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I have been gainfully unemployed for exactly one year. Spending today exploring the north of New Zealand, then after Xmas seeing friends in Melbourne, finishing the year on a beach in Thailand. I wonder what 2026 will bring? A bit of FOSDEM for certain and we've got Interrail tickets booked. But *work*? Hmmm… we'll see!

New video on updating container images with Renovate. The demo uses the Renovate GitHub Action but pairs it with Octo-STS so you don't need to create a PAT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0hWRMtdUyI

20,000 issues on GitHub https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/12/16/20000-issues-on-github/ #curl

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blur the hands as a bit, no one will ever know

pastrami fries, bitch

I’ve started using the term HTML tools to refer to HTML applications that I’ve been building which combine HTML, JavaScript, and CSS in a single file and use them to …

Code review heuristics for reviewing AI-generated code.

Just got to present at AI Dev Days! What a cool event, I've seen a few of the other presentations now leading up to mine and it has been such a great learning opportunity 😄

Attached: 1 image me blowing dust off my unposted lifenotes from nearly a year ago

introducing .🥺, the world’s first bottom-level domain

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you’re very popular on linkedin (DEROGATORY)

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This week, Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson and WordPress founding developer Matt Mullenweg started fighting about what "open source" means. I've spent twenty years working on open …

It has been a busy year 👀

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Who has made this 🤣

I stumbled onto webrings and, for a moment, accidentally fell back into the OG internet

Stumbled across webrings this weekend; it was a little nostalgia trip into the weird, human-scale web I used to love <3 https://darylcecile.net/notes/rediscovering-the-internet

Checking out sidetrail and sharing some wisdom that may be helpful to you 👀 https://sidetrail.app/@brittanyellich.com/trail/3m7db273dmc2u

bout to taste that Grussy

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I've recently been using (again) @\renovatebot for keeping my demos up-to-date and I'm still amazed how good it works. ICYMI, please read Renovate, a Dependabot alternative https://blog.frankel.ch/renovate-alternative-dependabot/ #fromthearchives #devsecops #continuousintegration #build #github #gitlab

@andrewnez@mastodon.social nice! are you planning on doing the same for renovatebot PRs?

I want to see “handicapped play” for political debate where one side is directly impacted by the decision, and the other isn’t, but *is* opinionated. Something visible, like: always be touching your nose & hopping on one leg if the debate is over school lunches, but you went to a private school.

The @overcommitted.dev software engineers recently sat down with @mooreds.com to chat about the impacts on auth and security from AI Agents. Check it out at: https://overcommitted.dev/ep-36-navigating-the-future-of-ai-agent-security-with-dan-moore/

Quit social media by posting more. Contribute to searlsco/posse_party development by creating an account on GitHub.

If You're Cold, They're Cold: Never Let Them in Without a Warrant

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When it comes to Christmas movies, it's hard to beat Home Alone.

I maintain a sorta-popular open source package, and I want to prevent big corporations and "bad guys" from using it. I want feedback on how to do this.

Shocking everyone, that Black Friday sale that was DEFINITELY only available for a limited time at store XYZ, has now been EXTENDED! Better act fast!

Accidently referred to a pork pie as a "porked" pie and my mum said she doesn't want any of it.

Dependabot vs. Renovate: Dependency Update Tools

Every other Devopsdays in the world has some seriously stiff competition. Only Wollongong has given me an opportunity to hang out with QUOKKAS

"folx" appeals to the sickos-yes.jpg part of my brain that also enjoys censoring the wrong word of compound obscenities, i.e. cocks*cker, m*therfucker, but I realize this is socially unacceptable and I'm trying to quit

I've been on quite a few podcasts this year talking about @ecosystems and package manager metadata: https://nesbitt.io/2025/11/17/podcast-interviews-2025.html If you’d like to invite me on your podcast to discuss open source, package management, or software sustainability then reach out.

I've been on quite a few podcasts this year talking about @ecosystems and package manager metadata: https://nesbitt.io/2025/11/17/podcast-interviews-2025.html If you’d like to invite me on your podcast to discuss open source, package management, or software sustainability then reach out.

This platform is full of authors and artists who don't like having their work stolen.

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Why can’t AI solve the problem of: I have a meeting in the morning so I set an alarm and wake up early only to find the meeting has been cancelled 😪

If you are looking to find tech folks who write, @brittanyellich.com put together a starter pack! https://bsky.app/starter-pack/brittanyellich.com/3m5ovwlmfkp2f [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Things I thought I'd use my food scale for: - Making healthy meals - Baking measurements Things I actually use my food scale for: - Measuring the different weights of my children's Lucky Charms to prove they got the same amount

I just spent the last two hours debugging the Bluetooth stack *in anger* because for the last few weeks I've had to re-pair my mouse with my laptop. Every time. Remove mouse, re-pair. Turns out I had two identical mice in my backpack and I've been switching between them. It was me.