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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.
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Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.
Yikes. I used to work with someone who very prominently wore a collar (at work) but that still doesn't mean it's a topic of conversation 🙃
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 5891 steps.
Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.
Who now? 👀
Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.
Listen to Ep 294: Carey Mulligan from Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. Three-time Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan – star of Tim Key and Tom Basden’s ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ – is this week’s dream guest. But can James name those nominated roles? Carey Mulligan stars in ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ which is in cinemas from 30 May. Off Menu is a comedy podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster.Produced, recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.Video production by Megan McCarthy for Plosive.Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).Follow Off Menu on Twitter and Instagram: @offmenuofficial.And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show.Watch Ed and James's YouTube series 'Just Puddings'. Watch here.
Hey, can't believe this has to be said, but don't ask strangers at work if they have piercings because they're into kink. That's so incredibly weird. I've had most of these for more than half my life and I thought I'd heard it all but that was new.
Listen to Ep 274: Andy Zaltzman (Christmas Special) from Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. Joining us for a Christmas Special second helping is ‘Taskmaster’ champion and ‘The Bugle’ podcast, Andy Zaltzman.Andy Zaltzman is on tour now with ‘The Zaltgeist’, running until 9th May 2025 at London's Leicester Square Theatre. For full dates and tickets, visit www.andyzaltzman.co.ukFollow Andy on Twitter @ZaltzCricket Off Menu is a comedy podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster.Recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design) and Amy Browne (illustrations).Follow Off Menu on Twitter and Instagram: @offmenuofficial.And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show.Watch Ed and James's YouTube series 'Just Puddings'. Watch here.
Bringing in what we learned from LiteFS
What's the difference between Renovate's depName
and packageName
? (3 mins read).
What the differences are, and where you may want to use one or the other.
Between and I took 3320 steps.
Everything was completely normal with me until I ate an entire chicken over the sink like a desperate animal for no apparent reason at all
The only reason agentic AI is going to succeed is because they keep redefining it to fit what they have
i had some really stressful interactions on github yesterday and today. lets just remember many of us are doing this OSS work for free and to do good, kindness is appreciated
Was very honoured to be featured as part of #MaintainerMonth for the Open Source Initiative's view into Open Source maintainers and their experiences, and being able to share my own experiences on opensource.org :purple_heart:
My experience as a maintainer (8 mins read).
A guest post for opensource.org, about my experience as a maintainer, as part of 2025's Maintainer Month.
It's a trap.
Between and I took 6391 steps.
Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.
Creating nested fenced code blocks with Hugo (1 mins read).
How to write a Markdown file with a fenced code block, which includes another code block inside it.
Taking more control over your Cobra CLI documentation (2 mins read).
Releasing a library to manage the generation of Cobra CLI documentation using text/template
s.
Setting up SSH key signing with Git (1 mins read).
How to sign your Git commits, using SSH keys.
I recently had a chat with Kairo about a project he maintains called Repository Service for TUF (RSTUF). We explain why TUF is tough (har har har), what RSTUF can do, and some of the challenges around securing repositories. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at
Between and I took 6831 steps.
Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.
Week Notes 25#19 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-05-12?
After 25 years in tech it’s hard not to coast. Adriana has come from writing word docs for the ops team to deploy software, through Devops, and now has a focus on OTel and Kubernetes. How do we get more people from 100 to 400 levels and why is there no content in between? And why we need junior...
Improving the experience of browsing Renovate debug logs (4 mins read).
Creating a Terminal User Interface (TUI) application to improve the debugging experience with Renovate's debug logs.
That's the problem with outdoor channels someday they need to go back home
Marianne, author of Kill It with Fire, and Greg join host Richard to dive into their new paper, “10 Quick Tips for Making Your Software Outlive Your Job.”
Go Meetup in San Francisco - Sponsored by Elastic & Cup o' GoIan Lance Taylor leaves the Go teamBlog: wget to Wipeout: Malicious Go Modules Fetch Destructive PayloadBlog: Security: The Habits That Matter Most by Christoph Berger⚡ Interview with Kevin Hoffman of SparkLogsSparkLogs.comSparkLogs on...
Between and I took 6518 steps.
men will literally dismantle the federal government instead of going to therapy
It provides some balance to the conversation - but IMO is maybe a bit too forgiving, and (in my limited understanding) doesn't delve into some of the real nuance
Derek Collison — creator of NATS and Co-founder & CEO of Synadia — joins the show to dive into the origins, design, and evolution of NATS, a high-performance, open-source messaging system built for modern cloud-native systems and part of the CNCF. Derek shares the story behind NATS, what makes it unique, and unpacks th...
"gungan killmonger" is the premise for the most offensive SNL skit you've ever seen in your life oh my god [contains quote post or other embedded content]
Gungan Killmonger: Howsa you think ancestors got thesee? Yousa think paid fair price? Or theysa take it, like theysa took everything else?
you say you like dynamic typing? allow me to show you agentic workflows
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