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Week Notes 24#48 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-11-25?
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Imagine a kaleidoscope of cultural diversity, nostalgic memories, enduring passions, and unique identity - all melded into a colourful cyber sanctuary.
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Doing #AdventOfCode in a language I used to know well enough to dream in but haven’t used for years, with Copliot enabled, is quite the experience. Like trying to do something with half a dozen incredibly smart and helpful 9 year olds … I think I know what’s happening, everyone is brilliant, but some of these brilliant and helpful things are totally the wrong thing so I’ve really got to pay attention!!
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Right then, it’s December, which means no new music releases*. So what are your favourite singles and albums from the last year. * “Christmas music” is not actually music.
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The blockings will continue until Well Actualism decreases.
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In the world of software development, updating dependencies is a crucial yet often neglected task. Renovate is a tool that helps make that job easier.

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A minimal task manager neovim plugin. Contribute to Hashino/doing.nvim development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Blogging is one of the best things you can do for your technical acumen, your personal profile, and your career. It forces you to learn what you write about deeply, teaches others, and is visible proof of your skillset. Yeah, it's uncomfortable sometimes and it takes time, but I highly recommend. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
I'm a recipient of the 2024 October Engineering Monthly Award Recognition at Elastic (1 mins read).

Announcing winning the 2024 October Engineering Monthly Award Recognition at Elastic.
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Nick Sweeting joins Adam and Jerod to talk about the importance of archiving digital content, his work on ArchiveBox to make it easier, the challenges faced by Archive.org and the Wayback Machine, and the need for both centralized and distributed archiving solutions.
Gotcha: PersistentPostRunE
only runs on successful commands in Cobra (3 mins read).

A possible gotcha when using Cobra to perform cleanup in a PersistentPostRunE
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Mark Fussell, CEO and co-founder of Diagrid and co-creator of Dapr, in a special episode recorded on-site at KubeCon NA in Salt Lake City. We kicked off with a discussion of what’s different about running an open source company versus a...

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Some of you may have noticed that I have a NEW last name it's very exciting ❤️🔥 I also used it to create an IG account for my journalism work: instagram.com/attentionvohr Tempted to change all my handles to "attentionvohr" but lets see 😂
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Look mom. I'm in the house of lords to celebrate turkey day! And of course the @openuk.bsky.social awards night where @paulalkennedy.bsky.social graciously accepted the award for startup of the year on behalf of the @syntasso.bsky.social team!
Not personally used it, but Vale is well recommended with technical writers I know (but may require some configuring), ie https://lornajane.net/posts/2024/reviewdog-filter-settings-with-github-actions from @lornajane may help with using https://github.com/errata-ai/vale-action
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Splitting a git repo into two, while retaining all history.

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Prevent pushing to “main” locally with this git config snippet. It doesn’t rely on setting up the remote branch protections, though you should also do that.

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Adam & Jerod hallway-track-it before our All Things Open interviews. We discuss the trend in rebooting old school vehicles, our likes & dislikes of EVs, the Hummer's new crab walk, Tesla's gambit & more (This episode is for Changelog++ ears only.)
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In this last special episode of The Business of Open Source recorded at All Things Open, I spoke with Elias Voelker, VP North America for CheckMK. We talked a lot about product strategy; when CheckMK decided that they needed a clear strategy for deciding which feature goes in the open source...

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In this episode, CRob talks to Rodrigo Freire, Red Hat's chief architect. They discuss high-profile incidents and vulnerability management in the open source community. Rodrigo has a distinguished track record of success and experience in several ...

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I recently shared that I was diagnosed with ADHD. I write these words 12 days into medication and holy shit I feel totally transformed. The stuck, scrambly feelings and frustration have nearly evaporated. I am firing on all cylinders, which turns out is super necessary in this moment in time. What a

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In every tech organization, there are some people that seem to know every system, everybody, and every problem. They're super helpful, and save coworkers months of wasted efforts, by short-circuiting dead end paths, sharing efficient workflows, knowing which services already exist, and generally having great technical judgement. *None of those skills are quantifiable on performance reviews, other than peers saying thanks (if they're lucky). *Many underrepresented engineers fill these roles.
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I've said it before, but if Randall Monroe could somehow successfully induce a donation of say ten bucks for each time someone uses That One xkcd Comic in a FOSS talk or blog describing the open source sustainability problem, said problem would be solved.
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The corporation behind #Redis is now starting to chase #OpenSource client libraries claiming trademark violations https://github.com/redis-rs/redis-rs/issues/1419 and are attempting to have the projects transferred to them. If it wasn't obvious before, now is a good time to fuck the hell off from that software. Just use #Valkey or one of the other alternatives.
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Mac's Tech Blog

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Elon hates open source software because he likes to own the libs.
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CRob discusses package repository security with two people who know a lot about the topic. Zach Steindler is a principal engineer at Github, a member of the OpenSSF TAC and co-chairs the OpenSSF Security Packages Repository Working Group. Jack Cab...

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This week Jonathan and Shay go deep into FIPS, cryptography, and security, and interview Alex Scheel about it as well!ProposalsGo moves toward FIPS-140🎚️ crypto: mechanism to enable FIPS mode #70123🎛️ proposal: cmd/go: add fips140 module selection mechanism #70200↪️ crypto/tls: add...

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There are more and more open source DevTools startups. I’ve interviewed dozens. But I am still confused about open source licenses. So I decided to ask questions to two people who actually understa...

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Seven years ago, I launched #SuperTinyIcons 80 miniscule SVGs for use on the web. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2017/11/super-tiny-website-logos-in-svg/ Now, we're up to 386 images! https://github.com/edent/SuperTinyIcons
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Hazel Weakly joins Justin and Autumn to talk about when to build abstractions and how to implement them. They also share experiences from tech conferences, and delve into the importance of building community and psychological safety in tech environments.
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Thank you @h.olysh.it 😭💛 Missing @krisnova.net today and every day. To celebrate Nóva, share what you would rather be doing… Fuck the Internet. I’m going to go [insert passion hobby here]. Fuck the internet. I’m going to go play drums.
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I have the first episode I recorded on-site at KubeCon Salt Lake City (and the only full-length episode), with Solomon Hykes, CEO and co-founder of Dagger, and co-founder of Docker.One thing Solomon mentions briefly but that is very important is that...

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Kailash Nadh talks about Zerodha's FLOSS/Fund granting $1M per year to open source projects, and the importance of the funding.json format in for funding FLOSS.

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Our friends Johannes Schlickling & James Long join us to discuss the movement of local-first, its pros and cons, the tradeoffs, and the path to the warming waters of mostly local apps.