Kind notes

Thanks for the warm welcome at #TechMids2023 and for hearing about dependency-management-data!

Super happy to talk about it some more - today or afterwards - and hearing how you get on 🚀

Some links you may be interested in:

• Long-form talk writeup
• Getting started cookbook
• Slides

Finalised my slides for Friday at #TechMids? ❌

Rebuilt the documentation site for dependency-management-data? ✅

Not sure if I can blame my ADHD or if it's just me being me 🫣

Really dislike that in Android 14 I now can't disable Nearby Share and so it permanently takes up a space in the sharing intent 😡

Every time I look to include an #xkcd comic in a blog post, I end up hand-writing an alt text to meaningfully explain the comic, does anyone know if there's a crowd sourced project where folks are using community contributions? 👀

Excited that it's only a week until my first #TechMids conference - there's a great lineup that I'm excited to be part of, and always excited to share dependency-management-data some more with the world, and learn from some excellent industry folks 🤓

For anyone using oapi-codegen, note that v2 is coming soon, but that it's a very minor breaking change that 🤞🏽 shouldn't affect you at all!

Had a great time today at #DDDEastMidlands seeing friends old and new! Learned some stuff, ate some good food, indoctrinated many a person into starting blogging 🤓

Thanks for those who came to my talk all about #blogging at #DDDEastMidlands! My slides can be found linked to on my talks site and there's a blog post writeup for the talk, too 😜

It's been just over a year since I wrote Analysing our dependency trees to determine where we should send Open Source contributions for Hacktoberfest which started off my journey with dependency-management-data and I'm super happy with the path it's taken me 🤓

Very excited to be attending and speaking at DDD East Midlands tomorrow 🎉 Looking forward to seeing some of the local tech community, and folks from further afield!

Now on loop 🎶 These Lies - Exploid

Love to get an email from #Vercel: You’re off the waitlist for Next.js Conf 2023 and are officially registered. despite never registering for the event. I also can't unsubscribe because (allegedly) This email contains important information about an event you registered for and cannot be unsubscribed from.

Regretting signing up for their prize giveaway at #LeadDev London, especially as this isn't the only thing I've been emailed about but can't unsubscribe from of theirs 🫠

Welp, all my tweets are gone, aside from retweets as I couldn't be bothered to work out how to get rid of them, and a couple of notes to say I'm offski

What have I been upto this afternoon you ask? Writing a tool with #Playwright to allow me to delete all my posts on #Twitter without using an external service. Blog post hopefully this weekend (once I've ironed out the many bugs) 👀

With the release + rebrand of Mend Renovate Community Edition (previously known as Renovate On Prem), I've updated my post on running it on Fly.io to take into account the new config + naming

Is there any data out there to back up what we perceive to be a recent the resurgence of the personal website and #blogging in the last few years? #LazyWeb

Bit gutted to have received my official rejection from speaking at GitHub Universe, after being on the "alternate" (backup) list of speakers, but still chuffed to have made it that far! 1600+ talks proposed this year apparently 🙀

For those who didn't make it to #DevOpsDays London, or who did and want to watch it again, my talk on dependency-management-data is now live on YouTube 👏🏼

Following on from a successful conversation that was had at #DevOpsDays Chicago, there was an Open Space yesterday all about #compensation and #salary at #DevOpsDays London, which of course I was super interested in, and happy to share my own salary history as well as some of the things that companies have done over the year.

Based on one of the questions I'll (soon ™️) be adding how much on-call is compensated, if not part of the salary

New on the website is an archives page if you wanted a quicker way to go back through the many posts I've written! Could do with maybe adding a little more detail + some format changes, but a good solution for now

Open Source Summit looks great, sad to be missing it! But very excited to have #DevOpsDays London this week 👏🏽

Taking strong inspiration from Phil Nash I've just updated my /elsewhere/ page 👀

TIL that I can use my fingerprint to log in with i3lock-color🕵️ I thought it'd not worked before last time I looked, but similar to logging in on a TTY, I just need to enter an empty password, then I can auth via my fingerprint 👏

Has anyone else noticed that the #reddit mobile web app is useless? Often get white screens if I try to load it, often have to choose a subreddit to go to first, then I can go back home. Wouldn't get that with excellent third party apps 😥

New release of deepmap/oapi-codegen 🚀 v1.15.0 comes to downgrade the version of Go in use by a couple of dependencies, which was leading to build issues for folks running Go 1.21 🔧

Two years ago, I posted my salary history - in an impulsive move - and I absolutely do not regret it. I know directly of some the great impact having this data has had (including leading to others sharing their own), and I'm so glad to be able to use my privilege to help others

Super excited that it's only a couple of weeks to go to #DevOpsDays London! There are still some tickets available, hit me up if you want a discount 👀

It's such a great conference, regardless of the fact that I'm speaking 🤓

Hey babe wake up, new #Hacktoberfest site just dropped 👀🎃

New release of deepmap/oapi-codegen 🚀 v1.14.0 comes with Iris Support, a requirement of a minimum of Go 1.20, reduction of runtime dependencies, and various other features and fixes 👏

How would you go about designing a dark mode theme? I'm looking to implement a dark theme for Datasette and wondering how's best to approach this 🤔

Well it's been a great first week at #Elastic, especially as today is actually Friday for me! It's this month's Elastic whole company "Shut It Down Day" so everyone in the org gets a nice long weekend 😎

Welp, I've now officially logged out of Deliveroo Blind, so if you see any posts that look like me, it ain't 😅

Instead of my usual TTY-based login on Linux, I've spent a bit of time trying to get LightDM/SDDM set up to allow me to use fingerprint-based login.

It turns out you don't even need to do that, pam_fprintd.so can work as-is on the TTY 🥳

Super excited to be speaking at DevOpsDays London on September 21st!

Not only am I excited to be excited to be attending the conference for the first time since pre-COVID, I'm excited to try my hand again at the Ignite talks 🔥

DevOpsDays London is a truly excellent event, there's a really high bar, some really inclusive practices, and lovely people organising and attending.

I've written about previous years' events on my blog if you want a bit more of a feel for what the event may be like:

• 2018
• 2019

If you're interested in joining, you can get a 20% off code using my referral code - let me know if you're currently between jobs or may be unable to attend even with the 20% discount.

Love that my Meetup account has been (hopefully temporarily?) disabled because - get this - me trying to share my slides with attendees at a Meetup I spoke to has been "classed as spam"

A couple of weeks I able to attend #LeadDevLondon thanks to a ticket gifted to me by the organisers, and I've finally gotten around to writing up the excellent conference 👏🏼🎉

There's some really great stuff in there, and I learned a load.

You can read more on the blog

Do I know anyone with a (paid) Snyk org who'd be willing to give me a hand with getting some example data from their Open Source projects?

Looking to grab a project's SBOM to get some examples of what the data looks like, but seems to only be available if you're a paying customer, but I'm just trying to get some examples of #SBOMs for use with importing the data into dependency-management-data

Does anyone know if there's a good community space where folks building tooling that work with #SBOMs can be found? Got some questions I'd like to ask!

Nice to see that the excellent gorilla/mux may have been revived

Excited to be heading to #LeadDev with Anna Dodson and learning some great things from interesting folks, but especially as we're sitting on a train carriage behind a couple of pugs that are chaotically breaking free from their shackles to explore the train 💀😹

This evening I've been putting the finishing touches on a preview of my talk Quantifying your reliance on Open Source software coming to DevOpsNotts at the end of July for my colleagues at #Deliveroo tomorrow, and still appreciating the tip I got at the DDD East Midlands speaker workshop to write the content before the slides, as it's made it a breeze to construct slides based on a long form blog post!

Very appreciative of the wonderful folks at Lead Dev for a complimentary ticket for the upcoming Lead Dev London - I've heard it's a great event so I'm very much looking forward to go and learn from some really awesome folks 🤓

Super excited to be bringing a new talk to DDD East Midlands in October entitled This talk could've been a blog post 🤓📝

Who else do I know who's going to #LeadDev London? 👀

Very excited to be talking at DevOpsNotts at the end of July about a project very close to my heart recently - dependency-management-data - in a new talk, Quantifying your reliance on Open Source software, where we'll look at how you can get a better view of your organisation's Open Source and internal dependency usage.

We've had Amazon Blink cameras for a few years now for security / deliveries / watching Morph prowling around. Today I'm no longer able to watch recordings because they've decided I now have to pay for it. Very frustrating and shitty UX!

Excited to be hearing from Cory Doctorow this evening 🙌🏽

Very excited to announce that my first - ever! - guest post, Learn how to build tools has gone live, for the wonderful Letters to a New Developer - I've been meaning to write this for three years, thanks Dan Moore for the support with it 🤖⚙️🛠

Anyone got any work-appropriate alternatives for "(that team) got shafted"?

I've just learned something quite dangerous 😳 I can make super tasty milkshakes whenever I want 😋😅