Listened to The Business of Open Source | Open source as a privilege of successful businesses with Tom Wilkie Post details This week on The Business of Open Source, I talked with Tom Wilkie, CTO at Grafana Labs. We talked about how he had a 10-month run building a startup before … | Continue reading
Listened to The Business of Open Source | Realistic pros and cons of working with foundations with Mike Milinkovich Post details This week on The Business of Open Source I spoke with Mike Milinkovich, executive director at the Eclipse Foundation. We had a wide-ranging conversatio … | Continue reading
Listened to Open Source Security Podcast: Episode 439 - Where are all the youth in open source? Post details and talk about a story talking about the "graying" of open source. There doesn't seem to be many young people working on open source, but we don't really know why that is. … | Continue reading
Very excited that in a couple of hours I'm on my first episode of @gotime to chat about oapi-codegen, #OpenAPI, Open Source maintenance and Go! | Continue reading
Listened to Deploying on a Friday with Michael Gat (Ship It! #114) Post details Michael Gat joins us for a look back on mainframes & why sometimes deploying on a Friday IS the right thing to do. | Continue reading
I've been trying to call a Google Cloud Run Job with the following arguments: [[{"platform":"...","organisation":"...","repo":"..."}]] I've done this with the following invocation: job_name="..." region="..." project="..." event='[[{"platform":"...","organisation":"...","repo":" … | Continue reading
Listened to What's new in Go 1.23 with Carlana Johnson (Go Time #325) Post details We check out the upcoming 1.23 release for new language features and improvements, including iterator functions and supporting packages. | Continue reading
I've previously written about Spotless being great. I've recently started working with some codebases that use Gradle Dependency Verification which produces an XML file used for ensuring that the files downloaded by each user of the project are the same, to i.e. reduce risk of ma … | Continue reading
Listened to Aha moments reading Go's source: Part 2 with Jesús Espino, Principal Engineer at Mattermost (Go Time #324) Post details Jesús Espino from Mattermost tells Natalie all about (the final four of) his 10 “aha moments” he had reading the Go source code. Don't miss … | Continue reading
There are a number of somewhat esoteric errors you can hit when trying to execute another binary, and as I hit one today that took a bit of thinking, I decided to write it up as a form of blogumentation. exec: {...} exec format error - the executable you're trying to run is for a … | Continue reading
Reposted AstraLuma (@astraluma@tacobelllabs.net) Post details Content warning: Tech culture | Continue reading
Listened to The BSOD CrowdStrikes back with Robert Ross (Changelog & Friends #54) Post details Robert Ross joins us in CrowdStrike's wake to dissect the largest outage in the history of information technology... and what it means for the future of the (software) world. | Continue reading
Memories - A Little Sound, Gray is such a good high energy bop ⚡🎧 | Continue reading
Still a bit sleepy on Monday from my longest drive so far A busy week working towards the Renovate rollout in the next week and a bit, writing lots of (IMO good) documentation, and working to make sure we have the right monitoring and alerting 🤞🏼 Met Carol for din … | Continue reading
Almost 2 years ago (!) I built renovate-graph, a tool to extract the dependency trees for a given repository, which under the hood uses Renovate. I've been getting tonnes of value from it as part of how it fits into the wider dependency-management-data ecosystem, and providing mo … | Continue reading
Reposted Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror@infosec.exchange) Post details In a perfect world, we wouldn’t need utopias | Continue reading
Over the last week - pretty much since working on how you can use Open Policy Agent and Dependency Management Data to query EndOfLife.date data for internal packages, I've been working on a significant rework of how dependency-management-data performs Policy evaluations. I've jus … | Continue reading
Reposted Dependency Management Data (@DependencyManagementData@botsin.space) Post details Dependency Management Data v0.102.0 is out 🚀 Check out the release notes at https://gitlab.com/tanna.dev/dependency-management-data/-/releases/v0.102.0 | Continue reading
Listened to There’s a TUI for that with Nick Janetakis (Changelog & Friends #53) Post details Nick Janetakis is back and this time we're talking about TUIs (text-based user interfaces) — some we've tried and some we plan to try. All are collected from Justin Garrison& … | Continue reading
Reposted Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff@mastodon.social) Post details Attached: 1 image Still on X? Without notice, X has opted all users into training its "Grok" AI Model. To turn off this setting and stop your "posts, interactions, inputs, and results" from being used for … | Continue reading
Bookmarked https://www.pawlean.com/posts/navigating-layoffs . | Continue reading
Listened to Open Source Security Podcast: Episode 438 - CISA's bad OSS advice vs the Whitehouse good advice Post details and talk about two documents from the US government that discuss open source in very different ways. The CISA document lays out a way to measure open source, b … | Continue reading
Listened to Aha moments reading Go's source: Part 1 with Jesús Espino, Principal Engineer at Mattermost (Go Time #323) Post details Jesús Espino from Mattermost tells Natalie all about (the first six of) his 10 "aha moments" he had reading the Go source code. Part 2 … | Continue reading
Listened to Cup o' Go | 🇰🇪 yield(RC2, 1st GopherCon in Africa, LLMs, Dreams of code, and more) Post details News this week:🆕 rc2 is out Google Groups noticeThe actual Merge List🇰🇪 GopherCon Africa Oct 18-19Does Go benefit more from copilot … | Continue reading
Reposted raganwald 🍓 (@raganwald@social.bau-ha.us) Post details I used to just block ads and leave it up to others to handle the Digital Panopticon. But now I ask myself, “Why am I giving these people oxygen? If they feel their creativity is best presented with a popup th … | Continue reading
Listened to https://ardanlabs.buzzsprout.com/1466944/15427033 . | Continue reading
Related to a comment on Lobsters about Git history, I posted my own blog post, which then led to a number of sites (including some Telegram groups and Unsupervised Learning issue 441) which has ended up in roughly ~4k hits I remember waking up one day this week knowing that Cooki … | Continue reading
Reposted Xe :verified: (@cadey@pony.social) Post details I keep making satire of The Onion's series on gun safety because "software engineers" are not engineers and we keep fucking up society-critical things by using unsafe tools to make them. Want that series to end? Make the ma … | Continue reading
Reposted Martin Seeger (@masek@infosec.exchange) Post details **Concerning CrowdStrike:** We are now at t+26h. Please compare how much we knew about the xz-attack after less than a day with what we know about the chain of events of giant outage yesterday. If something similar had … | Continue reading
Reposted Patricia Aas (@Patricia@vivaldi.net) Post details OMFG newspapers are quoting this asinine Twitter thread as analysis. Fuck me. Why have I ever had imposter syndrome when guys like this get hired at Google? | Continue reading
Reposted Patricia Aas (@Patricia@vivaldi.net) Post details Make tech completely unbearable for Nazis | Continue reading
Strong dislike that #Linkedin's native Web view no longer allows you to copy the URL, or open it in other browsers, and generally making it very hostile to folks who want to ie share the link with someone else, or move it to a read-it-later app | Continue reading
Reposted Calum Ryan (@calumryan@toot.cafe) Post details No web without women https://nowebwithoutwomen.com | Continue reading
Reposted Miguel de Icaza (@Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social) Post details Attached: 1 image Israel is an apartheid state, glad I don’t have to argue this anymore with internet randos. | Continue reading
Reposted OpenUK (@openuk@hachyderm.io) Post details Attached: 1 image In 6 months to 30 April number of people whos code was accepted into open source projects (committers) from the UK increase increased by 1,600 compared to 1,700 in the previous 12 months. Read the OpenUK report … | Continue reading
Reposted Dave Anderson (@danderson@hachyderm.io) Post details Also, quick note for crowdstrike execs: everyone can see you looking over at that bus, considering your options, limbering up your throwing arm... Just a note that the people you probably want to hire are watching reee … | Continue reading
Listened to SE Radio 625: Jonathan Schneider on Automated Refactoring with OpenRewrite – Software Engineering Radio Post details | Continue reading
Reposted CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow: (@catsalad@infosec.exchange) Post details No one is getting fired over this, right? Correct. HR systems are down too. | Continue reading
Listened to What even is the modern data stack featuring Benn Stancil (Changelog Interviews #600) Post details Benn Stancil's weekly Substack on data and technology provides a fascinating perspective on the modern data stack & the industry building it. On this episode, Be … | Continue reading
Reposted Jessica🏳️🌈 (@ticky@queer.party) Post details I once ran my own personal URL shortener but eventually killed it because it wasn't that useful, but I kept the links working, and in fact they still work _to this day_ because I converted them from a dynamic … | Continue reading
Reposted groxx (@groxx@hachyderm.io) Post details @ticky@queer.party Don't shorten links. Links were not meant to be shortened. They have played us for absolute fools. | Continue reading
Reposted mʌp (@map@xoxo.zone) Post details Happy Y2K everyone! | Continue reading
Listened to https://maintainable.fm/episodes/james-socol-building-social-capital-in-engineering-teams-wV7hs0Iq . | Continue reading
Listened to The Business of Open Source | Controlling your own narrative in a hot market with Vinoth Chandar, founder of Onehouse Post details This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Vinoth Chandar, the founder and CEO of Onehouse and the creator of Apache Hudi. We … | Continue reading
In the process of migrating from the Mend-hosted SAAS platform to a Self-Hosted deployment of Mend Renovate Community Edition, we've noticed that PRs raised by the SAAS platform, were not being updated by the Self-Hosted app. This is down to the way that Renovate tries to not ove … | Continue reading
Listened to Oxide and Friends | Rebooting a datacenter: A decade later Post details Back in May 2014 Joyent accidentally rebooted an entire datacenter (not just the handful of node as intended!). That incident--traumatic was it was--informed many aspects of the Oxide product. Bry … | Continue reading
Listened to Tracy Hinds & Ashley Williams on Open Source Funding and Inequities by SustainOSS Post details Tracy & Ashley discuss open source funding issues, misaligned incentives, regulatory awareness, and advocacy for contributors. | Continue reading
Listened to "Rashida Jones Returns" on Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend Post details Actor, writer, and director Rashida Jones feels blank about being Conan O’Brien’s friend.Rashida sits down with Conan to talk about tracing her family genealogy, the unanticipated success of Parks an … | Continue reading