How and why I attribute LLM-derived code (9 mins read).
How I'm reducing risks of legal concerns now and in the future with AI-generated code.
by 
Jamie Tanna
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#llm
#ai
#licensing
#open-source
#workflow.
Kind articles
Week Notes 26#08 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2026-02-16?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Breaking free from GitHub Discussions' limitations (12 mins read).
How we built our own interface on top of GitHub Discussions to improve triage for Renovate's Open Source community.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#renovate
#open-source.
GitHub Actions' required properties aren't always required (2 mins read).
A gotcha with how required: true allows an empty string as valid input.
Lessons learned from oapi-codegen's time in the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund (6 mins read).
Sharing some thoughts about the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund and how I spent the time with oapi-codegen.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#oapi-codegen
#github
#supply-chain-security.
Week Notes 26#07 (1 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2026-02-09?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 26#06 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2026-02-02?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 26#05 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2026-01-26?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Using Ledger, plain text accounting and a touch of AI to fill in my UK tax return (6 mins read).
How I'm using the Ledger plain text format for managing my finances for my UK tax return.
Week Notes 26#04 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2026-01-19?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
What I've learned building an agent for Renovate config (as a cautious skeptic of AI) (11 mins read).
As an opportunity to "kick the tyres" of what agents are and how they work, I set aside a couple of hours to see build one - and it blew me away.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#renovate
#ai
#llm
#mend.
The first 100 days as a Renovate maintainer: the shocking inside view of a popular Open Source project (18 mins read).
Lessons learned from the first 100 days as my role as a Renovate maintainer, and a sneak peek into how the project works behind the scenes.
Week Notes 26#03 (1 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2026-01-12?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Authoring Markdown externally and pasting the 'pretty' output into Slack (on Mac) (2 mins read).
How to use copy the rendered representation of Markdown into a rich-text form into Slack, on Mac.
Getting access to rich-text data from the clipboard (on Mac) (1 mins read).
How to retrieve rich-text output from the clipboard.
Creating a TUI for keeping an eye on GitHub Rate Limits (1 mins read).
Sharing ghrl, a Terminal User Interface (TUI) for monitoring rate limits for GitHub Apps.
2025's podcasts in review (3 mins read).
What podcasts did I listen to in 2025?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#podcast.
Week Notes 26#02 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2026-01-05?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Why the Renovate project uses GitHub Discussions as our triage process (16 mins read).
A dive into what we've learned over 5 years of using GitHub Discussions as our space to triage user questions.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#renovate
#open-source.
Week Notes 26#01 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-12-29?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
2025's Music In Review (1 mins read).
What music was I listening to in 2025?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#music.
2025's Site In Review (7 mins read).
How did my site perform in 2025?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#www.jvt.me.
Week Notes 25#52 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-12-22?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 25#51 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-12-15?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 25#50 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-12-08?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
I'm on Open Source Security: Updating open source dependencies (1 mins read).
Announcing my appearance as a guest on the Open Source Security podcast, talking about Renovate and dependency updates more generally.
Week Notes 25#49 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-12-01?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 25#48 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-11-24?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 25#47 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-11-17?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Worries about Open Source in the age of LLMs (6 mins read).
Some concerns I have with moving towards "don't use Open Source, get an LLM to generate the code you want" and where it'll take us.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#llm
#ai
#licensing
#open-source.
Week Notes 25#46 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-11-10?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
November 2025's Desert Island Discs (1 mins read).
Defining the 8 songs I'd take to a desert island (if I had the choice, of course).
by Jamie Tanna
.
#music.
Week Notes 25#45 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-11-03?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Building a more secure npm ecosystem with Mend Renovate (5 mins read).
Discover how Mend Renovate 42 is strengthening npm ecosystem security with "minimum release age” enforcement and best-practice defaults.
Week Notes 25#44 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-10-27?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 25#43 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-10-20?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Finding missing releaseTimestamps in Renovate (3 mins read).
How to query your Renovate debug logs (or renovate-graph exports) for missing release timestamps.
Adding type hints to Renovate config.js files (1 mins read).
How to add JSDoc type hints to a config.js Renovate global self-hosting configuration file.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#renovate
#neovim
#javascript
#typescript.
Week Notes 25#42 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-10-13?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 25#41 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-10-06?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 25#40 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-09-29?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 25#39 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-09-22?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Creating a gh CLI extension for creating GitHub Discussions via category forms (2 mins read).
Announcing gh-discussions, an extension for the GitHub CLI that allows creating GitHub Discussions via category forms.
Week Notes 25#38 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-09-15?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 25#37 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-09-08?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Using jqp for interactive queries with jq (1 mins read).
How you can use jqp to improve your experience with writing queries with jq.
Determining the digest for a GitHub Action (2 mins read).
A couple of different ways to look up the digest for a GitHub Action to pin it, as per best practices.
Setting up govulncheck in GitHub Actions with GitHub Code Scanning alerts (2 mins read).
How to set up govulncheck to check for CVEs in your Go projects using GitHub Actions and have the results show up as a GitHub Code Scanning alert.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#go
#github-actions
#oapi-codegen
#security.
Gotcha: referencing symlinks with go:embed result in irregular file errors (2 mins read).
Why you may see irregular file errors in Go, if you're trying to go:embed a symbolic link.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#go.
Week Notes 25#36 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-09-01?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
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