Week Notes 25#45

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  • Had a great chat with Josh on the Open Source Security podcast, talking about dependency management and some of the complexities that are involved with a project like Renovate
  • A busy work week leading up to the Renovate v42 release, and my first Mend blog post
  • David Flanagan asked if I had a public podcast subscription list, so I thought I may as well create a /podcasts/ page - it's based on Podcast Addict's listening history, as that was slightly quicker to get than querying my listen list
  • I've checked in on my AWS bill (since CAPTCHA'ing anyone coming from China) and I've seen a significant reduction in traffic accessing my site, seeing ~36% blocked by CAPTCHA 😅
  • On Friday night, while I was trying to read, my mind conjured up a whole set of ideas - based on a conversation earlier at work - about ways to write a lightweight agent loop to modify + validate Renovate config, so you may see something from me about this in the coming weeks!
  • Had a good day of Kingshot yesterday, getting a tonne of points for the KvK castle battle
  • We got the trees done, which was good
  • Had a lovely walk at Outwoods (Loughborough) with Carol and Alan - got the doggos very tired, a nommy lunch and some great bakery treat takeaways!
  • Earlier week notes than usual, as we're off to see Nick Mohammed's comedy show tonight 🙌🏼

(very close to finish) reading:

  • Abbadon's Gate
  • Program Management for Open Source Projects

Watched:

  • (No The Bear this week)
  • Taskmaster
  • Kim's Convenience
  • Fantastic Four: First Steps
  • V for Vendetta
    • 20 years old, but feels like it's made for our time
  • SNL (on YouTube)

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