Week Notes 25#18 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-05-05?
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Maintainer Month 2025 with Dirkjan Ochtman on Sustaining Critical Rust Libraries
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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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The Business of Open Source | AI-generated Code Copied from Open Source with Julian Coccia
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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.
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Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social)
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“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”
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Building Zed's agentic editing with Nathan Sobo (Changelog Interviews #640)
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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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Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social)
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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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Scaling DevTools
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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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Scaling DevTools
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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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Scaling DevTools
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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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Ashley Willis-McNamara (@ashley.dev)
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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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Renovate: Could you please bump that version?
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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.
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Scaling DevTools
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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).
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Scaling DevTools
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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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Scaling DevTools
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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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Building Windsurf with Varun Mohan
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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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Oxide and Friends | Solutions Software Engineering with Matthew Sanabria
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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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SQLite Extension Hub
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Easily find and manage SQLite extensions.
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#sqlite.
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MalwareTech – Darknet Diaries
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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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Memento (Lasagna) Morty 🌙 (@mementomorty.bsky.social)
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We must Never Forget [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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#memes.
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Jeremiah Lowin (@jlowin.dev)
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I think it's one of my better release titles, tbh
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Ian Coldwater 📦💥 (@lookitup.baby)
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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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Mistress Matisse (@mistressmatisse.bsky.social)
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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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Kara Sowles Deloss (@feynudibranch.bsky.social)
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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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cait (and adonis) (@cait.bsky.social)
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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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The Business of Open Source | Investing in The Next Generation of Developers
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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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The Business of Open Source | The Importance of Managing SaaS Applications with Shawn Lankton
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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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The Business of Open Source | Bootstrapping an Open Source Company with Matt Barker of Jetstack
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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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The Business of Open Source | How a Rebrand Increased Sales with Lukas Gentele
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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#17 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-04-28?
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#week-notes.
Interesting - I guess you mean a simpler way compared to needing to write the full JSON Path expressions?
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Just Enough Docs | LornaJane
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Too many open source projects suffer from inadequate documentation, and that hurts their adoption, their communities, and puts more burden on maintainers. Many people who create open source software don't see see themselves as writers, but today I'm sharing tips for documenting open source projects
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#documentation.
This last couple of weeks, there have been a couple of big-ish things in oapi-codegen land:
- a big release for the
net/httpmiddleware (and a couple of small patch releases) which namely boasts better - or IMO, actually usable! - error handling - the basis of our (current) governance process for the project
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oapi-codegenwith OpenAPI 3.1 specs (as a short-term, until we support OpenAPI 3.1)
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#oapi-codegen.
Tricking oapi-codegen into working with OpenAPI 3.1 specs (7 mins read).
How to get oapi-codegen to interact with OpenAPI 3.1 specs, until it supports OpenAPI 3.1.
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#blogumentation
#oapi-codegen
#openapi
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Ep 281: David Tennant | Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
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Listen to Ep 281: David Tennant from Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. David Tennant Does a Podcast With… Ed and James! The ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘Rivals’ star has a table booked in the Dream Restaurant this week, and James starts thinking about a career change.‘David Tennant Does a Podcast With…’ series 3 is out now with guests including Stanley Tucci, Russell T Davies, Ben Schwartz and Jameela Jamil. Listen here. Follow David’s podcast on Instagram @davidtennantpodOff 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.
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How to use the new "tool" directive
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Go 1.24 new "tool" directive.
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Cup o' Go | 🎉 Surprise! 😯 A new security release is coming!
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🛡️ Go 1.24.3 and Go 1.23.9 coming Tuesday, May 6Meatspace events🏴 GoWest, Oct 24 @ Lehi, UtahCFP through June 3🏴 Go Meetup @ Atlanta, GA USA, May 7🏴 Go meetup @ SF, May 27📝 Go 1.25 draft release notes👋 Go Blog: Goodbye core types - Hello Go as we know and love it! by Robert...
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Reading some of the more unctuous trolls on HN, I think they might have an opportunity for a sidehustle: I would gladly engage them to apply to @oxide.computer just so we can make sure that we successfully don't hire them, pentesting for asshole vulns in our hiring process.
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Open Source Matters w/ Chad Whitacre - Syntax #894
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Chad Whitacre from Sentry discusses the history of open source, differences between licenses and community-led vs single-vendor projects, Sentry's licensing and Open Source Pledge initiative.
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Ep 284: Meera Sodha | Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
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Listen to Ep 284: Meera Sodha from Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. Superb chef, food writer and author (including one of Off Menu’s favourite cookbooks, ‘East’) Meera Sodha joins us for a Dream Restaurant booking this week. If anyone says ‘ship’ they have to put 50p in the Naan Jar. Meera Sodha’s new cookbook ‘Dinner’ is out now, published by Penguin. Buy it here. For more of her books visit Meera’s website, meerasodha.com/books Follow Meera on Instagram @meerasodha 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.
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