Reposted Hazel Weakly (@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io) Post details Question for OSS maintainers: what’s the most audacious work a company has ever asked you to do for free? I’ve heard of some projects being asked to fill out security questionnaires for free, but I don’t have a firsth … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 24 days ago

Bookmarked Ludic's Guide To Getting Software Engineering Jobs — Ludicity Post details | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 25 days ago

I'm interested in attending Developers Developers Developers @ London · Luma Post details Developers Developers Developers is a new event for startup founders, builders, and investors focused on creating tools and products for developers. If you’re… | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 25 days ago

Bookmarked The Ideal Candidate Will Be Punched In the Stomach Post details The description suggests that this is some kind of extended metaphor about work. It appears to be written in that _Choose Your Own Adventure_ style second-person voice, yet there are no choices to be found … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 25 days ago

Listened to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deadlock/id1511456063?i=1000504927994 . | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 27 days ago

Listened to Building for application developers with Anurag Goel, Founder & CEO of Render (Changelog Interviews #630) Post details Anurag Goel, Founder/CEO of Render, joins Adam to discuss what they're doing to solve cloud problems for application developers. They just raised $80 … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 27 days ago

Listened to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/investigations/id1511456063?i=1000504246200 . | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 28 days ago

Listened to https://fallthrough.transistor.fm/episodes/tools-we-love . | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 28 days ago

Listened to Cup o' Go | 🧮 Is new math in Go's future? Plus boot.dev update with Lane Wagner Post details 🛡️ Security releasesgolang.org/x/crypto v0.35.0golang.org/x/oauth2 v0.27.0ProposalsAccepted: net/http: support content negotiation🧮 Likely accept: math … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 28 days ago

Listened to 99 Dev Problems with Alex C. Berk | Podcast Episode on RSS.com Post details In this heartfelt episode of 99 Dev Problems, Tessa Kriesel sits down with Alex C. Berk, a seasoned front-end developer at Shipium, to explore his journey through tech, the challenges of scali … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 29 days ago

Reposted Mina Markham (@minamarkh.am) Post details Every time I’m forced to see Trump’s or Musk’s face I deserve compensation. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 29 days ago

Reposted ✿ ✿ ✿ (@laurabxth.bsky.social) Post details can't overthink if u don’t think at all | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Listened to Change my mind (Changelog & Friends #81) Post details Jerod and Adam use Chris Kiehl's post on development topics he's changed his mind on (over the last 10 years) as a proxy for discussion on dev things they HAVE and HAVE NOT changed their minds on. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Week Notes 25#08

A bit of a busy week: Was nice to chat with Tessa Kriesel on Monday, about one of her current clients, but also some more general chat Had a nice catch up with the Capital One folks on Wednesday My post Some useful SQL(ite) tips I've learned appeared on /r/SQLite and Hacker News … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Folks may be interested to see that I've now got an RSS feed for my salary page, which is also on the Fediverse via @www.jvt.me.salary in case y'all wanna know when there are any updates to it đź‘€ | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Creating single-purpose RSS feeds with Hugo

Tonight I've added a new couple of RSS feeds to my website - one for my /salary/ page and one for my /now page - for two pages that folks may want to keep an eye on more easily. Because it was a little awkward to set up the feeds, I ended up wanting to write it up as a form of bl … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Listened to Programming with LLMs featuring David Crawshaw (Changelog Interviews #629) Post details For the past year, David Crawshaw has intentionally sought ways to use LLMs while programming, in order to learn about them. He now regularly use LLMs while working and considers t … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Listened to Open source and licensing with Heather Meeker (Request For Commits #9) Post details Heather Meeker joined the show to talk about open source licensing, why open source licenses are historically significant, how much developers really need to know, and how much develop … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Creating a test harness for validating Renovate Custom Datasource configuration

As I've written about before, I'm a big fan of Renovate. This last week, I've properly got stuck into Renovate's new Custom Datasources functionality, which have been great. Sebastian has written about them in the past and I'd recommend reading it for the full background on what … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Listened to Jessie Frazelle on Maintaining Open Source, Docker, dotfiles (Go Time #11) Post details Jessie Frazelle joins us this week to talk about being an open source maintainer, Docker's pull request acceptance workflow, dotfiles, getting started with public speaking. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Listened to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/warp-particles/id1511456063 . | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Listened to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lifesigns/id1511456063 . | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Reposted Filippo Valsorda (@filippo.abyssdomain.expert) Post details As I sit home with a terrible cold, I can’t help but be pissed that we decided as a society that we’re just cool with getting sick. We applied technology to water-borne and food-borne illness, and you generally … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Reposted Bluesky Post details | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Listened to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/death-wish/id1511456063 . | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

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@jvt.me | 1 month ago

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@jvt.me | 1 month ago

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@jvt.me | 1 month ago

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@jvt.me | 1 month ago

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@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Listened to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/resistance/id1511456063 . | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Reposted Will Bunch (@willbunch.bsky.social) Post details I can't find the right words for how disgusting this is [contains quote post or other embedded content] | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Listened to Cup o' Go | The strength of Go in the job market , and some stress relief with Carlos Becker Post details ️ Security pre-release announcements, update on Monday, Feb 24golang.org/x/oauth2golang.org/x/cryptoBlog: State of the startup and scaleup hiring markets b … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Listened to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cold-fire/id1511456063 . | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

I will be attending Batch Bunch #0003 · Luma Post details We're excited to welcome you back to Batch Bunch on Monday, 10th March (7:00pm - 9:00pm) at The Dice Cup (68-70 Mansfield Rd, Nottingham NG1 3GY). Bring along… | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Listened to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tattoo/id1511456063 . | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Listened to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/persistence-of-vision/id1511456063 . | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Listened to https://fallthrough.transistor.fm/episodes/ghosttying-go . | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Week Notes 25#07

Appeared in A Semana Go and Architecture Nugget, and saw some traffic via Twitch, too Booked a week away for my birthday 🚀 Upgraded my GPU - went from my Titan X (Pascal) (that I bought with my starting bonus at Capital One) and upgraded to an AMD 7900 XTX (NITRO+ AMD Rad … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Product requirements for a "fund your dependency tree" service

While at State of Open Con, I had a great evening out with Andy Williams, and one of the topics we discussed at length was Open Source software funding. Realising that I actually had a number of ideas around how to approach this - in particular from a product point of view - I th … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Listened to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jetrel/id1511456063 . | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Listened to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/faces/id1511456063 . | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Reposted Kefimochi (@kefimochi.bsky.social) Post details They should invent a job that doesn’t burn you out | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Listened to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cathexis/id1511456063 . | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Listened to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/heroes-and-demons/id1511456063 . | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Listened to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/state-of-flux/id1511456063 . | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Listened to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prime-factors/id1511456063 . | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago

Reposted Bluesky Post details | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 1 month ago