Kind reposts

Package Management Devroom at FOSDEM 2027: Call for Participation https://nesbitt.io/2026/10/26/package-management-devroom-at-fosdem-2027-call-for-participation.html

rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io · 9 Nov 2026

happy Diwali 🪔

Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 7 Nov 2026

remote work is really about oscillating between "too many meetings" and "I miss seeing people" until you die

Andrew Nesbitt @andrewnez.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3 Nov 2026

It's finally over! https://github.blog/changelog/2026-11-02-pull_request_target-blocked-by-default-december-2/

I'm not sure claiming "everything is on fire" is the correct takeaway here There is a pile of flammable materials we've been ignoring for decades. It catches on fire sometimes. It caught on fire a …

For years, it’s been common knowledge among grant writers for open source tech that putting maintenance of existing code in a proposal can tank the whole thing. Funders, do you hear us now? Are you …

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can we please end cyber security awareness month I have been made aware thanks

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 21 Oct 2026

The problem for cybersecurity enjoyers is that there hasn’t been enough incidents to achieve the regularity and excitement of say, watching sports. Finally, with AI we have solved this

Mark Goodwin @computerist.org · 21 Oct 2026

#Hugops to basically everyone rn

tef @tef.bsky.social · 21 Oct 2026

web developer: oh hey you guys are back early infra: four's haunted web developer: what? infra: *loading a pistol and getting back on the computer* four's haunted

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the …

Jo Franchetti @thisisjofrank.bsky.social · 16 Oct 2026

I gave a talk at EMF titled "Men in Tech #YesAllMen", in which I told my experience of being a woman in tech. I was afraid to publish it in case it affected my current or future employment. With all …

The PRs start coming and they don't stop coming, Bots keep shipping and the tests keep running. Only made sense to automate, Now I'm reviewing slop at a staggering rate. So much to merge, so much to …

Renovate @renovatebot.com · 10 Oct 2026

Wanting to continue to give back to the community, we've recently proactively given 184 open source organizations to our Community (OSS) plan on Renovate Cloud 🚀 …

Renovate @renovatebot.com · 25 Sep 2026

We're excited to announce that Renovate maintainers Sebastian Poxhofer and Jamie Tanna will be at @linuxfoundation.org's Open Source Summit Europe in Prague in a couple of weeks, and look forward to …

Renovate @renovatebot.com · 29 Sep 2026

We've announced 1 Critical, 2 High and 1 Moderate security advisories - we recommend you upgrade to a minimum of 44.79.0 (2026-09-10) More info: …

Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 14 Sep 2026

.well_known? We're more like acquaintances

Adblockers are killing the advertisement industry. Install uBlock Origin today to kill it faster. #adblockers #uBlockOrigin

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Shaun Hare @sdh100shaun.bsky.social · 28 Aug 2026

anyone looking for tech events in or around nottingham please consider viewing and adding more events to nottingham.digital .. #tech #nottingham https://nottingham.digital

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unfortunately last night our AI model escaped its sandbox and gained access to a JIRA server, at which point it felt it best to return to it’s sandbox

This Week in Package Management: 1 August 2026 https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/01/this-week-in-package-management.html

Renovate @renovatebot.com · 30 Jul 2026

As folks may have noticed - Renovate 44 was (accidentally) released yesterday with a non-breaking change. Please treat Renovate 44.0.0 as 43.x, and upgrade as normal!

alcoholic trying to get sober after a relapse tells Google's "Health Coach" about it. it tells them to drink every hour and messages them to make sure they're drinking as soon as they wake up.

Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 16 Jul 2026

No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we …

Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 15 Jul 2026

Remember when `curl | bash` was considered bad?

Okay. Ai can go bankrupt then. This is not our problem, this sounds like a rich tech billionaire problem.

Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 23 Jun 2026

I migrated a group chat of mostly elderly women to signal and I feel like there’s nothing I can’t do I also firmly believe the stereotype of elderly women not being technical is complete bollocks …

Orangetronic @orangetronic.bsky.social · 19 May 2026

watching the tech industry burn out all the people i know who actually care about delivering things that aren’t perpetually broken, all at the altar of infinite velocity, is making me utterly utterly …

Alan Shortis @short.is · 17 Jun 2026

It’s not a syndrome if you’re actually an imposter

Ryan Barrett snarfed.org · 1 Jun 2026

The Great Supply Chain Security Paradox: “every open source lib is getting owned! wait at least a week to patch, let other people find the supply chain breaches before you” “AI is reversing all these …

natali @natali.rip · 29 May 2026

sorry i'm late, i didn't want to come

It usually only takes 1 project for an open source maintainer to learn they need to set boundaries. Unfortunately, that 1 project often becomes load bearing infrastructure before we've even realized …

The open source world was designed for a world where there was more friction for doing things. With LLMs a lot of that friction has been removed. Sometimes that means we have to ask a potential …

Andrew Nesbitt @andrewnez.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28 May 2026

People are worried about AI killing open source, I'm more worried about some companies looking to enclose open source under the premise that AI is making it too risky. …

Andrew Nesbitt @andrewnez.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21 May 2026

The best time to prune your dependency trees was 3 years ago, second best time is right now.

Cassidy @cassidoo.co · 19 May 2026

Heads up maintainers of packages, this is a big deal: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/196340

too soon

Open source maintainers at profitable companies: stop asking permission to fix what your employer already depends on. No paperwork. No programme. No manager’s blessing. Just maintain it on the clock.

The Nuanced Writer @skriptble.me · 12 May 2026

It’s a sort of meme that engineers aren’t good writers. That includes software ones. And now we’re supposed to believe we can take an entire industry of not-that-good writers and transform them, in a …

Your regular reminder that shitting on OSS on social media is a selfish thing to do. Good job sapping volunteer maintainers’ motivation in exchange for your “internet points”. Next time: try rolling …

Starting with v8.0.0, Astral switched setup-uv to immutable releases with no floating v8 tags. This is good for security. But unfortunately #Dependabot and #Renovate couldn't upgrade from v7 to …

Nick Taylor @nickyt.online · 6 May 2026

What I learnt at day 1 of the @github.com Maintainer Summit. Shower oranges.

Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 4 May 2026

If schools have money for AI, I'd rather they use that to pay teachers more

bsky.app bsky.app · 24 Apr 2026

Tired: supply chain attack Wired: supply chain is attack

kat cosgrove @kat.lol · 22 Apr 2026

GitHub appears to have opted anyone using the CLI into sending telemetry they will use to inform product decisions. This is sneaky and should have been an opt-in decision, not opt-out. Disable it …

Renovate @renovatebot.com · 15 Apr 2026

The reddit engineering team wrote a great post about how they're using Renovate for their dependency management - very interesting and some good learnings on how they keep things patched at scale! …