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Listen to Mawaan Rizwan from Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. Mawaan Rizwan – ‘Taskmaster’ runner-runner-up and Bafta-winning star and creator of BBC Three’s ‘Juice’ – is this week’s diner, and he has an easy-to-follow recipe for English food. Trigger warning: this episode contains talk about calories. Series 2 of ‘Juice’ is on BBC Three and iPlayer from 18 September. Watch it (and catch up with series 1) here.Follow Mawaan on Instagram @mawaanr and TikTok @mawaanWatch the video version of this episode on the Off Menu YouTube on Fri 5 Sep.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.Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).

Gotcha: referencing symlinks with go:embed result in irregular file errors (2 mins read).

Why you may see irregular file errors in Go, if you're trying to go:embed a symbolic link.
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Ever wondered what it really takes to build a successful online presence? How about if you were doing it as a couple? In this episode, Angelica and Matt are joined by Sophie and Rory of the "Media Couple" podcast as they pull back the curtain on their current projects and share the unfiltered...

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Listen to this episode of The Delta Flyers: 'Counterpoint' released on August 25, 2025. Stream this episode and discover all the new episodes from your favorite podcasts on Podbay, the best podcast player on the web.

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Week Notes 25#36 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-09-01?
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The tragedy of the UK is that we grew up believing that our government would dispatch James Bond with his “license to kill” to dispatch megalomaniac media tycoons, water barons and mad billionaire rocket builders. The reality is Bond would probably turn up to award them their MBE.
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Listen to this episode of The Delta Flyers: 'Nothing Human' released on August 25, 2025. Stream this episode and discover all the new episodes from your favorite podcasts on Podbay, the best podcast player on the web.

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Lee Robinson helped Vercel grow to $200M+ in ARR and scaled the Next.js community to over 1.3 million active developers. I dive into his blog posts to uncover v...

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Remember it is your civic duty to e-mail me at podcast@searls.co. As of this episode, that address is monitored by Fastmail, so there's a higher probability…

Starless: How we accidentally vanished our most popular GitHub repos (11 mins read).

How a change targeting internal GitHub repositories backfired and inadvertently made Elastic's public-facing repositories private.
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A common challenge in data-rich organizations is that critical context about the data is often hard to capture and even harder to keep up to date. As more people across the organization use data and data models get more complex, simply finding the right dataset can be slow and create bottlenecks. Select Star is a

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Listen to Stevie Martin from Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. ‘Taskmaster’ alumnus, Nobody Panic podcaster and multimedia stand-up Stevie Martin has a reservation this week. But can she pick a side dish? Stevie Martin is on tour with her show ‘Clout’. For dates and tickets go to steviemartin.com Listen to Stevie’s podcast ‘Nobody Panic’ where you listen to podcasts. Follow Stevie on Instagram @5tevieM and TikTok @Stevie-MartinOff 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.Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).

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Everyone can be a content creator. Whether it's posting long form content on YouTube, shorter content on TikTok, or photos on Instagram, content creation is accessible to all. In this episode, Angelica and Matt are joined by Benjamin Bryant to talk about what it takes to become a content creator....

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Arun Gupta, now a "free agent" after his surprise exit from Intel, joins us to discuss how he's dealing with his first job hunt since the 1990s. Along the way, we talk about agentic coding strategies, what GPT-5's release implies about the future, and more. (US buys 10% of Intel)++
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This episode is sponsored by Boldly Go! Need fractional Gophering work? Visit boldlygo.tech.For everything Cup o' Go, incl. swag, Patreon, past episodes, and more, please visit our website.GopherCon 2026 location pollGopherCon IndiaGOMAXPROCSCourse: "Introducing Command Line Applications in...

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We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
Week Notes 25#35 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-08-25?
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
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Folks someone appears to be having a pizza party at the Pentagon www.pizzint.watch https://www.pizzint.watch/
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Listen to this episode of The Delta Flyers: 'Infinite Regress' released on August 25, 2025. Stream this episode and discover all the new episodes from your favorite podcasts on Podbay, the best podcast player on the web.

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Listen to this episode of The Delta Flyers: 'Timeless' released on August 25, 2025. Stream this episode and discover all the new episodes from your favorite podcasts on Podbay, the best podcast player on the web.

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Gerhard calls Kaizen 20, 'The One Where We Meet'. Rightfully so. It's also the one where we eat, hike, chat, and launch Pipely live on stage with friends.
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Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, Kris, Matt, Dylan, and Angelica talk about Fallthrough episode #34.Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to watch instead of just listen, head over to YouTube where you watch this episode of Break!Thanks...

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GopherCon is this week! Kris, Matt, Dylan, and Angelica are talking about conferences: their favorite experiences, how they approach them, and advice for first time conference attendees. For our supporters, the panel has an in-depth discussion of what would make for better conferences and where...

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Listen to this episode of The Delta Flyers: 'Once Upon a Time' released on August 25, 2025. Stream this episode and discover all the new episodes from your favorite podcasts on Podbay, the best podcast player on the web.

I'm joining Mend to work on Renovate full-time (7 mins read).

Announcing my move to new job, working on Renovate (CLI and Enterprise) full-time, and looking back at my time at Elastic.
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Additional lessons learned running Renovate at scale (14 mins read).

Some of the things I've learned about monitoring the usage of Renovate 'at scale' of hundreds of repositories.
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Calling Britain “Pound Town”
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Listen to this episode of The Delta Flyers: 'In The Flesh' released on August 25, 2025. Stream this episode and discover all the new episodes from your favorite podcasts on Podbay, the best podcast player on the web.

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Listen to this episode of The Delta Flyers: 'Extreme Risk' released on August 25, 2025. Stream this episode and discover all the new episodes from your favorite podcasts on Podbay, the best podcast player on the web.

Week Notes 25#34 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-08-18?
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Listen to this episode of The Delta Flyers: 'Drone' released on August 25, 2025. Stream this episode and discover all the new episodes from your favorite podcasts on Podbay, the best podcast player on the web.

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 😡
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Listen to this episode of The Delta Flyers: 'Night' released on August 25, 2025. Stream this episode and discover all the new episodes from your favorite podcasts on Podbay, the best podcast player on the web.

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Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, Kris and Matt talk about Fallthrough episode #33.Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to watch instead of just listen, head over to YouTube where you watch this episode of Break!Thanks for tuning in and...

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🥩 Meatspace🇺🇸 Going to GopherCon in NYC? Meet other Cup'o'Gophers there!🇺🇸 Interested in a SF meetup? Fill out the poll🇷🇺 Let's GoConf, Sept 12 @ Moscow, RussiaGopherJS 1.19 with generics releasedInterview with Grant Nelson, Episode 53ProposalsAccepted: x/tools/go/analysis/structtag: stricter...

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Bryan Cantrill returns in the wake of Oxide Computer Company's $100M Series B. Bryan tells us how he's avoiding an appearance on Silicon Valley (ding), why their uniform compensation is working, where Oxide fits in the AI datacenter, what scaling to 50+ rack orders looks like, and more. (GitHub has no CEO and saving In...
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What is it like to ship software in big tech? Sean gives us his experience from multiple companies and what he’s learned. It's probably not what you think. It doesn't matter if you're vibe coding features or bash-ing devops, we all need to remember why we were...

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Go 1.25 is released🛠️ x/tools contains public packages that fail to build with Go 1.25.0🧱 Building blocks for idiomatic Go pipelines by Anton ZhiyanovGopherCon USA, Aug 26-28 in New York🌩️ Lightning Roundoutrig

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Listen to this episode of The Delta Flyers: 'Hope and Fear' released on August 25, 2025. Stream this episode and discover all the new episodes from your favorite podcasts on Podbay, the best podcast player on the web.
