Listened to 5000 Walmart stores in 2 months with Martin Jackson (Ship It! #115) Post details Deploying new applications can be tough. Deploying configuration management safely at scale with stores around the world is different. Martin Jackson joins us to discuss. | Continue reading
Bookmarked Blog Posts vs. Social Posts by Jim Nielsen Post details Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web. | Continue reading
A busy week with a few days of work, GopherCon UK, and then a (long) weekend up North with Anna's family: Cookie was rather worried by the thunderstorms 🥺 but she was OK in the end This week was my first anniversary at Elastic 🎉 A busy-ish start to the week, ahead … | Continue reading
Reposted Dana Fried (@tess@mastodon.social) Post details Fuck everyone who uses "unalive" with zero sense of irony. Fucking socmed algorithm brain poisoning. Say "kill". Say "murder". Say "suicide". Say "rape". Say "pedophile". Say what you mean. If people need to not see or hear … | Continue reading
Reposted I Draw Porn :over18: (@Gulfie@yiff.life) Post details Remember to keep pirating Disney content so they aren't allowed to kill your wife | Continue reading
Reposted Jonathan Schofield (@urlyman@mastodon.social) Post details Not sure Tim Berners-Lee’s vision was to have 148 requests transfer 5.3 MB of assets to deliver 15 KB of text #pollution | Continue reading
Listened to The Business of Open Source | Testing 17 different income streams with Per Ploug Krogslund Post details This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Per Ploug Krogslund, who is currently senior director of developer programs at Docker, and who previously had … | Continue reading
It was my first GopherCon, and I had a great time. There were some great talks, great people, great food, some great swag and a very perfectly chosen hotel! I'd wanted to go last year, but it was my first week at Elastic, and I don't think it would've been a good look 🫣 Y … | Continue reading
Bookmarked Leaving Twitter for New Frontiers Post details Replacing Twitter is not a task for a few—it is a barn raising that the entire social community must undertake together. Here’s my tips for joining this change. | Continue reading
Listened to Going flat with ESLint with (Josh Goldberg) { (JS Party #332) Post details Josh Goldberg joins Nick & Chris to discuss the latest updates from ESLint, typescript-eslint & the new flat config format. They also discuss creating reusable configs & project generators befo … | Continue reading
Listened to The Business of Open Source | Creating an ecosystem with Ashraf Samhouri Post details This week on the The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Ashraf Samhouri, the CEO and co-founder of Activepieces. Activepieces didn’t start as an open source company — and we start … | Continue reading
Reposted daniel:// stenberg:// (@bagder@mastodon.social) Post details Attached: 1 image It is Friday after all | Continue reading
Reposted NanoRaptor (@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social) Post details Attached: 1 image You've tested positive for everything. | Continue reading
Listened to When You Have to Fork a Project: All About Valkey | Open at Intel by PodBean Development Post details In this episode, Madelyn Olson, a maintainer of the Valkey project and an AWS engineer, joins us to discuss the life of an open source maintainer and the experiences … | Continue reading
Listened to https://www.hanselminutes.com/957/decoding-tech-influencers-with-emily-freeman . | Continue reading
Got myself a very cute and cool Gopher plushie at #GopherConUK today, and been having an interesting day so far 🤓 | Continue reading
I've written before about my usage of the BSPWM tiling window manager, which goes hand in hand with Simple X HotKey Daemon (SXHKD). I noticed earlier that while trying to set a SXHKD binding, I suddenly stopped being able to trigger the creation of a window via the keybinding. Fo … | Continue reading
I've written before about my usage of the BSPWM tiling window manager. One thing I've recently been looking at doing setting up a "scratch pad" style setup to launch my local SQL workflow so I can query my local instance of data from dependency-management-data, especially for ad- … | Continue reading
Reposted Ellie (batteries not included) (@SehrLesbisch@chaos.social) Post details Attached: 1 image | Continue reading
Listened to Open Source is Critical Infrastructure | Open at Intel by PodBean Development Post details In this episode, we chat with Luis Villa, co-founder of Tidelift, about everything from supporting open source maintainers to coding with AI. Luis, a former programmer turned at … | Continue reading
Listened to Ben Cotton on Program Management for Open Source Projects by SustainOSS Post details Ben talks about his book, "Program Management for Open Source Projects", intentional program management and AI's impact on inclusivity in open source. | Continue reading
As you may have noticed - unless you're an RSS-only reader, in which case, you may want to click through to see this page - I recently revamped my site design. As part of this, one of the things I needed to do was to make sure that the new design worked on the various pages and b … | Continue reading
Listened to Big shoes to fill (Go Time #326) Post details Kris, Angelica & Johnny react to the recently announced Go team changes, discuss the finding that 80% of developers surveyed by Stack Overflow are unhappy & disagree about the concept of tech debt (but agree that something … | Continue reading
Listened to What's in the SOSS? An OpenSSF Podcast Post details What's in the SOSS? features the sharpest minds in security as they dig into the challenges and opportunities that create a recipe for success in making software more secure. Get a taste of all the ingredients t … | Continue reading
Reposted Terence Eden (@Edent@mastodon.social) Post details Hey you! Yes! *YOU!* Come to #OggCamp in Manchester - October 12-13. It's a delightfully nerdy open source / open culture conference. Meet new friends, give new talks, learn new things. Tickets available now - https://og … | Continue reading
Listened to Cup o' Go | 📊 While we wait for Go 1.23, we discuss the latest Stack Overflow survey results Post details For Patreon, Swag, past episodes, and more, visit 🔗 https://cupogo.dev/!🏛️ Go 1.22.6 & 1.21.13 released 🕵️ CVE-2024-24790 explaine … | Continue reading
Finalised my site's new CSS, which I'm pretty happy with so far My episode of Go Time came out Was a good listen, and hope others enjoy it - so far it's had ~14k listens I spent a few days refreshing my feeds, waiting for it to drop, only for it to appear during the 45 minutes I … | Continue reading
Listened to OpenAPI & API Design with Jamie Tanna (Go Time #328) Post details We're talking OpenAPI this week! Kris & Johnny are joined by Jamie Tanna, one of the maintainers of oapi-codegen, to discuss OpenAPI, API design philosophies, versioning, and open source maintenance and … | Continue reading
I'm very excited to announce I'm on my first episode of the ever awesome Go Time podcast, on today's episode, OpenAPI + API Design. As I mentioned in Learning a new language, or how I gained familiarity with Go I started regularly listening to Go Time as I started to learn Go whe … | Continue reading
Listened to The Kubernetes of Lambda with Bailey Hayes & Taylor Thomas (Ship It! #110) Post details Bailey Hayes & Taylor Thomas from Cosmonic join the show for a look at WebAssembly Standard Interfaces (WASI) and trade-offs for portable interfaces. | Continue reading
Listened to Open Source Security Podcast: Episode 440 - "What is open source" talk Josh gave Post details and talk about a presentation Josh recently gave that was supposed to be about how open source works. The talk was the wrong topic for a security crowd, but there's a lot of … | Continue reading
Listened to https://maintainable.fm/episodes/julia-ferraioli-capturing-untold-open-source-stories-f2SYiruq . | Continue reading
Reposted phillmv (@phillmv@hachyderm.io) Post details @simon@simonwillison.net every now and then i feel like im taking crazy pills because i remember when aaron swartz killed himself because he was going to go to jail forever because he scraped JSTOR, and eleven years later your … | Continue reading
It's been just over four years since my last significant site redesign, and today I'm releasing a new site update. This isn't as significant an update, and retains the layout that I've been using since then, but replaces a lot of the theming. In recent years I've been deprioritis … | Continue reading
Bookmarked Versioning as Communication Post details Talking through why choosing a versioning scheme is of vital importance and why SemVer is the best option for most. | Continue reading
Over the last couple of days I've been - after a long hiatus - making some tweaks to my Hugo site's theme. I've hit an issue on both my laptop and (newly fresh installed Arch) PC, so it's worth writing it as a form of blogumentation. I was finding that modifications to any SCSS f … | Continue reading
Reposted Foone🏳️⚧️ (@foone@digipres.club) Post details The problem with being a programmer with ADHD is that it's often more fun to build a chainsaw from scratch than it is to chop down a tree by hand with an axe. | Continue reading
Reposted Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (@luckytran@med-mastodon.com) Post details An important lesson is that you can never easily tell who is “vulnerable” to COVID. Olympic champions are at risk from COVID. In different ways COVID poses a risk to all of us. This is why it’s importan … | Continue reading
A warm week An expensive week: Bought a new fan for my office - the Dyson tower fan I won at Capital One in ~2018 has been feeling lacking in comparison to the Meaco fans we've had from Costco, and after a toasty couple of days decided to splurge on another, and it's made an incr … | Continue reading
Listened to From Chef to System Initiative featuring Adam Jacob (Changelog & Friends #55) Post details Adam Jacob goes solo with Adam for an epic pod into his journey to get to System Initiative. From SysAdmin at 8 years old, to discovering Linux and working for Mom-and-pop I … | Continue reading
Reposted Jeff (@overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social) Post details I used "crowdstrike" as a verb at work today, to paraphrase: "CI is broken because github crowdstruck us with a bad rust compiler update". AKA: usable any time an automatic update from a vendor breaks your infrastru … | Continue reading
Listened to A Nick-level emergency (JS Party #333) Post details Node.js makes big TypeScript & SQLite moves, ECMAScript 2024 adds some niceties to the language (but not the ones you're probably excited for) & we review the State of React 2023 results. Emergency?! Nick … | Continue reading
Listened to Cup o' Go | 🎮 BDFL but drop the FL, Game Development, and more! Post details For Patreon, Swag, past episodes, and more, visit https://cupogo.dev/!🫡 Leadership Transition in the Go Project🧑⚖️ ProposalsAccepted: Adding Text() to the crypto/rand … | Continue reading
Listened to The SQLite Takeover with Turso’s Glauber Costa - Syntax #803 Post details Glauber Costa discusses Terso, a distributed SQLite platform getting attention for its managed service and LibSQL fork enabling new architectures. | Continue reading
Listened to Cup o' Go | Don't skip the gym! 🏋️ And interview Alice Merrick, UX researcher on the Go team Post details 📝 Go 1.23: Interactive release notesNew proposalsruntime: add AddCleanup and deprecate SetFinalizer👉 weak: new package providing weak poin … | Continue reading
Listened to Open is the way with Joseph Jacks (JJ), Founder of OSS Capital (Changelog Interviews #602) Post details Joseph Jacks (JJ) is back! We discuss the latest in COSS funding, his thesis for investing in commercial open source companies, the various rug pulls happening out … | Continue reading
Listened to The man behind the Sandwich featuring Adam Lisagor (Changelog Interviews #601) Post details Adam Lisagor (Sandwich Video founder) takes us behind the Sandwich to share his insights into the importance of storytelling in the tech industry, the value of helping Founders … | Continue reading