Reposted Jesse J. Anderson (@adhdjesse@mastodon.social) Post details ADHD is like 50% not working, 50% working frantically to make up for the not working part, 50% thinking about the work I should be doing (but not actually working), and 50% not sleeping (but trying to). | Continue reading
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Bookmarked How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years | Grafana Labs Post details Mat Ryer, principal engineer at Grafana Labs and host of the Go Time podcast, shares what he's learned from more than a dozen years of writing HTTP services in Go. | Continue reading
Listened to What's new in Go 1.22 with Carlana Johnson (Go Time #302) Post details Our “what’s new in Go” correspondent, Carlana Johnson, joins Johnny & Ian to discuss what’s new with the latest iteration of Go in version 1.22. | Continue reading
Reposted onrust (@onrust@infosec.exchange) Post details Attached: 1 image stop doing offices ... they have played us for absolute fools | Continue reading
Reposted Anil Dash (@anildash@me.dm) Post details “He don’t miss!” — me, about myself, while reading my blog | Continue reading
Reposted myrmepropagandist (@futurebird@sauropods.win) Post details Retired old people who aren't just ... busy being sick and dying give back to their communities in HUGE ways. We had someone's grandpa come to our robotics competition to cheer the team on. The old peop … | Continue reading
Listened to SE Radio 587: M. Scott Ford on Managing Dependency Freshness – Software Engineering Radio Post details | Continue reading
Listened to Slight Reliability Episode 81 - Incident Management in Non-Prod Environments - Slight Reliability Post details "Environment issues are just incidents that happened to occur in a non-production environment"... so why do we treat them so differently?In this first epis … | Continue reading
Reposted Ruth Cheesley (she/her) (@rcheesley@mastodon.online) Post details Attached: 1 image Join us tomorrow afternoon at State of Open Con for a meetup of the Women of Open Source community! 2pm at the back of the delegate experience area, near the job board. See you there! # … | Continue reading
This is a writeup of my talk at State of Open Con 2024, about the dependency-management-data project. The talk abstract can be found on my talks site. This is an updated version of the original talk writeup Quantifying your reliance on Open Source software, due to significant new … | Continue reading
Had a nice catch up with Tulio, Tushar, Danillo, Lewis, and Steve over a drink Was nice to catch up with Steve after a couple of years! Taught Cookie to eat biccies out of my jumper pocket, which was cute and she enjoyed We've enjoyed the first week of the new car I've taken it … | Continue reading
Deffo getting FOMO by seeing friendly faces having a great time at #FOSDEM but looking forward to seeing some of y'all at #StateOfOpenCon | Continue reading
Reposted Admiral Wonderboat (@admiralwonderboat@mastodon.social) Post details Attached: 1 image You're not lazy | Continue reading
Listened to Cup o' Go | 🧑 For our 1st anniversary, we debate about (white)space in Muxers for a looooong time Post details Happy 1st anniversary to Cup o' Go! 🥳Proposalsgo build -json acceptedallow append(nil, arg) declined (playground link), because of … | Continue reading
It's officially been 1 year since the first commit to dependency-management-data (DMD), from the humble beginnings of trying to answer "what Open Source contributions should we do for Hacktoberfest". For those who aren't aware, I describe dependency-management-data as: Dependency … | Continue reading
A busy week, and trying to make my way through my dependency-management-data talk ahead of State of Open Con in a couple of weeks, but finding it hard to get into "writing mode": Did a talk at Elastic's Go lightning talks on oapi-codegen alongside Ashutosh, talking about the libr … | Continue reading
In the last couple of days I've been working on providing more metadata about dependencies into dependency-management-data, so you can make more intentional decisions around how you think about your dependency tree. This came out of an interest in getting some insight into gaugin … | Continue reading
I'm excited to announce that as of today, dependency-management-data officially has a logo As well as the image that should be showing ️ there's also a white version: Last year, I asked if anyone had a recommendation for a designer, and was pointed to Andy Carolan, who I've rea … | Continue reading
Earlier today I received a slightly unhelpful message from the vault CLI, which I'd actually received last week, but after a 3 day weekend, I couldn't quite remember what was up with it. With the following shell script snippet: # exported elsewhere VAULT_PATH=kv/path/somewhere # … | Continue reading
The other night, the Star Trek Aegean class starship popped into my head. Then a couple of days later it shows up in my Google News feed Are they in my thoughts, now? Google have also been advertising Shake Shack (in London) to me, which is absolutely something I want (and love) … | Continue reading
Built into GitHub repositories - if enabled - is the Dependency Graph which gives insight into the dependencies that you use, as well as dependencies that use packages that the given repository produces, too. Like many things, it's only as good as the supported ecosystems which c … | Continue reading
Although I've been a big fan of GitLab for years, unfortunately every company I've worked for has been centred around GitHub.com or GitHub Enterprise Server (self-hosted). This means that I've gotten rather used to the way that GitHub does merges, opposed to GitLab. When I recent … | Continue reading
I recently rolled out go-semantic-release on dependency-management-data (DMD) to make managing the changelog a little easier, by taking Conventional Commits and converting them to a much nicer changelog. While dependency-management-data is actively used in production by several o … | Continue reading
I was reminded of the fun of the way the URLs work with my Week Notes when I noticed some 404s in the logs on Monday morning, as I needed to fix it I passed my driving test Was a first time pass - with 7 minors - after ~11 months of driving, mostly one 2 hour lesson a week, but … | Continue reading
If you're a follower of my blog you'll know that just one of the Open Source projects I maintain is the oapi-codegen OpenAPI-to-Go code generator. Last year, we received a feature request to handle the case where a JSON field may be one of three states - unspecified, set to null, … | Continue reading
A (nice) slow start to the new year. Helped next door get the bricks from their fallen wall out of our garden, which was quite a workout 😅 I'm still sore, especially after doing some DIY today too Got my first payment from Tidelift 💸 Ordered some new phone cases f … | Continue reading
A (nice) slow start to the new year. Helped next door get the bricks from their fallen wall out of our garden, which was quite a workout I'm still sore, especially after doing some DIY today too Got my first payment from Tidelift Ordered some new phone cases from Casetify, whic … | Continue reading
If you write shell scripts, you may be familiar with the following header (or some variation) in your script: set -eou pipefail As noted in Use Bash Strict Mode (Unless You Love Debugging) this allows us to: set -e: exit the script on errors set -u: error when undefined variables … | Continue reading
Absolutely loving the various versions of Down Under (original) that are out at the moment, like Luude ft. Colin Hay to this super chill cover that's just popped up on my Spotify Release Radar | Continue reading
In 2023, I listened to 65531.62 minutes (1092.19 hours) of music on Spotify. Top 100 songs Song Title Minutes Elapsed Hours Elapsed Phaeleh - Moving On 325.42 5.42 REAPER - XLR8 - Audioscribe Remix 224.37 3.74 Phaeleh - Dreaming 212.35 3.54 Phaeleh - Breathe in Air 198.9 3.3 … | Continue reading
Overall traffic This year Last year Number of visits 389052 363136 Number of articles 90 143 Number of blogumentation articles 65 109 Traffic across the year Most popular pages Page Pageviews Unique pageviews /posts/2022/03/10/spring-failed-applicationcontext … | Continue reading
Christmas week and New Year's Eve A lovely Christmas day - good company and food Got some lovely presents 🥰 and some happy folks with their own presents The box of Heroes we took to my parents had full size Twirls Cookie was super sleepy and cuddly while we were sitti … | Continue reading
Posting these late, as it was Christmas Eve, and a busy week following it. A bit of a chilled end to the year at work, and thankfully quiet week of on-call too Found that the traffic to my OIDC thumbprint blog post mentioned last week was due to a discussion on GitLab Had a disap … | Continue reading
Listened to The Business of Open Source | The Common Catch-22s of Open-Source Startups with Bob van Luijt Post details Bob van Luijt is the CEO and Founder of Weaviate, an open-source vector database company that helps contribute to the advancement of AI technology. Throughout … | Continue reading
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Reposted Charlie Stross (@cstross@wandering.shop) Post details stop doing consciousness - brain was never supposed to have "theory of mind" - millions of years development and yet no real world use found for having self-recognition in mirrors - "please transfer internal cogniti … | Continue reading
Reposted Tom Sullivan (@TomSullivan@mstdn.social) Post details Attached: 1 image Why I prefer Star Trek. | Continue reading
A week of leftovers I've also unfortunately been ill this week 🤒 but it's not (at least infectious) COVID so that's good so far Really don't enjoy it, or how my body feels, and having to suddenly rush to the nearest tissues to blow my nose Been a bit achey - also due to … | Continue reading
Reposted mhoye (@mhoye@mastodon.social) Post details "In ancient Greece, as the Achaeans and Trojan armies gather for battle, Paris offers to avert the war and duel Menelaus alone for the hand of Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world. They battle, and though Paris is def … | Continue reading
Reposted hannah (not scary) (@hannah@posts.rat.pictures) Post details Attached: 1 image Time traveling back to 1991 to warn tim berners-lee that his cute little hypertext invention will eventually require me to click on pictures of nightmare broccoli in order to pay a parking t … | Continue reading
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Reposted Johnny Xmas (@j0hnnyxm4s@infosec.exchange) Post details Remember in the 90s when computers screamed every time we connected them to the Internet, and we just thought they were overreacting? | Continue reading
Got the smart meter finally installed Been fun keeping an eye on the usage over the last few days As many other people on GitHub, I got spammed by an invite to the "advent of Vim" organisation, and several related notifications In the public speaking world: I'm on the waitlist t … | Continue reading
Reposted jwz (@jwz@mastodon.social) Post details Someone defended the Plagiarism Machine to me the other day by saying that the people who are going to use it weren't going to pay artists in the first place, they were just going to go to the second page of Image Search and … | Continue reading
Reposted MikeDunnAuthor (@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social) Post details Attached: 1 image | Continue reading
Reposted Pavel A. Samsonov (@PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social) Post details Attached: 1 image happy stylish but illegal ikea monkey day to those who celebrate | Continue reading
Reposted Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (@luckytran@med-mastodon.com) Post details Attached: 1 image If you want to know how the #COP28 UN Climate Change Conference is going, this post says it all... | Continue reading