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 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.
It being #GitHubUniverse means it's officially a year on from the worst incident I've ever caused, where all of #Elastic's public repos - Elasticsearch, Kibana, etc - were made private š«£
I learned a lot during that incident and have internalised a lot of the very important learnings!
My favourite thing I heard second hand was "we don't have any incidents caused by AI, because we don't count them as AI - if a human vibe coded a PR, that's on them" which I partially agree with but also enjoy you can avoid blaming an AI mandate if you don't measure it š
Sylvain Kalache, who runs the AI lab at Rootly, walks Matty through what AI SREs can and can't do during an incident. They get into why handing every smallā¦
Have you seen this? If you haven't, you should. I think everyone needs to. Wealth inequality on a scale this extreme is almost impossible to explain. You have to experience it to understand. Go ahead. Try it out. Where is the top of this graph? Good question. Keep scrolling
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#ethics
#capitalism.
Does anyone know why the #Slack Halloween themes have subtly different naming based on whether you're an Enterprise or not? Does Big Candy Corn require such high dues Slack can only pay with beefy Enterprise contracts?
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#halloween
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Can you trust software written without AI? We examine the risks of manual coding versus automated vulnerability exploits.At Rails World 2026, a show of hands revealed that writing material amounts of code by hand is becoming a rarity. We discuss whether that human-written code is actually safer, especially after reviewing the eMudhra certificate authority compromise where private keys were recovered in under a second. Between open-weight models demonstrating Mythos-class exploit skills and the ongoing debate over AI consciousness, the security landscape has shifted significantly.This conversation is for engineers navigating the reality of AI mandates at work and the impact of agents that continue running after you log off. We also cover the practical side of professional development, from Bethany building a holiday gift-list app to Brittany replacing cloud subscriptions with local transcription tools. By analyzing these technical shifts, we aim to help you maintain a grounded perspective on your career trajectory.Subscribe for weekly software engineering breakdowns, and comment on which professional challenge you want us to tackle next.HostsOvercommitted: https://overcommitted.devBethany Janos: https://www.trustyduck.devBrittany Ellich: https://brittanyellich.com
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Creating a Typescript union, while also having runtime access to the values (1 mins read).
Creating a type and const for known constant values in Typescript.
Episode 13 of AI Frontiers with Sean Escriva. Industry experts run down all the AI news for engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates areā¦
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Adding date-based pagination to my site (1 mins read).
Announcing support for date-based pagination on my site, and the end of very long paginated lists of content.
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(with some some LLM-derived content š¤).
#www.jvt.me
#hugo.
Recorded as part of GoSF. Thanks Bill for co-hosting, and Antithesis for hosting! šÆšµ GopherCon Japan šŖ Guest Posts: Hooking into the Go Toolchain š¦ go-llama
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Week Notes 26#43 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2026-10-19?
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#week-notes.
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 lot this week And the people who put out the fires, for free, put the fire out again The current plan is to just keep throwing more oily rags on the pile. We could try to help the volunteers, but that costs more than adding oily rags to the pile
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#open-source.
Positive comments from The Real Reviewers Lance Ulanoff at TechRadar: 'Satisfying' is the best way to describe the feeling of repeatedly opening andā¦
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Lukewarm recommendations for improving AI agents' interactions with your projects (7 mins read).
A few small recommendations we've found with Renovate to improve how AI agents contribute to the codebase.
On this week's episode, Kris and Matt are joined by Fred Hebert and Reid Savage from Honeycomb to talk discuss building products with tiny teams, why code reviews are a useful bottleneck that weā¦
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OpenCode Security Breach vLLM 0.32.0 released Flint Goose v1.55.0 released Apple announces Foundation Models framework NVIDIA insists RTX 5090 is not discontinued Linux Foundation Estimates 25% of New Pull Requests to be Low-Quality AI Slop CatwalkQwen3.6 27B price drop DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017...
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Do the 2026 Go Developer Survey, and tell them Cup o' Go sent you! Go 1.27.3 and Go 1.26.10 are released due to eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise Interview with Ainsley ClarkAinsleyClark.com templ
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For years, itās 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 going to remember this week and let go of the new shiny object fixation?
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#open-source.
Attached: 1 image Siri, show me the ADHD meme that goes harder than any other...
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#adhd.
More and more, people are relying on AI to do their writing for them. Is this the new normal, or the intellectual equivalent of claiming take-out is your own home cooking? Max Spero, founder and CEO of Pangram, joined Bryan and Adam to discuss how they distinguish AI and human authorship. In...
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After raising $200M in February... we raised another $445M in July! Your favorite computer company is capitalized to the gills--enough to weather the supply chain upheaval even! Come for co-founders Steve and Bryan describing the raise; stay for tax, debt, and credit talk with Scott Orn. In...
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Adam Jacob of Swamp Club explains what software factories actually are, why they're not just slop cannons, and how to trust AI output with black box testing and architecture skills. Plus: should you delete your unit tests, and what do 10,500 LinkedIn engineers do now?
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This week I'm talking with Zeno Rocha, CEO of Resend, about scaling "boring" email to 3 million users, the secret Go rewrite behind it, and building for agents. We cover pricing.md, MCP, spam gangs, and why Resend keeps what's next for email.
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can we please end cyber security awareness month I have been made aware thanks
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Quinn and Thorsten sit down together in San Francisco to answer the question they get asked most: how does the Amp team work? They walk through a week at Amp, from Thorsten's Sunday post and the single Monday meeting to writing down goals in silence. They explain why Amp has no quarterly goals, no departments and no territory, and how feature flags and the work in progress, orb good and orb bad channels keep a team of 21 in sync. They also cover reviewing changes with agents, pushing to main without mandatory code review, and why they think more companies will soon work like this.
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The problem for cybersecurity enjoyers is that there hasnāt been enough incidents to achieve the regularity and excitement of say, watching sports. Finally, with AI we have solved this
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Episode 12 of AI Frontiers with Matthew Dean Furlo. Industry experts run down all the AI news for engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinematesā¦
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#Hugops to basically everyone rn
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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
Being more explicit with the limited AI usage in my blog posts' content (2 mins read).
Adding more user-facing structured metadata for the ~0.2% of my posts that include any AI content.
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#www.jvt.me
#ai
#ethics
#llm.
Welcome to the inaugural episode of Slop Overflow! In this episode, Jonathan Hall and Miriah Peterson dive into the latest breakthroughs in open-source AI, local hardware, decision models, and developer tools. Microsoft brings more AI to PCs as it challenges Apple NVIDIA DGX Spark 64GB Gives...
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ProposalsAccepted: support for acme profiles New: crypto/tls: Profiles Blog: Always Active: Faking Microsoft Teams Green Status in Go Interview with Daniela PetruzalekLinkedIn Blog: danicat.dev Ebitengine Golab, Nov 1-3, Bologna, Italy
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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 words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.
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āFuck you you fucking whore. Fuck youā. A text I received from a colleague I was told was ātoo valuable to reprimand". I'm so tired of ...
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#culture
#diversity-and-inclusion
#feminism.
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 current news I would like to add my 2Ā¢. So here is the recording: https://youtu.be/WXL6K1lhvt0?is=WlfZvJ34TeIB-SUu
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Change is challenging but quite often the tools that we used to solve yesterday's problems are unfit for tomorrow's problems. In this episode, Kris and Matt are joined by Rain Paharia, one of Matt'sā¦
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Week Notes 26#42 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2026-10-12?
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#week-notes.
Writing to AWS S3 from Fly.io (in Go) (4 mins read).
How to use OpenID Connect to authenticate to AWS from Fly.io, without long-lived credentials in Go.
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(with some some LLM-derived content š¤).
#blogumentation
#go
#fly.io
#aws
#oidc.
Making an optional, required, status check with GitHub Actions (7 mins read).
Avoiding the dreaded Expected ā Waiting for status to be reported when trying to make a status check optional.
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.
How Did This Get Made? Ā· Episode
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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 weekās dream diner. He sits down with Ed and James to talk about his coffee obsession, wrestling tips and how to power through promo when youāre not feeling your bestā¦Trigger warning: this episode contains chat about counting calories. John Cena stars in āMatchbox The Movieā 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 āFresh Hellā. 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 hisā¦
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What does Stack Overflowās 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 theyāre watching across the profession.LinksDeveloper survey: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026Ā Ed from Polytoken: https://youtu.be/YrmR6EZ5Y1U HostsOvercommitted: ā ā https://overcommitted.devā Ā ā Bethany Janos: ā ā https://www.trustyduck.devBrittany Ellich: ā https://brittanyellich.comĀ Erika Eggemeyer: ā ā 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 āBojack Horsemanā star Paul F. Tompkins returns to the Dream Restaurant for a Tasting Menu. Listen to Paulās original episodeListen to Paul F. Tompkinsās podcasts āSpontaneanationā and āThreedomā wherever you get your podcasts. Follow Paul on Instagram and TikTok @pftompkinsDonāt 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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