2025's podcasts in review (3 mins read).
What podcasts did I listen to in 2025?

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.
2025's podcasts in review (3 mins read).
What podcasts did I listen to in 2025?
Week Notes 26#02 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2026-01-05?
Josh chats with Xe Iaso, the creator of Anubis the web AI firewall. We discuss how Anubis is tackling bots and scrapers. The discussion around the scrapers is fascinating and challenging, these things are everywhere and don't behave very nicely. There's also discussion about running a successful open source project. Xe has a lot of experience to share with us, you're going to learn something new with this one. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at
We're joined by Sid Sijbrandij, founder of GitLab who led the all-in-one coding platform all the way to IPO. In late 2022, Sid discovered that he had bone cancer. That started a journey he's been on ever since... a journey that he shares with us in great detail. Along the way, Sid continued founding companies including...
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.
i love the beginning of the year because everyone starts blogging. and if you (yes you) were thinking about starting, this is your sign
As AI adoption accelerates across the software industry, engineering leaders are increasingly focused on a harder question: how to understand whether these tools are actually improving developer experience and organizational outcomes.In this year-end episode of the Engineering Enablement podcast,...

This week on #OpenSourceSecurity I chat with Jamie Tanna about updating open source dependencies. It's usually not as simple as "just update" and Jamie has a ton of real world experience in this working on Renovate https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/2025-12-renovate-jamie/
Bryan and Adam reflect on Oxide and Friends in 2025--favorite moments, episodes, and images. Happy new year and see you in 2026!Your hosts are Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal.Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:RFD 576: Using LLMs at Oxide (hacker news comments)OxF:...

Week Notes 26#01 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-12-29?
it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive test suite written by somebody else, 5 different models, a megawatt-hour of energy, a swimming pool full of water, and a month of spare time of an extremely senior engineer
2025's Music In Review (1 mins read).
What music was I listening to in 2025?
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, the panel continues their conversation from Fallthrough #52.Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to wa...

We decided to do our own wrap up for the year. We've called it Stack Trace, and we pulled a bunch of stats from the first year of Fallthrough. In this episode, Kris, Matt, and Dylan talk through th...

Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, the panel continues their conversation from Fallthrough #51.Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to wa...

There's a famous joke essay called Worse Is Better, which compares the New Jersey and the MIT ideologies. In this episode, Kris and Matt discuss these two different ideologies and how they show up ...

Jan 1: this is the year of new Me Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
Please don’t go to enormous indoor events when you’re incredibly ill with a flu-like thing. Not even in a mask. Fuck sake.
2025's Site In Review (7 mins read).

How did my site perform in 2025?
day one in mamdani’s new york
Week Notes 25#52 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-12-22?
Podcast: Within Reason with Hank GreenPodcast: Within Reason with VsaucePodcast: Acquired: Microsoft Volume IFavorite Cup o' Go episodes of 2025May 17, Episode 110: Thanks, Ian. 🙏 Plus Kevin Hoffman talks about empathy and the joy of logging ⚡May 23, Episode 111: Go gets audited, and Ian Lance...

I've blown the dust off my NAS and am upgrading it from Debian 10 (Buster) to Debian 13 (Trixie) using only an LLM (GPT-4.1 via GitHub Copilot) to help me - AMA!
🔥Hotfix🔥 is back with a new guest! Scott Werner is the CEO of Sublayer, helps organize the Artificial Ruby meetup in NYC, and is the author of the extremely…

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Bryan Cantrill explains how decades of server and cloud evolution shaped modern infrastructure and what today’s engineers should learn from it.

We spent thirty years building tools to keep humans from falling into dependency hell, only to build a machine that jumps into the pit voluntarily.
<p>As a cancer survivor, comedian Tig Notaro has explored her own mortality in acclaimed releases such as “Live” and “Boyish Girl Interrupted.” Now she’s a producer of an Apple TV documentary called “Come See me in The Good Light” that examines the final days of a close friend, the poet Andrea Gibson. Tig talks to Ted Danson about how this unique project came about, the changes it’s inspired in her own life, and much more. </p><p> </p><p>Like watching your podcasts? Visit <a href="http://youtube.com/teamcoco">http://youtube.com/teamcoco</a> to see full episodes. </p> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="http://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>

We’re running a short mini-series on The Debrief podcast called Beyond the code, where we interview our engineers about what it’s really like to build at incident.io.In this episode, Product Engineer Rory B. and CTO Pete discuss how we’re using Claude Code and Git Worktrees to allow engineers to build multiple features in parallel. You can read more on our blog.

Josh welcomes back Daniel Thompson explore the rather silly question of whether Santa Claus needs to be compliant with the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). This episode was intended to be silly, but it ended up being an incredibly interesting conversation. Daniel explained a great deal about how the CRA works and how it could apply to Santa Claus. The TL;DR is even if he's giving out free stuff, the CRA almost certainly applies. Daniel also fills us in on his book (you can email Josh to enter into a drawing for a copy), and his work on web browsers for the CRA. It's an incredibly informative discussion. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at
It's December 23rd! Have a Merry Christmas Adam everybody! (Always comes before Christmas Eve and is generally unsatisfying.)
Saw an advert for a Trainline AI assistant thing, with a disclaimer at the bottom saying it’s AI, so might not actually be right. Why is it okay for AI to be unreliable? Why are we collectively so accepting of the idea?
Go 1.26rc1 is outBook: Gist of Go: Concurrency by Anton Zhiyanov😶 Blog: Go feature: Secret mode by Anton ZhiyanovNon-Go: Pixnapping🧋 Accepted: Make all "bubbles" inherited across goroutines🌩️ Lightning Round🥐 Bun v2 coming?💉 Interview: Go dependency injection at Uberuber-go/fxLet a 1,000 flowers...

Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, the panel continues their conversation from Fallthrough #50.Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to wa...

In the tech industry, we talk about how exceptional and innovative we are. But are we really? In this episode, Kris and Matt explore why they see the industry as pretty mid and how things should be...

Ugh! Racists need to just fuck off!
I made something new: an eslint plugin to validate your npm ecosystem lockfiles! It supports npm, pnpm, yarn, bun, and vlt, and it's already helped find a supply chain security attack vector inside a fortune 500 tech company. https://www.npmjs.com/package/eslint-plugin-lockfile
Week Notes 25#51 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-12-15?
Our 8th annual year-end wrap-up is here! We’re featuring 8 listener voicemails, dope Breakmaster Cylinder remixes & our favorite episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚
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In this episode we interview David Sheldrick, the creator of patch-package.https://github.com/ds300/patch-package/https://github.com/artsy/eigenArtsy's mobile apphttps://www.artsy.nethttps://pulley.com/Where David is going nexthttps://github.com/artsy/gudetamaA tool David worked on at Artsyhttps://github.com/artsy/eigen/pull/3210Artsy's automated move to strict type checking in their react native apphttps://github.com/ds300/patch-package/pull/295PR to add create issue feature to patch-packagehttps://github.com/ds300/jetztDavid's speed reader chrome extensionhttps://www.npmjs.com/package/ts-nodehttps://deno.land/https://www.rust-lang.org/https://twitter.com/orta/https://ipfs.io/ToolTipsAndrewhttps://relative-ci.com/https://github.com/iamakulov/awesome-webpack-perfhttps://www.npmjs.com/package/speed-measure-webpack-pluginhttps://uiw.tf/Justinhttps://github.com/RobinCsl/awesome-js-tooling-not-in-jshttps://paperclip.devhttps://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_viewhttps://github.com/nerves-project/nerveshttps://github.com/fhunleth/nerves_livebookDavidhttps://coderwall.com/p/cq_lkg/remapping-caps-lock-key-to-something-more-natural-on-mac-os-xhttps://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/userdefinedsnippetshttps://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/codebasics#_save-auto-save

Ajay Kulkarni from Tiger Data (Co-founder/CEO) is on the pod this week with Adam. He asked him to get vulnerable and trace his path to becoming a CEO. They dig into the themes that have shaped his career, and explore how founder values end up forming company culture (whether you intend them to or not). From his enterpr...
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