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Hi, I'm Jamie Tanna 👋🏼

If you're referring to me, I'm happy being called Jamie, Jamie Tanna, jamietanna, and that you respect my pronouns: he/him/his.

I'm currently a Senior Developer and Open Source project maintainer (of Renovate) at Mend.

I currently live in Nottingham with my partner Anna Dodson and our cat Morph and our dog Cookie.

I use my site as a method of blogging about my learnings, as well as sharing information about projects I have previously, or am currently, working on in my spare time.

I'm an maintainer for a number of Open Source projects, including oapi-codegen, and Renovate, as part of my job at Mend.

I'm a GNU/Linux user, a big advocate for the Free Software Movement, and the IndieWeb movement and I try to self host my own services where possible, instead of relying on other providers.

I have ADHD (Inattentive Type) and am learning how to make my life work better around it.

Due to the many social media platforms and different ways to connect, I've captured all my contact information on my /elsewhere page. Alternatively, you can drop me an email at hi@jamietanna.co.uk.

I also have a /now page which aims to cover some more up-to-date "what I'm up to" information.

My birthday is on the .

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When you become disabled there’s a few things you notice right away: Ableism is everywhere. People will abandon you. Even those you were certain would stick by you. Just because something is illegal or against human rights code doesn’t mean it’s not happening ALL the time Accessibility is not what it should be. People will blame you for your disabilities. It won’t matter what you do or how hard you try, you won’t be “good enough” All the misconceptions you had about disabled people were wrong. That’s really the crux of it. Disability is a minority group you can join anytime. Most people will experience disability in their lifetime Yet discriminating against us is not only common it’s socially acceptable. Most people don’t realize how misguided they are until it happens to them Many of us living with chronic illness had the same preconceived notions about disabled people until we became disabled ourselves We thought it wasn’t “that bad”. We believed we would be the exception Many of us became advocates because the realization that we were so horribly wrong shook us to our core. If we had that much ableism to work through, then so does everyone else. That’s why we need strong allies. We need people who will say disabled lives matter. We need to shift the public perception away from the idea that disability is a moral failing. We need to be visible, take up space and help people realize that all health is temporary and disability happens to almost everyone. Inclusion and accessibility matter! #disability #ableism #eugenics #chronicillness

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Listened to Break | POS: Point of Software
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Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, Kris, Ian, and Matt extend their discussion from Fallthrough episode #44.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...

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Listened to Fallthrough | The Fault In Our Clouds
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First it was GCP in June. Then it was AWS in October. Then it was Azure a week later. It seems that our cloud providers are having outages far more often, and for far longer, than any of us would like. In this episode, Kris, Ian, and Matthew discuss the two most recent outages along with some of...

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Listened to Open Source Security: Detecting XZ in Debian with Otto Kekäläinen
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In this episode, Josh and Otto dive into the world of Debian packaging, exploring the challenges of supply chain security and the importance of transparency in open source projects. They discuss Otto's blog post about the XZ backdoor and how it's a nearly impossible attack to detect. Otto does a great job breaking down an incredibly complex problem into understandable pieces. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at

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Why, yes I am having to spend my Sunday morning looking into reducing the impact of bot scraping on my website after a significantly large AWS bill, why do you ask?

A screenshot of the 'Cost and usage graph' in the AWS billing dashboard, showing May-September's bills of ~$25, and then October's being ~$150. The majority of it, not labelled, is CloudFront traffic usage, which appears to be ~1.3TB of usage over the last month, over what's available in the free tier

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This is why I have a website. It’s also why everything I’ve ever written has appeared on my website with *very* few exceptions Having a single domain name that’s YOU is invaluable. My website gets lots of compliments on its branding and appearance. My slides borrow that appearance, too It matters! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Listened to Break | Throw A Stone, Crack A Window
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Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, Kris, Matt, Angelica, and Cory O'Daniel talk extend their discussion from Fallthrough episode #42.Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to watch instead of just listen, head over to YouTube where you...

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