Reposted Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ (@LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt) Post details Attached: 1 image This Pride, is your child texting about Blåhaj? #Queer #Trans #Transgender #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Reposted sjw princess :anarchyblob: (@MnemosyneSinger@kolektiva.social) Post details Attached: 1 image This is such a good illustration of what privilege looks like. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Bookmarked Tech Works: How Can I Make Myself More Productive? by Jennifer Riggins Post details Platform engineering and developer productivity initiatives are often focused on improving how a team works. But how do you advocate for your own growth? | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Listened to simplyblock's Cloud Commute - Access Policy Management at Cloud-Scale with Anders Eknert from Styra | RSS.com Post details The podcast episode of simplyblock's Cloud Commute features Chris Engelbert interviewing Anders Eknert. They discuss Anders' background and curre … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Reposted Ian Coldwater 📦💥 (@ian@hachyderm.io) Post details at what point does the industry in need of disruption become the tech industry | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Reposted Eniko Fox (@eniko@peoplemaking.games) Post details it's only called copilot+ pc in the redmond, washington region of the USA, otherwise it's just sparkling spyware | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

My workflow for writing SQL(ite) queries (2024 edition)

In the last ~18 months I've been writing a lot of SQL due to my work on dependency-management-data. As I wrote about on dependency-management-data's birthday, I've been learning quite a few things about SQL and becoming much more fluent with writing it. I'll end up writing an SQL … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Week Notes 24#22

A three day week, Ratchet and Clank: A Rift Apart and a nice weekend in Cambridge: With the bank holiday Monday, Anna and I had a nice date day in town, going to Pho for - you guessed it - pho 😋 Stopped in at a couple of shops, including John Lewis to look at TVs and got … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Bookmarked Why, after 6 years, I’m over GraphQL Post details GraphQL is an incredible piece of technology that has captured a lot of mindshare since I first started slinging it in production in 2018. You won’t have to ... | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Reposted Sheryl 2 Crows (John, he/him) (@LoganFive@beige.party) Post details Things that should burn more calories than they do: -Writing an email to someone you hate but have to work with -Being on the phone with insurance companies -Family gatherings -Cleaning your bathroom -En … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Calculating the GitHub API's `sha` representation of a local file

I've recently been doing some work to commit files directly to a GitHub repository using the API, as part of my work on dependency-management-data. When you're updating a file with GitHub, you need to specify the sha of the file that you're updating, which can be retrieved in one … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Listened to https://teamcoco.com/podcasts/conan-obrien-needs-a-friend/episodes/john-c-reilly-live-from-the-orpheum-theatre . | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

🎶 Drinking skinny margaritas but that ass still fat 🎶 | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Reposted Forrest Brazeal (@forrestbrazeal@hachyderm.io) Post details Attached: 1 image idk why people say funding OSS is difficult | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

Reposted Polynomial C (@Polynomial_C@mastodon.social) Post details Attached: 1 video This is why you have to avoid social networks with algorithms. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 5 months ago

How has no one told me that Ratchet and Clank has a PC port after all these years?!?! BRB immediately downloading and playing it | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to Tars all the way down with Jon Johnson from Chainguard (Ship It! #105) Post details Jon “gzip enthusiast” Johnson joins us for a history lesson on compression & how it impacts everything from containers to Alpine. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to The Business of Open Source | Using Open Source for Trust, not Growth, with Reshma Khilnani Post details This week on The Business of Open Source I spoke with Reshma Khilnani, CEO and founder of Medplum. Medplum is an open source electronic health record development p … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Bookmarked https://thenewstack.io/the-xz-hack-reveals-a-looming-8-8-trillion-infrastructure-disaster-hidden-in-plain-sight/ . | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social) Post details If you want to know where tech companies are with AI safety, know Microsoft Recall won’t record screenshots of DRM’d movies.. ..but will record screenshots of your financial records and WhatsApp messages, as co … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷 (@larsmb@mastodon.online) Post details We are more prone to anthromorphizing LLMs than to humanizing suffering humans | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Week Notes 24#21

A successful my ON Week (hackathon) at work: Linh and I made some really great progress on setting up a scheduled re-scan of the org's dependencies with dependency-management-data, using the Periodically updating, with multiple worker nodes design Ended up learning a lot about Go … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted Mark Gibbings-Jones (@markx@toot.community) Post details Attached: 1 image | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted Another Angry Woman (@stavvers@masto.ai) Post details Attached: 1 image darth maul | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted Adderall girl grindset (Jes) (@Jessica) Post details hot take linux is not harder than windows, most people are just blind to the sheer amount of upkeep that windows requires. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to It's a long & windy road with Shaundai Person at Microsoft Build 2024 (Changelog & Friends #45) Post details We kick off our Microsoft Build 2024 “coverage” in this free-wheelin’ conversation with our friend, Shaundai Person! We’re talking Netflix infra, w … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to The Secret Sauce | The Secret Behind Kubernetes with Kelsey Hightower Post details In today's episode, Kelsey Hightower discusses the evolution of Kubernetes, the importance of open source, and the future of technology, including AI. Join the conversation as Kelsey sh … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted Patrick Johanneson 🚀 (@pjohanneson@mstdn.ca) Post details @jalcine@todon.eu @wxcafe@social.wxcafe.net If it's ethical for the companies to use AI, it's ethical for you to subvert it. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted Danielle Foré (@danirabbit@mastodon.online) Post details The more I think about it, the major problems in tech and in society in general is that all the investment is going to solve problems that white affluent men have | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted Kyle Rankin (@kyle@kylerank.in) Post details Burnout in the FOSS community is real, and I'm glad that it's something that is being talked about more in blogs and conferences. There is a different flavor of burnout and emotional toll when you are sacrificing for a cause y … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to Cup o' Go | 🕸️ With great power comes great responsibility, or why not to use the linkname directive 🔗 Post details ProposalsAccepted: require Linux 3.17 kernel for Go 1.24Previous discussion: Episode 61Accepted: add encoding.AppendText and encoding.Ap … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to Migrating from PHP to Go with Matthew Boyle & Chris Shepherd (Go Time #316) Post details Based on their experience in Curve and Cloudflare, Matthew Boyle & Chris Shepherd share their experience migrating from PHP to Go. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to Weighing open source project funding options, from taxes to anarchy | IT Ops Query by PodBean Development Post details Justin Warren is founder and principal analyst at PivotNine, a technology consulting and analyst firm based in Melbourne, Australia. Until 2023, he w … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to a post on geeking-out.simplecast.com Post details | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to From Sun to Oxide with Bryan Cantrill (Changelog Interviews #592) Post details Bryan Cantrill, Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company, joins Adam to share his journey from Sun to Oxide – from Sun and Fishworks, to DTrace, to ZFS, to Joyent and Node.js, and now w … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Bookmarked What does it mean to be a tech worker? by https://jacky.wtf/about Post details At Labor Notes 2024, I had the chance to facilitate a panel on class consciousness and how one might raise it among tech workers. Prior to the panelists answering the questions, I highlighte … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail: (@mwl@io.mwl.io) Post details Attached: 1 image If we've ever met in person and you've wondered "Gee, how did he get this way," I finally have a solid answer. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted jesse squires 🏴 (@jsq@mastodon.social) Post details Next time you get a bad performance review at work for doing a shit job, just say you were “hallucinating” | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted james (@james@strangeobject.space) Post details Do Not Reply cards and other mechanisms used to explicitly outline what interactions are unwelcome to a post are called “boundaries”. Boundaries are good. They are good for bother the setter and the receiver. It is loving t … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted Andy (@G33KatWork@infosec.exchange) Post details I already have my own AI powered Recall feature on Linux: It's called ~/.zsh_history and is very conveniently reachable by pressing CTRL+R. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted mooreds (@mooreds@ruby.social) Post details Want to succeed as a new developer? I wrote a book about that! Topics include: - When the best code is no code - What to do in the first month of your job - The pitfalls of working alone Buy it for $17 (ebook or softcover) now … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted OpenUK (@openuk@hachyderm.io) Post details Attached: 1 image The Open Manifesto 2024 is our asks of the next government. Supported by signing up as an individual or organisation and show your commitment to UK open source. Read, sign, and share The Open Manifesto. https:/ … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted atom :neofox_solder_googly: (@atom) Post details If Windows XP was released in 2024 (📎1) | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted Lesley Carhart :unverified: (@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange) Post details Attached: 1 image | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Reposted Inspirational Skeletor💀 (@skeletor@mas.to) Post details Attached: 1 image | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Light Cycles - ShockOne is a supremely underrated song 🎶 | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to a post on geeking-out.simplecast.com Post details | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago

Listened to Why speed of iteration made buying incident.io the right choice with John Paris of Skyscanner by The Debrief by incident.io Post details This week, we're sharing an extra special episode. It's no secret that the decision to buy or build isn't exactly a straightforward … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 6 months ago