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Had a great time chatting w Jeff Atwood about tech blogging! We knew he was a legendary blogger, but turns out he's a genuine super-nice guy too. https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/jeff-atwood-on-technical-blogging
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Had a great time chatting w Jeff Atwood about tech blogging! We knew he was a legendary blogger, but turns out he's a genuine super-nice guy too. https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/jeff-atwood-on-technical-blogging
๐ก๏ธ Security releasesGo 1.23.6 & 1.22.12 releasedGo 1.24rc3 releasedProposal accepted: cmd/fix: automate migrations for simple deprecationsโ๏ธโ๐ฅ Go Supply Chain Attack: Malicious Package Exploits Go Module Proxy Caching for Persistence๐๐พGhettoize Hook๐๐พInterview with Thorsten...

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Sharpie rainbowed American Flag Velcro patch as a an act of rebellion... ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐บ๐ธ
Later this week, I'm going to see a lot of people I care deeply about and a lot of people who have the connections and resources to make a huge difference for the Matrix.org Foundation, the nonprofit I lead. For that, I am genuinely excited. Unfortunately, my excitement is

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Go's steady cycle of releasing new versions every six months continues. On this episode, our "What's new in Go?" correspondent (a carry over from Go Time) joins special guest host Johnny Boursiquot to talk about the new features and changes coming in Go 1.24. As always, we've got some great...

So many billionaires so few guillotines
Exploring how static site generation and the small web movement represent acts of digital sovereignty. Why reviving old blogs and embracing simple HTML matters in an era of platform control.

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A helpful article on checking your permissions for a GitHub repo via the API: https://www.jvt.me/posts/2025/01/02/what-access-github/
https://www.jvt.me/posts/2025/01/27/go-tools-124/ Super happy to see this headline :D
BATCH BUNCH #0002 is complete. A productive session comes to a close including serious bug hunting, tasty coffee drinking, and creative talk writing! See you next time? bonus spoilers: BB collectible item(s)/swag is also in the works. stay tuned. ๐ฑ๏ธโจ๏ธ๐๐โ๏ธ
photo credits to @computerist.bsky.social! + sending healing vibes to BB co-organiser @www.jvt.me.web.brid.gy who's been battling a cold and wasn't able to make it ๐ค
I inherited this project, and all I got was all these angry users - #opensource @www.jvt.me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK8CMcePn2A
I inherited this project, and all I got was all these angry users - #opensource @www.jvt.me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK8CMcePn2A
Very exited to see that my talk, "I inherited this project, and all I got was all these angry users" from #StateOfOpenCon is now live - thanks for the super speedy publishing, OpenUK!
I was honoured to kick off the Open Source Software & Security Track with a keynote about my experiences being an Open Source maintainer, and digging into the factors that make maintaining oapi-codegen difficult, and on top of that my own personal experiences which lead to difficulties in maintaining Open Source, especially when it's used actively by companies.
There were some great discussions about the maintainer burnout problem over the conference, and I had some great chats with folks in the "hallway track".
I'll be finishing my write-up of the conference in the next week (๐ค๐ผ) but am very excited to see the talks are already up on YouTube, so I can catch up on talks I missed, too
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100% one of the best soundtracks of all time, and a number of the songs are on my regular wider rotation
๐ถ Itโs a TRON: Legacy soundtrack kinda day.(https://gregorlove.com/2025/02/its-a-tron-legacy/)
Getting All Comments From a Given User on a GitHub Discussion, by @www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me: https://www.jvt.me/posts/2025/01/08/github-discussion-comments/
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where's the EO that we've all gotta rename our github branches back from `main` to `master`?
has anyone else's Release Radar gotten noticeably worse lately?? more artists i don't follow at the expense of ones i like, updating kind of randomly instead of fridays...
If I were to create a tool or anything related to containerization of software, I'd call it Tupper.
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Attached: 1 image These stickers I made went to #FOSDEM with the generous help of @andypiper@macaw.social Here's the link to download the file if you'd like to make your own stickers, put it on your site, etc. https://theindiebeat.fm/make-art-not-billionaires/ #makeartnotbillionaires #nobillionaires @www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me

This video of mine from five years ago is aging depressingly well --- and it leaves me at once bitterly disappointed and steadfastly resolved https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px9OjW7GB0Q
If dachshunds were wide
@www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me Thank you for the kind words! When Iโm at my keyboard Iโll share a link to the artwork so folks can print their own stickers, use on social, do whatever they like ๐
Oof yeah, that's a difficult one - it's not always "easy" to fix something without something else breaking, or breaking someone's workflow
@www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me Loved the talk, some of the example comments sounded very familiar! I think my worst/best tired maintainer story was dealing with a user who was very insistent I urgently fixed a minor CVE introduced by a depdencency, with a suggested fix that would have introduced a bigger problem (segfault in extremely specific conditions vs timestamps suddenly changing timezone).
Sorry yes you had mentioned you were the carrier, I couldn't remember who it was you said they were from - thanks very much @mizkirsten ๐
@www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me I am just the carrier, @mizkirsten@mastodon.social is the person to thank! ๐๐ป
Absolutely love this new "make art, not billionaires" sticker, thanks very much @andypiper ๐

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Attached: 1 image I'll be on the "Maintaining Open Source Software" panel next week at State Of Open Con :) https://stateofopencon.com/ #stateofopencon #soocon25

Attached: 1 image Spending today and tomorrow at #SooCon , looking forward to the talks and the chats and the people!

Thanks to those of you who were able to find the Hardwick Hub at #StateOfOpenCon and came to my talk, "I inherited this project, and all I got was all these angry users" - slides can be found ๐๐ผ or in PDF form on Sched #soocon25 - would be happy to hear some tired maintainer stories from y'all too!
Weโre starting back up hiring at incident.io and itโs made me think about why I joined, and why Iโm still here just (if not more) as excited as day one.