Reposted SysAdmin1138 (@sysadmin1138@octodon.social) Post details Content warning: AI snark | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 11 months ago

Reposted Michael Porter (@MichaelPorter@ottawa.place) Post details Okay, #ADHD folks - what symptom suddenly makes sense, now that you understand ADHD better? I'm not talking about general stuff, like difficulty concentrating, I'm talking about specific phenomena, like … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 11 months ago

Reposted Andy Piper (@andypiper@macaw.social) Post details OpenUK @openuk@hachyderm.io is asking for volunteers to help to run State of Open 2024 - a celebration of open technologies (#opensource software, hardware, and data) in #London in early February. You get to attend the … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 11 months ago

Reposted Toby (@tosbourn@masto.ai) Post details Attached: 1 image We and the 776 companies we share your data with care about your privacy. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 11 months ago

Reposted Coral (@coral@code4lib.social) Post details Attached: 1 image 🤠 | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 11 months ago

You can now interact with dependency-management-data using GraphQL

When I first started working on dependency-management-data, I wanted to hold off creating an API for the data until I really understood how it'd be used. I instead focussed on improving the database layer, focussing on the actual data, and understanding what was commonly queried, … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 11 months ago

Week Notes 23#48

Been very chilly this week, so been glad to have my thermals, and been enjoying wearing longjohns too It was Giving Tuesday at work, so felt good to - finally get around - donate some money to Crisis and Framework Realised I forgot to submit a talk to the Go devroom at FOSDEM Bu … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 11 months ago

Reposted Karl Higley (@karlhigley@recsys.social) Post details I can’t let you remove that, it’s a load bearing organizational delusion | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 12 months ago

Reposted ~Tilde #Gartenzaun (@TildeGartenzaun@mastodon.social) Post details Attached: 1 image #fediverse #mastodon #bluesky #bsky | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 12 months ago

Reposted Torstein Krause Johansen (@skybert@emacs.ch) Post details Attached: 1 image Nice new feature in Firefox: Copy link without site tracking parameters. Well done, @FirefoxNightly@mozilla.social #firefox #privacy | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 12 months ago

Week Notes 23#47

Been pretty chilly here this week, especially this weekend, so it's been nice having my thermals and actually layering up properly for a change, as well as having the heating on a little bit extra some nights My first week of on call - quiet, as expected for my team, but was stil … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 12 months ago

Reposted KOHN der baba (@kohnzn@chaos.social) Post details Attached: 1 video phone falls from plane | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 12 months ago

Reposted Smudge The Insult Cat (@SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to) Post details Attached: 1 image | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 12 months ago

You can now use Open Policy Agent with dependency-management-data

A couple of months ago I wrote about how I find the Custom Advisories functionality in dependency-management-data to be really great. It makes it possible to flag up usage of libraries that for instance are internally deprecated or not supported, and allows folks running dependen … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Reposted Go Devroom @ FOSDEM (@godevroom@fosstodon.org) Post details Attached: 1 image We cannot promise it won’t rain at FOSDEM… But if a very good hot chocolate and many Gophers can convince you to submit a talk all the better!! Psst 10 days left: https://github.com/go-devroo … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Reposted Astatide (@astatide@hachyderm.io) Post details All the people they laid off, but here’s a guy who, to my knowledge, is just a VC tech kid and not an expert, who openly follows a “philosopher” who blatantly believes _Black people are not as smart as white people_ and th … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Reposted Shubheksha (@ScribblingOn@octodon.social) Post details Everyone: AI is the future, let’s gooooo Open ai: not so fast, hold my beer | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Reposted Joan Westenberg (@Daojoan@mastodon.social) Post details The biggest mistake I have made as a creator is letting my ego, my ambition and the shallowness of social media convince me that I had an "Audience" instead of a network. It's a self centred worldview that str … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Listened to Backslashes are trash featuring Mat Ryer (Changelog & Friends #21) Post details Mat Ryer returns with his guitar, an unpopular opinion & his favorite internet virus. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Reposted FOSDEM (@fosdem@fosstodon.org) Post details Presentations - Call for Participation https://fosdem.org/2024/news/2023-11-20-call-for-presentations/ | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Reposted tedtofurkynski¹ (@shrugdealer@kolektiva.social) Post details Attached: 1 image Kill the capitalist in your head. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Week Notes 23#46

The end of our holiday: Was a bit of an odd last day, not really having too much time, and the bus to the airport being a little late, on top of the boarding passes not matching our names Sleeping on my somewhat sunburnt side was a little bit annoying The sun caught me during t … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Week Notes 23#45

Holiday Was a warm few days in Gran Canaria and I got a good bit of a tan ☀ Very nice to have our first holiday away since pre-COVID, and especially our first proper time off from Cookie - as much as we love her, it's nice to be just us Ended up getting both our names wrong o … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Reposted JP (@byjp@hachyderm.io) Post details Is there an #opensource backed standard for annotating others’ webpages? I’m thinking specifically being able to tag others’ sites with #IndieWeb h-cards (eg. Adding machine readable event tags to pages like this: https://www.ewanbl … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Introducing `snyk-export-sbom` to export SPDX and CycloneDX SBOM from Snyk

I've written about Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) a fair bit recently and how they can be used to get more insight into your project's dependencies As part of starting to use Snyk at work, I've been looking at how to integrate Snyk's data alongside dependency-management-data, … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Week Notes 23#44

After the success with Morph coming into the living room, we set up a blanket and bit of privacy on the bar stools, and so he's spent most of the week there Bit of truffling by himself, and he's been really happy Finalised the work required for dependency-management-data to inte … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Using dependency-management-data with npm's SPDX and CycloneDX SBOM export functionality

In today's DevOps Weekly, it was mentioned that npm recently added support for exporting Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs). This was shipped as part of npm's v10.2.0 release at the beginning of October, which we can use via: # either npm sbom --sbom-format spdx > renovate-graph. … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Introducing `renovate-to-sbom` to convert Renovate data to Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs)

Over the last few months building dependency-management-data, I've been playing around with the great data from Renovate via renovate-graph, as well as Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs). One thing early on in the dependency-management-data project was considering generating Soft … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Listened to Google, Startups, and Gophercises with Jon Calhoun - Ardan Labs Podcast Post details Jon Calhoun creates interactive Go courses for developers looking to learn the language through curated projects specially made to construct a sound foundation of understanding.&nbs … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

YES - Fox Stevenson Remix is such a bop | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

So after 14 hours and at least one time it's restarted from scratch, I still haven't had the new #ApexLegends season patch install | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

dependency-management-data now supports OSS Review Toolkit (ORT)

A couple of weeks ago, I received a feature request on dependency-management-data to add support for the OSS Review Toolkit (ORT). I really appreciated this, as it introduced me to an awesome project I'd not yet heard of, as well as being something that the maintainers felt that … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Week Notes 23#43

Woke up on Monday not feeling particularly great after feeling it coming over the weekend, so took Monday as a sick day, and a chilled day definitely helped This weekend I've been feeling under the weather again 🤧 Hoping that it'll be out of me in the next couple of days … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Listened to FOSSY 2023 with Richard Littauer by SustainOSS  Post details Richard delves into his evolving perspective on sustainability in open-source projects, advocating for a shift towards values such as human rights, joy, and mitigating harm. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Listened to Cup o' Go | Home on the Range over ints and funcs & ️ Go security with Juho Nurminen Post details Thank you to this week's sponsor, Backend Banter!ProposalsAccepted: spec: add range over int, range over funcRange over int targeted for Go 1.22Range over func … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Reposted Autonomie und Solidarität (@autonomysolidarity@todon.eu) Post details Attached: 1 image | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Reposted https://hachyderm.io/@mzbat@infosec.exchange/111302268780072867 . | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Listened to ANTHOLOGY — The way of open source with Matthew Sanabria, Nithya Ruff & Jordan Harband at ATO 2023 (Changelog Interviews #563) Post details This week we’re taking you to the hallway track of All Things Open 2023 in Raleigh, NC. Today’s episode features: Matthew … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Performing a v2 release of a Go module

On Wednesday, I'll be releasing oapi-codegen v2, which is my first v2 release of a Go module. To prepare for this I've been practicing doing a v2 release, so thought I'd write about as a form of blogumentation. The changes required aren't too large, we need to: Update the go.mod … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Getting Go modules to work with nested GitLab groups

While trying to test for How to publish a v2 version of a Go library, I found some issues with trying to import the new Go module I was testing with. Via Import private go modules from gitlab and the upstream issue on GitLab, it appears that this is unfortunately a long-standing … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Building resilient, runnable command-line demos with Asciinema and `demo`

In my opinion one of the harder aspects of building command-line tools is crafting demos for your tooling that show off the functionality you've built, and then keeping them up-to-date. This two-fold problem is one that I've recently found a very good solution, and after Changelo … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Importing a subdirectory from one repo into another

When I wrote Merging multiple repositories into a monorepo, while preserving history, using git subtree, I'd found it useful to be able to merge multiple repos into a single one. However, sometimes you don't want the whole repo, but only a subdirectory. (After it being on my TODO … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

How we reduced oapi-codegen's dependency overhead by ~84%

As I announced recently, oapi-codegen, the OpenAPI to Go code generator that I co-maintain, will soon release a v2 release to allow us to reduce the size of the library's dependencies by roughly ~84%. This is a pretty good saving, and has resulted in the following changes: Befo … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Week Notes 23#42

A busy - and cold - week prepping for TechMids It's been very cold this week, and then the end of this week the storm has led to lots of flooding across the country It was TechMids, which was good, nice to meet some folks, catch up with folks I've not seen for some time Some grea … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Plea to Software Composition Analysis (SCA) providers and Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) producers: give us more data!

While working on dependency-management-data, one of the greatest pieces of interesting data was to understand what version of languages such as Node.JS and Ruby teams are running, to then be able to flag up usage of deprecated or end-of-life software, in this case via endoflife.d … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Week Notes 23#41

Had a nice Tuesday evening at Canal House with Tulio, Tushar, Danillo and Lewis, catching up after many years, and nice to see everyone Was cool to hear my blog posts are still solving problems for the org 🤓 Morph came in the living room for a bit on Saturday night while … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Listened to Kaizen! Slightly more instant with Gerhard Lazu (Changelog & Friends #17) Post details Gerhard joins us for the 12th Kaizen and this time talk about what we DIDN’T do. We were holding S3 wrong, we put some cash back in our pockets, we enabled HTTP/3, Brotli comp … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago

Reposted Jaunty Art (@JauntyArt@crispsandwi.ch) Post details Attached: 4 images adultbel pictures I made | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 year ago