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Why, yes I am having to spend my Sunday morning looking into reducing the impact of bot scraping on my website after a significantly large AWS bill, why do you ask?

A screenshot of the 'Cost and usage graph' in the AWS billing dashboard, showing May-September's bills of ~$25, and then October's being ~$150. The majority of it, not labelled, is CloudFront traffic usage, which appears to be ~1.3TB of usage over the last month, over what's available in the free tier

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A couple of weeks ago I was at the Manchester Gophers, giving them a sneak peek of my tutorial I'm doing on Friday at #GopherConUK, and I had a blast - was a great time with some great people, and always a fan of sharing more about #DependencyManagementData

Their post has some other great photos, but I think if you really want a convince to go and speak - if the great people isn't enough - you also get an amazing speaker gift - a custom made Gopher!

A "Funko Pop" style collectible, custom made by the Manchester Gophers organisers for Jamie Tanna. It's marked as "05", as the 5th (or is it 0-indexed and therefore 6th?) speaker. It's marked for Jamie Tanna (me!) for speaking in July 2025. Most importantly, it's an "Apex Gopher", with Go's Gopher mascot being positioned in the game of Apex Legends, which I play a lot, and is styled as the legend Caustic, with a little gas canister, and the R301, my favourite weapon. Organisers of the Manchester spent a tonne of time reading through years of Week Notes to perfect the gift, which is hugely awesome, inventive and super cool. It sits atop my desk in this photo, but it's usually in my office background.

by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #gopher-con-uk #dependency-management-data.

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I'm very excited to announce that I'll be speaking at #StateOfOpenCon in February!

I'll be giving a new talk, I inherited this project, and all I got was all these angry users, in particular talking about my experience with maintaining oapi-codegen and some insights into what it's like on the other side of the "why won't you merge this PR" and countless "any update??" comments 😅

I'd also like to say a bit thanks to @openuk for the honour of kicking off the day at the Software and Security track 🤓

Hope to see some of you there - tickets are now available!

#soocon25 #OpenUK

A social sharing card from OpenUK, indicating "all I want for Christmas is a ticket to State of Open Con" and indicating that I, Jamie Tanna, the Chief Blogger @ jvt.me is speaking on the Software and Security track. The conference is on the 4th-5th February in London

by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #state-of-open-con #open-uk.

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Alas, #SpotifyWrapped is out and is interesting! Did not expect Grafix as my top listen, but given the top songs of 2024 for me, it makes sense!

I'll be more interested to see what happens when I get my Spotify data dump at the end of the year and dig into it as I usually do, and I'm looking at tweaking some of the breakdown to possibly graph my listens / top artists month-by-month

The NotebookLM AI summary of my Wrapped data was a bit uncanny 🤔

The Spotify Wrapped graphic, showing at the top a graphic of the artist Grafix. Below, my top 5 artists are shown: Grafix, Fred V, Phaeleh, Tycho and Koven. I listened to 73,830 minutes of music, and my top songs were: Paradise - Akacia + HYLO, Circles - Yoe Mase (which interestingly I only came across a month of so ago), Blow the Roof - Louis the Child, Kasbo & EVAN GIIA, Miss a Moment - Grafix & Elipsa, and Falling - Cyantific

by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #spotify-wrapped.

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Why yes, on Wednesday I was presenting a very high-profile meeting at work  - why do you ask?

(Sorry that FitBit doesn't make it easier to export a graph more nicely)

A screenshot of Jamie's FitBit app, showing the heartrate for a ~90 minute period of time, leading up to the meeting. The first heartrate spike is at 1450 (up to 114bpm), immediately before the meeting, and as I'm preparing myself with a final runthrough and check that everything's ready. It relaxes down to 92bpm while other parts of the meeting are going on, a quick spike up to 110bpm as it's noted that I'm going to be presenting later. A few minutes before I talk - at 1530 - my heartrate drops down to 84bpm (as I'm mentally playing "Moving On - Phaeleh") and then spikes to 107bpm as I start to speak at 1540.

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I'm very excited to announce that I'm going to speaking at the #OpenUK State of Open Con 2024 conference in February 🙌

There's an incredible line-up and I'm very proud to be one of the talks chosen - from the submissions to the Open Source Software and Open Source tracks that I was helping review, there was some incredible submissions and speakers, so it's very cool to have made it to the line-up!

I'll be speaking about dependency-management-data, but for those that have seen me speak about it before, there's a tonne of new stuff since my last talks, and I've got some new stuff that'll be dropping into the project + the talk before the talk in February 👀

#StateOfOpenCon #SOOCon24

A State of Open Con banner, showing Jamie Tanna (titled 'Chief Blogger, www.jvt.me') as a speaker on the Open Source Software Track

by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #open-uk #soocon24.

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I'm super excited to be part of the Open Source and Open Source Software Track Call for Papers (CFP) committee at #OpenUK's second State of Open Conference 🚀

It's my first time getting involved in the CFP process and I've got some great folks to learn from on the committee, and I'm very much looking forward to seeing what awesome sessions y'all have to share.

You've only got till Friday to submit a session, so best get sending them to https://stateofopencon.com/cfp/ 👀

#CallForPapers #StateOfOpenCon #SOOCon24

A State of Open Con 24 banner, with Jamie's profile picture + details in black-and-white

by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #open-uk #state-of-open-con #soocon24.

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Every time we drive past this shop - the Arnold Hearing Specialists - I chuckle to myself, thinking that it's capitalised as if it's being shouted at to someone who's hard of hearing 😅

A photo of the Arnold Hearing Specialists shop front, but "hearing" is in all capitals, as if it's being shouted. And yes, this is a little ableist 😥

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Can someone at McDonald's please fix their Android push notifications? I always get an empty notification as well as the normal one, and it's been happening for best part of 6 months

A screenshot of an Android (13) notification with the top notification being a MyMcDonald's app notification with text, and below an empty notification, also from MyMcDonald's

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New desk setup, with a Fully Jarvis desk and Ergotron monitor mount 💪 Despite what you can see peeking out below, this is the most cable managed I've ever been, and I'm hoping the desk will remain this clear for at least a week 😅

A photo of a Jamie's desk setup in "home" mode. The desk is a Fully Jarvis sit-stand desk, with a dark bamboo top and black legs. Around the desk position is a set of surround sound speakers. There is a microphone arm in the left hand side corner of the desk, and a headphones stand in front of it. On the desk, there is a nebula themed large mouse-and-keyboard pad, on top of which is a WASD Keyboard v3 keyboard (in bright white, green, orange and light blue colours), and a Logtech MX Master mouse. There are two screens, using an Ergotron dual monitor mount. The left hand side screen is a Dell UltraSharp (4k) 27" USB-C Hub Monitor - U2722DE, and the right hand side screen is an Asus PB287Q 28" 4K Monitor. Above the left hand side monitor is a Logitech C922 webcam. On both screens, the background image is a waterfall into a natural enclosed pool. Below the desk you can see an Ethernet switch on the right which unfortunately isn't yet cable tidied, as well as a USB hub that's also visible and not-yet-tidied, on the left. There is also a little bit of mess and some shelves on the right hand side of the image that couldn't be cropped out easily. A photo of a Jamie's desk setup in "work" mode. The desk is a Fully Jarvis sit-stand desk, with a dark bamboo top and black legs. Around the desk position is a set of surround sound speakers. There is a microphone arm in the left hand side corner of the desk, and a headphones stand in front of it. On the desk, there is a nebula themed large mouse-and-keyboard pad, on top of which is a WASD Keyboard v2 keyboard (in dark grey, black, red and light blue colours, where the blue keys are in the shape of the Arch Linux logo), a Logtech MX Master mouse, and a Deliveroo-issued M1 Macbook Pro. There are two screens, using an Ergotron dual monitor mount. The left hand side screen is a Dell UltraSharp (4k) 27" USB-C Hub Monitor - U2722DE, and the right hand side screen is an Asus PB287Q 28" 4K Monitor. Above the left hand side monitor is a Logitech C922 webcam. On the left hand side screen, the background image is the same as the Macbook, indicating that it is connected to the laptop, and on the right, the image is a waterfall into a natural enclosed pool. Below the desk you can see an Ethernet switch on the right which unfortunately isn't yet cable tidied, as well as a USB hub that's also visible and not-yet-tidied, on the left. There is also a little bit of mess and some shelves on the right hand side of the image that couldn't be cropped out easily.

by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #battlestations.