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For those who didn't make it to #DevOpsDays London, or who did and want to watch it again, my talk on dependency-management-data is now live on YouTube 👏🏼

Following on from a successful conversation that was had at #DevOpsDays Chicago, there was an Open Space yesterday all about #compensation and #salary at #DevOpsDays London, which of course I was super interested in, and happy to share my own salary history as well as some of the things that companies have done over the year.

Based on one of the questions I'll (soon ™️) be adding how much on-call is compensated, if not part of the salary

New on the website is an archives page if you wanted a quicker way to go back through the many posts I've written! Could do with maybe adding a little more detail + some format changes, but a good solution for now

Open Source Summit looks great, sad to be missing it! But very excited to have #DevOpsDays London this week 👏🏽

Taking strong inspiration from Phil Nash I've just updated my /elsewhere/ page 👀

TIL that I can use my fingerprint to log in with i3lock-color🕵️ I thought it'd not worked before last time I looked, but similar to logging in on a TTY, I just need to enter an empty password, then I can auth via my fingerprint 👏

Has anyone else noticed that the #reddit mobile web app is useless? Often get white screens if I try to load it, often have to choose a subreddit to go to first, then I can go back home. Wouldn't get that with excellent third party apps 😥

New release of deepmap/oapi-codegen 🚀 v1.15.0 comes to downgrade the version of Go in use by a couple of dependencies, which was leading to build issues for folks running Go 1.21 🔧

Two years ago, I posted my salary history - in an impulsive move - and I absolutely do not regret it. I know directly of some the great impact having this data has had (including leading to others sharing their own), and I'm so glad to be able to use my privilege to help others

Super excited that it's only a couple of weeks to go to #DevOpsDays London! There are still some tickets available, hit me up if you want a discount 👀

It's such a great conference, regardless of the fact that I'm speaking 🤓

Hey babe wake up, new #Hacktoberfest site just dropped 👀🎃

New release of deepmap/oapi-codegen 🚀 v1.14.0 comes with Iris Support, a requirement of a minimum of Go 1.20, reduction of runtime dependencies, and various other features and fixes 👏

How would you go about designing a dark mode theme? I'm looking to implement a dark theme for Datasette and wondering how's best to approach this 🤔

Well it's been a great first week at #Elastic, especially as today is actually Friday for me! It's this month's Elastic whole company "Shut It Down Day" so everyone in the org gets a nice long weekend 😎

Welp, I've now officially logged out of Deliveroo Blind, so if you see any posts that look like me, it ain't 😅

Instead of my usual TTY-based login on Linux, I've spent a bit of time trying to get LightDM/SDDM set up to allow me to use fingerprint-based login.

It turns out you don't even need to do that, pam_fprintd.so can work as-is on the TTY 🥳

Super excited to be speaking at DevOpsDays London on September 21st!

Not only am I excited to be excited to be attending the conference for the first time since pre-COVID, I'm excited to try my hand again at the Ignite talks 🔥

DevOpsDays London is a truly excellent event, there's a really high bar, some really inclusive practices, and lovely people organising and attending.

I've written about previous years' events on my blog if you want a bit more of a feel for what the event may be like:

• 2018
• 2019

If you're interested in joining, you can get a 20% off code using my referral code - let me know if you're currently between jobs or may be unable to attend even with the 20% discount.

Love that my Meetup account has been (hopefully temporarily?) disabled because - get this - me trying to share my slides with attendees at a Meetup I spoke to has been "classed as spam"

A couple of weeks I able to attend #LeadDevLondon thanks to a ticket gifted to me by the organisers, and I've finally gotten around to writing up the excellent conference 👏🏼🎉

There's some really great stuff in there, and I learned a load.

You can read more on the blog

Do I know anyone with a (paid) Snyk org who'd be willing to give me a hand with getting some example data from their Open Source projects?

Looking to grab a project's SBOM to get some examples of what the data looks like, but seems to only be available if you're a paying customer, but I'm just trying to get some examples of #SBOMs for use with importing the data into dependency-management-data

Does anyone know if there's a good community space where folks building tooling that work with #SBOMs can be found? Got some questions I'd like to ask!

Nice to see that the excellent gorilla/mux may have been revived

Excited to be heading to #LeadDev with Anna Dodson and learning some great things from interesting folks, but especially as we're sitting on a train carriage behind a couple of pugs that are chaotically breaking free from their shackles to explore the train 💀😹

This evening I've been putting the finishing touches on a preview of my talk Quantifying your reliance on Open Source software coming to DevOpsNotts at the end of July for my colleagues at #Deliveroo tomorrow, and still appreciating the tip I got at the DDD East Midlands speaker workshop to write the content before the slides, as it's made it a breeze to construct slides based on a long form blog post!

Very appreciative of the wonderful folks at Lead Dev for a complimentary ticket for the upcoming Lead Dev London - I've heard it's a great event so I'm very much looking forward to go and learn from some really awesome folks 🤓

Super excited to be bringing a new talk to DDD East Midlands in October entitled This talk could've been a blog post 🤓📝

Who else do I know who's going to #LeadDev London? 👀

Very excited to be talking at DevOpsNotts at the end of July about a project very close to my heart recently - dependency-management-data - in a new talk, Quantifying your reliance on Open Source software, where we'll look at how you can get a better view of your organisation's Open Source and internal dependency usage.

We've had Amazon Blink cameras for a few years now for security / deliveries / watching Morph prowling around. Today I'm no longer able to watch recordings because they've decided I now have to pay for it. Very frustrating and shitty UX!

Excited to be hearing from Cory Doctorow this evening 🙌🏽

Very excited to announce that my first - ever! - guest post, Learn how to build tools has gone live, for the wonderful Letters to a New Developer - I've been meaning to write this for three years, thanks Dan Moore for the support with it 🤖⚙️🛠

Anyone got any work-appropriate alternatives for "(that team) got shafted"?

I've just learned something quite dangerous 😳 I can make super tasty milkshakes whenever I want 😋😅

"Why does this zlib compression code not work? I can't see any changes in the file" 😤 Turns out #Neovim and #Vim transparently un-encodes files 😅

Had anyone ever seen an error like this with #AWSLambda?

It's a Node 18 app that calls out to Renovate but fails due to some deep intenals in Node when doing some performance checking?

{
    "errorType": "TypeError",
    "errorMessage": "performance.markResourceTiming is not a function",
    "stack": [
        "TypeError: performance.markResourceTiming is not a function",
        "    at markResourceTiming (node:internal/deps/undici/undici:10636:21)",
        "    at finalizeAndReportTiming (node:internal/deps/undici/undici:10632:7)",
        "    at Object.handleFetchDone [as processResponseEndOfBody] (node:internal/deps/undici/undici:10579:45)",
        "    at node:internal/deps/undici/undici:10895:44",
        "    at node:internal/process/task_queues:140:7",
        "    at AsyncResource.runInAsyncScope (node:async_hooks:204:9)",
        "    at AsyncResource.runMicrotask (node:internal/process/task_queues:137:8)",
        "    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)"
    ]
}

Very odd, and this Go issue is the only thing I could find that may relate 🤔

Got dark mode and some other fun tweaks on my CV this weekend 🙌🏽 fun to play around with a tiny lil page, been a while since I've done much CSS

Just re-published my popular posts page with a list of some of the bangers I've written over the years 🙌🏽

With me looking to get back to a bit more public speaking, I've revamped my talks site so it's a little easier to see the previous talks I've done, as well as moving content from my site to the talks site.

Deffo still needs work, but it's better than what was there before 😅

Welp, I guess today I'm gonna be using the extremely well-timed release of Google's deps.dev API to make dependency-management-data much more intelligent 👀

Just pushed some examples to dependency-management-data's site to give a bit of a demo for what it looks like in practice, without you needing to download anything!

Was quite fun using github.com/saschagrunert/demo, which is definitely now a tool I'll be reaching for whenever I need to script a demo i.e. for my website, and it's given me some handy integration tests to run in the pipeline too!

Accidentally doomscrolled my phone to 0% battery 😬 guess that's a good indication it's bed time 🙃

To anyone following me on Twitter, with the Twitter API dying imminently, you'll no longer be seeing posts or interactions from me. In some cases I may manually post replies, but expect my account to be read-only going forwards. You can find me on the Fediverse at @www.jvt.me which has a richer set of posts from my site's feed, too 👋🏽

Made some changes to the dependency-management-data landing page to hopefully make it a bit better in explaining what it's for, as well as including autogenerated docs from Cobra so you can read the command's docs and capabilities without needing to download it!

Yesterday's episode of #TheMandalorian was another reminder I really need to rewatch #TheExpanse 👀

I'm fortunately not being made redundant today by Deliveroo Engineering but I know a lot of wonderful colleagues who have been 😢💜

🎶 You could take this one change, don't let me drown 🎶

Just over 49 hours until all of us affected by Deliveroo Engineering redundancies find out 😬🫠

It's my #birthday! (visit my site for a surprise 🥳)

To practice some self indulgence, I'd love to hear some compliments and/or contributions to support my ongoing work blogging and Open Source'ing 🤓

And while I've got your attention:

• support the people who blog and build Open Source you use, and get your company to support the projects they rely on
• build a website
• join a union

I wish more APIs had an endpoint to get a whoami style response to work out if a) the credentials work and b) who they're for.

When you find a thing and want to check it's still active it's super handy, although I do appreciate that some platforms probably don't add that so you can't check if creds are active as easily

Don't know what the cause of it is but every time I see he or she instead of they I get unnecessarily annoyed. Like, just use the third person word that's more inclusive too 😠