Reposted Hazel Weakly (@hazelweakly@hachyderm.io) Post details Inside of you there are two engineers. One is sobbing desperately and asking for everyone to use the right tool for the task. Please, they cry, avoid the awful hacky workarounds! One is sobbing desperately and asking … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Modifying the response body of an `httputil.ReverseProxy` response

I'm currently working with the maintainer of the beautiful sql-studio to make it possible to serve the application from a subpath, which would allow me to add support for running sql-studio as dependency-management-data's web interface. As part of some investigations around this, … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Listened to The infrastructure behind a PaaS with Anurag Goel, founder & CEO at Render (Ship It! #108) Post details Render founder/CEO Anurag Goel joins us for a look behind their platform. An application native hosting option that hides the lower levels still requires a LOT … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Reposted Black Aziz Anansi :vm: (@BlackAzizAnansi@mas.to) Post details I despair at the fact that you fucks have normalized catching Covid. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Week Notes 24#25

A pretty busy work week, and a start of an on-call shift, but managed to get some life admin stuff done too Got the executive function to finally get in touch with someone on Task Rabbit to help sort out the chaos of cardboard in the garage And it was well worth it 👏 Very … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Listened to 1999: A Film Odyssey (Changelog++ 🔐) (Changelog & Friends) Post details Adam & Jerod hallway-track-it between Microsoft Build interviews. Was 1999 the best year in film history? Was 2004 the worst? Have you heard the full story behind Blues Travele … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Reposted Anthony, of course (@anthony@bitbang.social) Post details Look, I drink a LOT of #tea. And I mean gallons of the stuff every day. People expect on Zoom that they'll see my massive mug appear on camera because I always have a cuppa to hand. I have two of @smolrobots@masto … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Listened to Julia Evans and Wizard Zines by SustainOSS Post details Julia dives into creating Wizard Zines on strace, Bash, and Git, making complex tools accessible, and community-driven knowledge sharing. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Listened to Cup o' Go | Cup o' Go Live from Amsterdam! Post details Thanks, Erik Dubbelboer, John Basila, Suchith, and Hiji, for co-hosting the episode!Which GUI library to choose?Caesar, a new Go Web Framework"How to prove I am good at Go apart from having work experience?""Wher … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Listened to Securing GitHub with Jacob DePriest, VP and Deputy Chief Security Officer at GitHub (Changelog Interviews #596) Post details Jacob DePriest, VP and Deputy Chief Security Officer at GitHub, joins the show this week to talk about securing GitHub. From Artifact Attestati … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Listened to The Business of Open Source | Excellent Open Source User Experiences with Karthik Ranganathan Post details This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Karthik Ranganathan, founder and co-CEO of Yugabyte. This is the second time Karthik has been on the podca … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Reposted Schalk Neethling (@schalkneethling@hachyderm.io) Post details I have come to realize that one cannot do everything. Also, not everything can be important all at once. It is ok to say no and to prioritize what you can do today, tomorrow, and the coming week, Also, not kno … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Reposted Anders Eknert (@anderseknert@hachyderm.io) Post details Attached: 1 image When HR asks you to spend a few minutes taking the “anonymous” survey they’ve made. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Reposted Potch (@potch@toot.cafe) Post details engineers will write 200 lines of code to avoid writing a single line of code twice | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Reposted Terence Eden (@Edent@mastodon.social) Post details Now is an excellent time to visit https://github.com/settings/applications Revoke all those unused and unloved applications which have access to your GitHub account. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Reposted https://hachyderm.io/@rmondello/112656496287197990 . | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Reposted heatdeath (@heatdeath@autonomous.zone) Post details computers used to scream when you connected them to the internet. this was correct | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

+1 - in the past I've had it recommended to not inline links and instead include them as footnotes, and I do not like that recommendation 🙃 I want the post to be rich with the context (where appropriate) and it to be linked naturally from what I'm talking about. Some folk … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Reposted Jayne, but with rainbows (@dotjayne@tech.lgbt) Post details As a programmer, I'll likely be making off-by-one mistakes until the day after I die | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Listened to Responsive, Generative, Accessible, Unions, The Web - Ethan Marcotte by Schalk Neethling Post details In this episode of the Mechanical Ink podcast, host Schalk Neethling sits down with Ethan Marcotte, a prominent figure in web design known for coining the term "respo … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Listened to Is Go evolving in the wrong direction? (Go Time #319) Post details This week we’re catching up on the news! Kris is joined by Ian to discuss some of the recent news from around the Go community. Listen in to hear whether the co-hosts believe there’s software that shou … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Listened to "Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson" on Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend Post details Woody Harrelson feels supercalifragilistic about being Conan O’Brien’s friend; Ted Danson feels scared. Woody and Ted sit down with Conan to discuss their new podcast Where Everybody Knows Y … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Performing cross-database queries with SQLite

As you may be aware if you're a reader of my blog, I'm currently heavily on the SQLite train (to productivity) and as such I spend a lot of time interacting with SQLite, recently with a new and improved workflow. The main database I spend my time in is the database from dependenc … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Listened to Oxide and Friends | Musing with Changelog's Adam Stacoviak Post details Bryan and Adam were joined by The Changelog’s Adam Stacoviak for a … wide ranging conversation! Something for everyone—especially fans of HBO’s Silicon Valley!In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Ada … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Listened to The Business of Open Source | Ensuring the Difference in Value between Project and Product is Big Enough with André Eriksson Post details This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with André Eriksson, founder and CEO at Encore. We talked about how open source … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Listened to Screaming in the Cloud | Steering Through Open Source Waters with Madelyn Olson Post details This episode features Madelyn Olson, maintainer for the open-source project Valkey, to discuss the growth and impact of open-source projects in the tech industry. Corey and Ma … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Listened to Cup o' Go | 🎮 Gaby, help me learn 5 tips about Game Development in Go and goreleaser them Post details Visit our homepage - cupogo.dev - for links to our Patreon, Swag Store, and more.Next week, on June 19th, we're doing a physical meetup! Join #amsterdam on t … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Listened to How things get done on the Go Team with Cameron Balahan, Sameer Ajmani & Russ Cox (Go Time #318) Post details Angelica is joined by Cameron Balahan, Sameer Ajmani & Russ Cox from the Go Team at Google to talk about how things get done on the Go Team, how d … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Week Notes 24#24

A very busy week at work writing + demo'ing the design doc around Renovate, and doing various bits around that and some other work we've got in the planning phase, as well as demoing our hackathon week project (dependency-management-data updater) After the release of oapi-codegen … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Dependency Management Data's web application can now be deployed as a single static binary

Since the first iteration of the dependency-management-data web application, I've offloaded the experience of writing and querying SQL querying to the excellent Datesette tool. I'm a huge fan of Datasette, and recommend it as a great web-based SQLite database browser for querying … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Reposted james (@james@strangeobject.space) Post details Turned on my PC. Was just about to log in when I did a painful double take. The picture displayed by Windows 10 is a Toucan with the words “AI is playing a critical role in the preservation of the Amazon rainforest” You are … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Reposted Lesley Carhart :unverified: (@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange) Post details Attached: 1 image I don’t know who to credit for this because it’s been stolen so much, but I love it. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Reposted Matt Brunt (@brunty@brunty.social) Post details Subnets imply the existence of Domnets | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Listened to Retired, not tired. with Kelsey Hightower (Changelog Interviews #595) Post details Kelsey Hightower is back to share more of his wisdom. This time it’s one year after his retirement from Google. But guess what? He might be “retired,” but he’s not tired. In this episod … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Reposted Lorin Hochstein :verified: (@norootcause@hachyderm.io) Post details If your technical interview process selects for quick thinking over deep thinking, what does that say about your workforce? | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Reposted Andy Piper (@andypiper@macaw.social) Post details The @oggcamp@mastodon.social CFP is open! #oggcamp https://oggcamp.org/news/cfp/ | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Listened to #define: legendary with Thomas Eckert, Nick Nisi & Mat Ryer (Changelog & Friends #47) Post details What happens when you take three #define newbs (Thomas Eckert, Nick Nisi, Mat Ryer) & pit them against the grizzled vet, Adam? Find out on this episode b … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Reposted Matthew Malthouse (@calmeilles@mstdn.social) Post details Attached: 1 image | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Using Go's `database/sql` to query an arbitrary columns of unknown type(s)

As part of some work I'm doing on dependency-management-data to add a pure-Go database browser, I want to be able to accept arbitrary SQL and query it. However, I found that trying to do this with Go's database/sql, this didn't work super nicely with the anys that get returned by … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Reposted Soatok Dreamseeker (@soatok@furry.engineer) Post details Tell me about your Boring Technology that gets the job done and gets out of your user's way. Tell me how you made your app or service easy to use and hard to misuse. Tell me how you're encoding an understanding of … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Listened to Why SQLite is Taking Over with Brian Holt & Marco Bambini - Syntax #779 Post details Discussion on why SQLite is gaining popularity, its advantages like efficiency, speed and stability, misconceptions about capabilities, and how SQLite Cloud enhances it by making it s … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Listened to Cup o' Go | “I don't have money, but I do have a very particular set of ~skills~ connectors” — Ashley Jeffs Post details Go 1.22.4 & 1.21.11 releasedProposalsNew: safer file open functionsgithub.com/google/safeopen alternativeopenat man pageNew: allow range-over-func … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

I will be attending Quantifying your reliance on Open Source software, Tue, Jun 25, 2024, 6:30 PM | Meetup Post details I've always been interested in the composition of Open Source and internal dependencies that my projects use, and after years of wanting some way to query the d … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Reposted R Scott Jones (@rscottjones@mastodon.social) Post details slow.fyi is a handy little microsite that you can insert into a message when you don’t want the recipient to feel pressured to quickly respond. Perfect for commenting via email on personal blog posts! #Junited2024 … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

I will not be attending https://www.meetup.com/devops-notts/events/301554693 . Unfortunately gonna be missing this (due to speaking at Digital Lincoln) but I'm sure this will be interesting. #Jenkins is a great piece of software, the problems that many folks see with it are how t … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Week Notes 24#23

A big tough going back to a five day week 🫣 But got the oapi-codegen release out, some interesting talks at Tidelift Upstream and a new TV 👀 Got the v2.2.0 release of oapi-codegen out 🚀 I ended up not getting to all the issues I wanted to, as I instead wan … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

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


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Reposted jacky is looking for work (@jalcine@todon.eu) Post details Attached: 1 image Rehashing this campaign. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago