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Hi, I'm Jamie Tanna šŸ‘‹šŸ¼

If you're referring to me, I'm happy being called Jamie, Jamie Tanna, jamietanna, and that you respect my pronouns: he/him/his.

I'm currently the Renovate project lead at Mend.

I currently live in Nottingham with my partner Anna Dodson and our cat Morph and our dog Cookie.

I use my site as a method of blogging about my learnings, as well as sharing information about projects I have previously, or am currently, working on in my spare time.

I'm an maintainer for a number of Open Source projects, including oapi-codegen, and Renovate, as part of my job at Mend.

I'm a GNU/Linux user, a big advocate for the Free Software Movement, and the IndieWeb movement and I try to self host my own services where possible, instead of relying on other providers.

I have ADHD (Inattentive Type) and am learning how to make my life work better around it.

Due to the many social media platforms and different ways to connect, I've captured all my contact information on my /elsewhere page. Alternatively, you can drop me an email at hi@jamietanna.co.uk.

I also have a /now page which aims to cover some more up-to-date "what I'm up to" information.

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Listened to Phil Wang (Tasting Menu) | Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
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Listen to Phil Wang (Tasting Menu) from Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. Fan favourite from the very first series of Off Menu, Phil Wang returns to the Dream Restaurant for a Tasting Menu booking. We hope he likes buttery cabbage. Phil Wang is on tour with his new show ā€˜Uh Oh’. For dates and tickets go to philwang.co.uk Follow Phil on Instagram @wangpix Watch the video version of this episode on the Off Menu YouTube on Thu 14 May.Off Menu is now on YouTube: @offmenupodcastFollow Off Menu on Instagram and TikTok: @offmenuofficial.And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show.Off Menu is a comedy podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster.Produced, recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.Video production by Ben Williams and Megan McCarthy for Plosive.Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).

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Listened to Building Bulletproof Systems: Warren Parad on Software Engineering for High Availability by Overcommitted | Software Engineering and Tech Careers Insights
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SummaryIn this episode of the Overcommitted Podcast, hosts Bethany and Erika sit down with Warren Parad, CTO and co-founder of Authress, a user authorization API built for reliability. Warren shares how his team stayed fully operational during the massive AWS US-East-1 outage in October 2025 using DNS failover and multi-region strategies, and what the delayed alert logs taught them about timestamp trust. The conversation kicks off with a candid discussion on AI agents and critical thinking, whether managing multiple coding agents is really multitasking or just micromanagement, and what the trade-offs mean for early-career engineers. Warren traces his reliability-first mindset back to his roots in electrical engineering and healthcare IT, where late-night on-call pages through Citrix proxies and hospital billing systems shaped how he thinks about uptime today. The group also explores what it really takes to build a Five Nines organization and how hiring practices need to match the reliability culture you want. The episode wraps up with a round of Never Have I Ever: SRE Edition, featuring Friday deploys gone wrong, blaming DNS, and discovering outages from customer tweets.LinksAuthress, Warren's company, user authorization API for software makers. The product he's building and wants to plug.Adventures in DevOps Podcast, Warren's podcast, co-hosted with Will Button. 300+ episodes on DevOps, engineering leadership, and cloud architecture.How When AWS Was Down, We Were Not, Authress's blog post detailing their resilience strategy during the October 2025 AWS outage. Referenced in Theme 1 questions.So You Want to Build Your Own Authorization?, Warren's article on why authorization complexity creeps up on teams. Referenced in Theme 2 questions.An Interview With Warren Parad, CIAM Weekly, March 2025 interview covering Warren's views on CIAM, FedCM, and the future of authentication.FedCM, Browser Native Auth (Adventures in DevOps Episode), Adventures in DevOps episode diving into FedCM and why authentication should move from user-land to kernel-land.Warren Parad on LinkedIn, Warren's LinkedIn profile.Warren Parad on Bluesky, Warren's Bluesky profile.Warren Parad on GitHub, Warren's GitHub profile, includes Authress repos, OpenAPI Explorer, and other open-source work.Authress Knowledge Base, Technical articles from the Authress team on auth, security, and infrastructure.Warren Parad, Personal Site, Warren's personal website.HostsOvercommittedBethany JanosErika (Eggyhead)

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Listened to Repo-Health - a tool built on CHAOSS metrics by CHAOSS Project 
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In this episode of the CHAOSScast, host Georg Link sits down with guest, Elshad Humbatli, and panelist, Alice Sowerby, to answer the question "How can CHAOSS metrics help you quickly assess the health of an open source project that you might want to use or join?" Elshad Humbatli, creator of Repo-Health, explains why he created the tool, and how he used the CHAOSS metrics to produce high-level insights on the health of an open source repo. The conversation goes further, to discuss breaking down project activity to navigating the rise of AI-generated contributions, and dives deep into the human and technical sides of open source. Hit download now to hear more\!

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Listened to Screaming in the Cloud | Building the Backbone of AI Agents: Telemetry, Open Source, and the Future of Developer Infrastructure with Brian Douglas
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AI agents are moving fast,Ā  but the infrastructure behind them is still catching up. In this episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey Quinn sits down with Paper Compute CEO Brian ā€œB Dougieā€ Douglas to explore building telemetry for AI agents, open-source infrastructure, token economics, and what...

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Listened to Open Source Security: Open source is critical infrastructure with Kat Cosgrove
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Josh talks to Kat Cosgrove about a how companies should be treating open source more like their critical infrastructure than free stuff. Kat has a ton of knowledge about how the interactions between companies and open source communities can work well, or not work at all. Kat's time on the Kubernetes Release Team. We touch on how a project like Kubernetes is super successful, while another, Ingress NGINX, was not. It's a super insightful discussion with a ton of lessons and advice for everyone. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at

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Reposted Mike McQuaid @MikeMcQuaid by Mike McQuaid 
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Your regular reminder that shitting on OSS on social media is a selfish thing to do. Good job sapping volunteer maintainers’ motivation in exchange for your ā€œinternet pointsā€. Next time: try rolling up your sleeves and contribute a fix to the problem you’ve identified.

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Reposted Hugo van Kemenade (@hugovk@mastodon.social)
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Starting with v8.0.0, Astral switched setup-uv to immutable releases with no floating v8 tags. This is good for security. But unfortunately #Dependabot and #Renovate couldn't upgrade from v7 to v8.0.0, and need a manual bump to get back on track. This is not so good for security. I posted about this on the three social networks, someone tagged @www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me and soon after Renovate now supports this! šŸŽ‰ Here's his writeup into the world of #GitHubActions tags: https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/04/24/github-actions-tagging/

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Listened to Brittany Ellich by Coffee and Open Source
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Brittany is a Staff Software Engineer at GitHub, helping build the platform millions of developers rely on every day. She hosts the Overcommitted podcast, writes The Balanced Engineer newsletter, and speaks at conferences about AI, accessibility, developer productivity, and building a software engineering career.You can find Brittany on the following sites:BlueskyBlogLinkedInGitHubYouTubeHere are some links provided by Brittany:Overcommitted Podcast PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCASTSpotifyApple PodcastsYouTube MusicAmazon MusicRSS FeedYou can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.comCoffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin

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<p>Adam Scott joins Ted Danson to talk about getting lost on the office set of Severance, learning from directors like Ben Stiller and Adam McKay, stealing Sam Malone’s moves for his character on Party Down, the alternate timeline in which he’s a political journalist, and more. Ā </p><p> Ā </p><p>Like watching your podcasts? Visit <a href="http://youtube.com/teamcoco">http://youtube.com/teamcoco</a> to see full episodes.Ā </p> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="http://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>

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Listened to Jordan Harband - Npm Ecosystem, HeroDevs by devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software Development
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This week we're joined by Jordan Harband, a pillar of the npm ecosystem. Jordan maintains a staggering amount of open source projects that are used by millions of developers. Jordan has some opinions that go against the mainstream when it comes to legacy support. Join us as we try to understand his perspective. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ljharb/ https://github.com/ljharb https://x.com/ljharb Episode sponsored By MUX (https://mux.com) Become a paid subscriber our patreon, spotify, or apple podcasts for the full episode. https://www.patreon.com/devtoolsfm https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/devtoolsfm/subscribe https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devtools-fm/id1566647758 https://www.youtube.com/@devtoolsfm/membership

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Listened to Open-Weight AI Models - Software Engineering Daily by SEDaily 
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Open-weight models are AI systems whose trained parameters are publicly released, which allows developers to run, fine-tune, and deploy them independently rather than accessing them only through a hosted API. While closed-weight models from companies like OpenAI or Anthropic are delivered as managed services, open-weight models give organizations direct control over how the models are