Making an optional, required, status check with GitHub Actions (7 mins read).
Avoiding the dreaded Expected â Waiting for status to be reported when trying to make a status check optional.
Hi, I'm Jamie Tanna đđŒ
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I'm currently the Renovate project lead 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.
Reattaching tmux to your Xorg session (2 mins read).
How to stop Can't open display: (null) errors blocking you interacting with Xorg in tmux, for instance after an X crash.
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Listen to John Cena from Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. WWE legend-turned-acting A-lister John Cena is this weekâs dream diner. He sits down with Ed and James to talk about his coffee obsession, wrestling tips and how to power through promo when youâre not feeling your bestâŠTrigger warning: this episode contains chat about counting calories. John Cena stars in âMatchbox The Movieâ which is out now on Apple TV. Watch it here.Follow John Cena on Instagram @johncenaWatch the video version of this episode on the Off Menu YouTube.Off Menu is now on YouTube: @offmenupodcastFollow Off Menu on Instagram and TikTok: @offmenuofficial.And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show.Ed Gamble is on tour in 2027 with âFresh Hellâ. For dates and tickets go to edgamble.co.ukOff Menu is a comedy podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster.Produced, recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.Video production by Ben Williams and Megan McCarthy for Plosive.Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).
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How should we spend our time now that writing code is cheap? In this episode, Kris and Matt are joined by Doug Soo, a staff engineer working on the storage systems at Honeycomb. They discuss hisâŠ
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What does Stack Overflowâs 2026 Developer Survey reveal about software engineering, career insights, and engineering culture? The Overcommitted hosts unpack the findings, discuss what they mean for developers, and share the trends theyâre watching across the profession.LinksDeveloper survey: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026 Ed from Polytoken: https://youtu.be/YrmR6EZ5Y1U HostsOvercommitted: â â https://overcommitted.devâ  â Bethany Janos: â â https://www.trustyduck.devBrittany Ellich: â https://brittanyellich.com Erika Eggemeyer: â â https://github.com/eggyhead
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Listen to Paul F. Tompkins (Tasting Menu) from Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. Fan favourite from way back in Series 3 of Off Menu, US podcasting royalty and âBojack Horsemanâ star Paul F. Tompkins returns to the Dream Restaurant for a Tasting Menu. Listen to Paulâs original episodeListen to Paul F. Tompkinsâs podcasts âSpontaneanationâ and âThreedomâ wherever you get your podcasts. Follow Paul on Instagram and TikTok @pftompkinsDonât forget, video episodes of Off Menu are out every Wednesday on our YouTube.Off Menu is now on YouTube: @offmenupodcastFollow Off Menu on Instagram and TikTok: @offmenuofficial.And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show.Off Menu is a comedy podcast hosted by Ed Gamble and James Acaster.Produced, recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.Video production by Ben Williams and Megan McCarthy for Plosive.Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design).
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Weâre in sunny Los Angeles and our first Hollywood guest is podcasting king and âBojack Horsemanâ star Paul F. Tompkins!
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Welcome to Continue: Go Proposals edition! Each edition of this show will handle a specific topic that can be covered continuously. This edition is for Go Proposals. Each week Kris and Matt willâŠ
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Seems like more than one! Visit cupogo.dev for all the things. This week: Go 1.27.2 and Go 1.26.9 are released Accepted: add cgo without a C toolchain as a GOEXPERIMENT (and the original one) Accepted: deprecate DNSConfigError Lightning round:Job with Dave! Update on past news: "proposal: spec:...
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Episode 11 of Infrastructure Frontiers with Mahir Lupinacci. Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, PaulâŠ
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Open Source Security is a media project to help showcase and educate on open source security. Our goal is to give the community a platform educate both developers and users on how open source security works. Thereâs a lot of good work happening that doesnât get attention because thereâs no marketing department behind it, they donât have a developer relations team posting on LinkedIn every two hours. Letâs focus on those people and teams then learn what they do and how they do it. The goal is to hear from the people doing the work, they know whatâs up, they have a lot to teach us. We just have to listen.
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Adding Pushover notifications to Claude Code (2 mins read).
Writing a custom hook to convert a 'Claude is waiting for input' to a Pushover push notification.
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#blogumentation
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Gavriel Cohen, creator of NanoClaw and co-founder of NanoCo, joins Adam to explain how a 40-hour weekend project became a viral open source hit and the foundation of an enterprise AI company. Gavriel describes the security concerns that led him to build a small, container-isolated alternative to OpenClaw, why he releas...
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Week Notes 26#41 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2026-10-05?
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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 break, So what's wrong with another rewrite? You'll never know if you don't deploy, You'll never care if you're not employed.
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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 đ https://www.mend.io/blog/renovate-community-oss-plan-upgrades/
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Logs as UX (12 mins read).
Looking at how logs being the main interface for understanding how tools work can be a blessing and a curse.
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I'm about to get on a plane and will be gone for a couple weeks, but didn't want to leave you Breaking Changeless so I did the thing where I stand up in frontâŠ
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Minifying JSON with jq (1 mins read).
How to take a pretty-printed JSON string and replace it with a minifed JSON string using jq.
Gotcha: GitHub Custom Properties are public (2 mins read).
A known documented, but maybe lesser known, fact about GitHub Custom Properties' values and descriptions being available to anyone with read access.
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Zach Holman, founder of Signed, joins me for another đ„Hotfixđ„. Zach wants more of everything. Let's see what we can do about that. Write into the show atâŠ
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Anyone at #OSSEU know where - ideally near the venue - to get a UK-to-EU travel adapter? I dun goofed and only brought my USB-C adapter and forgot my laptop needs to charge đ
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Josh chats with Jeff Matchett from Cloudsmith about a new report they put out. It has some scary looking statistics in it about how organizations are using dependencies. There are some surprising numbers in there, but the story is really one of defense in depth. There's no single thing we can do here, it's all about knowing what you have every step of the way. It's easy to say, but certainly a challenge to do right. James is a ton of fun to chat with and filled with energy and knowledge. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/2026-10-james-cloudsmith
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Nick Kroll (Oh, Hello on Broadway, The House) returns to join Paul, June, and Jason to discuss the 1994 Jean-Claude Van Damme movie Timecop.
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