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I engaged with too many spoon videos on TikTok and now my entire For You is autism spoon videos
I engaged with too many spoon videos on TikTok and now my entire For You is autism spoon videos
Between and I took 5356 steps.
Week Notes 25#15 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-04-07?
Ben Sigelman is the Co-Founder & CEO of observability platform Lightstep as well as Co-Creator of open source observability frameworks OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry. Lightstep was acquired by ServiceNow in 2021 and OpenTelemetry was released in 2019 and has since become the standard observability framework. In this episode, we dig into:The founding story for Lightstep - including the initial pivot into the ideaThe benefits Lightstep got from open sourcing OpenTracing The OpenTracing and OpenCensus merger into OpenTelemetryWhy OpenTelemetry has been so widely adopted Ben's perspective on the many companies building with OpenTelemetry todayHow their team made the decision to take the ServiceNow acquisition Company building learnings around team building (& more!)

Richard Moot joins us to discuss Changelog helping Square launch a developer pod and the excitement around MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers. What might it foretell about the future of human/robot relations?
Dramatic evening at Elgol.
Between and I took 7560 steps.
<p>Legendary actor Christopher Walken, who plays Burt, is on the podcast this week to nerd out about acting with Ben and help break down Season 2 Episode 6. He reflects on the unique energy between him and John Turturro, playing two different sides of Burt, and why Bugs Bunny might be the greatest actor of all time. Then, Ben and Adam discuss the rest of the episode and the relationships growing both inside and outside of Lumon. But wait — there’s even more! The guys also talk with Sarah Bock, who plays Ms. Huang, about how scary Ms. Huang can be and what the first year of college has been like for Sarah.</p><p>To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: <a href="https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy">https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy</a></p><p>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a></p>

Properly patching packages: persistently producing patches for published projects, particularly practically prevented by patch-package policy (10 mins read).

How to use patch-package to modify NPM dependencies, for instance when you're distributing an executable and you want to patch something you rely upon, without relying upon postinstall scripts.
In this episode, Gary Kramlich, the lead developer of Pidgin discusses the challenges and strategies of maintaining a 26-year-old open source messaging client.Gary tell us all about how a small team manages technical debt, handles library dependencies, and makes decisions about rewrites versus incremental improvements while supporting a broader open source ecosystem. The accompaning blog can be found at
Between and I took 6858 steps.
a day in the life of a dangerous and glamorous transsexual: i'm wearing sweats while troubleshooting R code with Dvořák's symphony no. 9 stuck in my head. this terrifies chris rufo.
Stephan Ewen, Founder and CEO of Restate.dev joins the show to talk about the coming era of resilient apps, the meaning of and what it takes to achieve idempotency, this world of stateful durable execution functions, and when it makes sense to reach for this tech.
<p>This week, Ben and Adam welcome Michael Chernus — who plays Ricken Hale, the visionary author of “The You You Are” — to help unpack Season 2 Episode 5. And while you might expect Ricken to host a podcast of his own, Michael reveals that Ricken is actually post-podcast, so today’s episode is a really big deal. Together, they discuss Ricken’s writing, his relationship with Devon, and the actorly impulse to be liked. Then, Ben and Adam break down the rest of the episode and the challenges of crafting this soft-reset for the MDR team.</p><p>To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: <a href="https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy">https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy</a></p><p>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a></p>

Between and I took 5398 steps.
<p>For Season 2 Episode 4, Ben and Adam are joined by <em>Severance’s</em> Emmy-winning composer, Theodore Shapiro — or, Teddy Shaps, as his friends call him. He pulls back the curtain on his long-standing collaboration with Ben Stiller, going all the way back to 2004’s Dodgeball; the four chords that unlocked <em>Severance’s</em> ear-worm of a main theme; and the world of Kier folk tunes he discovered while scoring this episode. Then, Ben and Adam talk about filming this monumental episode where the Outties go out-f***ing-side.</p><p>To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: <a href="https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy">https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy</a></p><p>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a></p>

"Wow, I'm famous!" I say while looking at LinkedIn analytics that tell me the reach of my post is under 5k people, with a mouthful of a pepperoni pizza Hot Pocket, still donning my sleepwear, at 4PM.
François Proulx, a supply chain security researcher at Boost Security, discusses how continuous integration (CI) and build pipeline security represents a critical and overlooked hole in our supply chain security. It seems like most supply chain compromises are actually from CI system breaches rather than direct code compromise, yet we seem to obsess over everything on either side of the CI system. François has a bunch of really good practical suggestions for how we can start to improve our CI security today. The blog post for this episode can be found at
updog is an insane artist name
i liked the early stuff but they lost me after the ligma ep
Sean shares his work with the CHAOSS Project, exploring open-source sustainability, leadership, metrics, and his academic journey.

🛡️ Go 1.24.2 and Go 1.23.8 are releasedAccepted: structured output for test attributesInterview with Daniel Nephin in Episode 5Meetups🇬🇧 Birmingham, UK, April 17🇬🇧 Manchester Gophers new web site🇺🇸 Go Meetup w/ Shy @ San Francisco, May 28🫚 Go Blog: Traversal-resistant file APIs by Damien Neil🇬🇧...

Automagically migrating golangci-lint configuration to v2 with Renovate (2 mins read).

How to get Renovate PRs that update both the version of golangci-lint to v2, and runs the golangci-lint migrate command for you.
The “I hate all people (as a teen)” to “oh I have social anxiety (as an adult)” type of pipeline
Jerod turns Adam into Lego, a Walrus, and a Walrus in the style of Studio Ghibli...and so much more. This is a good one to watch on YouTube.
Between and I took 5666 steps.
with Gregory Kurtzer and Kelsey Hightower

Monzo present how they're using Dependency Track

<p>To unpack Season 2 Episode 3, Ben and Adam are joined by Gwendoline Christie, who plays a mysterious new Lumon employee, for her first ever podcast. And she’s a natural! They talk all about her unique acting journey, the power of leaning into the absurd and obscene, and how protective her character is of her department -- the people and the goats. Plus, she reveals the three things she learned about goats while filming Severance: they are highly intelligent, they eat everything, and they are little freaks.</p><p>To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: <a href="https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy">https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy</a></p><p>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a></p>

Audit your GitHub Actions workflow runs to see exactly which Actions were downloaded - github/audit-actions-workflow-runs
🌈🧱 #lgbtq #pride #art
<p>Everyone’s favorite brain in a jar, Severance creator Dan Erickson, is back with Ben and Adam to talk about Season 2 Episode 2. Dan reflects on creating an all-Outtie episode, wearing uncomfortable shoes in solidarity with actors, and the shared door-factory-universe between Severance and Monsters Inc. They also answer the question everyone’s been asking: what do you eat for lunch at Lumon?</p><p>To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: <a href="https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy">https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy</a></p><p>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a></p>

Between and I took 5265 steps.
Something I've been trying to get better at is telling my friends I love them I saw a lot of my friends last week at Kubecon and I didn't do it once 🙁 It's still uncomfortable for me but is more important than ever as people feel alone and unloved
Love when companies post about being major contributors to #opensource projects after laying off a ton of core contributors to those projects!
if you think this is about you, it probably is. Eat shit! 😘
same team, d̶i̶f̶f̶e̶r̶e̶n̶t̶ no company
If you love something you have to e̶l̶i̶m̶i̶n̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶d̶e̶p̶a̶r̶t̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ set it free
Thanks to the economy, I have no choice but to head on down to the dick sucking factory in my new role as dick sucking QA manager
me: i’ll do it when i have more time also me: *wastes free time feeling guilty about wasting free time*
<p>The wait is over. Ben and Adam break down the Season 2 Premiere with the incredible Tramell Tillman — aka Mr. Milchick, aka Mr. Milkshake. Tramell shares what it means for Milchick to become the new Floor Manager and argues that he really isn’t all that bad, once you get to know him. Plus, the pod unveils a few new perks: the guys answer fan questions from the Severed Floor Post Box and clairvoyant Zach Cherry predicts what will happen in next week’s episode.</p><p>Our hearts go out to all those impacted by the Los Angeles fires. Here are some links to organizations supporting the relief efforts:</p><p><a href="https://www.cafirefoundation.org/what-we-do/for-communities/disaster-relief">California Fire Foundation Wildfire & Disaster Relief Fund</a></p><p><a href="https://donate.wck.org/give/654000/?#!/donation/checkout">World Central Kitchen</a></p><p><a href="https://www.calfund.org/funds/wildfire-recovery-fund/">California Community Foundation - Wildfire Recovery Fund</a></p><p><a href="https://give.pasadenahumane.org/give/654134/#!/donation/checkout">Pasadena Humane - Eaton Fire Emergency</a></p><p><a href="https://www.letterscharity.org/altadena">Letters From Altadena: Wildfire Relief</a></p><p>To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: <a href="https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy">https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy</a></p><p>Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a></p>

Between and I took 4363 steps.
Another laptop cover completed that will be joining my previous ones on my office wall! 💙 I love seeing the progression of my career through these stickers! 🤩
Looking back on the last four years, what worked, what didn't.
We've published episode 14: APIs: Design Imperfectly, Improve Relentlessly. Happy Listening! https://share.transistor.fm/s/956fde8a