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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In this episode, CRob discusses the finer points of developer relations (DevRel) with Katherine Druckman, Open Source Evangelist at Intel and co-chair of the OpenSSF Marketing Advisory Council and DevRel Community. Katherine enjoys sharing her pas...
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Eric Holscher, co-founder of Read the Docs. We had a really far-ranging conversation that included talking about why documentation is often so bad, why documentation should be a priority, but also Eric’s experience building Read the Docs and...
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I should add: If your employer doesn't increase your pay by at least 4% per year, the value of your pay is regressing, not keeping up with the average rate of inflation. If your employer is aware and does this anyway, that's a pretty clear message that you should seek one that values you. #jobs #employment #pay
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Listen to ‘Making friends was always IMPOSSIBLE’ - Parul Singh details late AuDHD diagnosis from ADHD Chatter. Parul Singh opens up about her late ADHD & autism diagnosis. It’s insightful, hilarious and very relatable. Thank you Parul for sharing your incredible story with us.00:00 Trailer02:48 When was your first memory of feeling like you might have ADHD?11:45 And since you were last on, you were diagnosed with Autism too, so the second part of the question. When was your first memory of feeling like you have autistic traits? 20:36 How do you find Autism manifests itself in your social and professional life? 24:16 We had Jay Beech on the show who also has AuDHD and he said that the ADHD brain and the Autism brain are like 2 siblings pulling each other by the hair and dragging each other across the room, is this true for you?25:53 Has this more recent diagnosis made a lot of sense of previous struggles you've had in the past?30:55 Since your diagnosis, have you found your tribe?33:25 Has your diagnosis made sense to those closest to you?36:26 How do you communicate the everyday struggles of being AuDHD to those around you, those people by which your relationship relies heavily on your strength to communicate things to them. i.e friends, family and partner? 44:47 ‘Pebbling’ explained 46:08 In general, do you find it hard to draw out empathy from a person who has a brain that just thinks in a totally different way?50:16 What part does "Stockholm Syndrome" play in this? And can you briefly explain what Stockholm syndrome is?53:00 How much of your AuDHD do you think might be caused by complex PTSD?56:46 The ADHD Item segment 01:00:19 The ADHD Agony Aunt segment (Washing Machine of Woes)01:02:31 What is the difference between a shutdown and a meltdown? And why might one occur over the other?01:11:35 How have you learnt to harness both your ADHD and Autism to become a successful individual? 01:13:32 Does your ADHD ever mask your Autism or vice versa?01:14:28 What is your relationship with alcohol like at the moment and how has that journey been over the years? 01:16:10 The Alien scenario01:18:41 Most impulsive thing 01:21:01 Signing the ‘thinks outside the box’ canvas Find Parul on Linkedin 👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/parul-parallel-minds/This episode has been produced for entertainment purposes only and is in no way meant to be taken as medical advice or advice in any way.
Why has Firefox 133 lost all my tabs? (2 mins read).
Recounting an issue I'm seeing with Firefox 133 where it creates a new profile, and how to resolve it.
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Absolutely wild how many companies are adopting AI notetaking apps for meetings. Y'all'er just chill sending your planning, product direction and revenue details to some random third party in exchange for them doing the low value task of halfassing note taking for you?
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Attached: 1 image I should definitely have been doing something else. #ADHD #AuDHD #ExecutiveDysfunction
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Attached: 1 image the problem is I build things in a way that I don't need to baby sit them - which means they get reliability as side effect. Slide from my "Cloud infrastructure for cloud infrastructure" talk
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Creating a /slashes page (1 mins read).
Creating a collection of all the /slash pages I have across my site.
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@www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me this is such an important topic. It’s 15 years since some colleagues let me know how much less than the men in my team I was being paid. The knowledge helped me to negotiate a bit, and I remain grateful for their consideration and openness.
Week Notes 24#41 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-10-07?
A recap of this weekend's OggCamp 2024 conference.
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This week, Parul Singh shares the story of how she won a legal case over an ex-employer for ADHD discrimination. Parul is a Recruitment Marketing Partner and Neurodiversity Advocate at xDesign, and an ex-tech recruiter. She was diagnosed with ADHD at aged 25 and uses her platform to awareness about neurodiversity in the workplace and in the recruitment process to build a more equitable future for neurodivergent people. In order to make a bigger impact, she created a new role at xDesign, "Neurodiversity Advocate” in which she works closely with the People Team to lead the internal neurodiversity community. We all know how important it is to feel less alone. She also feeds into internal policies, processes and supports other neurodivergent employees at xDesign. As a woman of colour, she also puts a spotlight on intersectionality within Neurodiversity and the compounding impact that being from multiple minority groups has on barriers we face” Topics: 00:00 What are your earliest ADHD memories 04:29 Unhealthy sources of dopamine 11:00 Misdiagnosed with depression + finally getting an ADHD diagnosis 18:47 Normalising ADHD in life + at work 22:38 How did you feel after your diagnosis? 28:52 Imposter syndrome 32:00 Winning a discrimination tribunal + Neurodiversity in business 38:13 What is disability discrimination? Find Parul on LinkedIn 👉 https://www.linkedin.com/in/theadhdtechrecruiter/ Here's the link to the ADHD/ND resources : https://theadhdtechrecruiter.notion.site/ADHD-Neurodiversity-Resources-1-0983dc5d52aa400d9225973d940b2287 Specific ones relating to this discussion: 👉 https://www.gmb.org.uk/sites/default/files/neurodiversity-law-guide.pdf 👉 https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/138118/Equality_Act_2010_-_Duty_on_employers_to_make_reasonable_adjustments_for....pdf Subscribe and be the first to know about Live events 👉 https://bit.ly/3KawML7 Watch on YouTube 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_HZMBt0Fr8 Follow ADHD Chatter: LinkedIn 👉 https://bit.ly/3m1qm8Q Instagram 👉 https://bit.ly/3KuNXIr TikTok 👉 https://bit.ly/3ZxZNGd This episode has been produced for entertainment purposes only and is in no way meant to be taken as medical advice or advice in any way.
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This was a fun and decidedly humbling conversation with Ben Johnson about SQLite, databases, Litestream, and LiteFS.Links:Ben on GitHubLitestreamLiteFS
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Shared: Matt Mullenweg’s Bull(enweg) https://bullenweg.com/. If you're having trouble keeping track of the current Wordpress/Matt Mullenweg drama (things are escalating so rapidly!), this website posts regular updates. #wordpress
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wp shows that the world would be so much duller if successful people could just to go therapy and chill counting their stacks or something. smh what a clusterfuck. I don't like wordpress as a tech stack all that much, but... i really admire wordpress for how it democratizes access to self-hosting and allowed so many people and businesses to own their online presence. Sad to see it take such a hit, and hopefully it'll recover.
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Attached: 1 image Don’t just tell everyone the open web is great, go on the open web and tell everyone *why* it is great @sil@mastodon.social at #OggCamp24
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Open source is proof free markets are so efficient they can even find a use for communists.
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Attached: 1 image Mark your calendars for October 15 for OpenUK London community meetup "Can open source even be a business?" OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock will share the findings of the OpenUK Economics of Open Source Report; followed by the panel including Liam Crilly of NGINX, Lee Wright, GTM Leader Data Infrastructure, Amanda Brock of OpenUK, Matt Barker of Venafi, and Paula Kennedy of Syntasso, moderated by Jennifer Riggins. Sign up here: https://www.meetup.com/openuk/events/301997818/?utm_medium=referral&utm #openuk #openukmeetup #opensource
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Really enjoyed #oggcamp2024. It's great that a conference based entirely around Open Source software and Freedom exists. Open source may have a reputation of being just for nerds, but it's about *so much more* than just tinkering with code. You don't need to be a coder to benefit. When things are open source any bad behaviour (i.e. tracking, telemetry, privacy violations) hiding in our software has nowhere to hide. This becomes more important as we become increasingly reliant on our devices.
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Attached: 1 image Confused about the WordPress drama? This corporate governance diagram should clear things up!
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People who attend a conference talk but who proceed to open their laptop and work: get the fuck out and do that elsewhere. You’re more annoying than herpes.
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Shay Nehmad on how writing is the key to becoming a better engineer, how to do it, and more.Links:* Cup O' Go podcast* Code Complete book* Shay's blog* Obsidian and Logseq
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News🧑🔧 Go 1.23.2 + 1.22.8 released, mostly backports of fixes ⏲️ High-Resolution Timers on Windows🌬️ New release for Air🔨 Interesting post about code shelf lifeInterview with WillemSite: https://www.willem.dev/Twitter: https://x.com/willemschotsLI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willem-schots/
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Attached: 1 image At "Into the multiverse: a parallel universe where neurotypicals are the weird ones" with Parul Singh, in Cotton Theatre. #OggCamp2024 #OggCamp24 #OggCamp
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Attached: 3 images I’m at @oggcamp@mastodon.social today, immersing myself in my FOSS community! The unconference is shaping up nicely and the schedule is on joind.in! #oggcamp2024
I'm talking about - would you believe it - dependency-management-data at #OggCamp2024 later this afternoon 🤓🛸
Come to learn about some very interesting things you can learn from your usage of Open Source and internal dependencies 👀
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Today on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Chris Holmes, co-founder and CEO of Greymatter. Greymatter is deeply involved in the open source ecosystem and maintains the Go Envoy Control Plane, but Chris is adamant that it is not an open source company. We had a great discussion about why...
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Go Time co-host, Johnny Boursiquot, joins Adam & Jerod to discuss not making the (first) cut, applying Founder Mode, being a cog (or not), realizing that companies are posting fake engineering jobs & the (maybe) imminent demise of the .io TLD.
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Dave Eddy has learned systems programming the traditional way with books and man pages. Now he's sharing what he's learned, starting with bash.
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John Nunemaker joins us to share his new thesis for acquiring Rails based SaaS apps. He's early days on his next big thing called Very Good Software and recently acquired Fireside, a podcast hosting service started by Dan Benjamin. This comes after many years since John's acquisition of a lifetime of Speakerdeck to Git...
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Suspect a large part of the future will be "AIsbestos Removal". Asbestos was a wonder material which was going to revolutionise the world. Only then we discovered just how carcinogenic it was. And now, every day, we have to gently unpick it from the urban environment. How many companies will belatedly discover that a load-bearing process is actually riddled with AI? Then they'll have to pay to carefully remove it without any further environmental damage. Hence AIsbestos.
How I manage my dotfiles (8 mins read).
A deep dive into how managing my dotfiles has (not) evolved over the last 10 years.
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The last time we did a roundup of our unpopular opinion polls, it was November of 2021! That's too long ago, so today we fix that bug. Join Go Time producer, Jerod Santo, as he ranks & reviews the most (un)popular opinions of 2022.
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Attached: 1 image Would you work for free? 🤯 For 33% of the respondents to our open source maintainer survey, this is reality: they are not paid or not paid enough to make a living. With the new Fellowship program, we are investing directly in the people behind the code by paying maintainers of important open source components for their work. Applications are accepted until October 20th. Find more insights about the maintainer survey on our website.
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Abi Noda, co-founder and CEO at DX, joins the show to talk through data shared from the Stack Overflow 2024 Developer Survey, why devs are really unhappy, and what they're doing at DX to help orgs and teams to understand the metrics behind their developer's happiness and productivity.
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Bekah graduated from the Flatiron School Software Engineering program in May of 2019 and since then has spent time as a frontend developer, started the Virtual Coffee developer community, spent time in DevRel and has continued to mom her four kids. She currently co-hosts the Virtual Coffee podcast, tries to work on her postpartum wellness OSS project, and lifts heavy things in her free time. You can follow Bekah on Social Media https://twitter.com/BekahHW https://bekahhw.github.io/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/bekah-hawrot-weigel https://github.com/BekahHW https://www.youtube.com/@bekahhw Also check out these links from Bekah https://virtualcoffee.io/ PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST - Spotify: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-spotify - Apple Podcasts: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-apple - Google Podcasts: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-google - RSS: http://isaacl.dev/podcast-rss You can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.com/ Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin (https://twitter.com/isaacrlevin)
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The ".io" top level domain might be gone soon. https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain
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How geopolitics can alter digital infrastructure
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Im in the UK later this week, talking at @oggcamp@mastodon.social! It’ll be a tasty intro to home automation and how to successfully irritate your loved ones with it. Oggcamp is the bestest free software conference there is, mainly because it’s in The North and filled with Northeners. More conferences that aren’t in London pls. #oggCamp #OggCamp2024 #HomeAutomation
Week Notes 24#40 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-09-30?
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mozilla withdrawing from mastodon due to a lack of funds but having enough money to finance shitty ai research is like finding out your local library closed because they spent all their money on an inflatable dinosaur exhibit
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My to do list: Do everything! My desire for the day: Do nothing! Our compromise: Do something counter-productive!
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