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A fairly busy week back at work, catching up on what I'd missed, some follow-ups to last week's Trivy supply chain attack, and pushing forward with a number of plans Pretty awful weather this week - storm earlier in the week, and as we went down to London,

A nice, mostly restorative, week off for my birthday: Definitely feel a lot more reset, having worked on various bits of life admin, and not doing any Open Source (bar one PR), not doing any tech-related reading or listening (although maybe I lie - it tur…

As I did an update earlier on my Neovim plugins, I noticed a breaking change from codecompanion.nvim hadn't yet been addressed upstream with mcphub.nvim, but fortunately a couple of options were contributed by the community.

A busy week trying to close out my ongoing TODOs ahead of being off next week Sorting through ~50 of my raised-but-not-yet-merged PRs on Renovate Clearing out things in my TODO list, some of which needed issues raising and/or thinking about bigger strategy

A busy week at work After daycare on Tuesday, Cookie was too tired to close her eyes 🥰 (which we're very much a fan of) She was very cutely leaning against me and falling asleep, still slightly sitting up Cookie hurt her dewclaw on Thursday, with it bent…

Over the years, I've been a heavy user of Renovate, and I think it's fair to argue I can describe myself as a "power user".

In the Overcommitted community Discord, we've had some discussion recently about using analytics on our sites.

A busy week but less so than last week, thankfully After starting to look into how to sync files with Renovate, I spent a bit of time with Vendir, and after a couple of tweaks, managed to get it sorted + blogged about Got oapi-codegen v2.6.0 out - still a…

A number of releases ago, I introduced a JSON Schema for oapi-codegen's configuration file format, to aid with editor-driven autocomplete.

Prompted by Joe and Marcus after my last post about AI, I thought I'd share how I'm currently using locally-hosted Large Language Models (LLMs), as I'd teased it a little bit in the post.

For a few years, I've been trying to get a perfect workflow for keeping vendored files in sync between repos.

As I've written about before, I'm a self-described "cautious skeptic" of AI and Large Language Models, and I'm trying to do more with AI where makes sense.

A particularly busy and overwhelming week - juggling what seemed like two dozen things in and out of work Enjoyed my leftover Miss Korea from Sunday night 😋 Got v0.7.0 out for rootly-go, with some future-proof changes that should make it easier for folks…

As I recently wrote about, we use GitHub Discussions for triaging user requests in the Renovate project.

Earlier today on Renovate we noticed that our documentation site had not been deploying for a couple of days.

As noted in GitHub's post, oapi-codegen was one of the projects taking part in the third GitHub Secure Open Source Fund session.

A pretty brain exhausting week with a lot of things going on Nice to have Marcin back, but it's been a lot of extra stuff to keep an eye on A nice meal out on Thursday at Mesa to celebrate Anna's new job At work, we've had two big threads of work leading…

With Anna off these couple of weeks, we had Tuesday off together, and although we didn't get to the spa, we had a nice lunch out at Maki & Ramen, and then got some nice chocolates from Chocolate Utopia It was DMD's birthday on Monday, and a bit sad thinki…

It's been a busy week at work with Renovate 43 coming out, with a number of breaking changes As ever with the major release, there's a lot of work getting in the various changes, but then also making sure that we're getting things rebased and the release…

A few weeks ago, I was reading Siddhant Goel's post about 10 years using plain text accounting, and I found it a really interesting read, but decided that this level of tracking was unfortunately not for me (and my ADHD brain.

A busy week at work, with a number of in-flight features and fixes, especially ahead of a Dev Platform release Been a fun week on Kingshot, burning through a lot of things with TC30 and Alliance Mobilization competing with one of the other alliance members

This article was originally published on the Mend's HackerNoon blog.

Roughly 100 days ago, I joined Mend to work on the Renovate project as a maintainer and community manager.

The Renovate "maintainer dashboard" has been super useful (running locally) to giving me a view of what user-submitted Discussions need a review It's already making it much easier for me to get insight into things, and being able to directly query the data

🤖 This post includes some LLM-derived content 🤖 Related to my post from last year around doing this on Linux, I've been trying to do the same on my work Mac.

🤖 This post includes some LLM-derived content 🤖 Related to my post from last year around doing this on Linux, I've been trying to do the same on my work Mac.

In the last week, I've been doing some work to sync Renovate's Discussions to a local SQLite database, so I can provide a better query layer for maintainers and contributors to see what's going on.

(Aside: I'm considering moving this into a microsite powered by Evidence, like I do with my Music In Review, where I could graph some of this data more effectively - we'll see if I can get around to doing this, as well as adding previous years of listening

A very cold week, with snow starting on Monday, frozen pipes on Tuesday, and Storm Goretti later in the week We'd planned to have Monday off (as part of a nice 5-day weekend) but didn't realise until last weekend that doggy daycare was open - as we were a…

(Note that this is also posted on the Renovate project's Discussions, too) Over the weekend, there has been some good discussion on Hacker News about how the Ghostty project uses GitHub Discussions for triage purposes, and then promotes the feature reques…

A weird week being at work between Christmas and New Year's, but nice that we have a long weekend (Thur -> Mon) following it Work has been busy (for reasons that I'll share at some point soon) and not quite the more chill week we'd hoped Been very chilly…

This page has now moved into the separate "Music in Review" microsite, for 2025.

(Aside: I'm considering moving this into a microsite powered by Evidence, like I do with my Music In Review, where I could graph some of this data more effectively - we'll see if I get round to it by the end of the year!)

Took a half day on Monday with Anna's family leaving, so I could help out, and pick up Morph Morph was very screamy when I went to collect him - very surprisingly, considering it was one of his shortest stints there On Monday/Tuesday Morph enjoyed coming…

A busy week ahead of hosting the Dodsons this weekend for Christmas: A lovely weekend hosting the family and catching up We both had Friday off to do the last bits of sorting and tidying and getting bits ready in the house which was very much needed, on t…

My episode on the Open Source Security podcast came out and was a good listen In the run up to Christmas (with Anna's family Christmas next weekend), I've made some good progress with my office to make it "guest ready", and got a few more presents sorted…

A few weeks ago, I joined the Josh Bressers on the Open Source Security podcast to talk about the joys and difficulties of updating dependencies, and we had a great time.

At work, fairly busy continuing with OpenTelemetry, and finalising my agentic Renovate blog post My work to block significant levels of scraping on my website seems to have been in vain - so now I'm playing "cat and mouse" Had a nice, chill, weekend Had a…

Monday was very busy for two reasons: The v2 of Shai Hulud (Sha1-Hulud) worm landed, and so spent a fair bit of the day keeping an eye on internal + external discussions Some good discussions were had off the back of the Minimum Release Age work we've done

Got my post about Open Source and LLMs out, which was good to get it off my mind And was in perfect time for it to be included in Changelog News!

On Saturday, I was listening to an episode of Changelog and Friends and Jerod wondered whether Open Source would be needed/used in the world of Large Language Models (LLMs).

At Batch Bunch, I made some good progress on hacking together an agent for Renovate configuration changes - will see what shape I can get it in and then share it (and a blog post on the Mend blog) As I got home, Cookie was very excited to see me, then pro…

Just over a month ago, Carol asked at the pub about what our 8 desert island discs would be.

Had a great chat with Josh on the Open Source Security podcast, talking about dependency management and some of the complexities that are involved with a project like Renovate A busy work week leading up to the Renovate v42 release, and my first Mend blog…

This article was originally published on the Mend blog.

A busy work week, in particular continuing towards the next major release of Renovate, this coming Thursday, with a number of things to get in with the release A slow Monday, after the drive, but got my Week Notes published before work A good week for swa…

A busy, productive, week at work this week, but a couple of slower brain days Was nice to catch up with Nikos and Michael In Kingshot, did well on Eternity's Reach based on a YouTube video shared in the Alliance chat With Anna speaking at Serverless Days…

🤖 This post includes some LLM-derived content 🤖 As part of the work we're doing towards the upcoming Renovate 42 to improve minimumReleaseAge support, I thought it would be useful to straightforwardly identify cases where dependencies (or updates to exist…

🤖 This post includes some LLM-derived content 🤖 I'm a fan of using Renovate's config.js file format for the global self-hosting configuration.

A cold week, with the boiler replacement: It was a bit more involved than we predicted, so ended up getting a Miss Korea takeaway on Monday, which was very good and accidentally managed to have a good portion of food left over for lunch on Tuesday The hou…