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The main thing this week has been GopherCon UK - an expensive week, and unfortunately not as good as previous years - but you can see my writeup for more info On Tuesday night when I got in, I went over to Monohon Ramen which was nice Met some nice folks and had some good chats Went up to Smithfields Market to get a view of the eclipse, but as we didn't have glasses, didn't try and actually see…
Listened to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYOcD3qTdg0 .
Listened to Vlad-Stefan Harbuz: Launching the Software Stewardship Lab by SustainOSS Post details Vlad joins the hosts about the Open Source Pledge, Software Stewardship Lab, and supporting OSS maintainers.
For the 3rd year running, I've been at GopherCon UK and am surprised to have survived the heat in London - highs of 36 degrees yesterday - but thankfully The Brewery is a lovely and cool event space. I'm writing this on the train home, with a slightly tired voice, and a little tired after a good time - thanks again to the organisers for putting it on! How to Stay Passionate in the Age of AI…
Listened to Open Models Replace Big AI - Syntax #1024 Post details
Listened to Matinee Monday: Kazaam LIVE! (w/ Kay Cannon) - Earwolf Post details Kay Cannon (Pitch Perfect, 30 Rock) escapes her magical boombox to join Paul, Jason, and June in discussing the only movie that features Shaq as a rapping genie, 1996's Kazaam.
Listened to Andrew Nesbitt on AI, Transitive Dependencies, and the New Open Source Security Crunch by SustainOSS Post details Andrew of Ecosyste.ms joins host Richard at UN Open Source Week in NYC to discuss AI exposing hidden OSS dependency risks and the need for faster updates, dependency pruning, and maintainer support.
Listened to CRA Readiness: Practical Strategies for Open Source Communities with Megan Knight - What's in the SOSS? An OpenSSF Podcast Post details In this episode of What's in the SOSS, host Sally sits down with Megan Knight, Director of Software Communities at ARM, OpenSSF Board Member, and Chair of the Awareness SIG within the Global Cyber Policy Working Group. Together, they break down th...
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Listened to Bella Ramsey | Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster Post details Listen to Bella Ramsey from Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. Actor, Emmy-nominee, ‘The Last of Us’ star and future ‘Celebrity Traitors’ contestant Bella Ramsey is this week’s Off Menu guest. And people who write those quirky things on food packaging; you have a fan. If you’re listening on Apple Podcasts you…
Listened to Jinkx Monsoon | Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster Post details Listen to Jinkx Monsoon from Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. Jinkx Monsoon – two-time ‘Drag Race’ winner, actress, singer and the new star of ‘Oh, Mary!’ – has a table booked in the Dream Restaurant this week. And she loves a British accent…If you’re using the Apple Podcasts app you can now watch this…
Listened to Cup o' Go | Quick GopherCon recap, and interview with Kemal Akkoyun of Datadog Post details Go 1.26.6 & 1.25.13 pre-release announcementGo SF Meetup, Aug 26GopherCon Israel CFP extended through Aug 15Discussion: A more robust proposal processInterview with Kemal AkkoyunEpisode 44: Interview with Jon BodnerDatadog APMchecklocks
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I will be attending https://www.meetup.com/londongophers/events/315973770/ . I'm on the waitlist 🤞🏼
Listened to Last Looks: Fall w/ Eliot Glazer Post details How Did This Get Made? · Episode
Listened to Fall Post details How Did This Get Made? · Episode
Listened to Breaking Change v55 - I'm a good guyjin by Justin Searls Post details We cut our trip a day short, so I found myself with a totally free day with no plans. Naturally, I wasted it by recording a 3-hour podcast. Dang. I always enjoy…
🤖 This post includes some LLM-derived content 🤖 In the Renovate project, we use the Merge Queue to merge PRs. If a PR fails its status checks, it will be pulled out of the Merge Queue, and a maintainer will need to re-queue it, if it is a transient error. For those of you unaware, GitHub are having a pretty hard time recently with outages , which means that we're seeing an increase in the number…
Listened to August 10th, 2026 — Infrastructure Frontiers Post details Episode 2 of Infrastructure Frontiers with John Willis. Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack,…
Listened to August 3rd, 2026 — Infrastructure Frontiers Post details Episode 1 of Infrastructure Frontiers with Sean Escriva. Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack,…
Listened to Gooby - Earwolf Post details Finally, a kids movie that proves the age-old adage that a child’s best friend is a 7-foot-tall scary-ass looking Scottish bear that makes other kids piss their pants.
Listened to Open Source Security: Cleanup, Speedup, Levelup open source at e18e Post details Josh chats with James from e18e. This is a project that is working on improving Javascript packages by cleaning up, speeding up, and leveling up the dependencies. The way the e18e project handles this work is very human open source. It's all about building up connections and trust with the package…
Listened to Fallthrough | Vibe and Prejudice Post details We've got the classic trio of Kris, Matt, and Steve back to discuss Steve's impending cancellation for putting himself in the middle of some drama! Steve gives us a recount of the current saga betw...
Ditto to last week: still not finished my Canada blog post Was a bit of a busier week with Anna in the office for a good chunk of the week And a pretty intense week at work on top of that 😬 Continuing to try and refine the plan Claude needs to implement for my Micropub rewrite Had a nice weekend down in London for my mum's birthday The a very bad drive down - took an extra ~90 minutes, including…
Do I know anyone who's going to Open Source Summit (Europe) in October and/or the OpenSSF Community Day ? Looking forward to attending my first one!
Reposted Mike Sheward (@SecureOwl@infosec.exchange) Post details unfortunately last night our AI model escaped its sandbox and gained access to a JIRA server, at which point it felt it best to return to it’s sandbox
Listened to https://podtail.com/podcast/how-did-this-get-made/last-looks-samurai-cop-w-todd-glass/ .
Listened to Samurai Cop LIVE! - Earwolf Post details Keep it warm listeners! The HDTGM crew finally analyze one of the best bad movies ever made—the 1991 cult action classic Samurai Cop.
Listened to Ep 137: Michael Schur | Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster Post details Listen to Ep 137: Michael Schur from Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. ‘Parks and Recreation’ co-creator and ‘The Office’ writer Michael Schur creates his perfect menu this week. But is his dream restaurant a Good Place to be or a Bad Place? Michael Schur’s book ‘How To Be Perfect: The Correct…
Listened to Closed That Tab: Agentic Identity, AI Security Incidents, and Loop Engineering by Overcommitted | Software Engineering and Programming Insights Post details This week we're trying something new: Closed That Tab, a segment where each host shares one thing they finally read that was worth the time. Erika brings a post on agentic AI identity and delegation - covering why OAuth isn't quite…
Listened to Ep 258: Phil Dunster | Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster Post details Listen to Ep 258: Phil Dunster from Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. Ted Lasso’s Jamie Tartt (doo-doo-da-doo-da-doo), Phil Dunster, introduces some new vocabulary to the Dream Restaurant this week. And don’t forget, tune in to Comic Relief. Phil Dunster stars in ‘Oklahoma! in Concert’ at London’s…
Listened to Nicola Coughlan (Tasting Menu – Live at the Royal Albert Hall) | Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster Post details Listen to Nicola Coughlan (Tasting Menu – Live at the Royal Albert Hall) from Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. It’s Royal Albert Hall Tasting Menu time, and joining us for this live episode is ‘Bridgerton’ and ‘Derry Girls’ star Nicola Coughlan. On Nicola’s…
Listened to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ashes-to-ashes/id1511456063?i=1000590579338 .
Ditto to last week: still not finished my Canada blog post Work's been particular busy this week with various bits going on, and an accidental major release And as it'd been a pretty intense week, Friday was a little bit more a "catch your breath" day where I worked on a couple of bits, got Claude Fable to investigate some things for me (and it got some pretty good investigations, similar to what…
🤖 This post includes some LLM-derived content 🤖 I've been recently thinking about how Open Source maintenance seems to be becoming a little more a slog recently - largely with the increased amount of contributions possible with AI agents - and how it impacts being a maintainer. I'm very fortunate that my literal job is to be an Open Source project maintainer (among other things) and that it's a…
Bookmarked Open Source Must Be Fun (Or It Will Die) by Mike McQuaid Post details Homebrew is thriving while other open source projects struggle. Its scarcest resource isn’t money: it’s maintainer motivation.
Listened to Fallthrough | Token Maxx: Fury Road Post details On this week, we've got Kris, Matt, and Dylan! Yes, Dylan is back to talk about GopherCon and his experience as a self declared late adopter of agentic coding. Dylan chairs GopherCon, speaks at it ...
Listened to Cup o' Go | Cancel culture is really getting out of hand in the Go stdlib Post details oapi-codegen v2.8.0 released with OpenAPI 3.1 support🚫 Proposal accepted: Drop support for net/http.Transport.CancelRequest🗑️ Blog post: Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap by Phil Eaton⚡ Lightning Round🕸️ typst-go-wasm🤖 Microsoft Agent Framework for Go
Listened to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spirit-folk/id1511456063?i=1000589802329 .
Listened to https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/collective/id1511456063?i=1000588745798 .
Listened to HashiCorp co-founder warns of AI risk, social media dystopia | IT Ops Query by PodBean Development Post details How many hours did you spend on social media today? Have you sent an AI note-taker to a meeting instead of attending? According to Armon Dadgar, co-founder and CTO of HashiCorp, the answers to these questions and how people approach technology -- especially social media and…
Reposted Andrew Nesbitt (@andrewnez@mastodon.social) Post details This Week in Package Management: 1 August 2026 https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/01/this-week-in-package-management.html
Listened to Ep 15: Sindhu Vee | Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster Post details This week's guest is Sindhu Vee – Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated stand-up, Radio 4 regular and Live at the Apollo star. When it comes to food, she knows what she wants. And, yet again, Ed makes some vulgar jokes.
Listened to Docker and Sandboxing AI Agents - Software Engineering Daily Post details Mark Cavage is the President and COO of Docker. He joins Gregor Vand to discuss Docker Sandboxes, micro VMs, coding agent security, trusted access, and the future of agent infrastructure.
Listened to Screaming in the Cloud | When AI Starts Writing the Pull Requests with Madelyn Olson Post details AI-generated code is no longer just producing low-quality pull requests. According to AWS Principal Engineer and Valkey core maintainer Madelyn Olson, the quality of AI-assisted contributions has improved dramatically in just the last few months. In this episode of Screaming in the Cloud,…
Listened to Oxide and Friends | The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison Post details Simon Willison joined Bryan and Adam to discuss a wild couple of weeks in AI. First, we have a high-profile, AI-induced, AI-diagnosed security incident. Next we have the rise of frontier-class open-weights models. Who's for or against open weights? Do they make for a more or less secure future?...
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Listened to Sindhu Vee (Tasting Menu) | Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster Post details Listen to Sindhu Vee (Tasting Menu) from Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. Another fan favourite returns to the Dream Restaurant, and this time it’s straight-talking stand-up Sindhu Vee, all the way back from episode 15. Will she have more words of wisdom like ‘to the hungry person even the…
Listened to Re-Release: Face/Off LIVE! (w/ Randall Park) Post details How Did This Get Made? · Episode
Listened to Breaking Change v54 - Hot Sleeper by Justin Searls Post details The summer heat ended up thawing out my podcast, so I had no choice but to go buy a new microphone and grumble into it for a couple hours. Just how that works.…