Celebrating dependency-management-data's second birthday

I had originally intended to write this on Sunday, to coincide with the two year anniversary since the first commit to dependency-management-data (DMD), but haven't had a chance to, with being this week at the excellent State of Open Con - more on that in a separate post I'm stil … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 10 hours ago

Week Notes 25#04

Another week of more changes at work, a viral blog post, appearing on Fallthrough and finalising my talk for State of Open Con: Wrote Go 1.24's go tool is one of the best additions to the ecosystem in years, and it went fairly viral I intentionally wrote it as something to be sha … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 3 days ago

Reposted OpenUK (@openuk.bsky.social) Post details State of Open Con 25 speaker @www.jvt.me.web.brid.gy of jvt.me will be in Open Source Software and Security track! 🎤 Join to hear about I inherited this project, and all I got was all these angry users 💡 https://b … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 8 days ago

Reposted Laura Manach :bongoCat: (@cmconseils@mastodon.social) Post details i cant believe ChatGPT lost its job to AI | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 8 days ago

Reposted Just Kidding (@internethippo.bsky.social) Post details The remote work debate was funny because it forced the question "Is a job something valuable you do or is it a place you go to be watched like daycare" and the answer for a lot of them was yeah it's the daycare thing … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 10 days ago

Bookmarked Once You're Laid Off, You'll Never Be the Same Again – Mert Bulan Post details It’s been over a year since one of the most significant turning points in my life, and it’s time to reflect on that. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 10 days ago

Listened to Fork Around And Find Out | Making the World a More Secure Place with Yasmin Abdi Post details Data and security breaches are a dime a dozen nowadays, and despite their frequency, they’re still just as dangerous. That’s where Yasmin Abdi, the CEO of noHack, comes in. D … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 10 days ago

Listened to The Business of Open Source | The Complicated Calculus around Donating a Project to a Foundation with Omri Gazette Post details In the last episode of The Business of Open Source recorded at KubeCon Salt Lake City, I spoke with Omri Gazitt, co-founder and CEO of Asert … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 10 days ago

Listened to The Business of Open Source | Building an Open Source Company for Long-Term Sustainability with John O'Nolan Post details This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with John O’Nolan, the co-founder of ghost.org. Before further ado, John is going to be one of s … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 10 days ago

Listened to The Not-Boring Tech Writer | Developer collaboration with Lorna Mitchell Post details In this episode, I’m talking with Lorna Mitchell, a technology leader, published author, tech blogger, and developer experience expert who is passionate about APIs and developer tool … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 10 days ago

Go 1.24's `go tool` is one of the best additions to the ecosystem in years

For those that aren't aware, one of the big changes in February's upcoming Go 1.24 release is the new go tool command, and tool directive in the go.mod to manage any tools your project uses. I'm incredibly excited about this, and in my opinion, this is one of the best changes we' … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 10 days ago

Week Notes 25#03

A somewhat mixed week: The expiry of the domain go.opencensus.io led to some widespread chaos across the Go community this week This week, I've had Don't Panik - CloZee Remix and Polarised - Koven on remix a lot I've made some very good progress with a Charm-based TUI for tailing … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 10 days ago

Getting access to rich-text data from the clipboard (on Linux)

I've recently noticed that i.e. on Slack, if I right click a channel and click "Copy name", and then paste that into a Slack message, I get the name of the channel, but if I paste it into GitHub or Google Docs, I get a rich text link, with the name of the channel, and a link to t … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 10 days ago

Reposted kat cosgrove (@kat.lol) Post details After further reflection, I also think big companies sponsoring open source projects should provide therapists for maintainers. I'm only half kidding [contains quote post or other embedded content] | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 11 days ago

Listened to From open source to acquired with Ashley Jeffs (Changelog Interviews #625) Post details Ashley Jeffs shares his journey with Benthos, an open source stream processor that was acquired by Redpanda. We talk about the evolution of data streaming technologies, the challen … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 11 days ago

Reposted lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified: (@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange) Post details Attached: 1 image C IS LEGAL AGAIN | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 12 days ago

Listened to Cup o' Go | 🌲🌳🌲 If an error falls in forest, and there's no variable around to see it... ? Post details Go 1.24RC2 releasedGo 1.23.5 & 1.22.11 released🇺🇸 GopherCon, Aug 26-28 @ New York, New YorkCFS open through March 3Proposals … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 12 days ago

Listened to Fallthrough & Friends with Matthew Sanabria & Kris Brandow (Changelog & Friends #77) Post details Kris Brandow & Matthew Sanabria from Fallthrough.fm join Jerod to discuss tools we're switching to, whether or not Go is still a great systems programming language choice … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 12 days ago

Listened to Fallthrough | Do We Think You Should Learn To Code? Post details For years we've been told that everyone needs to learn to code. As career software people, what are our thoughts on this? Should you learn to code? Is coding the right career for you? In this first episo … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 13 days ago

Reposted drewtoothpaste (@drewtoothpaste.bsky.social) Post details The weed number is now 582 due to inflation | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 13 days ago

Reposted Carlana :v_trans: (@carlana@tech.lgbt) Post details From the Carlana blog archive, Don't Write Code that Hurts People https://blog.carlana.net/post/2016-11-17-dont-hurt-people/ https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/113866093397576803 | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 13 days ago

Bookmarked Don’t Write Code That Hurts People Post details Don’t be tricked into writing software that hurts people. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 13 days ago

Reposted Bluesky Post details | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 14 days ago

Reposted Bluesky Post details | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 14 days ago

Why is zsh no longer storing history?

On my first day back in the office, I noticed something odd with my zsh setup, where new terminal sessions weren't having their history saved 🤔 Interestingly, my dotfiles specify the HISTSIZE variable to a reasonably high amount, but it seems to not be working: export HIS … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 14 days ago

Reposted Computer Facts (@computer@facts.computer) Post details oh yeah i love LLM: Liberate Luigi Mangione | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 15 days ago

Reposted Phil Sturgeon (@Philsturgeon@mastodon.green) Post details DHH is a gigabrain fascist and everyone with any sense is long since tired of his shit. I hope the Rails community can wrestle it away from being that muppets fiefdom. https://ruby.social/@getajobmike/113868764027 … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 15 days ago

Reposted Justin Garrison (@justingarrison.com) Post details Trans rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️ | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 16 days ago

Reposted Alistair Davidson (@moh_kohn@mastodon.scot) Post details Attached: 1 image The annoying nerds who said you should install Linux, use decentralised social media, use Signal secure messenger were right. Control of our own computing is a prerequisite for freedom. The intern … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 16 days ago

A very apt song to start this week off (for my US friends) - 🎶 Don't Panik - CloZee Remix 🎶 | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 17 days ago

Listened to Cup o' Go | 🎤 A nil microphone won't keep us away from the 1.24 Interactive Tour or trying Hugo's new features Post details 🛡️ Security updatesGo 1.23.5, 1.22.11, and 1.24RC2 coming Jan 16github.com/golang/glog v1.2.4 released last weekGo 1.24 interact … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 17 days ago

Reposted Emma Kennedy (@emmakennedy.bsky.social) Post details This is the only flag I’m flying today. For Janey. #Trumpisacunt Let’s make it trend. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 17 days ago

Reposted Rob W is reticulating splines (@RobW@iosdev.space) Post details My thoughts are with my American friends for today, and the next four years. Stay strong. 💪 💜 | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 17 days ago

Reposted benteg (@benteg@toot.community) Post details Attached: 1 image @catsalad@infosec.exchange | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 17 days ago

Week Notes 25#02

Batch Bunch on Monday was good 🚀 Was good to see folks, and there seemed to be some work done which was good it was a bit noisier than I'd expected in Dice Cup so a little harder to hear Ended up making a good bit of progress on looking into using ObservableHQ for DMD vis … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 17 days ago

Reposted Frederic Jacobs (@fj@mastodon.social) Post details “Thank God for guns, so that we can protect our rights to free speech when the governement comes to take away our TikToks. Oh wait” https://tane.codes/@tanepiper/113854641001791380 | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 18 days ago

Listened to https://rss.com/podcasts/99-dev-problems/1836631/ . | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 19 days ago

Reposted Amalia Zeichnerin (@amalia12@mastodon.social) Post details Attached: 1 image Was reminded of this image again today: "I don't wear 🏳️‍🌈 [queer pride] items to tell you who's in my bed. I wear them so the family across the street knows they are safe. So th … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 19 days ago

Listened to https://rss.com/podcasts/99-dev-problems/1847287/ . | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 20 days ago

Listened to Heroku and the Twelve-Factor App with Vish Abrams - Software Engineering Daily by SEDaily Post details Heroku is a cloud platform-as-a-service that enables developers to build, deploy, and manage applications. It was founded in 2007 and was acquired by Salesforce in 2 … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 20 days ago

Reposted Batch Bunch (@batchbunch.dev) Post details 📅 Mark your calendar: batchbunch.dev/events BATCH BUNCH #0002 is locked in for Monday, Feb 10th—spaces are limited (up to 15), so, register today 🫡 | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 20 days ago

I will be attending Batch Bunch #0002 · Luma Post details We're excited to welcome you back to Batch Bunch on Monday 20th Feb (7:00pm - 9:00pm) at The Dice Cup (68-70 Mansfield Rd, Nottingham NG1 3GY). Bring along… | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 20 days ago

Listened to Platform Engineering and UK Digital People, with Abby Bangser by Software Defined Talk Post details Sure, we talk about platform engineering, but more importantly, business cards. | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 21 days ago

Reposted kf (@kf@666.glitchwit.ch) Post details normalize wearing n95 masks not just to avoid illness but also because it is fucking freezing outside | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 21 days ago

Bookmarked My month of rest and relaxation - localghost Post details Over the last three and a half weeks I’ve become such a potato that I’m considering changing my name to Maris Piper | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 21 days ago

Accessing private Go modules in a Docker container

If you're building Docker containers which reference a private Go module, you'll likely need to work out a way to pass in credentials, so you don't have to build on your host machine. I first encountered this last March and as I've hit it again today, I thought I'm make sure I wr … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 23 days ago

Week Notes 25#01

The first full week back after the holidays 🥱 Nice to meet up with Riz at Dice Cup to sus it out ahead of Batch Bunch (tomorrow) Had a nice roast today at the Larch Farm 😋 and made better by Cookie being very good while we were out, maybe because she had Morph kee … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 24 days ago

Getting all comments from a given user on a GitHub Discussion

As noted previously, my team practices asynchronous, always-updating standups through GitHub Discussions. As it's performance management season, I'm looking back at what I've done over the last few months, and wanted to get a view of all the standup updates I've made, having spen … | Continue reading


@jvt.me | 28 days ago