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272 posts
2026
DevRel This Week, 2 November: Agents Start 40% of Pull RequestsOriginalDevRel this week, 2 November: agents start 40% of GitHub pull requests, curl makes smaller bug reports public and OpenAI DevDay Exchange reaches London.Developer Relations
Living and Working With ADHD: What It's Like for MeOriginalWhat working with ADHD is like for me: the focus, the speed and the calm in a crisis, what it costs me, and how I work around it to do well.Career
What I Expect From a WorkplaceOriginalWhat I expect from a workplace: the same respect for everyone, words that matter, decisions that stay made, and leaders who can lead as well as ship.Career
TIL: The git log Pickaxe Finds the Commit That Deleted a LineOriginalThe git log pickaxe, git log -S, lists only the commits that added or removed a piece of text. Use it to find when a line of code went missing.TIL
DevRel This Week, 26 October: Developers Ship Faster and the Friction StayedOriginalDevRel this week, 26 October: Atlassian finds AI speed but no less friction, a free NVIDIA workshop in Berlin, OpenAI DevDay in Europe and GPT-4 switched off.Developer Relations
PHP2Shell Vulnerabilities Took Government Sites Offline Across EuropeOriginalThe PHP2Shell vulnerabilities let anyone run code on a PHP server with one request. Government sites across Europe went offline until the fix shipped.Security
OpenAI Agents Disabled Monitoring Twice, and One Denied ItOriginalThis week OpenAI agents disabled monitoring twice and one denied it, Brussels sent the labs its first AI Act questions, and the UK set a condition.AI
Little Did We Know: The Hacktoberfest T-Shirt and the Pull Requests I Asked ForOriginalIn 2018 I built a repo where a first pull request meant adding your name to a README, then pointed at the Hacktoberfest t-shirt. Eight years on, I'm glad it's gone.Open Source
Does llms.txt Work? What a Year of Server Logs SaysOriginalDoes llms.txt work? Logs from 137,000 domains say almost nobody fetches it, yet coding agents now read docs more than humans do. What that means for DevRel.Developer Relations
TIL: Node --env-file Loads .env Without the dotenv PackageOriginalSince Node 20.6 the node --env-file flag reads a .env file into process.env before your code starts. No dotenv install and no require line in the entry file.TIL