity.social) Post details The double-edged sword of my ADHD procrastination strikes again. Pro: I'm very good in a crisis. Con: I'm only good in a crisis. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

I'm interested in attending portal / talks 2024 June 26th-27th Post details Port is inviting you to an exciting 2-day virtual event all about developer experience and internal developer portals. Listen to experts from around the globe talk about the latest innovations and tips in … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to The Wu-Tang way with Ron Evans (Changelog & Friends #42) Post details Our friend Ron Evans is a technologist for hire, an open source developer, an author, a speaker, an iconoclast, and one of our favorite people in tech. This conversation with Ron goes everywhere … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted blinry (@blinry@chaos.social) Post details Attached: 1 image Presenting: Regexle, a wordle-like game for nerds 🤓 Guess the secret regular expression by testing strings against it! @piko and I might be two years late with this project, but here we go! :yayblob: ht … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted mgattozzi (@mgattozzi@hachyderm.io) Post details Tired: Closing issues with "won't fix" Wired: Closing issues with "THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted james (@james@strangeobject.space) Post details Anyone working for BigCorp and have 15-27k they wanna use to sponsor an event in two weeks, to make it as accessible as it has been in previous years? To a sexy hunky luscious BigCorp like you, it’s a forgettable line item … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to The Business of Open Source | The Difference between Code and Product with Adam Jacob Post details This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Adam Jacob, founder and CEO of System Initiative and formerly the CTO and co-founder at Chef. We had a wide-rangin … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Making it easier to schedule cross-timezones, with the `tz` CLI

One of the things that drew me to Elastic was the opportunity to work in a fully distributed team. I've really been enjoying it as a way to get a chance to collaborate with folks from literally all over the world, who have different viewpoints, cultural backgrounds, and some folk … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted OpenUK (@openuk@hachyderm.io) Post details Attached: 1 image Join the first OpenUK Digital Meetup celebrating GitHub's Maintainer Month on May 22nd (Wednesday) — 12 to 1 PM. Hosts @lornajane of Redocly and @JamieTanna of Elastic will be joined by a number of project main … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to How WebMD ran in the year 2000 with Rich Burroughs (Ship It! #103) Post details All of the health anxiety of early internet adopters traced back to WebMD’s self diagnosis. Some sysadmin’s on-call nightmares came from a different part of the site. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to Screaming in the Cloud | Google’s Graveyard and Lack of Hunger with Cody Ogden Post details On this week’s episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey Quinn sits down with the incredible Cody Odgen, software developer and creator of Killed by Google. Corey and Cody discu … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to Scaling DevTools | Three lessons from selling to developers Post details In today’s episode, Jack discusses what it was like working in a sales team at Stack Overflow, selling to developers, and why you should think about sales in terms of champions. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to Motivated by play with Annie Sexton (Changelog & Friends #43) Post details Annie Sexton has been on quite a journey since she was last on the show back in early ‘22. On this episode, Annie takes us on that journey, shares her new-found perspective & tells … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/05/10/between-hyper-focus-and-burnout-developing-with-adhd/ . | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Week Notes 24#19

A busy week on the blog: We polished off the announce posts for oapi-codegen looking for sponsorship and the move to the new org which have got some traffic, but not quite as much - yet - as I'd have hoped Less than 12 hours after posting, I had one company reach out to say they' … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to Susan Kennedy on Open Technology Fund (OTF) by SustainOSS Post details Susan dives into OTF's efforts in sustaining open-source tech in aiding internet freedom globally, navigating challenges with funds & a new FOSS Sustainability Fund. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Installing Google Cloud CLI components on Arch Linux

I've recently been working with Google Cloud more, and so while developing a Cloud Function locally, I naturally tried to follow the official local development (with Pub/Sub) guide. As I'm (btw) an Arch user, I've set up the gcloud CLI using the google-cloud-cli AUR package so wh … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to Cup o' Go | A quick tour of some proposals, and a long chat about OpenAPI with Jamie Tanna Post details Go 1.22.3 & 1.22.10 releasedProposalsAccepted: add binary.Append functionLikely accept: new `go telemetry` subcommandLikely decline: Notify about new major versions … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to Above Board | Justin Jackson and Paul Jarvis chat about starting and maintaining a SaaS Post details Old friends Justin and Paul catch up for the first time in years and catch each other up on the state of Transistor and Fathom. They cover lots of lessons for new and … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted malevolent dictator for life (@astrid@fedi.astrid.tech) Post details and the good software development methodology is also laziness because i don't wanna deal with bug reports from broken releases | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted Issy Long (@issy@strangeobject.space) Post details Want to take a vacation from open source maintenance? You should. Did you know that GitHub has a profile status feature to mark yourself as busy, mute notifications, and prompt folks who mention you that you're busy for … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted Aral Balkan (@aral@mastodon.ar.al) Post details Capitalism is an economic theory that posits that a relative handful of greedy fucks gorging themselves is how we provide adequate nutrition to the population at large. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted matdevdug (@matdevdug@c.im) Post details I do wish I could tell recruiters that I’ll never apply to a company that reports record profits and also lays people off. Like why are we wasting each others time talking about corporate mottos and exciting projects? Your leaders … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted Patricia Aas (@Patricia@vivaldi.net) Post details There is no war that can be fought with a trapped civilian population. That is not war. If you destroy all infrastructure, bomb the hospitals, ban all media, disrupt the food supply and corral the remaining population int … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted Tim Chambers (@tchambers@indieweb.social) Post details I know have separate Mastodon lists of bridged #BlueSky accounts I follow here (thanks @snarfed.org@snarfed.org), Flipboard accounts I follow here (thanks @mike@flipboard.social), federated WordPress blogs I follow h … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted Coraline Ada Ehmke (@CoralineAda@ruby.social) Post details SREs, dev ops, and other on-call folks, I am literally begging you to unionize | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

I'm on Cup o' Go!

This morning I was a guest on Cup o' Go, ahead of today's episode, which is now live. Cup o' Go is a great podcast, which I've listened to since the first episode was released last January, and I very much recommend a listen - not just to my episode, but others! - as there's a gr … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Bookmarked https://ohhelloana.blog/i-want-it-all/ . | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago