Week Notes 26#03 (1 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2026-01-12?
Week Notes 26#03 (1 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2026-01-12?
If you funded a maintainer before they created their most successful package, you have a claim on it. The Law of Surprise is underutilized in open source.
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I can update my salary transparency page now! [contains quote post or other embedded content]
How do you feel about this promotion and benefit from a memecoin?
Yeah. Him and Huntley have now made tens of thousands and are denying it’s a scam. It’s really difficult to watch.
At @oxide.computer, we pride ourselves on terse performance reviews: we have exceeded expectations!
"It turns out having an established blog gives you a surprising amount of influence in a field"

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We are halfway through the Writing for Developers book club through the @overcommitted.dev community and the writing motivation is strong 💪 - 10 blog posts folks wrote this week and got feedback on - Discussions every day and started some co-working sessions - A supportive community of developers
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++ to Andy! Andy designed Dependency Management Data and deps.fyi and really enjoyed the collaboration
I've also got a public review that may be of interest
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SummaryIn this episode, the hosts meet with Christina Martinez, a developer experience engineer from Resend, who shares insights on her creative process and current projects. She shares her delight in building silly software and how she's using that to learn in her current role.TakeawaysChristina is the creative mind behind the Gen Z Babel plugin.She also developed the Swift commits tool.Taking existing tutorials and adding a creative twist can make them more fun.Continuous development is important at all parts of your career.LinksChristina Martinez: https://christinacodes.devSilly Software Club: https://sillysoftware.clubResend: https://resend.com/Gen Z slang Babel plugin: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cxvwz76vBus/ | https://github.com/christina-de-martinez/babel-plugin-glowup-vibesTaylor Swift themed commit linting tool: https://youtube.com/shorts/eOS5Q2I9LHM?si=LC8JVUKTkLgwKtDF | https://github.com/christina-de-martinez/swift-commitsCodeTV & Mux's Worst Video Player Competition: https://www.mux.com/blog/actual-worst-video-playerReact Miami: https://www.reactmiami.com/HostsOvercommitted: https://overcommitted.devBethany Janos: https://github.com/bethanyj28Brittany Ellich: https://brittanyellich.comEggyhead: https://github.com/eggyhead

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds
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Today was a good day, I think, for knitting together. Lolly the cat makes eye contact with the camera as she sits in Marty's lap. Marty is focused on hanging stitches on his knitting machine. Marty …

GopherCon 2026 Early tickets until Jan 31! Get them while they last!Go 1.26 coming soonOfficial release notesInteractive release notes by Anton ZhiyanovInterview with Arthur VaverkoVenn.cityJob openingsArthur Vaverko on LinkedIn

We've announced 6 Moderate Security Advisories, which allow for possible remote code execution, when an attacker has access to a repository's default branch More info: https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/discussions/40403
Authoring Markdown externally and pasting the 'pretty' output into Slack (on Mac) (2 mins read).
How to use copy the rendered representation of Markdown into a rich-text form into Slack, on Mac.
Getting access to rich-text data from the clipboard (on Mac) (1 mins read).
How to retrieve rich-text output from the clipboard.
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, Matt gets real about how AI doomerism on social media got to him over the holidays and the mental reset that pulled him out of it. K...

New Year, New Nuance! In this episode, Kris and Matt discuss what they're looking forward to in 2026—Matt shares the exciting news that he's becoming a dad, and the duo explore the value of growth,...

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Sometimes I wish I had fewer ideas. Execution of an idea is way more important than the quantity of ideas you have; and as someone who struggles with executive function, I get sad when I look at my unmerged branches on my blog.
The best blog post left unpublished doesn't help anyone. Well, maybe it helps the author clarify their ideas. Execution is (almost) the whole game. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
Yes, I know the cliché that bloggers are always blogging about blogging! I like semantics. It tickles that part of my delicious meaty brain that longs for structure. Semantics are good for computers and humans. Computers can easily understand the structure of the data, humans can use tools like screen-readers to extract the data they're interested in. In HTML, there are three main ways to …

Creating a TUI for keeping an eye on GitHub Rate Limits (1 mins read).

Sharing ghrl, a Terminal User Interface (TUI) for monitoring rate limits for GitHub Apps.
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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?
How to go from starting things to finishing things.
Imagine living in the grid owned by Elon musk
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Real men eat balls? 🤨
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How we learned to stop worrying and love writeable root filesystems.
New from Fly.io today: Sprites.dev. Here’s their blog post and YouTube demo. It’s an interesting new product that’s quite difficult to explain—Fly call it “Stateful sandbox environments with checkpoint & …
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The key thought is that for upcoming events, it really helps if there's a calendar feed. You can subscribe and see events in your local calendar app. I started looking around the #hugo community, and people have built out ways of doing that: https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/05/22/ical-events-hugo/
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