Hi, I'm Jamie Tanna 👋🏼
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.
Jamie Tanna
@www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me
9,226 posts · posting since 2013
15 November 2026
- Listened to Breaking Change v58 - Leather Daddy
- Listened to The Good, the Bad, and the Sloppy - Fallthrough
- Listened to Breaking Change v57 - Go Pace Yourself
14 November 2026
Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate
@elchefe.me
· Calling it “SI” is the same as calling it “X” when it comes to looking like a mindless sycophant.
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Listen, if you are a software engineer being brought back to a company or organization you were laid off from to fix their AI vibe coded mess, you have to do me a favor: please, charge them so much. …
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This Week in Package Management: 14 November 2026 https://nesbitt.io/2026/11/14/this-week-in-package-management.html
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Look, you want to help #curl, you engage your AI bots to make patches, either because you‘re not comfortable around our code base (yet) or it‘s just how your $dayjob runs - that‘s fine. BUT We want …
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Gianmarco Soresi
@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social
· With the power of AI, busy CEO’s can have more affairs than ever thought imaginable
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Streets of Fire: LIVE! - Earwolf
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LIVE from Largo in Los Angeles, Golden Globe Award winner Rachel Bloom of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and HDTGM All-star Jessica St. Clair of Playing House join Paul and Jason to discuss the 1984 rock & roll fable Streets of Fire. They'll cover everything from Rick Moranis being a bad ass to the Michael Pare slap fight. Plus, everyone asks why Dottie from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure is in the movie during Audience Q&A! Don’t forget to check out Blake Harris’ Oral History of Streets of Fire over at www.slashfilm.com! HDTGM: LIVE! returns to Largo at the Coronet on March 19th at 7pm and 9:30pm! Get your tickets now over at www.largo-la.com! Attention: The Crash Test special that Paul & Rob Huebel performed on a 60 foot glass bus is available online on Comedy Central! Get yourself a BB-8 “What Is Its Mission?” T-shirt or Tote Bag over at http://howdidthisgetmade.bigcartel.com/! People of the internet: Watch Paul in Fresh off the Boat on ABC and a while ago, Paul and Rob Huebel did a comedy special on a 60 foot glass bus that traveled around LA and now you’ll be able to see it. Go to https://itun.es/us/3M4J9 now to buy it! You can also see Jason in Transparent on Amazon and in Dirty Grandpa in a theater near you! Also, check out June in Grace and Frankie available on Netflix, and in all the episodes of NTSF:SD:SUV:: on HULU for free, and Jason in The Dictator (he’s still in it!).
Gotcha: changing the 'name' of a GitHub App changes its slug
A somewhat rough edge with GitHUb Apps, where you can't have a separate slug and display name.
12 November 2026 · 1m
www.jvt.me • by Jamie Tanna11 November 2026
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Ep 136: Fatiha El-Ghorri | Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
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Comedians Ed Gamble and James Acaster invite special guests into their magical restaurant to each choose their favourite starter, main course, side dish, dessert and drink. Ever wanted to eat your dream meal? It's time to order Off Menu.
- Listened to 🌉 Ready, Sets, Go! Live from SF, hosted by Assembled! | Cup o' Go
- Listened to Perfect Stranger: LIVE! - Earwolf
10 November 2026
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November 9th, 2026 — AI Frontiers
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Episode 15 of AI Frontiers with Jamie Stormbreaker. Industry experts run down all the AI news for engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates…
9 November 2026
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Package Management Devroom at FOSDEM 2027: Call for Participation https://nesbitt.io/2026/10/26/package-management-devroom-at-fosdem-2027-call-for-participation.html
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S11 EP9: James Acaster: Traitors, Coffins and The Worst Airport Experience Ever
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Alan Carr's 'Life's a Beach' · Episode
8 November 2026
Brittany Ellich
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· remote work is really about oscillating between "too many meetings" and "I miss seeing people" until you die
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6 November 2026
I have finished reading
The sins of our fathers
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(isbn:9780356517742)
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Nuxt DevTools V4, It's JS Engine Season, and TypeScript Still #1 on GitHub | News | Ep 88 | TypeScript.fm - The Friendly Show for TypeScript Developers
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News for the week of October 26, 2026: Nuxt DevTools V4 is bigger and badder than ever, it's JS engine season with Yavashark and Boomkat, and TypeScript stays #1 on GitHub as more than 40% of pull requests now start with an agent. From the community: a SOML parser in TS types, a TypeScript to...
5 November 2026
- Listened to Github Universe Keynote Recap - Syntax #1052
- Listened to Maps and CVEs: They just keep growing! | Cup o' Go
- Listened to November 2nd, 2026 — AI Frontiers
- Listened to https://www.filmreroll.com/?p=205
- Listened to https://meaningfulmoney.tv/2026/11/04/budget-reaction-with-tom-and-demi/
4 November 2026
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3 November 2026
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/copy output, so it's clearer to the humans reading it where it came from.
3 November 2026 · 3m · 🤖 with some LLM-derived content
www.jvt.me • by Jamie Tanna
Adding Pushover notifications to Amp
Writing a custom plugin to send a Pushover push notification when Amp is waiting for input.
3 November 2026 · 1m · 🤖 with some LLM-derived content
www.jvt.me • by Jamie Tanna
Andrew Nesbitt
@andrewnez.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
· It's finally over! https://github.blog/changelog/2026-11-02-pull_request_target-blocked-by-default-december-2/
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The Gift of It's Your Problem Now
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Recently a security hole in a certain open source Java library resulted in a worldwide emergency kerfuffle as, say, 40% of the possibly hund...
1 November 2026
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30 October 2026
Thirteen backlogs in a trenchcoat: Analysing Renovate's many requests
What we've found by investigating the different sources of work the Renovate project has, and how we're hoping to improve prioritisation going forwards.
30 October 2026 · 24m · 🤖 with some LLM-derived content
www.jvt.me • by Jamie Tanna29 October 2026
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The future is Postgres with Craig Kerstiens (Changelog Interviews #688)
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Craig Kerstiens returns to talk about the ever-expanding world of Postgres: a deliberately boring core, a thriving extension ecosystem, and pg_lake bringing DuckDB and Iceberg into the mix. We dig into the pain of ETL, what Craig is watching in Postgres 19, the impact of AI on open source maintainers, and why the datab...
28 October 2026
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Hayley Williams
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Good Hang with Amy Poehler · Episode
It being #GitHubUniverse means it's officially a year on from the worst incident I've ever caused, where all of #Elastic's public repos - Elasticsearch, Kibana, etc - were made private 🫣
I learned a lot during that incident and have internalised a lot of the very important learnings!
My favourite thing I heard second hand was "we don't have any incidents caused by AI, because we don't count them as AI - if a human vibe coded a PR, that's on them" which I partially agree with but also enjoy you can avoid blaming an AI mandate if you don't measure it 🙃
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Sylvain Kalache, who runs the AI lab at Rootly, walks Matty through what AI SREs can and can't do during an incident. They get into why handing every small…
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Suffering as a Feature
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Have you seen this? If you haven't, you should. I think everyone needs to. Wealth inequality on a scale this extreme is almost impossible to explain. You have to experience it to understand. Go ahead. Try it out. Where is the top of this graph? Good question. Keep scrolling
Does anyone know why the #Slack Halloween themes have subtly different naming based on whether you're an Enterprise or not? Does Big Candy Corn require such high dues Slack can only pay with beefy Enterprise contracts?
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Can you trust software written without AI? We examine the risks of manual coding versus automated vulnerability exploits.At Rails World 2026, a show of hands revealed that writing material amounts of code by hand is becoming a rarity. We discuss whether that human-written code is actually safer, especially after reviewing the eMudhra certificate authority compromise where private keys were recovered in under a second. Between open-weight models demonstrating Mythos-class exploit skills and the ongoing debate over AI consciousness, the security landscape has shifted significantly.This conversation is for engineers navigating the reality of AI mandates at work and the impact of agents that continue running after you log off. We also cover the practical side of professional development, from Bethany building a holiday gift-list app to Brittany replacing cloud subscriptions with local transcription tools. By analyzing these technical shifts, we aim to help you maintain a grounded perspective on your career trajectory.Subscribe for weekly software engineering breakdowns, and comment on which professional challenge you want us to tackle next.HostsOvercommitted: https://overcommitted.devBethany Janos: https://www.trustyduck.devBrittany Ellich: https://brittanyellich.com
type and const for known constant values in Typescript.
28 October 2026 · 1m
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October 26th, 2026 — AI Frontiers
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Episode 13 of AI Frontiers with Sean Escriva. Industry experts run down all the AI news for engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are…
Adding date-based pagination to my site
Announcing support for date-based pagination on my site, and the end of very long paginated lists of content.
28 October 2026 · 1m · 🤖 with some LLM-derived content
www.jvt.me • by Jamie TannaBrowse by date
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