Reposted Marco Rogers (@polotek@social.polotek.net) Post details In my experience as a manager and leader, I spend a lot of time trying to get engineers to care more about business outcomes than technical issues. Not because I think the technical issues don't matter. But because … | Continue reading
Reposted Dan Hon (@danhon@dan.mastohon.com) Post details Just realised Sam Altman is the Willy Wonka of AI. | Continue reading
Reposted VM (Vicky) Brasseur (@vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com) Post details The UK helped usher in the coal era — now it’s closing its last remaining plant The Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottinghamshire is slated to close on September 30th, marking the end of coal power … | Continue reading
Reposted https://mastodon.apievangelist.com/@api/113194038535310459 . | Continue reading
Reposted unimplemented!("free the imagination") (@jalcine@todon.eu) Post details I left the Social Web working group because of the eagerness of allowing known endorsements of digital violence having a say in the development of it. And now it's also a big sponsor of the new Found … | Continue reading
Reposted @javi Post details Ok, I should be sleeping right now, but what's happening is SO FUCKING CRAZY.Long story short: WPEngine is suing Matt Mullenweg, Automattic and the WordPress foundation for slandering them. In return, Matt is suing them for trademark violation.But, BUT … | Continue reading
Reposted Phil Sturgeon (@Philsturgeon@mastodon.green) Post details AI, taking complex topics and fucking them up, giving people bad information that’ll get them killed, all for the low low price of more energy and water than we have to spare. This is such a waste of time. https:/ … | Continue reading
Listened to Ep 258: Phil Dunster | Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster Post details Listen to Ep 258: Phil Dunster from Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. Ted Lasso’s Jamie Tartt (doo-doo-da-doo-da-doo), Phil Dunster, introduces some new vocabulary to the Dream Rest … | Continue reading
Listened to #103 Carolyn Stransky’s DevJourney Podcast Interview by Tim Bourguignon Post details #103 Carolyn Stransky learning her way from journalist to developer and back | Continue reading
I'm very excited to be speaking at DTX London next week, at DevOps Exchange's talks takeover.\n\nI'll be talking about Quantifying your reliance on Open Source software and how you can use dependency-management-data to gain some really interesting insights into your dependency da … | Continue reading
So we got a new TV, but naturally I didn't end up measuring the TV and the TV stand quite as closely as you would have expected 🫣 | Continue reading
Listened to Open Source Security Podcast: Episode 447 - The Tidelift 2024 open source maintainer report Post details and talk about the 2024 Tidelift maintainer report. The report is pretty big and covers a ton of ground. We focus in a few of the statistics that should worry anyo … | Continue reading
Listened to Engineering Enablement by Abi Noda | Spotify’s failed #SquadGoals | Jeremiah Lee (Spotify, Stripe) Post details What parts of the Spotify Squad Model were challenging, and advice for leadings considering adopting the model. | Continue reading
Reposted Joan Westenberg (@Daojoan@mastodon.social) Post details If I’ve learned one thing from 15 years in tech it’s that men can be in the arena trying stuff and it ain’t matter how many times they fuck up but women have to land fully formed and perfect beyond reproach or they’ … | Continue reading
Reposted Molly White (@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io) Post details Attached: 2 images representation is important. thank you unicode team. | Continue reading
A busy week ahead of a week off: A very busy on-call week, as well as trying to close things off before holiday I ended up getting my first page (at Elastic) and realised that my PagerDuty setup did not have the "do not disturb" bypass on 🫣 Fortunately I was at my desk, i … | Continue reading
I will be attending OggCamp 2024 Post details On Saturday, Oct 12 2024 | Continue reading
Listened to Linux distros with Jorge Castro (Ship It! #122) Post details uBlue is trying to build the world's best Linux experience for developers and gamers. Jorge Castro joins Justin & Autumn to tell us how it's going. | Continue reading
Listened to Kaizen! Just do it with Gerhard Lazu (Changelog & Friends #62) Post details Gerhard Lazu joins us for Kaizen 16! Our Pipe Dream™️ is becoming a reality, our custom feeds are shipping, our deploys are rolling out faster & our tooling is getting `just` right. | Continue reading
This afternoon, I had a great conversation with Kin Lane, aka the API Evangelist, about API Versioning on the API Evangelist Conversation podcast. I've followed Kin's blog for years now - who manages to put out almost double the content I'm able to, which is a good goal to strive … | Continue reading
Last year I wrote about how you can use Renovate's local platform to make renovate-graph more efficient, which has been very useful for work I've been doing with dependency-management-data. What I didn't do was also write about how you're able to use Renovate'slocal platform to t … | Continue reading
We generally build APIs for automated integrations, not for humans to read them. Although you as a human will look at the raw API request/response formats at some point, the ideal case is that you'll only be doing this as a much smaller percentage of the time that the API is call … | Continue reading
A fairly busy week, and Stanley came to stay for the weekend: Very cool to see Jane Wickline joining the SNL cast - very deserved! The Big TDM game mode in Apex Legends was super fun, with fully kitted out weapons, and an abundance of care package weapons but sad it left after on … | Continue reading
Reposted heapwolf (@heapwolf@fosstodon.org) Post details [me]: ok, lets try something simple, just add this one thing. [chatgpt]: ok, I sort of did that so that it it looks mostly right, but I also randomly removed subtly important details that will definitely break everything, g … | Continue reading
Listened to Reverse rug pull, so cool? (Changelog & Friends #61) Post details Jerod & Adam share our Zulip first impressions, react to Elasticsearch going open source (again), discuss Christian Hollinger's blog post on why he still self-hosts & answer a listener question: how do … | Continue reading
Listened to E135: Riding the Homebrew Wave by Open Source Startup Podcast Post details John Britton & Mike McQuaid are Co-Founders of Workbrew, the company that provides additional features and support for companies using Homebrew. Homebrew's main project, brew, is a wildly popul … | Continue reading
Listened to Chad Whitacre on OSS Pledge by SustainOSS Post details Chad talks about sustaining open source, Sentry’s OSS Pledge, funding initiatives, and strategies to support open-source projects. | Continue reading
Listened to The Business of Open Source | Feature prioritization and customers' perceived value with Brad Micklea and Jesse Williams Post details This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Jesse Williams and Brad Micklea, co-founders of Jozu and each with a long histo … | Continue reading
GitHub has the concept of nested teams to make it possible to say manage hierarchical access in your organisation. This can be really useful for indicating cases where i.e. you would expect all of your engineering team to be able to access specific repositories, instead of provid … | Continue reading
Listened to "Kristen Bell" on Where Everybody Knows Your Name Post details Ted Danson is thrilled to introduce Woody Harrelson to his dear friend Kristen Bell! Woody is curious about her anti-aging methods plus her fateful meet cute with hubby Dax Shepard. Kristen shares how she … | Continue reading
Listened to "Will Arnett" on Where Everybody Knows Your Name Post details Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson are reunited, and it feels so... nerve-wracking? For their first episode, the guys are joined by one of the funniest people they know, Will Arnett. Will gives them some podcas … | Continue reading
I will be attending https://www.dtxevents.io/london-line-up/agenda/#/seminars/devops-exchange-meetup-talk-quantifying-your-reliance-on-open-source-software . | Continue reading
Listened to Starbucks DVD peddlers with Emily Freeman & Justin Garrison (Changelog & Friends #60) Post details Emily Freeman joins the show alongside our Ship It co-host, Justin Garrison! We hear Emily's burnout story & learn how she and Forrest Brazeal are putting tech-focused i … | Continue reading
Listened to The Business of Open Source | The Importance of Clear Frameworks for Product vs Project with Jimmy Zelinskie Post details This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Jimmy Zelinskie, co-founder and CPO of Authzed, which is behind SpiceDB. We kicked off the … | Continue reading
Listened to Cup o' Go | Do Androids Dream of Electric Gophers? New Go releases & interview with Elliott Minns Post details Go 1.23.1 & 1.22.7 released🚫 Proposal accepted: encoding/json: add omitzero optionEpisode 34: Interview with Joe Tsai about encoding/json/v2✍️ script … | Continue reading
Listened to The Fork in the Road: Understanding Community Dynamics | Open at Intel by PodBean Development Post details Taylor Dolezal from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation discusses his role as the Head of Ecosystem, working closely with end-users implementing CNCF projects. … | Continue reading
You know it's not a great start to your week when, after a long weekend, you set your work laptop running through updates and it crashes part-way through the install process. After a reboot, it ends up not even detecting Arch's install, and only allows you to reboot into the BIOS … | Continue reading
A short week ahead of Cat's wedding 🥰 Cookie didn't make it to daycare on Monday as she was poorly, but was luckily better by the end of the week Got a soft block from Swyx because I called out his use of a slur on his alt 🤷🏼 Had a good quarterly conversat … | Continue reading
Listened to Episode 410: Guaranteed cost-of-living raises and my manager doesn't like me by Jamison Dance and Dave Smith Post details It takes more than great code to be a great engineer. Soft Skills Engineering is a weekly advice podcast for software developers about the non-tec … | Continue reading
Reposted C J Silverio (@ceejbot@toot.cat) Post details So: Mu. Ask a different question. You have dependencies. You will always have them. Choose them thoughtfully. Invent where it matters most to you, and re-use where it does not, and where you can benefit from somebody else's c … | Continue reading
Reposted Jens Bannmann (@tynstar@nerdculture.de) Post details @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange That EU law does not require a #CookieBanner unless the web site wants to track your clicks or sell your data. Because people do not understand this, they think "stupid EU law" instead of … | Continue reading
Listened to Unlocking Developer Potential | Open at Intel by PodBean Development Post details Katherine speaks with Demetris Cheatham, the Chief of Staff to the CEO of GitHub, about her unique perspective on the open source landscape. The discussion covers her experiences in vari … | Continue reading
Listened to FLOSS Weekly: Episode 799: Still Open Source at Percona Post details This week Jonathan chats with Lori Lorusso and Steve Hoffman, the Head of Community and SVP of engineering at Percona, the open source database experts. - You can join the conversation in , watc … | Continue reading
Reposted Midjourney Sanders (@selfsame@tiny.tilde.website) Post details no no no *you* can't freely scan through the collected works of humanity, that right is reserved for the large language models. | Continue reading
Reposted Heather Buchel (@hbuchel@hachyderm.io) Post details Also, if you're like me, and were raised to scoff at people who needed to hire cleaning services as it is a "rich lazy" person thing, I urge you to absolutely let go of that. The last two years I've been incredibly burn … | Continue reading
As I've mentioned before, the fact that it's September means that it's almost October, and October primarily means one thing for me: Hacktoberfest 🎃👕👚🎽 Two years ago, the precursor to dependency-management-data was created as part of the blog post … | Continue reading
Reposted Hacktoberfest (@hacktoberfest@hachyderm.io) Post details Get ready to celebrate open-source once again with Hacktoberfest! Whether you're going to be creating pull/merge requests, maintaining a participating project, or hosting a community event, check out the site for a … | Continue reading
Listened to GitHub’s Mike Hanley and Transforming the “Dept. of No” Into the "Dept. of Yes, And…” - What's in the SOSS? An OpenSSF Podcast Post details In this episode, Omkhar chats with Mike Hanley, Chief Security Officer and SVP of Engineering at GitHub. Prior to GitHub, Mike w … | Continue reading