Mat Ryer is back and he brought his impromptu musical abilities with him! We discuss Rob Pike vs thankful AI, Microsoft's GitHub monopoly (and what it means for open source), and Tom Tunguz' 12 predictions for 2026: agent-first design, the rise of vector databases, and are we about to pay more for AI than people?!
Justin Searls quit social media by posting more. How, exactly, did he do that? By writing way too much Ruby code to cross-post his blog to all the social networks using an atom feed of his design.
POSSE is an old idea: publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere. That’s desirable, for sure, but not always easy to accomplish.
POSSE Party is the new app Justin released so others can accomplish the same without all the work he went through.
the only good outcome for JavaScript Projects as Corporations is to get scooped up by a major company, and if you're an adopter early on it's a crapshoot if you're going to be okay with who actually ends up scooping up the project + how they continue to maintain it
https://astro.build/blog/joining-cloudflare/
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.
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
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
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
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,...
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.
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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 …
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