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I love how much context Andor & R1 have added to that era. The Rebellion came so close to toppling so many times, surviving by pure luck & the skin of their teeth, just long enough for the Empire to fuck up in a major way.
I love how much context Andor & R1 have added to that era. The Rebellion came so close to toppling so many times, surviving by pure luck & the skin of their teeth, just long enough for the Empire to fuck up in a major way.
One of my favorite developments from the Andor finale is that, by the time the series ends, every major Imperial Security Bureau character we've met and followed is either disgraced or dead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp_Cn3nxu3s
And again: all this happens in the span of a single month. I mean, even with the remainder of the Imperial war machine and the two Sith Lords at the wheel, it's kinda a miracle the Empire manages to hang on for another 4 years until Endor.
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William Woodruff discussed his project, Zizmor, a security linter designed to help developers identify and fix vulnerabilities within their GitHub Actions workflows. This tool addresses inherent security risks in GitHub Actions, such as injection vulnerabilities, permission issues, and mutable tags, by providing static analysis and remediation guidance. Fresh off the heels of the tj-actions/changed-files backdoor, this is a great topic with some things everyone can do right away. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at
And would you say your experience going public with your concerns was the common case, or a significant outlier?
I think I have a lot of privilege to speak up and there are a lot of other people like me who should use their privilege to give voice to the people who canāt speak publicly.
I disagree with this point. I leveraged my privilege to help other people know they werenāt alone in what they were going through. I met more people from Amazon after publishing this article than in the 4 years I worked there. I still get DMs about it https://justingarrison.com/blog/2023-12-30-amazons-silent-sacking/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]
Looking back at oapi-codegen's last year (6 mins read).

A recap of oapi-codegen's last year, in light of it being Maintainer Month, and continuing to ask for sponsorship.
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What's in the SOSS? features the sharpest minds in security as they dig into the challenges and opportunities that create a recipe for success in making software more secure. Get a taste of all the ingredients that make up secure open source ...

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āšHappy Anniversary, Justin! š„³ You āļøstarredāļø the fish-shell/fish-shell repo five years ago today! š File a new Issue or PR today! Use Copilot⨠to get started!ā
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Thanks for listening. Check out all the links to all the things at https://cupogo.dev/.GCC 15.1 Released With Support For COBOLos: Root permits access to parent directoryGOOS=noneThe "most ergonomic" config libraryGo Meetup in San Francisco - Sponsored by Elastic & Cup o' GoLinkedIn...

Kaizen 19 has arrived! Gerhard has been laser-focused on making Jerod's pipe dream a reality by putting all of his efforts into Pipely. Has it been a big waste of time or has this epic side quest morphed into a main quest?!
Automating things, even when it doesn't save time, is how you learn the skills to automate the things that will.

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 ā¦
Hi!! Whatās up!! Iāve been laid off from GitHub, so if I donāt respond to your emails, itās FINALLY not my fault š 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 š
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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basshunter was so good
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Week Notes 25#19 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-05-05?
Kicking off our 2025 Maintainer Month series, Dirkjan joins Richard to talk Rust maintenance, open source funding, and sustaining projects without burning out.

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...

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.
āAbolish ICEā is the moderate position. Radical is āprosecute every ICE employee under RICO.ā
Between and I took 5409 steps.
Nathan Sobo is back talking about the next big thing for Zedāagentic editing! You now have a full-blown AI-native editor to play with. Collaborate with agents at 120fps in a natively multiplayer IDE.
Cats wearing bras on their heads with the soundtrack of the āhabemus papamā announcement is a TikTok trend. The internet will not be defeated.
Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.

Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.

Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.

Between and I took 7135 steps.
Iām wearing overalls today, and my husband looked at me and said, āHave fun on your shift at the Mushroom Kingdom.ā š https://media.tenor.com/vsPZuwYB5JYAAAAC/first-of-all-how-dare-you-rupaul.gif?hh=280&ww=498
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!
Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.

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.

Between and I took 3042 steps.
Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.

Varun Mohan, CEO of Windsurf, shares how building an AI-native IDE is reshaping software developmentāfrom optimizing LLM latency to enabling non-engineers to ship code.
