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Hi, I'm Jamie Tanna (he/him/his), and I'm currently a Senior Software Engineer at Elastic.
I currently live in Nottingham with my partner Anna Dodson and our cat Morph and our puppy Cookie.
I use my site as a method of blogging about my learnings, as well as sharing information about projects I have previously, or are currently, working on in my spare time.
I'm an maintainer for a number of Open Source projects, including oapi-codegen, and my most recent passion project, dependency-management-data (DMD).
I'm a GNU/Linux user, a big advocate for the Free Software Movement, and the IndieWeb movement and I try to self host my own services where possible, instead of relying on other providers.
I have ADHD (Inattentive Type) and am learning how to make my life work better around it.
Drop me an email at hi@jamietanna.co.uk, or using any of the other social links below.
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Andrew Atkinson joins Autumn & Justin to tell them why folks should (and are) picking PostgreSQL as their database in 2024 and how to scale it.
Things I teach my kids: ā¢ āNoā is a complete sentence. ā¢ If youāre not having a good time you can leave. ā¢ Never make yourself smaller just to make other people more comfortable. ā¢ Itās okay not to be okay. ā¢ Donāt take criticism from someone you wouldnāt take advice from. ā¢ Other peopleās opinions of you are none of your business. ā¢ Speak as kindly to yourself as you would speak to others. ā¢ Be your own greatest cheerleader, always. Itās never too late to learn these things. #SelfCare
Alex Kretzschmar joins Adam to discuss their experiences with building the āperfect media serverā and all the hardware and software involved to make it happen ā LinuxServer.io, PerfectMediaServer.com, Plex, Jellyfin, ZFS, mergerfs, TrueNAS, Docker Compose and so much more in this episode.
After watching execs talk about the #GoogleLayoffs, all I can really say is this: If you are in tech you need a strong union. If you are in tech you need a strong union. If you are in tech you need a strong #union. After seeing what happened at #twitter, after seeing yet another round of nonsense layoffs across so many good people at so many companies, we need unions and we need them yesterday. If you are in a union already, build strength. We are going to need it. #AWU #CodeCWA #CWA
We need unions. And we also need employee-owned collectives that reject eternal growth, increased production, and shareholder profit as the goals of our labor. The infinite growth model is destroying our world. We can build alternatives.
Upcoming conferencesšÆšµ June 8: Go Conference 2024 @ Tokyo, Japanš©šŖ June 17-20: GopherCon EU @ Berlin, Germanyš³š± June 19-21: DevOps Days @ Amsterdam, Netherlandsš·šŗ June 24-25: Golang Conf 2024 @ St. Petersburg, RussiaProposalsš Accepted: go telemetry subcommandPrevious discussion on Episode 62ā...
Emily Fox has held multiple roles at household-name organizations in her 13-year IT career and is currently senior principal software engineer at Red Hat. Previously, she worked as an engineer at Apple, and DevOps Security Lead at the National Security Agency. She also serves as chair of the CNCF's technical oversight committee and is involved in a variety of open source communities and activities. From her unique vantage point, she addresses the delicate balance the CNCF must strike between enterprises, open source maintainers and open product companies; growing awareness about open source sustainability issues; and how all of that feeds into a general "crisis of conscience" going on in cybersecurity.
So one of my first conference trips after focusing my research on software teams, I'd worked really hard & shared innovative science in a talk that was widely acclaimed. But what I remember most is I was crossing the street with a bunch of men in tech and a car pulled up on us really close to me and I jumped and they all laughed and mocked me for the next block and said it revealed my "real personality" Anyway that DID perfectly describe every day as a queer woman in tech 10/10 no notes
moore's law but it's the number of clowns in the clown car doubling every 18 months
The double-edged sword of my ADHD procrastination strikes again. Pro: I'm very good in a crisis. Con: I'm only good in a crisis.
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Our friend Ron Evans is a technologist for hire, an open source developer, an author, a speaker, an iconoclast, and one of our favorite people in tech. This conversation with Ron goes everywhere: from high-altitude weather balloons, to life on Mars, to Zenoās paradox applied to ML, to what open source devs should learn...
Attached: 1 image Presenting: Regexle, a wordle-like game for nerds š¤ Guess the secret regular expression by testing strings against it! @piko and I might be two years late with this project, but here we go! :yayblob: https://regexle.ithea.de :yayblob:
Tired: Closing issues with "won't fix" Wired: Closing issues with "THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED āAS ISā, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT."
Anyone working for BigCorp and have 15-27k they wanna use to sponsor an event in two weeks, to make it as accessible as it has been in previous years? To a sexy hunky luscious BigCorp like you, itās a forgettable line item and you probably spent 10x more on useless crap this year. Go on, give it to me. š¬ https://www.emfcamp.org/
This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Adam Jacob, founder and CEO of System Initiative and formerly the CTO and co-founder at Chef. We had a wide-ranging conversation that at times veered into the philosophical (what is the meaning for āstrategyā?) but also has plenty of...
Making it easier to schedule cross-timezones, with the tz
CLI (3 mins read).
Writing a command-line tool with Charm's Go libraries to compare the suitability of meetings across timezones.
Attached: 1 image Join the first OpenUK Digital Meetup celebrating GitHub's Maintainer Month on May 22nd (Wednesday) ā 12 to 1 PM. Hosts @lornajane of Redocly and @JamieTanna of Elastic will be joined by a number of project maintainers sharing their stories. Register for this free event: https://openuk.uk/event-calendar/openuk-online-1-maintainers-maintainers-maintainers/ #openuk #openukmeetup #maintainersmonth #opensource #community #opensourcemeetup
All of the health anxiety of early internet adopters traced back to WebMDās self diagnosis. Some sysadminās on-call nightmares came from a different part of the site.
On this weekās episode of Screaming in the Cloud, Corey Quinn sits down with the incredible Cody Odgen, software developer and creator of Killed by Google. Corey and Cody discuss Googleās graveyard of products, how discontinuing offerings creates a feeling of distrust amongst your customers, and...
In todayās episode, Jack discusses what it was like working in a sales team at Stack Overflow, selling to developers, and why you should think about sales in terms of champions.
Annie Sexton has been on quite a journey since she was last on the show back in early ā22. On this episode, Annie takes us on that journey, shares her new-found perspective & tells us about how sheās approaching her side project this time around.
Week Notes 24#19 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-05-06?
Susan dives into OTF's efforts in sustaining open-source tech in aiding internet freedom globally, navigating challenges with funds & a new FOSS Sustainability Fund.
Installing Google Cloud CLI components on Arch Linux (2 mins read).
How to install gcloud
components using pacman
, instead of using the officially supported method.
Go 1.22.3 & 1.22.10 releasedProposalsAccepted: add binary.Append functionLikely accept: new `go telemetry` subcommandLikely decline: Notify about new major versions of dependenciesPackt book bundleInterview with Jamie TannaBlog: Creating a more sustainable model for `oapi-codegen` in the...
Old friends Justin and Paul catch up for the first time in years and catch each other up on the state of Transistor and Fathom. They cover lots of lessons for new and veteran entrepreneurs, spanning their decades of experience in the world of indie software: cofounders, markets, surfing,...
and the good software development methodology is also laziness because i don't wanna deal with bug reports from broken releases
Want to take a vacation from open source maintenance? You should. Did you know that GitHub has a profile status feature to mark yourself as busy, mute notifications, and prompt folks who mention you that you're busy for a while? Before today the longest (optional) "automatically clear this status" preset was a week. Now the longest preset is a month. Because let's face it, a week is not always a long enough break from the demands of other people. #OpenSource #GitHub #OSS
Capitalism is an economic theory that posits that a relative handful of greedy fucks gorging themselves is how we provide adequate nutrition to the population at large.
I do wish I could tell recruiters that Iāll never apply to a company that reports record profits and also lays people off. Like why are we wasting each others time talking about corporate mottos and exciting projects? Your leadership treats people like disposable cups. Thatās all I need to know. #tech #layoffs
There is no war that can be fought with a trapped civilian population. That is not war. If you destroy all infrastructure, bomb the hospitals, ban all media, disrupt the food supply and corral the remaining population into a tiny area and then go after them. That is not war.
I know have separate Mastodon lists of bridged #BlueSky accounts I follow here (thanks @snarfed.org@snarfed.org), Flipboard accounts I follow here (thanks @mike@flipboard.social), federated WordPress blogs I follow here (thanks @matthias@pfefferle.org ), federated Podcast feeds I follow here (thanks @dave@podcastindex.social ) and Threads accounts I follow here (thanks @jessel@universeodon.com & @pcottle@cyberplace.social ) ... and that fact that we can do this at all, and now feels like the new normal, should be an Internet history milestone of some kind.
SREs, dev ops, and other on-call folks, I am literally begging you to unionize
I'm on Cup o' Go! (2 mins read).
Announcing my appearance on Cup o' Go, talking about oapi-codegen
, OpenAPI, working on Open Source and blogging.
New: OpenAIāa company that has indiscriminately scraped vast amounts of human knowledge to build a company valued at roughly $80 billionāhas made a copyright complaint against the ChatGPT subreddit because it used OpenAIās logo. https://www.404media.co/openai-files-copyright-claim-against-chatgpt-subreddit/
Attached: 1 image Yikes, bailing on the platform you funded because they are worried about safety is quite the stand. https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana
Like many other technologists, I gave my time and expertise for free to #StackOverflow because the content was licensed CC-BY-SA - meaning that it was a public good. It brought me joy to help people figure out why their #ASR code wasn't working, or assist with a #CUDA bug. Now that a deal has been struck with #OpenAI to scrape all the questions and answers in Stack Overflow, to train #GenerativeAI models, like #LLMs, without attribution to authors (as required under the CC-BY-SA license under which Stack Overflow content is licensed), to be sold back to us (the SA clause requires derivative works to be shared under the same license), I have issued a Data Deletion request to Stack Overflow to disassociate my username from my Stack Overflow username, and am closing my account, just like I did with Reddit, Inc. https://policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request/ The data I helped create is going to be bundled in an #LLM and sold back to me. In a single move, Stack Overflow has alienated its community - which is also its main source of competitive advantage, in exchange for token lucre. Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow's former instantiation, used to fulfill a psychological contract - help others out when you can, for the expectation that others may in turn assist you in the future. Now it's not an exchange, it's #enshittification. Programmers now join artists and copywriters, whose works have been snaffled up to create #GenAI solutions. The silver lining I see is that once OpenAI creates LLMs that generate code - like Microsoft has done with Copilot on GitHub - where will they go to get help with the bugs that the generative AI models introduce, particularly, given the recent GitClear report, of the "downward pressure on code quality" caused by these tools? While this is just one more example of #enshittification, it's also a salient lesson for #DevRel folks - if your community is your source of advantage, don't upset them.
I'm a "full stack developer", in that my stack is full and if you try to push any more tasks on me I'm gonna overflow it and start corrupting my own memory
nothing is apolitical. hope this helps
Devs: We've finally got the thing that's definitely not a Torment Nexus you and running. That's awesome! We're gonna make a ton of money from tormenting people. They keep asking for it for any reason. Devs: Speaking of money, I think I deserve a raise. Absolutely not? Did you even do any work? Also, this thing requires the power of a small country to do even a small amount of tormenting. It's costing us billions. We're gonna have to let you go.
Responsible Disclosure: Using GitHub Search (without logging in using SSO) still allows searching (4 mins read).
Reporting on a HackerOne responsible disclosure that I found in GitHub, where you could exfiltrate data without signing in to GitHub SSO.
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Will you help us build the Torment Nexus? Devs: What?! Absolutely not! What if we paid you $1 million a year? Devs: It's not about the money. My reputation is at stake! You could tell people you had no choice. Devs: I won't be responsible for building the Torment Nexus. It's evil! Oh... well you know it won't look like a Torment Nexus until much later. Right now it's just a cool toy that makes up answers to silly questions. Devs: Haha, this thing is cool. Wait, what were we talking about?
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