What I've learned building an agent for Renovate config (as a cautious skeptic of AI) (11 mins read).
As an opportunity to "kick the tyres" of what agents are and how they work, I set aside a couple of hours to see build one - and it blew me away.
by 
Jamie Tanna
.
#renovate
#ai
#llm
#mend.
The first 100 days as a Renovate maintainer: the shocking inside view of a popular Open Source project (18 mins read).
Lessons learned from the first 100 days as my role as a Renovate maintainer, and a sneak peek into how the project works behind the scenes.
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.
by Jamie Tanna
(with some some LLM-derived content 🤖).
#blogumentation
#slack
#markdown
#mac.
Getting access to rich-text data from the clipboard (on Mac) (1 mins read).
How to retrieve rich-text output from the clipboard.
by Jamie Tanna
(with some some LLM-derived content 🤖).
#blogumentation
#mac
#command-line.
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?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#podcast.
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.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#renovate
#open-source.
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