My experience as a maintainer (8 mins read).
A guest post for opensource.org, about my experience as a maintainer, as part of 2025's Maintainer Month.
My experience as a maintainer (8 mins read).
A guest post for opensource.org, about my experience as a maintainer, as part of 2025's Maintainer Month.
It's a trap.
Between and I took 6391 steps.
Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.
Creating nested fenced code blocks with Hugo (1 mins read).
How to write a Markdown file with a fenced code block, which includes another code block inside it.
Taking more control over your Cobra CLI documentation (2 mins read).
Releasing a library to manage the generation of Cobra CLI documentation using text/template
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Setting up SSH key signing with Git (1 mins read).
How to sign your Git commits, using SSH keys.
I recently had a chat with Kairo about a project he maintains called Repository Service for TUF (RSTUF). We explain why TUF is tough (har har har), what RSTUF can do, and some of the challenges around securing repositories. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at
Between and I took 6831 steps.
Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.
Week Notes 25#20 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-05-12?
After 25 years in tech it’s hard not to coast. Adriana has come from writing word docs for the ops team to deploy software, through Devops, and now has a focus on OTel and Kubernetes. How do we get more people from 100 to 400 levels and why is there no content in between? And why we need junior...
Improving the experience of browsing Renovate debug logs (4 mins read).
Creating a Terminal User Interface (TUI) application to improve the debugging experience with Renovate's debug logs.
That's the problem with outdoor channels someday they need to go back home
Marianne, author of Kill It with Fire, and Greg join host Richard to dive into their new paper, “10 Quick Tips for Making Your Software Outlive Your Job.”
Go Meetup in San Francisco - Sponsored by Elastic & Cup o' GoIan Lance Taylor leaves the Go teamBlog: wget to Wipeout: Malicious Go Modules Fetch Destructive PayloadBlog: Security: The Habits That Matter Most by Christoph Berger⚡ Interview with Kevin Hoffman of SparkLogsSparkLogs.comSparkLogs on...
Between and I took 6518 steps.
men will literally dismantle the federal government instead of going to therapy
It provides some balance to the conversation - but IMO is maybe a bit too forgiving, and (in my limited understanding) doesn't delve into some of the real nuance
Derek Collison — creator of NATS and Co-founder & CEO of Synadia — joins the show to dive into the origins, design, and evolution of NATS, a high-performance, open-source messaging system built for modern cloud-native systems and part of the CNCF. Derek shares the story behind NATS, what makes it unique, and unpacks th...
"gungan killmonger" is the premise for the most offensive SNL skit you've ever seen in your life oh my god [contains quote post or other embedded content]
Gungan Killmonger: Howsa you think ancestors got thesee? Yousa think paid fair price? Or theysa take it, like theysa took everything else?
you say you like dynamic typing? allow me to show you agentic workflows
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dipshits in 2019: you people are NPCs, you don't even think for yourselves dipshits in 2025: I have outsourced my thinking to Clippy
My team gets me. 🎮
Between and I took 7809 steps.
Signed my first consulting/advising contract today that had a provision against using AI tools unless specifically approved. Concerns were around IP. Either the IP created isn't owned by company or that confidential info is sent to a service. It's interesting to see this play out.
Sami talks with Tom Akehurst, Co-Founder of WireMock, about the delay and disconnect between front and back end development and how WireMock set out to bridge the two together.
Yeah like, I was setting my birth year to 1979 instead of 1989 back then so why wouldn't kids today figure that out too lol
Yeah when I was a kid my dad passed a law that I wasn't allowed to be online late at night, but Net Nanny couldn't see what you were doing inside an AOL browser so I used free trial discs. I'm sure this will work tho [contains quote post or other embedded content]
Trilling off together?
Omg yes, beat their asses. Hope that exec feels like a dipshit
Freeman & Forrest is a year old! It's been a wild, incredible journey and we've learned so much. I'm remembering an executive we pitched early on who called us a "small business for shitty little companies." Anyway, we've paid technical content creators $1.7M. I'm proud of that. fnf.dev/one-year https://www.freemanandforrest.com/blog/3dYzROwYeGpPJMctpLpJKV
I love how much context Andor & R1 have added to that era. The Rebellion came so close to toppling so many times, surviving by pure luck & the skin of their teeth, just long enough for the Empire to fuck up in a major way.
One of my favorite developments from the Andor finale is that, by the time the series ends, every major Imperial Security Bureau character we've met and followed is either disgraced or dead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp_Cn3nxu3s
And again: all this happens in the span of a single month. I mean, even with the remainder of the Imperial war machine and the two Sith Lords at the wheel, it's kinda a miracle the Empire manages to hang on for another 4 years until Endor.
Between and I took 3799 steps.
William Woodruff discussed his project, Zizmor, a security linter designed to help developers identify and fix vulnerabilities within their GitHub Actions workflows. This tool addresses inherent security risks in GitHub Actions, such as injection vulnerabilities, permission issues, and mutable tags, by providing static analysis and remediation guidance. Fresh off the heels of the tj-actions/changed-files backdoor, this is a great topic with some things everyone can do right away. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at
And would you say your experience going public with your concerns was the common case, or a significant outlier?