Thirteen backlogs in a trenchcoat: Analysing Renovate's many requests (24 mins read).
What we've found by investigating the different sources of work the Renovate project has, and how we're hoping to improve prioritisation going forwards.
by 
Jamie Tanna
(with some some LLM-derived content 🤖).
#renovate
#open-source
#ai
#llm
#product.
Creating a Typescript union, while also having runtime access to the values (1 mins read).
Creating a type and const for known constant values in Typescript.
Adding date-based pagination to my site (1 mins read).
Announcing support for date-based pagination on my site, and the end of very long paginated lists of content.
by Jamie Tanna
(with some some LLM-derived content 🤖).
#www.jvt.me
#hugo.
Lukewarm recommendations for improving AI agents' interactions with your projects (7 mins read).
A few small recommendations we've found with Renovate to improve how AI agents contribute to the codebase.
Being more explicit with the limited AI usage in my blog posts' content (2 mins read).
Adding more user-facing structured metadata for the ~0.2% of my posts that include any AI content.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#www.jvt.me
#ai
#ethics
#llm.
Writing to AWS S3 from Fly.io (in Go) (4 mins read).
How to use OpenID Connect to authenticate to AWS from Fly.io, without long-lived credentials in Go.
by Jamie Tanna
(with some some LLM-derived content 🤖).
#blogumentation
#go
#fly.io
#aws
#oidc.
Making an optional, required, status check with GitHub Actions (7 mins read).
Avoiding the dreaded Expected — Waiting for status to be reported when trying to make a status check optional.
Reattaching tmux to your Xorg session (2 mins read).
How to stop Can't open display: (null) errors blocking you interacting with Xorg in tmux, for instance after an X crash.
Adding Pushover notifications to Claude Code (2 mins read).
Writing a custom hook to convert a 'Claude is waiting for input' to a Pushover push notification.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#ai
#llm.
Logs as UX (12 mins read).
Looking at how logs being the main interface for understanding how tools work can be a blessing and a curse.
by Jamie Tanna
(with some some LLM-derived content 🤖).
#logs
#observability
#renovate.
Minifying JSON with jq (1 mins read).
How to take a pretty-printed JSON string and replace it with a minifed JSON string using jq.
Gotcha: GitHub Custom Properties are public (2 mins read).
A known documented, but maybe lesser known, fact about GitHub Custom Properties' values and descriptions being available to anyone with read access.
A DECADE of writing on this blog (4 mins read).
Celebrating another massive milestone in my blog, and a short reflection.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogging
#www.jvt.me.
Authoring Markdown externally and getting even 'prettier' output in Slack with md2slack (3 mins read).
Writing a tool, using Slack Block Kit, to write really pretty Slack messages, with syntax highlighting, tables and more.
by Jamie Tanna
(with some some LLM-derived content 🤖).
#blogumentation
#slack
#markdown.
Uploading a large OpenTelemetry trace to a local OTLP/HTTP traces receiver (1 mins read).
How to take a newline-delimited (.ndjson/.jsonl) file with OpenTelemetry traces inside of it, and ingest it into a local OTLP/HTTP traces receiver.
by Jamie Tanna
(with some some LLM-derived content 🤖).
#blogumentation
#opentelemetry
#command-line.
Getting a full-width PR review pane on GitHub temporary private forks (1 mins read).
How to improve your code review experience on a temporary private forks on GitHub, by making sure that the code is showed at the maximum page width.
Looking back at my first year as the Renovate Project Lead (21 mins read).
Reviewing some of the key highlights of my last year working as the Renovate Project Lead, and showing some stats about the project, its community and myself.
by Jamie Tanna
(with some some LLM-derived content 🤖).
#renovate
#open-source
#ai
#llm.
Updating apk add and apt install definitions in Dockerfiles with Renovate (3 mins read).
Sharing that Renovate 44.103.0 automagically parses apk add and apt install commands inside a Dockerfile.
Performing per-environment staged rollouts of dependency updates with Renovate (6 mins read).
How to gradually stage upgrades across environments (stored across multiple branches or on a single branch) with Renovate.
by Jamie Tanna
(with some some LLM-derived content 🤖).
#blogumentation
#renovate.
Exporting your chats from Claude.ai (1 mins read).
How to export the full chat history for a conversation on Claude.ai.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#ai
#llm.
Determining if your branch is part of a GitHub Stacked PR (2 mins read).
How to work out whether you're on a branch which is part of a Stacked PR, and what position you are in the stack.
by Jamie Tanna
(with some some LLM-derived content 🤖).
#blogumentation
#git
#github
#shell-scripting.
My new workflow for local code review with tuicr (5 mins read).
How I'm currently reviewing code from the terminal, using tuicr.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#command-line
#code-review.
Updating dependent branches when rebasing, automagically (2 mins read).
How to use git rebase --update-refs to update dependent branches when rebasing.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#git.
What commit did I branch off from? (1 mins read).
Using git merge-base to work out what commit a given branch was branched off from.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#git.
I'm on Fallthrough: A Modest Proposal Proposal (1 mins read).
Announcing my appearance as a co-host on Fallthrough, talking about the Go proposal proposal and many other things.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#podcast
#go.
Announcing some improvements to renovate-pretty-log-tui (2 mins read).
Shipping some large changes to my local tooling for interacting with Renovate debug logs.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#renovate.
Why I still hand write my commit messages (6 mins read).
Explaining why I still spend a lot of time writing my commit messages by hand.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#git.
GopherCon UK 2026 (15 mins read).
A writeup of the GopherCon UK 2026 conference.
Finding which PRs have been taken out of the Merge Queue due to failed status checks (2 mins read).
How to check which PRs were removed from the Merge Queue due to failed status checks, via the GraphQL API.
by Jamie Tanna
(with some some LLM-derived content 🤖).
#blogumentation
#github.
How much AI can a maintainer get away with using without losing their humanity? (8 mins read).
Thinking about the onslaught of AI-generated contributions, and if there is space for maintainers to "fight fire with fire".
by Jamie Tanna
(with some some LLM-derived content 🤖).
#ai
#llm
#open-source.
Merging the default branch into a PR, from the API (2 mins read).
How to use the GitHub API to merge main (or the default branch) into a given PR, from the API.
Reducing overly nested Vendir paths (1 mins read).
How to use newRootPath to reduce overly nested paths for HTTP files being synced with Vendir.
by Jamie Tanna
(with some some LLM-derived content 🤖).
#blogumentation.
Determining adoption of AI through Git commits (2 mins read).
How to determine the percentage of AI adoption, when attributing through Git commits.
by Jamie Tanna
(with some some LLM-derived content 🤖).
#blogumentation
#llm
#ai.
Is there space for 'craft' in the world of AI? (10 mins read).
Replying to a friend's pondering about whether being a 'craft engineer' is still possible in the world of AI.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#llm
#ai.
I'm on Fallthrough: He Who Controls the Source (1 mins read).
Announcing my appearance as a co-host on Fallthrough, talking about a mix of current affairs, including SHai-Hulud, the Open Source Resistance and more.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#podcast
#open-source.
Caveats around using Libyears (5 mins read).
Why taking the Libyear metric at face value can mislead you, and suggesting a new metric 'Tempered Libyears'.
I hate the recent open-source rise (3 mins read).
Why I'm worried about folks using the term open-source and some minimal research into why it's wrong.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#ai
#llm
#open-source.
Gotcha: Yarn may need an empty NPM_TOKEN set to run (1 mins read).
Why you may be seeing Failed to replace env in config: ${NPM_TOKEN} if you don't have an NPM_TOKEN set.
Configuring Renovate to only suggest updates that match your go directive (4 mins read).
How to make sure that Renovate's updates to Go modules keep you within the minor version of your go directive.
I'm on Fallthrough: No Country for Old Maintainers (1 mins read).
Announcing my appearance as a co-host on Fallthrough, talking about a mix of current affairs, including OAuth, maintainer burnout, of course some AI and more.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#podcast
#open-source
#renovate
#burnout
#llm.
A deep dive into the wild world of GitHub Actions' tagging formats (7 mins read).
Inside the ways that GitHub Actions' versioning works, and how we improved Renovate's support.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#github
#github-actions
#renovate.
I'm on Fallthrough: Supply Chain Reaction (1 mins read).
Announcing my appearance as a guest co-host on Fallthrough, talking about supply chain security, AI, Claude Mythos, and many more topics.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#podcast
#go
#renovate
#supply-chain-security
#llm.
Setting up Neovim with the Debug Adapter Protocol for Javascript/Typescript (2 mins read).
How to use Neovim, nvim-dap, Mason and js-debug-adapter to add debugging capabilities for a Javascript/Typescript application.
How to build a git diff driver (3 mins read).
How to write an external tool for git diff to delegate complex diffs to.
Using oasdiff for rich Git diffs of OpenAPI spec changes (2 mins read).
How to configure git diff to use oasdiff's rich changelog on changes to OpenAPI specs.
Pointing lazy.nvim to a Pull Request (1 mins read).
How to configure lazy.nvim to reference a Pull Request for a given plugin.
My workflow for testing Renovate config changes (2026 edition) (11 mins read).
A runthrough of my process for testing more complex Renovate config changes where I want confidence up-front.
Does my site's analytics change how I write? (4 mins read).
Reflecting on whether how my blog is read impacts what I write.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#www.jvt.me
#blogging.
Automagically updating oapi-codegen JSON Schema version bumps with Renovate (1 mins read).
How to use Renovate to update the version pin on oapi-codegen's JSON Schema URL.
How I'm using Local Large Language Models (7 mins read).
Insight into my (low) usage of local LLMs on my personal desktop and work Mac.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#llm
#ai
#ollama.
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