Edward Thomson

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

Punk rock is DIY; it isn’t DAIY

Happy flying ant day to those who celebrate.

Dead sexy bottom bracket…

I’m in bicycle mechanic hell

Gitlip Launch 🌷🚀 @gitlip.com is an all-in-one coding platform for shipping micro apps 👼💫 It features: 🌷Git repositories, 🤝 collaborative and ✨ AI assisted coding and ☁️serverless deployments. No login required to try out!

I am a smashburger convert. Thank you to @jason.energy for the semiregular social media prompts.

Celebrating by watching @ethomson.bsky.social’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 @ethomson.bsky.social 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 @mrpowershell.bsky.social's ugit #PowerShell module can do youtu.be/DZI0Zl-1JqQ ...?

Me in the national security team group chat

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.

Laissez les bons temps rouler!

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…

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

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 @libgit2.bsky.social

Nostalgia driven development; I finally got around to building my Cray Y-MP themed @raspberrypi.com 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. 😢

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.

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.

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.

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. 👏

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?

Starting a starter pack for Product Management - please follow, and let me know who else I should add? go.bsky.app/Ca5Ycf2

Is @martin.social 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. https://vercel.com/blog/version-skew-protection

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.