Kind notes

It being #GitHubUniverse means it's officially a year on from the worst incident I've ever caused, where all of #Elastic's public repos - Elasticsearch, Kibana, etc - were made private 🫣

I learned a lot during that incident and have internalised a lot of the very important learnings!

Anyone at #OSSEU know where - ideally near the venue - to get a UK-to-EU travel adapter? I dun goofed and only brought my USB-C adapter and forgot my laptop needs to charge 😅

Do I know anyone who's going to Open Source Summit (Europe) in October and/or the OpenSSF Community Day? Looking forward to attending my first one!

🎶 I won't ask you to sacrifice yourself to bring me back to life 🎶

Classic Argentina pushing and punching even after the game is over

I've just had a lovely restorative and action-packed couple of weeks holiday in Canada 🍁 (more on that over the weekend) - in the meantime, dare I ask "what have I missed"? 🫣

Absolutely wild mixup on shuffle today:

• Message In A Bottle (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift
• Heavy is the Crown - Linkin Park
• Light Cycles - Prelude - ShockOne

UK Sole Traders that I know - for Making Tax Digital are y'all aware of any Open Source / source available software that implements the requirements? Wondering what options are or if we're forced to use proprietary software and providers 😬 I'm hoping to get some "bridging software" that will allow me to continue using Ledger

Best birthday present I've received so far is a council tax bill (I joke, I've had some lovely presents so far)

Has someone at the Linux Foundation decided they want to spam folks regardless of opting out of the "PyTorch Foundation" emails? Getting it across many more emails than I remember signing up to the Linux Foundation with, and even after unsubscribing from "PyTorch Foundation" emails, I'm now receiving them under different email events

Love to get an email from #Gousto, 3 days after my box arrives, to say an ingredient I've already eaten is "not be safe for consumption" 😶

A day of national mourning is upon us - our kettle stopped working this afternoon so we've had a whole half day with no tea 💔 (cries in British)

Feel like I'm already feeling FOMO from #FOSDEM, and it's still 2 weeks away 😹

I've blown the dust off my NAS and am upgrading it from Debian 10 (Buster) to Debian 13 (Trixie) using only an LLM (GPT-4.1 via GitHub Copilot) to help me - AMA!

Very cool to see I'm on Golang Weekly's top 10 articles of the year with Go 1.24's go tool is one of the best additions to the ecosystem in years

I'm not surprised given the amount of traffic I've had for this over the year, but it's still cool to see reflected in their stats, too!

Does anyone know if there's a Charm BubbleTea UI prototyper? I'm trying to find something to have a play with some of the components to test out a UI I'm building, and ideally something drag-and-drop to play around with it would be convenient

🎶 Titten sind prall und mein Arsch ist round 🎶

My first blog post on the #Mend blog is naturally all about #Renovate: Building a more secure npm ecosystem with Mend Renovate

This has been something we've been building up to for ~2 months of hard work making it as predictable as possible, highly documented and builds on top of ~6 years of Renovate having this functionality

Oof A House of Dynamite was intense but a very good film - would recommend!

Had some very similar vibes to Leave the World Behind

After years of the joy of cross-compiling Go code across different architectures and OSes, having to cross-compile a very small C library is wild 🙃

It's incredible what an impact Red Light, Green Light - Phaeleh has on my mood - absolutely incredible centering effect on me

Massive pet peeve at the moment - "here's our newest Open Source tool! It's awesome! Oh yeah, it requires integrating with our proprietary backend API to do anything" 😠

You may start seeing some weird movement in my #WeekNotes - I've noticed that 2025 had incorrect week numbers set, so I'm correcting that, which is shuffling 2024's "week 53" to be 2025's "week 1" and onwards

Fuck Google Forms' "autosave" functionality for replacing ~20 minutes of writing effort with "a newer version" of the data, which was in fact, a very old version from another tab 😡

OH at #GopherConUK: go generate sharedholder-value

COVID test negative ✅

Next stop: London for #GopherConUK

Looking forward to seeing folks, learning from some awesome people, and sharing some cool insights you can learn from your organisation with #DependencyManagementData 🔥

oapi-codegen v2.5.0 is out 🚀📢

A host of new functionality, bug fixes, and the notable big changes:

• Begone optional pointers! (optionally)
• Generating omitzero JSON tags, with x-omitzero
• Using OpenAPI 3.1 with oapi-codegen (with a workaround)
• Defining your own initialisms
• Minimum version of Go needed for oapi-codegen is now 1.22.5

Super excited to be chatting to Tessa Kriesel in the return of the 99 Dev Problems podcast, in about half an hour 🚀

Well, something's wrong with my RSS feed for my salary page cause there should be an update showing 👀

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:

This last couple of weeks, there have been a couple of big-ish things in oapi-codegen land:

• a big release for the net/http middleware (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
• an example of how to use oapi-codegen with OpenAPI 3.1 specs (as a short-term, until we support OpenAPI 3.1)

🎂

No #WeekNotes tonight as I'm on holiday for my birthday - may catch up during the week, or next Sunday!

Off the back of the tj-actions/changed-files #SupplyChainSecurity attack, I've written up how you can use #DependencyManagementData to determine the impact across your org - already found it's been very useful 👀

Finally put the finishing touches to my rewrite of the renovate-graph docs which I started on Monday at #BatchBunch

Very much looking forward to tomorrow's OpenUK Digital Meetup, where we've got the awesome Kat Cosgrove and @derickr for a "fireside chat" all about what life is like being a core maintainer. Hope to see some of y'all there at 1200 UTC

Folks may be interested to see that I've now got an RSS feed for my salary page, which is also on the Fediverse via @www.jvt.me.salary in case y'all wanna know when there are any updates to it 👀

Very exited to see that my talk, "I inherited this project, and all I got was all these angry users" from #StateOfOpenCon is now live - thanks for the super speedy publishing, OpenUK!

I was honoured to kick off the Open Source Software & Security Track with a keynote about my experiences being an Open Source maintainer, and digging into the factors that make maintaining oapi-codegen difficult, and on top of that my own personal experiences which lead to difficulties in maintaining Open Source, especially when it's used actively by companies.

There were some great discussions about the maintainer burnout problem over the conference, and I had some great chats with folks in the "hallway track".

I'll be finishing my write-up of the conference in the next week (🤞🏼) but am very excited to see the talks are already up on YouTube, so I can catch up on talks I missed, too

Thanks to those of you who were able to find the Hardwick Hub at #StateOfOpenCon and came to my talk, "I inherited this project, and all I got was all these angry users" - slides can be found 👆🏼 or in PDF form on Sched #soocon25 - would be happy to hear some tired maintainer stories from y'all too!

A very apt song to start this week off (for my US friends) - 🎶 Don't Panik - CloZee Remix 🎶

FYI that #DependencyManagementData v0.114.0 is out with an important refactor, but is one to watch out for!

If you're using the Renovate datasource, the package_names may be different to what they were previously. This now makes them actual package names, rather than the "pretty" depName but it's likely to catch folks out 👀

It always amazes me what a positive mood booster having a productive day is

Something I've been working on on-and-off for a couple of months is some tweaks to my Manual of Me, prompted by getting a new manager, and wanting to rethink the "things you should know when working with me", as well as delving much more into how #ADHD can affect my work, and some more reflections - and I'm glad that I've finally put the finishing touches on those updates.

Also re-reading my blog post from when I first created it, it's wild to think that this was the first time I'd started using Classless.css, which is now a staple of my microsites!

On the topic of joining a #union and the collective bargaining port we as workers should work towards at #OggCamp2024, I'd also recommend discussing your salary with your colleagues!

It doesn't have to be as public as my /salary page, but it's hugely useful to do and helps work out inequity

Thanks for those who came to my talk at #OggCamp2024, "89 things I know about Git commits (abridged version)" based on blog post of the same name - glad I resisted doing a couple of slide changes in the ~90 seconds before I went up on stage 🫣

I'm talking about - would you believe it - dependency-management-data at #OggCamp2024 later this afternoon 🤓🛸

Come to learn about some very interesting things you can learn from your usage of Open Source and internal dependencies 👀

With the performance management season mostly over, I've done a refresh on my CV - this can be your reminder to give yours a refresh. You don't need to be looking to keep it up to date!

Who else do I know who's going to #OggCamp? 👀 Where do folks recommend for a fairly last minute hotel nearby?

Just put the finishing touches on the latest release of oapi-codegen: v2.4.0 includes:

• #OpenAPI Overlay functionality

• Improved multi-file OpenAPI spec support

• Several other features and bug fixes

https://github.com/oapi-codegen/oapi-codegen/releases/tag/v2.4.0

I'm super surprised that semantic-release doesn't support v0.x.y releases. Pretty disappointing, and reminds me I really need to write a "you should never release a v1 as your first release" blog post