Matt Cowley

Looks like @digitalocean.com is killing their Open Source Credits Program. Very disappointing to see, but unsurprising given they’d already killed their GitHub Students credits a few months ago. I miss the days when they focused on their community goodwill efforts.

Very pleased to see that @mlhacks.bsky.social + @dev.to are running Hacktoberfest now, both trusted orgs in the community space!

See it. Say it. Sorted. 🤝 Patching security issues during an incident at midnight is my favourite kind of engineering.

Grateful to the folks at Cloudflare who’ve been working to reduce this risk the last few days. - Package moved to the Astro org, no single-author control - Binary replaced with lightweight native TS version - Bundled into the wrangler build to avoid the install-time dependency

65% humidity at this temperature is just gross. How am I possibly going to sleep like this?

Always disheartening to see a company abandon its community efforts, especially one you've advocated for and supported for a long time. Not the first time I've seen this happen, won't be the last, but it always hurts, and it never goes well for the company in the long run.

Finally, @dependabot.bsky.social works properly with @pnpm.io to create security fix PRs for transitive dependencies 🎉 github.com/dependabot/d...

It is so incredibly fulfilling to see Alveus continue to grow and do good in the world, watching the community continue to support it to each new milestone, knowing that the open-source code I help maintain in my spare time is a small part of making that happen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ywz...

Node.js v26.0.0 is out 💚 Temporal API enabled by default, V8 14.6, Undici 8, and key deprecations as we keep modernizing the platform. Check it out nodejs.org/en/blog/rele...

YouTube's RSS feed availability is truly odd. Seems to break daily somewhere around 8pm UTC and then comes back promptly at 8am UTC each day. Such an odd availability pattern for something they link in the meta tags of every channel page.

Uh oh, another year older, definitely mid twenties now.

Hey @imgur.com, why are you still holding onto my data and sending me emails when y'all exited the UK? Best bit is the images in the email don't even work because you blocked the UK... and I CANNOT unsubscribe as that link also goes to a blocked page...

🎉 Dependabot just updated to Node.js 24 (interesting that they use a single version for their image, rather than using whatever version a given project needs)

Not a bad year git-wrapped.com/profiles/Mat...

Sigh, Dependabot continues to be a thorn in the side the second it doesn't just work as you expect it to... turns out it doesn't support Node.js 24 at all, and so because we updated our repository, we're no longer getting dependency updates or security fixes.

This is exciting; the team behind the @grafana.bsky.social Cloud portal landed a feature I originally built as my first hackathon project, an instance picker! Go to grafana.com/launch/explore, pick a Grafana Cloud instance, and you'll land on the explore page. Any route after /launch works.

At ~14:00 UTC, @VodafoneUK effectively dropped off the Internet, with traffic dropping to zero. No word from the provider on outage cause, and their network status checker page is currently unavailable. radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/as53... radar.cloudflare.com/routing/as53... x.com/Independent/...

Having internet-enabled smart home devices is great until the internet goes out for a prolonged period... then you can't tell Alexa to stop the alarm you set, so the only option is to unplug the thing. Oh, and I can't turn the lights on either.

New Era for React = Stronger JavaScript Ecosystem 💙 React doesn’t live in isolation - It works alongside Node.js, Electron, webpack, and more. A dedicated foundation under the Linux Foundation means more collaboration, security, and sustainability across the ecosystem. hubs.la/Q03MylxX0

Looks like @imgur.com is completely unavailable in the UK now, with all images showing a message that imgur isn’t available in this region. Guessing this is because of the Online Safety Act… surely this being unavailable will have no consequences for internet users in the UK…

I wonder why @github.com has been having mail delivery issues today... couldn't be because of the continual spam issues being filed, mentioning every user on GitHub, generating masses of spam notification emails. Really surprised their send reputation hasn't already gone to zero.

The last week holidaying on a very remote Greek island has been wonderful, but the fact that I've had way faster and more consistent 5G coverage here than I get at home on the outskirts of London is living very rent-free in my mind.

STOMPY HAS A FRIEND! Meet our new emu ambassador, Nolie 💚 Nolie is a ~5 year old female emu that was a pet to a private owner who moved and couldn’t take her with, so now she will be with us here at Alveus to help teach people about the impacts of owning exotic pets.

So I decided to clone the cdnjs/cdnjs repository for the first time in a while... turns out it now consumes right around 1TB on disk (with .git removed), which is not really much of a surprise when you realise it now houses 25 million files.

Just spent an hour chatting with EE about their broadband. They assured me they'd be able to install fiber even if I don't have it currently, including digging up the road. Agent goes to send the contract, and oh dear, there's an error that our address doesn't have fiber... Sigh

GitHub is rate-limiting their own Dependabot runs... leading to Dependabot opening PRs with no change logs in them... this is fun. I've had a ticket open with them for multiple weeks now, no response at all.

I managed to build a UI (with grid + aspect-ratio mess) that works correctly in Firefox and Safari, but doesn't work in Chrome. Can't think I've ever managed that before.

I don't talk much about my day job, but if you write clean React/TypeScript, are experienced with open-source and observability, and care about user experience, come work with me: grnh.se/g8fwl10b4us UK or grnh.se/f78w1gd24us US.

Very happy with how the server rack mockup turned out for the new compute section on the @alveussanctuary.org website. Thought about doing it as an SVG, but it was way more fun to build it with CSS and container query units to make it all scale nicely. alveus.gg/tech#compute

Happy Pride 🌈 In our latest blog post, @vcarl.com shares a powerful reflection on open source and identity: nodejs.org/en/blog/comm... We're spotlighting LGBTQ voices in the Node.js community. Got a story to share? Submit a PR: github.com/nodejs/nodej...

It's already that time of year again: we're so excited to announce our #JingleJam2025 charity partners! We can't wait to go live and support these brilliant causes that make the world a better place for children and young people this December. Here are your 2025 charities! 🧵

You love to see it when you do your self-assessment tax return and HMRC tells you they owe you money because a previous employer taxed you wrong

If you're like me and store code locally organised similar to ~/git/<owner>/<name>, you might be interested in this @vscode.dev extension I shipped today that allows you to have your `window.title` set to `<owner>/<name>` (`${parentName}/${folderName}`): marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

I suppose the advantage of CEOs being so openly political on main is that at least you know who you want to support and be associated with

Just spoke to Google Workspace about the ridiculous price increase for AI functionality I didn't ask for... expressed that to the support agent, who responded with "I really understand your concern and as a customer myself, I would feel the same."