Edward Thomson
@ethomson.bsky.social
Product at vanta.com focusing on privacy and data security. Formerly Vercel, GitHub, Microsoft. Maintainer of libgit2.org.
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It’s October 1 — the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act takes effect today!
Do you know where the personal data lives in your organization? What tools are you using to track this and maintain records?
My absolute favorite thing about gnarly, hard-to-fit thumbbreakers of a bike tire are when you finally get it on and realize they’re directional… in the other direction.
Slightly diminish a band: My Weekend with the Thrill Kill Kult
danielroe
@danielroe.dev
· 11mo
Slightly diminish a band: Princess
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I am a smashburger convert. Thank you to for the semiregular social media prompts.
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Celebrating by watching ’s really cool talk on hidden Git features and functionality at NDC London last week
youtu.be/DZI0Zl-1JqQ
Enjoyed watching "You Don't Know Git" by from #NDCLondon2025 who I was very lucky to meet on route to Techorama BE in 2019 (oh so long ago)
However does Ed know about the amazing things 's ugit #PowerShell module can do
youtu.be/DZI0Zl-1JqQ ...?
Me in the national security team group chat
Scott Hanselman 🌮
@scott.hanselman.com
· Mar 26, 2025
Me in the national security team group chat
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What’s an example of a developer tool with “great taste”? And why? What does that phrase mean to you?
I’m sorry that I can’t make it this year, but you should. It was *outstanding* last year.
Ernest Post
@monkchips.com
· Mar 13, 2025
i should stop being bent out of shape for a minute and encourage you to come to my conference in London March 27th/28th. It's about sustaining software craft in uncertain times. expect interesting OSS maintainer talks, personal journeys and a pragmatic take on AI.
www.monkigras.com
The new tab page in Safari is … a decision. How does Apple break *mobile scrolling* - didn’t they invent it?
Update: she’s still at the shop trying to get out; poor girl…
Edward Thomson
@ethomson.bsky.social
· Feb 17, 2025
Poor kid hasn’t figured out how to quit vi.
Sure, chocolates are nice and all but why not show your favourite open source projects how much you love them by sponsoring them today! github.blog/open-source/...
send a few chocolates to your favorite OSS maintainer today (as a one-off sponsoring, or some flowers in a post or DM). you've no idea how much they'll appreciate you thinking about them
OSS maintainers: don’t sleep on your Copilot Pro subscription; I got mine through
Chrissy LeMaire
@funbucket.dev
· Feb 11, 2025
All that to say, if you or your kid are in school, or you're a teacher, you should apply.
If you are the maintainer of a popular repo, you can also get GitHub Copilot Pro for free. I get mine through dbatools 🚀
Nostalgia driven development; I finally got around to building my Cray Y-MP themed case. Next step: Cray emulator and UNICOS install.
Who’s at #NDCLondon this week and wants to talk about security and privacy with AI models and generated code?
Let me buy you a coffee. (DMs open.) ☕️
When you use generative AI to write code, do you know how much local state you send in context? Are you concerned about sending PII to the models? If so, do you do something about it?
Curious how you work with multiple projects in VS Code? When you work with multiple different projects, do you open one VS Code window for all of them, or separate windows for each project?
I want to see the bug reports that led to the need for this changelog entry. 😢
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I’m really excited about this release, and I intend for this to be the last v1.x. I plan for the next release to be v2.0, moving SHA256 support out of experimental phase and into the standard builds of the library itself.
libgit2.bsky.social
@libgit2.bsky.social
· Dec 29, 2024
Announcing libgit2 v1.9.0, with many new features, bug fixes, and compatibility improvements. github.com/libgit2/libg...
Announcing libgit2 v1.9.0, with many new features, bug fixes, and compatibility improvements. github.com/libgit2/libg...
I sat down with Craig and went through where CodeGate is and where they are thinking of taking it. It’s a super interesting idea to have, in some sense, a local firewall for filtering what your machine is sending out to these services.
Stacklok
@stacklok.com
· Dec 18, 2024
Today we introduced CodeGate — local, open source privacy controls that work with your AI coding assistant. CodeGate is a single container that you deploy locally, so secrets never leave your desktop and risky dependencies are kept out of your code. Explore at codegate.ai #OpenSource #DevTools
Today we introduced CodeGate — local, open source privacy controls that work with your AI coding assistant. CodeGate is a single container that you deploy locally, so secrets never leave your desktop and risky dependencies are kept out of your code. Explore at codegate.ai #OpenSource #DevTools
Meanwhile on the other site, when you ask its ai to draw you, you end up with a picture of its fearless leader doing you as drag.
My slightly conspiratorial assumption has been that our dude wasn’t spotted randomly in a maccie’s in rural Pennsylvania, wherein all hell rained down upon him. But that he showed good - but not impeccable - opsec and a three letter agency tracked him via his phone or internet usage.
The “spotted by a McDonald’s employee” explanation is plausible but surprising. Much like how the British citizens — eyes sharpened from carrot-eating — was what spotted German bombers in WWII.
I'm playing with the new Ultra profiler by Alexandre Mutel and I'm blown away. It's incredible. It's so powerful and showing me managed, native, JIT, GC, allocations, everything. It feels like I have a new superpower.
If you're a .NET developer, you have to check this out:
github.com/xoofx/ultra
I love the tailwind innovation. Inline CSS but worse and unreadable. 👏
henry ✷
@strange.website
· Dec 6, 2024
building a scraped API from a site and i’m fighting for my life against the tailwind in the markup — what the hell is a "max-w-3xl mb-4 md:mb-6 text-darkestGrey dark:text-grey". grow up
My wife can better explain the theoretical aspects of how her work dovetails into chaos theory; I can only explain the practical effects.
Namely, the way she loads the dishwasher.
Optimist: the cup is half full
Pessimist: the cup is half empty
Product manager: do we have telemetry on what the most common liquid being poured into the cup is? What are the personas that are using this cup?
Maine's Black Lawyer
@lutherevers.bsky.social
· Nov 24, 2024
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Lawyer: We do not stipulate to the existence of a cup or any amount of liquid inside.
Starting a starter pack for Product Management - please follow, and let me know who else I should add? go.bsky.app/Ca5Ycf2
Is doing a dry-run for GitHub Universe?
I’m interested in talking to developers who are building with generative AI (like Copilot). And yes, that’s everybody, I know! But I’d love to understand your workflows a bit better. if you’re willing to chat, just for 15 minutes or so, shoot me a DM. 🙏
Just noticed on a rewatch of Halt and Catch Fire. Obviously no UIUC grads were consulted.
The mens room automatic faucet doesn’t reliably turn on when you put your hands under it, but you dummies are telling me that self driving cars are right around the corner?
Introducing Skew Protection
A novel mechanism to eliminate version skew between web clients and servers—improving user experience and developer productivity.
vercel.com/blog/version...
You say Bluesky has a “problem”. I say it has an “opportunity”.
I’m so incredibly proud of the teams that came together to ship three amazing storage products today.
Vercel
@vercel.com
· May 2, 2023
Introducing Vercel Storage
◆ Vercel Postgres: Serverless and Edge-ready SQL
◆ Vercel KV: Durable, global, serverless Redis
◆ Vercel Blob: Fast, simple file storage
vercel.com/blog/vercel-...
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