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Jerod and Adam use Chris Kiehl's post on development topics he's changed his mind on (over the last 10 years) as a proxy for discussion on dev things they HAVE and HAVE NOT changed their minds on.
Jerod and Adam use Chris Kiehl's post on development topics he's changed his mind on (over the last 10 years) as a proxy for discussion on dev things they HAVE and HAVE NOT changed their minds on.
Week Notes 25#08 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-02-24?
Folks may be interested to see that I've now got an RSS feed for my salary page, which is also on the Fediverse via @www.jvt.me.salary in case y'all wanna know when there are any updates to it 👀
Creating single-purpose RSS feeds with Hugo (2 mins read).
How to create a new RSS feed in Hugo for a single page's updates.
For the past year, David Crawshaw has intentionally sought ways to use LLMs while programming, in order to learn about them. He now regularly use LLMs while working and considers their benefits a net-positive on his productivity. David wrote down his experience, which we found both practical and insightful. Hopefully y...
Heather Meeker joined the show to talk about open source licensing, why open source licenses are historically significant, how much developers really need to know, and how much developers think they know. We also talk about mixing commercial and open source licenses, and how lawyers keep up with an ever-changing landsc...
Creating a test harness for validating Renovate Custom Datasource configuration (4 mins read).
How to set up a test harness to make it eaiser to modify scary looking JSONata transformations in your Renovate configuration.
Jessie Frazelle joins us this week to talk about being an open source maintainer, Docker's pull request acceptance workflow, dotfiles, getting started with public speaking.
As I sit home with a terrible cold, I can’t help but be pissed that we decided as a society that we’re just cool with getting sick. We applied technology to water-borne and food-borne illness, and you generally don’t get sick that way anymore. But airborne? Nah, let’s keep getting sick.
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🛡️ Security pre-release announcements, update on Monday, Feb 24golang.org/x/oauth2golang.org/x/cryptoBlog: State of the startup and scaleup hiring markets by Gergely Orosz – as seen by recruiters (Partial paywall)Blog: Testing concurrent code with testing/synctest by Damien NeilProposals🤝 Likely...
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What's a terminal? Why is it being emulated? On this week's episode, Matt and Kris are joined by Mitchell Hashimoto to discuss his newest project Ghostty, the Zig programming language, thoughts and...
Week Notes 25#07 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-02-17?
In this episode, Open Source Security chats with Aaron Frost, CEO of Hero Devs about the world of maintaining end-of-life open source software. Aaron explains how EOL versions of open source work and how backporting security fixes can help maintaining compliance. In the discussion we cover the "just upgrade" mentality, how backporting works, why it's hard, and why it matters. We also cover some oddities the world of CVE brings to the discussion. The blog post for this episode can be found at
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Product requirements for a "fund your dependency tree" service (12 mins read).
Thinking about what functionality I would want as a funder, or a fundee, for a "fund your dependency tree" service.
They should invent a job that doesn’t burn you out