Week Notes 26#03 (1 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2026-01-12?
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If you funded a maintainer before they created their most successful package, you have a claim on it. The Law of Surprise is underutilized in open source.
Feel like I'm already feeling FOMO from #FOSDEM, and it's still 2 weeks away đč
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Ep. 42 | Making Silly Software with Christina Martinez by Overcommitted
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SummaryIn this episode, the hosts meet with Christina Martinez, a developer experience engineer from Resend, who shares insights on her creative process and current projects. She shares her delight in building silly software and how she's using that to learn in her current role.TakeawaysChristina is the creative mind behind the Gen Z Babel plugin.She also developed the Swift commits tool.Taking existing tutorials and adding a creative twist can make them more fun.Continuous development is important at all parts of your career.LinksChristina Martinez: https://christinacodes.devSilly Software Club: https://sillysoftware.clubResend: https://resend.com/Gen Z slang Babel plugin: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cxvwz76vBus/ | https://github.com/christina-de-martinez/babel-plugin-glowup-vibesTaylor Swift themed commit linting tool: https://youtube.com/shorts/eOS5Q2I9LHM?si=LC8JVUKTkLgwKtDF | https://github.com/christina-de-martinez/swift-commitsCodeTV & Mux's Worst Video Player Competition: https://www.mux.com/blog/actual-worst-video-playerReact Miami: https://www.reactmiami.com/HostsOvercommitted: https://overcommitted.devBethany Janos: https://github.com/bethanyj28Brittany Ellich: https://brittanyellich.comEggyhead: https://github.com/eggyhead
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Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds
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Cup o' Go | Go 1.26: 240% better! đ This episode: 340% longer! đ Venn: 100% awesome đ
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GopherCon 2026 Early tickets until Jan 31! Get them while they last!Go 1.26 coming soonOfficial release notesInteractive release notes by Anton ZhiyanovInterview with Arthur VaverkoVenn.cityJob openingsArthur Vaverko on LinkedIn
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We've announced 6 Moderate Security Advisories, which allow for possible remote code execution, when an attacker has access to a repository's default branch More info: https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/discussions/40403
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Authoring Markdown externally and pasting the 'pretty' output into Slack (on Mac) (2 mins read).
How to use copy the rendered representation of Markdown into a rich-text form into Slack, on Mac.
Getting access to rich-text data from the clipboard (on Mac) (1 mins read).
How to retrieve rich-text output from the clipboard.
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Break | Breaking The Doom Scroll
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Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, Matt gets real about how AI doomerism on social media got to him over the holidays and the mental reset that pulled him out of it. K...
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Fallthrough | New Year, New Nuance
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New Year, New Nuance! In this episode, Kris and Matt discuss what they're looking forward to in 2026âMatt shares the exciting news that he's becoming a dad, and the duo explore the value of growth,...
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Creating a TUI for keeping an eye on GitHub Rate Limits (1 mins read).
Sharing ghrl, a Terminal User Interface (TUI) for monitoring rate limits for GitHub Apps.
2025's podcasts in review (3 mins read).
What podcasts did I listen to in 2025?
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#podcast.
Week Notes 26#02 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2026-01-05?
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Open Source Security: Anubis with Xe Iaso
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Josh chats with Xe Iaso, the creator of Anubis the web AI firewall. We discuss how Anubis is tackling bots and scrapers. The discussion around the scrapers is fascinating and challenging, these things are everywhere and don't behave very nicely. There's also discussion about running a successful open source project. Xe has a lot of experience to share with us, you're going to learn something new with this one. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at
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From GitLab to Kilo Code featuring Sid Sijbrandij (Changelog Interviews #672)
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We're joined by Sid Sijbrandij, founder of GitLab who led the all-in-one coding platform all the way to IPO. In late 2022, Sid discovered that he had bone cancer. That started a journey he's been on ever since... a journey that he shares with us in great detail. Along the way, Sid continued founding companies including...
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Why the Renovate project uses GitHub Discussions as our triage process (16 mins read).
A dive into what we've learned over 5 years of using GitHub Discussions as our space to triage user questions.
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i love the beginning of the year because everyone starts blogging. and if you (yes you) were thinking about starting, this is your sign
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Engineering Enablement by DX | AI and productivity: A year-in-review with Microsoft, Google, and GitHub researchers
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As AI adoption accelerates across the software industry, engineering leaders are increasingly focused on a harder question: how to understand whether these tools are actually improving developer experience and organizational outcomes.In this year-end episode of the Engineering Enablement podcast,...
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This week on #OpenSourceSecurity I chat with Jamie Tanna about updating open source dependencies. It's usually not as simple as "just update" and Jamie has a ton of real world experience in this working on Renovate https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/2025-12-renovate-jamie/
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Oxide and Friends | OxF 2025 Wrap-Up
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Bryan and Adam reflect on Oxide and Friends in 2025--favorite moments, episodes, and images. Happy new year and see you in 2026!Your hosts are Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal.Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:RFD 576: Using LLMs at Oxide (hacker news comments)OxF:...
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Week Notes 26#01 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-12-29?
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it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive test suite written by somebody else, 5 different models, a megawatt-hour of energy, a swimming pool full of water, and a month of spare time of an extremely senior engineer
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2025's Music In Review (1 mins read).
What music was I listening to in 2025?
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Break | What Is Software Engineering?
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Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, the panel continues their conversation from Fallthrough #52.Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to wa...
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Fallthrough | Stack Trace 2025
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We decided to do our own wrap up for the year. We've called it Stack Trace, and we pulled a bunch of stats from the first year of Fallthrough. In this episode, Kris, Matt, and Dylan talk through th...
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Break | We Need New Fundamentals
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Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, the panel continues their conversation from Fallthrough #51.Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to wa...
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Fallthrough | Worse Is Better
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There's a famous joke essay called Worse Is Better, which compares the New Jersey and the MIT ideologies. In this episode, Kris and Matt discuss these two different ideologies and how they show up ...
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Jan 1: this is the year of new Me Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
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Please donât go to enormous indoor events when youâre incredibly ill with a flu-like thing. Not even in a mask. Fuck sake.
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2025's Site In Review (7 mins read).
How did my site perform in 2025?
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#www.jvt.me.
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day one in mamdaniâs new york
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Week Notes 25#52 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-12-22?
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Cup o' Go | See you next year
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Podcast: Within Reason with Hank GreenPodcast: Within Reason with VsaucePodcast: Acquired: Microsoft Volume IFavorite Cup o' Go episodes of 2025May 17, Episode 110: Thanks, Ian. đ Plus Kevin Hoffman talks about empathy and the joy of logging âĄMay 23, Episode 111: Go gets audited, and Ian Lance...
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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!
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Breaking Change v42.0.1 - Scott Werner: Ignore all previous instructions
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đ„Hotfixđ„ is back with a new guest! Scott Werner is the CEO of Sublayer, helps organize the Artificial Ruby meetup in NYC, and is the author of the extremelyâŠ
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Kate Winslet (Christmas Special) | Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
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Listen to Kate Winslet (Christmas Special) from Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. Oscar-winning acting royalty Kate Winslet joins us for a Christmas Special in the Dream Restaurant. But can James keep his Eternal Sunshine questions to himself? Kate Winsletâs directorial debut âGoodbye, Juneâ is in cinemas now and on Netflix from 24 December. Watch it here. Watch the video version of this episode on the Off Menu YouTube on Thu 18 Dec. Off Menu is now on YouTube: @offmenupodcastFollow Off Menu on Instagram and TikTok: @offmenuofficial.And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show.Off Menu is a comedy podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster.Produced, recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.Video production by Megan McCarthy for Plosive, and Pippa Brown.Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
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The history of servers, the cloud, and whatâs next â with Oxide
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Bryan Cantrill explains how decades of server and cloud evolution shaped modern infrastructure and what todayâs engineers should learn from it.
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We spent thirty years building tools to keep humans from falling into dependency hell, only to build a machine that jumps into the pit voluntarily.
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"Tig Notaro" on Where Everybody Knows Your Name
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<p>As a cancer survivor, comedian Tig Notaro has explored her own mortality in acclaimed releases such as âLiveâ and âBoyish Girl Interrupted.â Now sheâs a producer of an Apple TV documentary called âCome See me in The Good Lightâ that examines the final days of a close friend, the poet Andrea Gibson. Tig talks to Ted Danson about how this unique project came about, the changes itâs inspired in her own life, and much more. </p><p> </p><p>Like watching your podcasts?  Visit <a href="http://youtube.com/teamcoco">http://youtube.com/teamcoco</a> to see full episodes. </p> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="http://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>
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