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Next up in our tech blogger spotlight series: database enthusiast and community catalyst, @eatonphil.bsky.social https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/phil-eaton-on-technical-blogging
Performing group_concat
queries over distinct values, with a custom delimiter, with SQLite (2 mins read).

How to avoid SQLite's DISTINCT aggregates must have exactly one argument
error when performing a group_concat(distinct ...)
with a custom delimiter.
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Updates on old news:🧮 Accepted proposal: New x/exp/stats packageWatch Anders Hejlsberg talk about why Microsoft chose Go for TypeScript 7More typo squatting!Blog: Linux, macOS users infected with malware posing as legitimate Go packagesOn Reddit: Someone copied our GitHub project, added stars...

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Updating apk add
definitions in Dockerfiles (3 mins read).

How to use Renovate's Custom Regex manager to extract apk add
definitions in a Dockerfile
, to allow managing (un)pinned packages.
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I am thrilled to announce the release of v2! I hope is that these features will enhance your development experience.

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Who war it best?
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Fire up a REPL, grab your favorite Stephen King novel, and hold on to the seat of your pants! Jimmy Miller returns to reveal why, at least for some of us, discovery coding is where it's at.
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If you’re still masking…thank you If you’re trying to educate others on the benefits of masks…thank you If you’re standing in solidarity with disabled & vulnerable people who’ve been cast aside for the last 5 years…thank you Its not easy being the lone masker in 2025, but we see & appreciate you
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Actually! Linkin Parks “Heavy is the Crown” is great.
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Mac's Tech Blog

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I will forever think it is not ready and keep futzing 😁 but heck I need to push this thing live. Had some fun over the last couple of days building this with @11ty.dev - Contribute your TechCat 😻 #caturday techcats.netlify.app https://techcats.netlify.app/
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Alt text: “a page describing a list of things” My comrade in arms, please just copy and paste the actual freakin’ text
Week Notes 25#11 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-03-17?
Week Notes 25#10 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-03-10?
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Lessons from 100+ DevTool founders - DevTools successes, failures and stories in a free weekly email and podcast.

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Antirez has returned to Redis! Yes, Salvatore Sanfilippo (aka Antirez), the creator of Redis has returned to Redis and he joined us to share the backstory on Redis, what's going on with the tech and the company, the possible (likely) move back to open source via the AGPL license, the new possibilities of AI and vector ...
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In this episode of the CHAOSScast, host Alice Sowerby introduces guests Dawn Foster, Cailean Osborne, and Paul Sharratt to discuss the newly formed 'Funding Impact Measurement Working Group' within the CHAOSS community. The panel explores the group's origins, goals, and objectives, emphasizing the importance of mixed method approaches to assess the impact of funding on open source projects. They highlight the significance of both quantitative and qualitative methods to understand the effects of funding better and share insights on creating standardized frameworks for impact assessment. The discussion also touches on the challenges of public versus private funding, the nuances of financial support in open source projects, and the potential benefits of having a collaborative, open forum for related discussions. Hit download now to hear more!

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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Ty Dunn, founder of Continue.dev, which is an open source AI code assistant. We had a fabulous conversation that touched on both the AI hype wave and why open source. The first thing I’d like to touch on is why Continue.dev is open source, in...

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Our award-winning JS Party game show is back with a new name, a new channel, and the same ol' survey-response-guessing fun! The JS Party crew join us to see who knows y'all best. Survey says!
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This week on The Business of Open Source I spoke with Andrew Martin, CEO and founder of Control Plane. Control Plane is ultimately a consulting company, as Andrew introduced it. But the company also created and maintains KubeSec, and also has an enterprise version of Flux CD that it licenses....

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In this episode, open source legal expert Luis Villa breaks down what the EU's Cyber Resilience Act means for developers and businesses, exploring carve-outs for individual contributors and the complex relationship between security and sustainability. Luis provides practical guidance on navigating this evolving regulatory landscape while explaining why the CRA represents both a challenge and an opportunity for the open source ecosystem. The blog post for this episode can be found at
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Robert Ross (@BobbyTables) is the CEO of FireHydrant. We discuss the journey of building FireHydrant, the evolution of API design, and the impact of gRPC and REST on developer experience. We also talked about the role of LLMs in API design, the shift towards data consumption trends in...

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On the first episode of Request // Response, I speak with John Kodumal, co-founder and former CTO of LaunchDarkly.We discussed how LaunchDarkly used feature flags to separate deployment from release, offering fine-grained control for safer rollouts and experimentation.LaunchDarkly was an early...

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A safe, succinct test data fixtures pattern using sqlc and validator.

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Doing resume screens for a role I'm hiring for and I'm kinda thinking I don't wanna let this guy past the pre-screen.
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Beyang Liu, the CTO & Co-founder of Sourcegraph is back on the pod. Adam and Beyang go deep on the idea of "industrializing software development" using AI agents, using AI in general, using code generation. So much is happening in and around AI and Sourcegraph continues to innovate again and again. From their editor as...
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Apparently the Mastodon server I was using stopped existing so that's my entire account gone now. That's not a great experience.
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Had the adhd phenomenon of "brain empty" (forgetting all context) in the middle of a technical interview. Took me a couple minutes to regain focus after which we were able to get the exercise done. I hope this won't impact my score, neurodivergence be like that 🥲
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i got my first roll of film developed and it’s so dreamy ✨
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HOW WE KILLED GOD AND WHY
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bailey jay tweets is my roman empire
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this is my holy religious text. i reference it year after year, in times of tragedy and despair, in times of euphoria and joy!! its true!!!
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I did not create this cake, but I respect whoever did.
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Thank you 💜 having a nice time so far ☺️
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this image is my favorite product of the Internet