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Top HN comment on my post “How Dependabot Actually Works”: “I consider reflecting on how dependabot works a bit of a waste.” 😂

Looking into the https://forgefed.org spec this evening and there’s nothing about packages or dependencies yet. Imagine if repositories and forges could announce to the maintainers of packages that they just started using their package, and then be able to subscribe to maintainers announcements of new releases, security advisories and calls for help. They don’t even do that in centralised forges very well at the moment!

Interesting read. Thanks for sharing @renovatebot.com 👍 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

As you can tell from our faces, open source is very serious and Kubernetes is the most serious project of them all. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

imagine telling yourself on january 6, 2021 that five years from now things would be so much worse

Kubernetes WIG Docs first meeting of 2026!!! cc: The Right Honorable @natali.rip

i bought the domain ohhh.lol a while back just because and the other night i noticed it gets like 100-150 unique hits a day from people typing it in their posts and group chats where it tries to load the url preview. so i hope this annoys some people while they're trying to get their mack on

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In Go, go.mod acts as both manifest and lockfile. There is never a reason to look at go.sum.

The first year in review post since 2019. Happy new year!

I think you've created a brat

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And they *like* it, because fundamentally Linux users are into pain

I think a big chunk of the "linux is hard" sentiment stems from the fact that most linux users do weird things with their computers. basically this:

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My last "year in review" post I wrote was in 2019. I have been considering writing one for 2025 but as a "glass half-empty" person it is so hard.

Attached: 1 image There are less CVEs so far in 2026 than there were in 2023-2025 The logical conclusion is we solved security after all these years!!!

Attached: 1 image As if there weren’t already enough ethical considerations to using ChatGPT. 🤦🏾‍♂️ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-exec-becomes-top-trump-230342268.html

The year AI SRE arrived. 1,152 PRs, a team that grew from 3 to 18, and the hardest I've ever worked. From betting on tooling in January to shipping a product that makes customers say "how did you figure that out?" by December.

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The power button is obviously the clit (all computers are girls)

Few things have more profoundly impacted my sense of British identity than finding out that Werther’s Originals are German

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I don't want self-driving cars. I don't want humanoid robots. I don’t want AI in every app I use. I want clean water. I want a stable climate. I want a habitable planet.

“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood….we fear the visibility …

Love this for us

I reached out to the author of this viral Reddit post thinking there might be a story in it. He sent me an employee badge that Gemini flagged as being AI-generated and supporting documents that I suspect were also generated by AI. Be careful out there folks! https://www.reddit.com/r/confession/comments/1q1mzej/im_a_developer_for_a_major_food_delivery_app_the/

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CW: self-harm/suicide topic This is my semicolon tattoo. I’ve been sober from self-harm/ideation/attempts for about 8 years now. It’s been a hard road but I’m still here. And I’m glad you are too.

Evergreen post: surprise, surprise, my decision to use git submodules came back to bite me

the kids, they know how to name libraries. https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1q0maft/introduction_ffmpreg_a_complete_rewrite_of_ffmpeg/

I had a Tesco delivery this afternoon, the driver said, " I've got a couple of substitutions for you, here's your rosemary and haddock". I said, "this is neither the thyme or the plaice".

Many happy returns to everyone who has, for security purposes, given 1st January as their birthday when registering for online services.

Cookin'.

Someone asked me what the plan for the blog was, and tbh there’s not much of a plan at this point. I just have a lot of pent up thoughts and feelings about package management that I kind of expected other people to write about over the past few years and no-one did… so I’m just brain dumping.

Happy Winterval. I hope you’re all enjoying your war on Christmas.

Blue isn't my color but it arrived just in time to showcase my nerd status to my family for Christmas.

What you need to know about local model tooling and the steps for setting one up yourself

if you find yourself editing a dependabot.yml file, stop right now and forget about it and use the open source renovatebot instead. it's so. much. better. https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate

something like renovate would go a long way

I don't like boxing but today is a great day to be a fan of assholes getting their shit rocked on live TV

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap

In arguing about Macaulay Culkin's wrong opinion with @theladyfiasco, I have talked myself into the position that "Die Hard" is *more* of a Christmas movie than "Home Alone."

I’ve been following what Justin Searls has been doing with his blog for some time. He’s been leaning into the “POSSE” (Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) philosophy more and more. In practice, this looks like building your own version of a single-serving social network on your own site and exposing RSS/Atom feeds to other services to consume. Justin recently released POSSE Party which makes this easier by cross-posting to various social networks. I’ve complained for a while about (anti)social networking so I’m always up for new ways to use social networking less.

I have been gainfully unemployed for exactly one year. Spending today exploring the north of New Zealand, then after Xmas seeing friends in Melbourne, finishing the year on a beach in Thailand. I wonder what 2026 will bring? A bit of FOSDEM for certain and we've got Interrail tickets booked. But *work*? Hmmm… we'll see!

New video on updating container images with Renovate. The demo uses the Renovate GitHub Action but pairs it with Octo-STS so you don't need to create a PAT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0hWRMtdUyI