john mcbride

Anyone who's built a substantial Go project that incorporates C code (like sqlite) knows that cross compiling with CGO can be very painful.

Last week, we released tapes, a new open source agentic telemetry tool for understanding the "what", "why", and "how" of your AI agents.

"There is no secure AI enclave, Neo."

Recently, OpenCode, a very popular open source AI coding agent, was hit with a massive CVE which allowed for arbitrary remote code execution (RCE).

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The Cambrian explosion was a period of time before human civilisation, before dinosaurs, before most of what we know as "life" today.

And just like sushi, the range of quality is incredibly wide.

noun<br> abrv: DDD, ddd do·pa·mine dri·ven de·vel·op·ment | ˈdō-pə-mən ˈdri-vən di-ˈve-ləp-mənt<br> DDD* | ˌdē-ˌdē-ˈdē 1 : The circular practice of using AI agentic coding tools with near zero human input or feedback.

This year is going to be big for AI.

On November 1st, 2024, OpenSauced leadership announced that the company would be joining The Linux Foundation.

So long tech Xitter!

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It's universally agreed that eating a lot of junk food and candy over your lifetime will lead to all sorts of problems: diabetes, increased cancer risk, obesity, heart problems, digestive issues, etc.

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Astro is a fast & dynamic web framework designed to be flexible enough for small static websites, blogs, big interactive apps, and more.

Earlier this week, I had a file of names, each delimited by a newline: john jack jill But really, I needed this file to be in the form: { "full_name": "name" }, This file wasn't absolutely huge, but it was big enough that editing it manually would h…

Tmux is one of my favorite utilities: it's a terminal multiplexer that lets you create persistent shell sessions, panes, windows, etc. all within a single terminal.

I had a huge year.

I recently read this excellent little bit of programming horror titled: "4 billion if statements".

If you were to visit one of the biggest React drag and drop libraries on GitHub, Atlassian’s react-beautiful-dnd, you would be greeted with the following message: This library continues to be relied upon heavily by Atlassian products, but we are focused on

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Years ago, entrepreneurs and innovators predicated that “software would eat the world”.

The world of software engineering influencers, what I typically like to refer to as "tech-fluencers", has grown significantly in the last few years.

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This is my last week at Amazon Web Services.

There’s a mantra that people in software engineering love: 80% of the work is done by 20% of the people.

When the Agile Manifesto first appeared in 2001, the industry had just finished reeling from the catastrophic collapse of the dot-com bubble.

Weeks ago, Denis Pushkarev, the author of core-js, published “So, what’s next?”.

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"This is the social media network of a software engineer.

Welcome to the "Sunday Edition" of my blog.

In the summer of 2022, I left my job at VMware for Amazon Web Services.

These simple go tests check the "leaky-ness" of using channels in Go.

(Note: this is from a blog archieve dated 2019/01/21.

(Note: this post is from a legacy blog dated 12/14/2018 and some content or links may have changed) A few weeks ago, this issue was opened on a popular Node NPM package called Event Stream.

(Note: this is from an old blog archieve dating 2018/11/05.

If you are a Oregon State CS 344 student, then you've been told to develop exclusively on the OS1 server.

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