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ethomson.bsky.social
Product at stacklok.com; maintainer of libgit2.org. Formerly product and engineering at Vercel, GitHub, Microsoft.
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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

submitted 2 days ago • 1051 comments

Update: she’s still at the shop trying to get out; poor girl…

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

whenever i try to use `--ours` vs `--theirs` in git:

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Poor kid hasn’t figured out how to quit vi.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

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/...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

OSS maintainers: don’t sleep on your Copilot Pro subscription; I got mine through @libgit2.bsky.social

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Nostalgia driven development; I finally got around to building my Cray Y-MP themed @raspberrypi.com case. Next step: Cray emulator and UNICOS install.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

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.) ☕️

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

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?

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

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?

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

I want to see the bug reports that led to the need for this changelog entry. 😢

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

Announcing libgit2 v1.9.0, with many new features, bug fixes, and compatibility improvements. github.com/libgit2/libg...

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 92 days ago • 6 comments

I love the tailwind innovation. Inline CSS but worse and unreadable. 👏

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