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 🙃
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…
Hmm not sure it's exactly that, but it is possible it's something locale-based!
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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
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#ethics
#capitalism.
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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#halloween
#slack.
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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
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Creating a Typescript union, while also having runtime access to the values (1 mins read).
Creating a type and const for known constant values in Typescript.
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…
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Thread on the cost of AI [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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#ai.
Adding date-based pagination to my site (1 mins read).
Announcing support for date-based pagination on my site, and the end of very long paginated lists of content.
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(with some some LLM-derived content 🤖).
#www.jvt.me
#hugo.
I was going to write something flowery and post a bunch of photos but I just don't fucking have it in me. I had to put Espresso to sleep. She was just a couple weeks shy of her 23rd birthday and she was perfect. I am not ok and am taking some time for myself. If you need something, no you don't.
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#grief.
Recorded as part of GoSF. Thanks Bill for co-hosting, and Antithesis for hosting! 🇯🇵 GopherCon Japan 🪝 Guest Posts: Hooking into the Go Toolchain 🦙 go-llama
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Blogged! Sort git branches by date https://akrabat.com/sort-git-branches-by-date/
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#git.
Attached: 1 image This isn’t what you want to see in release notes
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I missed my blog's 20th birthday 😭 . Guess ill wait for 25 to celebrate
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How much AI can a maintainer get away with using without losing their humanity? · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/08/02/ai-maintainer/
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Week Notes 26#43 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2026-10-19?
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#week-notes.
I'm not sure claiming "everything is on fire" is the correct takeaway here There is a pile of flammable materials we've been ignoring for decades. It catches on fire sometimes. It caught on fire a lot this week And the people who put out the fires, for free, put the fire out again The current plan is to just keep throwing more oily rags on the pile. We could try to help the volunteers, but that costs more than adding oily rags to the pile
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#open-source.
Positive comments from The Real Reviewers Lance Ulanoff at TechRadar: 'Satisfying' is the best way to describe the feeling of repeatedly opening and…
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Lukewarm recommendations for improving AI agents' interactions with your projects (7 mins read).
A few small recommendations we've found with Renovate to improve how AI agents contribute to the codebase.
On this week's episode, Kris and Matt are joined by Fred Hebert and Reid Savage from Honeycomb to talk discuss building products with tiny teams, why code reviews are a useful bottleneck that we…
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OpenCode Security Breach vLLM 0.32.0 released Flint Goose v1.55.0 released Apple announces Foundation Models framework NVIDIA insists RTX 5090 is not discontinued Linux Foundation Estimates 25% of New Pull Requests to be Low-Quality AI Slop CatwalkQwen3.6 27B price drop DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017...
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After the N-th time I hear casual racism and fascism at a dinner (where I was invited), I actually took off, said "farewell" and left. Fuck that shit.
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Do the 2026 Go Developer Survey, and tell them Cup o' Go sent you! Go 1.27.3 and Go 1.26.10 are released due to eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise Interview with Ainsley ClarkAinsleyClark.com templ
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For years, it’s been common knowledge among grant writers for open source tech that putting maintenance of existing code in a proposal can tank the whole thing. Funders, do you hear us now? Are you going to remember this week and let go of the new shiny object fixation?
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#open-source.
Got some unwelcome news first thing today: Someone I've known for many years recently took their own life. Feeling angry and sad and like a shit friend because we lost touch at some point, and I had no idea of their struggles. But I definitely could have been more curious. My response so far since hearing this news has been to reach out to a few people I've not checked in w/ for a while.
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#grief.
I have been having A Bit Of A Morning™️ Second time this week some scroat has untied my boat, on a river, in horrendous weather. The fire brigade are very good lads. “You can’t park here mate” really turned the whole thing around. https://www.instagram.com/reel/De4IeLOobVQ/?vrfl=MXdiOHdmNDlwMWY3dA==
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Attached: 1 image Siri, show me the ADHD meme that goes harder than any other...
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#adhd.
More and more, people are relying on AI to do their writing for them. Is this the new normal, or the intellectual equivalent of claiming take-out is your own home cooking? Max Spero, founder and CEO of Pangram, joined Bryan and Adam to discuss how they distinguish AI and human authorship. In...
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After raising $200M in February... we raised another $445M in July! Your favorite computer company is capitalized to the gills--enough to weather the supply chain upheaval even! Come for co-founders Steve and Bryan describing the raise; stay for tax, debt, and credit talk with Scott Orn. In...
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Adam Jacob of Swamp Club explains what software factories actually are, why they're not just slop cannons, and how to trust AI output with black box testing and architecture skills. Plus: should you delete your unit tests, and what do 10,500 LinkedIn engineers do now?
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This week I'm talking with Zeno Rocha, CEO of Resend, about scaling "boring" email to 3 million users, the secret Go rewrite behind it, and building for agents. We cover pricing.md, MCP, spam gangs, and why Resend keeps what's next for email.
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Mitigations for CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 that work until you can install the fixed PHP, based on PHP's advisories. Tested configs for nginx, Apache, …
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#php
#security.
@davidism@mas.to I think so, yeah! Unfortunately the current preview has a few limitations that make it an imperfect replacement for hash-pinning, but I think GitHub intends to have it be a full alternative/replacement for pin bumping/hashing tools in the long term.
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Maintainers of open source projects should be mentoring folks to become their replacements. Not just thinking this is about controlling their project. I have learned this the hard way for gcc. You can't just think it is your way or the highway. Also gsoc is NOT a replacement for mentoring inside the project. It should supplement the mentoring that is done, just like an internship. Also this is not unique to gcc, it is many open source projects. And then there is the gaming of github stats, the one or two commits in llvm and leave issue. Those are used to gain stats for a job. Seriously open source is broken because of the gaming of the system. Even inside companies where you have the person with the most open source commits. Or the person who opened the most issue. Or the person who reviewed the most. (What is funny is that i am that person but I am not trying to play the game of counting, I am just trying to push gcc forward). At the same time I am mentoring folks both inside and outside of qualcomm on both gcc (and even to a less sense llvm) and performance analysis. But going back to my original point is mentoring and maintainship overlaps. It is not one or the other but rather both in the same role. By the time you step down you should have at least mentored a few to be able to take you from you. If you have not you partially failed a as a maintainer as the project will no longer can be maintained in the future.
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#open-source.
can we please end cyber security awareness month I have been made aware thanks
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@andrewnez@mastodon.social @fosdem@fosstodon.org I originally read this as Package Management Doom
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@westonsteimel@hachyderm.io @fosdem@fosstodon.org would make for a good talk proposal 😉
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Yeah you get a digest update - so it's a distinct update ie https://github.com/fhem/fhem-docker/pull/534
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Quinn and Thorsten sit down together in San Francisco to answer the question they get asked most: how does the Amp team work? They walk through a week at Amp, from Thorsten's Sunday post and the single Monday meeting to writing down goals in silence. They explain why Amp has no quarterly goals, no departments and no territory, and how feature flags and the work in progress, orb good and orb bad channels keep a team of 21 in sync. They also cover reviewing changes with agents, pushing to main without mandatory code review, and why they think more companies will soon work like this.
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Dan noted (on the same LinkedIn post you're referring to) that "I'm in the same channel you are and reading the same things you are" so sounds like they are looking at the same things, but with different results
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So Linux mainline is going to allow for unbranded AI contributions. Tbh I wonder if this is going to be the test for folks' commitments to anti-AI software b/c y'all about to move to a BSD-like?
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#meme
#security
#shitpost.
🙋♂️ what if one client worked on every forge? 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔤𝔢𝔰 is a new TypeScript library for issues, PRs, notifications, checks and webhooks across 12 forges ✨ forges.link
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