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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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Listened to Open Source Security: Anubis with Xe Iaso
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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

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Listened to Oxide and Friends | OxF 2025 Wrap-Up
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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:...

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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

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Listened to Cup o' Go | See you next year
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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...

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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!

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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.

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Listened to "Tig Notaro" on Where Everybody Knows Your Name
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<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>

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Listened to Beyond the Code: How we're shipping faster with Claude Code and Git Worktrees by The Debrief by incident.io
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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.

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Listened to Open Source Security: Daniel Thompson answers: Does the CRA apply to Santa?
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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

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Listened to Cup o' Go | 🤐 Three goroutines may keep a secret, even if none are dead. Plus, 💉 dependency injection is horrible—change my mind!
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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...

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Reposted Jordan Harband (@jordan.har.band)
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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

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Listened to "Kumail Nanjiani Returns Again" on Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend
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<p>Comedian and actor Kumail Nanjiani feels twitterpated about being Conan O’Brien’s friend.</p><p>Kumail sits down with Conan to discuss his new special Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts, old lady drug dealers, how he’s been received internationally, and the real-life coming of age experience that inspired a favorite Silicon Valley scene.</p><p> </p><p>For Conan videos, tour dates and more visit <a href="http://TeamCoco.com">TeamCoco.com</a>.</p><p>Got a question for Conan? Call our voicemail: (669) 587-2847.</p><p><p>Get access to all the podcasts you love, music channels and radio shows with the SiriusXM App! Get 3 months free using this show link: <a href="https://siriusxm.com/conan">https://siriusxm.com/conan</a>.</p></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>

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Listened to David Sheldrick - patch-package by devtools.fm: Developer Tools, Open Source, Software Development
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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