I've seen a lot of complaints about how MCP isn't ready for the enterprise. I agree, although maybe not for the reasons you think. But don't worry, this isn't just a rant! I believe we can fix it! The …
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#ai
#authorization.
Hi!! What’s up!! I’ve been laid off from GitHub, so if I don’t respond to your emails, it’s FINALLY not my fault 😘 sorry in advance. The past 5 years were an honor and a joy, because wow, OSS maintainers are a kind bunch. Grateful I got to run one last Maintainer Summit before leaving 💓
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Overriding a Gradle project property which has . and _ characters, without modifying the buildscript (4 mins read).
How to use GRADLE_OPTS to safely override a Gradle property (with special characters in its name) without modifying the buildscript.
How to set up the 'Follow' button on LinkedIn (1 mins read).
How to allow others to follow you on LinkedIn.
Migrating secrets between two Vault instances (1 mins read).
How to copy secrets from one Vault instance to another, reducing the risk of the secrets being stored on disk for too long.
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#blogumentation
#vault.
Week Notes 25#19 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-05-05?
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#week-notes.
Kicking off our 2025 Maintainer Month series, Dirkjan joins Richard to talk Rust maintenance, open source funding, and sustaining projects without burning out.
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Julian Coccia, CTO of ScanOSS, about selling access to data while making open source software. Of course, we also talked about being an open source company that is also deep in the open source world, helping companies understand their...
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Using type assertions in Go with concrete types (2 mins read).
How to perform a type assertion on a type in Go that isn't an interface.
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#blogumentation
#go.
“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”
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Nathan Sobo is back talking about the next big thing for Zed—agentic editing! You now have a full-blown AI-native editor to play with. Collaborate with agents at 120fps in a natively multiplayer IDE.
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Cats wearing bras on their heads with the soundtrack of the “habemus papam” announcement is a TikTok trend. The internet will not be defeated.
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Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.
by Jamie Tanna
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Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.
by Jamie Tanna
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Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.
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I’m wearing overalls today, and my husband looked at me and said, “Have fun on your shift at the Mushroom Kingdom.” 😂 https://media.tenor.com/vsPZuwYB5JYAAAAC/first-of-all-how-dare-you-rupaul.gif?hh=280&ww=498
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Ever wished that Renovate increased that Chart version number in your Helm chart if the appVersion changes? Or maybe you wanted to bump the version number even though a dependency changed, which is not a direct dependency? Well, it can now!
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#renovate.
Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.
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Getting Renovate to provide a changelog for digest updates to packages (on GitHub.com) (2 mins read).
How to use the new templated changelogUrl functionality to provide more actionable changelogs for digest updates to i.e. GitHub Actions and other digest-pinned dependencies (in this example, on GitHub.com).
Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.
by Jamie Tanna
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Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.
by Jamie Tanna
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Varun Mohan, CEO of Windsurf, shares how building an AI-native IDE is reshaping software development—from optimizing LLM latency to enabling non-engineers to ship code.
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Matthew Sanabria joins Bryan and Adam to talk about his role at Oxide--Solutions Software Engineer--and how it fits in with engineering, sales, support and marketing. It takes everyone in Busytown! Sound good? Apply!In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide...
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Easily find and manage SQLite extensions.
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#sqlite.
MalwareTech was an anonymous security researcher, until he accidentally stopped WannaCry, one of the largest ransomware attacks in history. That single act of heroism shattered his anonymity and pulled him into a world he never expected.
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We must Never Forget [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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#memes.
I think it's one of my better release titles, tbh
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My friend @rileybruce.bsky.social took this picture of me playing in bubbles at the May Day Parade, in case you needed some joy on your timeline today
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I’ve said this elsewhere, but using AI now is basically the equivalent of using an Ouija board. It’s a word-guessing machine that tells you what you want to hear. Enjoy it if you like, but don’t start thinking it’s REAL [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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Today at 10am PT - we're streaming 'What Maintainers need to know about Open Source Licensing, SBOMs, and Security' for #maintainermonth Come listen to my expert colleague Jeff, who looks at a project's license first while the rest of us are still reading the bio ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hbkfKAl4hk
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love the idea that men have less object permanence than a newborn baby and if they can't see their girl's titties and pussy at all times they forget to have sex with her [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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Jon Gottfried, Co-founder of Major League Hacking, joins me to chat about community building, open source as a career accelerator, and how Major League Hacking began.
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In this episode of The Business of Cloud Native, Shawn Lankton talks about how Microsoft 365 and related applications fit into an organization's move to the cloud and why organizations need to pay attention to security for all their SaaS applications.
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Matt Barker, President and co-founder of Jetstack, has been involved in open source and Kubernetes since the early days of its development. With a long list of open source projects behind him, he decided to hone in on Jestack and with its success, share the knowledge he’s gained over the years as...
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Lukas Gentele, the CEO and co-founder of LoftLabs. Here’s some of the things we covered: There are many open source projects at LoftLabs. We talked about what the team did differently the second time round, when they’d had the experience of...
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Week Notes 25#18 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-04-28?
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#week-notes.