Kind photos

A Thursday night pizza at Working Man's Kitchen is always great - good food, seeing friends, and having a nice beer at Neon Raptor - but tonight was extra special, as I got to share some ceremonial Sake with Paddy in honour of my birthday + I got to sign the bottle, as is tradition 🥂

#Cookie is not particularly happy she's now wearing the donut of shame (not pictured) but she's been very brave this morning at the vets after hurting her dew claw and needing to have it removed

Why, yes I am having to spend my Sunday morning looking into reducing the impact of bot scraping on my website after a significantly large AWS bill, why do you ask?

A couple of weeks ago I was at the Manchester Gophers, giving them a sneak peek of my tutorial I'm doing on Friday at #GopherConUK, and I had a blast - was a great time with some great people, and always a fan of sharing more about #DependencyManagementData

Their post has some other great photos, but I think if you really want a convince to go and speak - if the great people isn't enough - you also get an amazing speaker gift - a custom made Gopher!

Absolutely love this new "make art, not billionaires" sticker, thanks very much @andypiper 💜

Got a super cool LEGO set, Tranquil Garden, for Christmas this year, which in of itself is an absolutely gorgeous set but then on top of that, also got a lighting set which makes it much more magical

I'm very excited to announce that I'll be speaking at #StateOfOpenCon in February!

I'll be giving a new talk, I inherited this project, and all I got was all these angry users, in particular talking about my experience with maintaining oapi-codegen and some insights into what it's like on the other side of the "why won't you merge this PR" and countless "any update??" comments 😅

I'd also like to say a bit thanks to @openuk for the honour of kicking off the day at the Software and Security track 🤓

Hope to see some of you there - tickets are now available!

#soocon25 #OpenUK

Alas, #SpotifyWrapped is out and is interesting! Did not expect Grafix as my top listen, but given the top songs of 2024 for me, it makes sense!

I'll be more interested to see what happens when I get my Spotify data dump at the end of the year and dig into it as I usually do, and I'm looking at tweaking some of the breakdown to possibly graph my listens / top artists month-by-month

The NotebookLM AI summary of my Wrapped data was a bit uncanny 🤔

This is fun - it looks like I've had an #LLM / #AI tool hallucinate a blog post on my site 🤔

Why yes, on Wednesday I was presenting a very high-profile meeting at work  - why do you ask?

(Sorry that FitBit doesn't make it easier to export a graph more nicely)

Why yes, #DependencyManagementData now has stickers 👀

I'm very excited to be speaking at DTX London next week, at DevOps Exchange's talks takeover.\n\nI'll be talking about Quantifying your reliance on Open Source software and how you can use dependency-management-data to gain some really interesting insights into your dependency data.\n\nHope some of y'all can join me there

So I guess #Mcdonalds is going to be bringing the McRib back in October, based on this test notification? 👀

Got myself a very cute and cool Gopher plushie at #GopherConUK today, and been having an interesting day so far 🤓

So we got a new TV, but naturally I didn't end up measuring the TV and the TV stand quite as closely as you would have expected 🫣

Very excited to see that the videos from #StateOfOpenCon #SOOCon24 are up - so if you missed my talk Quantifying Your Reliance on Open Source Software with #DependencyManagementData, you can find the recording on YouTube.

If you're interested, also check out the slides and the full talk writeup.

Why yes, yes I am wearing a custom #DependencyManagementData t-shirt to #StateOfOpenCon #SOOCon24 🤓 big thanks to Carol Gilabert for making it 🚀

Got some excellent swag recently from Tidelift for becoming a Tidelift Lifter last year 🙌 Love some high-quality swag, and 100% agree we should be supporting #OpenSource maintainers!

I was pretty chuffed with adding these Slack notifications (via Goreleaser and go-semantic-release) for releases to #DependencyManagementData which flag when there are breaking changes in the release! Makes it much easier to see at a glance, especially as there's a lot of changes going into it 🤓

Absolutely gorgeous #sunset in #Nottingham this evening 😻

I'm very excited to announce that I'm going to speaking at the #OpenUK State of Open Con 2024 conference in February 🙌

There's an incredible line-up and I'm very proud to be one of the talks chosen - from the submissions to the Open Source Software and Open Source tracks that I was helping review, there was some incredible submissions and speakers, so it's very cool to have made it to the line-up!

I'll be speaking about dependency-management-data, but for those that have seen me speak about it before, there's a tonne of new stuff since my last talks, and I've got some new stuff that'll be dropping into the project + the talk before the talk in February 👀

#StateOfOpenCon #SOOCon24

The #OpenUK State of Open Con 2024 Call for Papers has been extended until midnight on Sunday 3rd December - so if like me you thrive under the time pressure, you've got a chance now to get a last submission in 👀

We've so far had 120 submissions across all the conference tracks, and I'm very eager to see what exciting things we've got!

https://stateofopencon.com/cfp/#CallForPapers #StateOfOpenCon #SOOCon24

I'm super excited to be part of the Open Source and Open Source Software Track Call for Papers (CFP) committee at #OpenUK's second State of Open Conference 🚀

It's my first time getting involved in the CFP process and I've got some great folks to learn from on the committee, and I'm very much looking forward to seeing what awesome sessions y'all have to share.

You've only got till Friday to submit a session, so best get sending them to https://stateofopencon.com/cfp/ 👀

#CallForPapers #StateOfOpenCon #SOOCon24

Had a great time doing an Ignite talk at #DevOpsDays London today about dependency-management-data - come say hey, there's so much more to it than I could squeeze into 5 minutes!

I've got a good getting started guide and a long-form post if you want a bit more depth

Very excited to be speaking at #TechMids2023 on October 20th about 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 using dependency-management-data 🎉

Well I've definitely just used up all the luck I could've had in #ApexLegends 😅

#Cookie is making it hard to finish my Week Notes 😅

Thanks everyone who came to my talk at DevOps Notts tonight.

The resources I linked at the end of the talk are:

• Talk writeup
• Getting started guide
• The project landing page + associated docs
• Talk slides

Got my new starter swag to kick off my #LifeAtElastic, and I think a lot can be said about a company but the luxurious feel and quantity of their swag 👏🏽

Excited for #LeadDevLondon to be kicking off 🤓

Yesterday #Cookie had her first trip to vote with Anna Dodson and I 🥰

#Cookie had her first grooming session at Otis and Chums this week and she looks super cute, and we found some markings under her fur that we'd never seen before 🙀

Got some Doughnotts from my team at Deliveroo Engineering today 😋 #Cookie seems interested in them too 👀

Every time we drive past this shop - the Arnold Hearing Specialists - I chuckle to myself, thinking that it's capitalised as if it's being shouted at to someone who's hard of hearing 😅

Great stuff Google, you're gonna take over the world with this smart tech

So Anna Dodson and I got Oodies and wow was it a great decision. Just put it on and absolutely roasting, and looking fabulous while I'm at it 💃

After a day of fully embracing "become ungovernable", #Cookie is now chill and fast asleep in front of the fire 😻

I think #Cookie got the memo that it was Halloween a day too late, despite her doing well to embody "possessed"

I have a feeling that #Morph wants something, but I can't quite put my finger on it 🤔

It's #Cookie's first birthday 🥺

#Morph is being a little man this morning and sitting at his place at the table

Well Anna Dodson and I look pretty cute 🥰

Had a great time in the week at Immersive Gamebox with my #Deliveroo colleagues, playing their new #SquidGames immersive game! Definitely helped that failure wasn't fatal 😅 We managed to score pretty well, too

Can someone at McDonald's please fix their Android push notifications? I always get an empty notification as well as the normal one, and it's been happening for best part of 6 months

#Morph has decided that since Cookie is at daycare today, he'd join me for standup 😻

If you wonder what it's like waking up with a puppy, here's #Cookie yesterday slightly chewing on my pillow in an act to get me to get up cause she was bored

Neither Anna Dodson nor I can work out why #Morph loves roasting so much, but here he is, chilling in the conservatory in a box in his tower

Bit toasty today, innit

Despite the grainy quality of the camera, you can see #Cookie is trying her best to sleep her way through the heat 🥵

It's #Morph's 11th birthday today 🥹 so Anna Dodson and I thought it'd be cute to have a matching Zeedog collar with #Cookie 😻