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Attached: 1 image State of Open Con 25 will be back on 4 and 5 February and our CFP is now open across 7 tracks until 8 December. Successful speakers will be notified by 20 December when the Schedule will go live. Our tracks will cover software and security, hardware, data, mobile, finance, future of open source and future of AI. We will again have an incredible Delegate Experience area. Submit to the Call for Proposals: https://sessionize.com/state-of-open-con-2025/ #soocon #stateofopen #cfp
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Nolan Lawson of PouchDB on what it feels like to be a maintainer
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Nolan delves into burnout, open source challenges, reputation pressures, and his shift to sustainable practices like Pinafore.
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The Business of Open Source | Selling Peace of Mind with Bhaskar from YottaDB
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This week’s full-length episode is with Bhaskar, founder of YottaDB. This episode was recorded on-site at All Things Open last week, and we covered a wide range of topics. Including:How the open source ecosystem, and the open source business ecosystem, has changed over the past 30+ years.Who can...
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Fusion Meetup – 21st November 2024 Meetup
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Fusion Meetup: Fusion is a Birmingham-based tech meetup, bringing the community together over great food for a social evening of tech talks aimed to inspire and educate
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The Business of Open Source | ATO Special Episode with Tatiana Krupenya of DBeaver
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This special episode of The Business of Open Source with Tatiana Krupenya, CEO of DBeaver, was recorded on site at All Things Open 2024. It’s a short conversation, so we addressed one main question: What is the difference between running an open source company versus as proprietary software...
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Writing a shell in Go with Qi Xiao (Go Time #336)
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Writing a shell is rarely the kind of project you take on lightly. In this episode, Johnny is joined by Qi Xiao to explore how to go about such a feat in Go.
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Scaling DevTools | Gonto - Auth0 Employee #6 shares developer marketing secrets
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Gonto (Martin Gontovnikas) was the 6th employee at Auth0 and helped them grow fast and sell for $6.5billion to Okta. Now he is the founder of Hypergrowth Partners and helps DevTools grow fast.We d...
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What's new with GrimoireLab, the open-source community analytics platform
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In this episode, host Georg Link is joined by guests Courtney Robertson and Santiago (Santi) Dueñas to discuss the latest updates and future directions of GrimoireLab, an open-source tool designed to analyze community health metrics. They dive into how GrimoireLab originated, its current usage, and how organizations like WordPress and Bitergia are utilizing it for community contribution tracking. They explore the challenges of scaling the tool and the needs for further automation and data source integration. Courtney shares insights on how WordPress uses GrimoireLab to track contributors, improve sustainability, and automate reporting, while Santi explains the technical evolution of GrimoireLab, including moving to OpenSearch and improving database performance. Hit download now to hear more!
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The Business of Open Source | ATO Special Episode with Nithya Ruff
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In this special episode of The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Nithya Ruff, director of Amazon’s Open Source Program Office (often referred to as an OSPO). We started out talking a little about what exactly an OSPO is and what they do in companies — something I’m guess not everyone...
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Cat Hicks (@grimalkina@mastodon.social)
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My wife is gone & meals are often a question mark when I'm alone. Luckily I'm steered by the same cognitive tricks as your average toddler - if it's chopped up small I'll eat it so gotta chop vegs - peanut butter + oatmeal +chocolate chips if I can't think of anything - eat anywhere but sitting
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Jan Lehnardt :couchdb: (@janl@narrativ.es)
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@em@babka.social also do Top Secret! next. Together with Spaceballs, these three are fundamental for my early comedy indoctrination
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Matthias Ott (@matthiasott@mastodon.social)
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Move steadily and improve things.
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Creating a private mirror of the Renovate docs (5 mins read).
How to set up a copy of Renovate's documentation, pinned to an older version, for your organisation.
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Charlie Marsh (@charliermarsh@hachyderm.io)
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Part of maturing as an engineer is recognizing the difference between "thing you would do differently" and "thing you should comment on during code review"
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The Business of Open Source | ATO special episode with Peter Farkas
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In this special episode recorded at All Things Open, I talk with Peter Farkas, CEO and co-founder of FerretDB. We talked about about MongoDB and the license change fiasco and why Peter wanted to build an open source company and never considered building a non-open source company. The biggest 🤯 in...
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Bus factors & conspiracy theories (Changelog & Friends #70)
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Adam & Jerod discuss the news! Our Merch sale, useful built-in macOS CLI utilities, the slow death of the hyperlink, systematically estimating a project's bus factor, The Browser Company abandoning Arc, the Dead Internet theory & more!
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Gotta give to get back with Danny Thompson @ THAT Conference (Changelog Interviews #617)
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We're on the main stage at THAT Conference with Danny Thompson. He has an amazing story and journey into tech. Thanks to our friends at Cloudflare for helping us get to THAT Conference earlier this year to enable this conversation. Special thanks to Nick Nisi and Clark Sell for coming in clutch and getting us the audi...
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Ben Cotton (he/him) @ #KubeCon (@funnelfiasco@hachyderm.io)
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Have you ever wanted to buy the ebook of "Program Management for Open Source Projects" but you only want to pay 60% of the list price? Well let me tell you a secret: if you use promo code turkeysale2024 through December 2, you can do just that! https://pragprog.com/titles/bcosp/program-management-for-open-source-projects/
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Cup o' Go | 🎂 ¡Feliz quinceañera a Golang! 🪅
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🇩🇪 Hannover Go meetup, Nov 19🎂 Go Blog: Go Turns 15 📊 Video: The Business of Go by Cameron BalahanProposalsAccepted: End support for macOS 11 in go 1.25New discussion: Memory regions🗲 Lightning round🛞 Watermill 1.4: Event-Driven library for Go🛩️ Package singleflight provides a duplicate function...
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ADHD
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I woke up this morning, took a pill, and proceeded to have one of the most productive writing days I've had in perhaps years. The day prior, a doctor diagnosed me with Adult ADHD. I finally drew the unfortunate trauma diagram that's been in my head for years now. In a pretty short timefra
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#adhd.
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Lex Lofthouse (@loftio@typo.social)
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I have updated my handle to include my own domain on Bluesky now: https://bsky.app/profile/loftio.co.uk
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Matt Brunt (@brunty@brunty.social)
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Y'know when you feel your whole body let go of stress that you'd pushed into the background so you could keep functioning day-to-day because life is too busy right now and there's so many other things to be dealing with and you suddenly feel like crying with emotion because after all the shit there's finally some good news? Yeah. That.
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Anthony, of course (@anthony@bitbang.social)
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Me: so it seems I'm probably #ADHD Friend: yeah, we know Me: what? Why didn't you tell me? Friend: we assumed you already knew!
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Hosting Hachyderm with Preston Doster (Ship It! #130)
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Preston Doster joins the show to tell us what it takes to run a Mastodon server with 55,000 accounts and 11,000 monthly active users.
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Week Notes 24#46 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-11-11?
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Lessons learned adding OpenTelemetry to a (Cobra) command-line Go tool (10 mins read).
Some reflections on what I've found good and not so good about instrumenting a command-line tool with OpenTelemetry.
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#blogumentation
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Aside from some crappy commentary about "working by committee" and "cancel culture", there was some interesting bits in this
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(Includes expletives) David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner of 37signals, joined the show to discuss this Rails moment and renewed excitement for Rails. We discuss hard opinions, developers being cooked too long in the JavaScript soup, finding developer joy, the pros and cons of the BDFL...
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Bluesky Firehose
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The bluesky firehose visualised in 3D
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Dr. Dawn Foster (@geekygirldawn@hachyderm.io)
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Attached: 1 image I had a great time in Boston where I talked about my relicensing and forks research: https://github.com/chaoss/wg-data-science/tree/main/publications And as a bonus, mom joined me so I got to hang out with her, too!
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Practical Tracing for Go Apps with OpenTelemetry (Beginner's Guide) | Better Stack Community
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Learn how to use OpenTelemetry to instrument your Go applications for distributed tracing
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Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr (@RickiTarr@beige.party)
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I wish when I became an adult the other adults in my life would have explained that you don't actually feel like a grown up, you just sort of feel like a kid pretending to be an adult, and hoping everything works out.
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Aral Balkan (@aral@mastodon.ar.al)
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Hiding your face isn’t having privacy. Living in a society where you don’t have to hide your face is having privacy.
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Matt Brunt (@brunty@brunty.social)
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Usually "unlimited holiday" is a red flag This year I'll have taken a total of 41 days of holiday (including the legally required minimum of 28 days here in the UK) It's nice to be able to actually use extra without being made to feel guilty or have it dangled like a carrot but never given
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GitHub - XSAM/otelsql: OpenTelemetry instrumentation for database/sql
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OpenTelemetry instrumentation for database/sql. Contribute to XSAM/otelsql development by creating an account on GitHub.
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TypeScript ESLint with Josh Goldberg - Software Engineering Daily
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TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that adds static typing with optional type annotations. It was created at Microsoft and first released in 2012. TypeScript ESLint enables ESLint and Prettier to run on TypeScript code. Josh Goldberg is a host for Software Engineering Daily, the author of Learning TypeScript by O’Reilly, and a Microsoft MVP.
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Crawl, walk & run your way to usable CLIs in Go with Wesley Beary from Anchor (Go Time #337)
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With the number of libraries available to Go developers these days, you'd think building a CLI app was now a trivial matter. But like many things in software development, it depends. In this episode, we explore the challenges that arose during one team's journey towards a production-ready CLI.
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