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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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Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.
Today on The Business of Open Source I spoke with Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer at Isovalent, which is now part of Cisco. We addressed two subjects: How to be successful as a company that donates their project to the CNCF, and the story of Isovalent’s acquisition by Cisco and the role open...
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Lots of websites and apps now provide fee-free booking for UK train tickets to any destination, featuring split-ticketing and better options for identifying the best value fares. Yet, many people I …
TIL 😅 thanks for the heads up!
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feels like i'm lifting weights with my brain but in a bad way where remembering words and processing sentences i hear from people takes like 2-4x as long as normal feels like my brain is stuck in context switch hell and so i've got latency penalties across the board, this really sucks
That’s autistic burnout, friend. Please take care
@bcantrill.bsky.social just mentioned on the @oxide.computer podcast that K8s wanted to leave the CNCF 👀👀 I need to hear more about how that played out
1000%!!! You don't have to share your salary as publicly as I do but you need to be sharing it with people, normalising discussions in and out of your company and with your colleagues and friends!
Angie gives us a crash course on Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how you can get started using it with goose. We also talk about other projects Angie's worked on at Block and what drives her to keep learning new things in tech.LinksAngie's website: https://angiejones.techGoose...
Conferences and meetups🏴 Fyne Conf 2025 @ Edinburgh, Scotland, Sept 19CFP through June 20🇺🇸 Go Meetup @ San Francisco, May 28🇺🇸 Go Meetup @ Atlanta Go meetup, (probably) May 7ProposalsAccepted: Add T.Output()Accepted: Store test artifactsGo Blog: More predictable benchmarking with...
If you are starting out on your Argo Workflows journey, you’ll soon find yourself surrounded by the word ‘template’. Templates are a fundamental cornerstone of an Argo Workflow and allow you to define the work to be performed.
Dimitri Stiliadis, CTO from Endor Labs, discusses the recent tj-actions/changed-files supply chain attack, where a compromised GitHub Action exposed CI/CD secrets. We explore the impressive multi-stage attack vector and the broader often-overlooked vulnerabilities in our CI/CD pipelines, emphasizing the need to treat these build systems with production-level security rigor instead of ignoring them. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at
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Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.
Celebrating a small win: I went from consistently failing "project deep dive" interviews with hiring managers to succeeding at them. The solution? Preparing several STAR-organized stories (And asking my ex eng manager to help me remember some details 🙈)
Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.
Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.
Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.
Margaret Thatcher apparently slept for only four hours a day. Interestingly, if I sleep for four hours a day, I find I am also in favour of policies that make everyone suffer.
Not usually a fad guy but I'm pretty stoked about "vibe coding".
Join us on a journey to make believe worlds with our good friend Mat Ryer. The assignment; we each get to make up a new world where we invent a new gadget and declare a new rule. This episode is sure to delight loyal fans and especially those who enjoy Mat Ryer on the show and a good/bad song or two.
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"It depends" is an overused phrase that people should rarely use as an argument.
Going over what makes incident.io special after my first year as VP of Engineering.
Kendall Miller is a bubbly extrovert who sticks his fingers in a lot of pies. He advises tech companies like FusionAuth, positions tech products like Civo & Tensorlake, organizes tech networks like CTO Lunches, and even sells whiskey & gin to tech people like us via his Friday Deployment Spirits brand. Kendall has lear...
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There is no question I’m becoming more of a copyleft person with every passing day.
The kat is out of the bag! I start a very exciting new role next week that you'll all hear about Monday. Come celebrate with me if you're going to be at RSA, and thanks to @redmonk.com for the VERY sweet note in the newsletter!
Y'all be slacking. Where's the AI parody song to the tune of "Because I Got High"? Here I'll help you start. Builds are failing today, because of AI I deployed it anyway, because of AI Production just went down, and I know why (why man?) 'Cause of AI Because of AI Because of AI
An exploration of web security mechanisms and their unexpected consequences
Guy Podjarny is the Founder of Snyk, the developer-first security platform that helps companies find and fix vulnerabilities in their code, open source dependencies, containers, and infrastructure as code. Snyk has raised $1.2B from investors including Boldstart, Accel, Tiger Global, and Addition. In this episode, we dig into selling security products to developers, the pros and cons of being open source (Snyk is not!), Snyk's fundraising journey and challenges early on, how Snyk has evolved over the years, the decision to bring in an outside CEO & more!
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Calling the United States a developed nation seems increasingly inappropriate
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Paul Copplestone is Co-Founder & CEO of Supabase the open source Backend-as-a-Service company that provides storage, authentication, edge functions, and a postgres database to users. Supabase's project, also called supabase, has 36K stars on GitHub and is positioned as the "open source Firebase alternative". Supabase has raised $116M from investors including Coatue, Felicis, and YC. In this episode, we discuss positioning as an open source alternative to "x", the benefits of going through YC as an open source company, how to judge open source momentum, learnings for other early open source founders, and more!
Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.
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