2020's Site In Review (1 mins read).
How did my site perform in 2020?
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2019's Site In Review (2 mins read).
How did my site perform in 2019?
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2018's Site In Review (1 mins read).
How did my site perform in 2018?
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2017's Site In Review (1 mins read).
How did my site perform in 2017?
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2016's Site In Review (1 mins read).
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men only want one thing and it's API access
Partiful (@partiful)Wed, 08 Feb 2023 16:39 GMT
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After many recommendations over the years by Terence Eden ive finally joined Prospect 👏🏽
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#union.
For those that may or may not have seen the news that Deliveroo are going through redundancies, I'm unfortunately one of the roles at risk.
Although I'm not looking for a change - redundancy process permitting 🤞🏽 - I'd be happy to hear if there are roles that you think I may be interested in.
Looking for Senior level roles for similar compensation to now and working on and with Go, Open Source, OpenAPI, Renovate, Dependency Management and distributed systems.
Check out my CV for a bit more info
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Mrs ADHD returns to join Alex and James for an episode on use/overuse/addiction to smartphones in ADHD. As usual, the episode includes brain-numbingly dull psycho-education delivered by Alex, personal reflections from all three ADHD adults abou...
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What we learned from COVID? That oil is worthless in a society without consumption. That healthcare has to be public because health is public. That 50% of jobs can be done from home while the other 50% deserve more than they're being paid. That we live in a society not an economy
Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa)Thu, 09 Feb 2023 15:14 GMT
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Why we switched to serverless containers with Florian Forster, co-founder & CEO of Zitadel.com (Ship It! #87)
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Last September, at the 🇨🇭 Swiss Cloud Native Day, Florian Forster, co-founder & CEO of ZITADEL, talked about why they switched to serverless containers. ZITADEL has a really interesting workload that is both CPU intensive and latency sensitive. On top of this, their users are global, and traffic is bursty. Florian t...
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Treat ideas like cattle, not pets with Daniel Vassallo, creator of smallbets.co (Ship It! #88)
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In our ops & infra world, we learn to optimise for redundancy, for mean time to recovery and for graceful degradation. We instinctively recognise single points of failure, and try to mitigate the risks associated with them. For some years now, Daniel Vassallo has been doing the same, but in the context of life &amp...
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How to ace that CFP with V Körbes & Anna-Katharina Wickert (Go Time #265)
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It’s “Call For Papers” (CFP) season in Go land, so we gathered some seriously experienced conference organizers to help YOUR submission be the best ever.
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There’s only one day left to find your pals on Mastodon via Twitter before the free Twitter API gets shut down. Even if you’re not planning on leaving Twitter, it’s probably worth doing it anyway. …
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This is such a great thing, very interested to see where it goes - as well as give this a go on some of my projects - especially as I've written about this as a service / solution before 🤓
I also wonder if my dependency-management-data project can help out 👀
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Mike chats with Co-Founder of Stack Aid, Dudley Carr, about the importance of funding Open Source projects, and Stack Aid's approach to helping Open Source organizations get paid.
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Long-term code maintenance with Ole Bulbuk & Sandor Szücs (Go Time #264)
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Ole Bulbuk & Sandor Szücs join Natalie to discuss the ins & outs of long-term code maintenance. What does it take to maintain a codebase for a decade or more? How do you plan for that? What about inheriting a codebase for the long term? Oh, and (how) can AI help?
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Week Notes 23#05 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-01-30?
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#week-notes.
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Pension or ISA? - Meaningful Money – Making sense of Money with Pete Matthew | Financial FAQ
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Simplify Your Planning - Meaningful Money – Making sense of Money with Pete Matthew | Financial FAQ
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"I did the best I could with the motivation I had."
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The reason all your favorite apps start to suck over time is because as engineering teams scale, the goal changes from building dope shit to building for metrics and there’s no known way to measure quality
Ricky (@rickhanlonii)Fri, 03 Feb 2023 15:15 GMT
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Listing the status of your branch protection in GitHub (1 mins read).
Creating a command-line Go tool to list the branch protection status of your repositories.
For those of you interested in being able to build queries on top of your dependency management data, ie via Renovate or Dependabot then https://dmd.tanna.dev/ may be of interest - still a work in progress, but expect to see some more stuff there in the future!
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Losing Whamaggedon in February is... Interesting 😅 worse is that my brain just started playing it, I'd not even heard it anywhere
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Getting comfortable with the lack of privacy with my Week Notes (6 mins read).
Looking back at a few years of writing week notes publicly, and how I approach privacy around what I (want to) write in them.
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Solidarity with strikers in the UK today. Let's bring these Tory scum down ✊
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Determining missing translation keys from gettext .po files (1 mins read).
Creating a Go command to check for missing translation keys across gettext .po files.
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Periodic reminder
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Setting up default Renovate configuration while allowing overriding of that configuration (2 mins read).
How to run Renovate to provide some defaults for repos that aren't opted-in, as well as allowing repos to opt-in.
Week Notes 23#04 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-01-23?
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My hot take is that most of us have not adequately processed the trauma of the pandemic. And our sprawling, unprocessed trauma chews away at our brains in myriad ways that make us anxious about why we can’t seem to live our lives as instinctively or as joyously as we did in 2019.
Jeremy, a Dad (but also a Person) (@JeremyWingert79)Sat, 28 Jan 2023 15:21 GMT
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Just Postgres with Craig Kerstiens, Chief Product Officer at Crunchy Data (The Changelog #523)
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This week we’re talking about by Postgres with Craig Kerstiens, Chief Product Officer at Crunchy Data, and a well known ambassador for Postgres. Just Postgres. That’s what this week’s show is about.
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Human scale deployments with Lars Wikman (Ship It! #86)
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Lars is big on Elixir. Think apps that scale really well, tend to be monolithic, and have one of the most mature deployment models: self-contained releases & built-in hot code reloading. In episode 7, Gerhard talked to Lars about “Why Kubernetes”. There is a follow-up YouTube stream that showed how to automate depl...
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Ep. 097 - The Expanse S6E4 Deep Dive + Top Limb Losing Scenes
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Ty Franck (one half of James S.A. Corey) and Wes Chatham ('Amos Burton' on The Expanse) discuss S6E4 and that amazing scene where Josep loses his arm... as well as top 5 limb losing scenes in movies.
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Anchor - The easiest way to make a podcast
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Create, distribute, host, and monetize your podcast, 100% free.
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Podcasts that don't give you a permalink to the given episode (whether to an aggregate or the podcast's official site) are so annoying 😩
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Prioritizing tech debt, UI components to copy/paste, learnings from 20 years in software, git-sim & jqjq (Changelog News)
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Max Countryman wrote up a framework for prioritizing tech debt, shadcn builds a copy/paste-able UI component library in public, Justin Etheredge shares 20 things he’s learned in his 20 years as a software engineer, Jacob Stopak’s git-sim lets you easily visualize git operations without affecting your repo & Mattias...
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Caching at Twitter with Yao Yue
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Twitter is a social media platform that does some incredibly complex stuff when it comes to distributed systems engineering to keep the website up and running. Twitter has open sourced a lot of projects for others to use. Twitter created a fork of Memcached called Twemcache and also a fork of Redis to handle the
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Does anyone else feel like maintaining a house is an entire second, very expensive full-time job
Daniel Feldman 🇨🇿 (@d_feldman)Mon, 23 Jan 2023 18:08 GMT
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Does this Slack Webhook still work? (1 mins read).
How to check if a Slack Webhook is still active.
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#blogumentation
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Who does this NPM token belong to? (2 mins read).
How to work out whether an arbitrary NPM token is valid, and if so, which user account it belongs to.