While at State of Open Con, I had a great evening out with Andy Williams, and one of the topics we discussed at length was Open Source software funding. Realising that I actually had a number of ideas around how to approach this - in particular from a product point of view - I thought it's worth wr…
Last week I was invited to join the wonderful Fallthrough podcast as a guest host, on a more time sensitive episode discussing the recent backdoor discovered in the Go module proxy, and the episode has just shipped, with a very good title! This was actually my second episode with Fallthrough, but t…
A slow start to the week, recovering from being flu-y, and a couple of podcasts: Monday off sick again, and feeling a lot better Did end up hacking up jvt.me.nvim (off the back of dmd.nvim) as a way to more easily autocomplete links to my posts (as I share them a lot!) Went back to work on Tues…
After publishing Go 1.24's go tool is one of the best additions to the ecosystem in years a couple of weeks ago, a few commenters pointed me to the other massive thing that was coming in the Go 1.24 release: the omitzero JSON struct tag, and I was pretty gutted to realise I'd missed it in the relea…
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