Matt Cowley

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.

Growth Engineer, Grafana Self Serve (Remote, UK) United Kingdom (Remote)

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.

Tech at Alveus | Alveus Sanctuary Alveus Sanctuary is a virtual education center, and with that comes the need for a lot of technology to make it all work, from livestream broadcast systems to PTZ cameras and microphones in the ambass...

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...

Weird… looks like Bluesky doesn’t like the emoji right before it maybe?

Glad to see @discord.com as a potential future option. A lot of developers communities have made their way there over the years, and with some extra tooling discussions can still be preserved searchable on the web forever.

Super not cool move from Slack.

Graphic featuring red Jingle Jam 2025 logo on multicolor gradient background.

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

May Day for most of the world? Only US/CA/UK/AU were working

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."

If you’re using @cloudflare.social Pages, you need to explicitly set your NODE_VERSION to something newer — Cloudflare will not be updating the default Node.js version, even for new projects: developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platfo...

📅 Reminder: Node.js 18 is scheduled to reach End-of-Life on April 30, 2025.

We recommend that you update to Node.js 20 or 22 as Node.js 18 will no longer receive security updates once it reaches End-of-Life.

A screenshot of a Copilot AI suggestion on a GitHub pull request, suggesting changing `uses: actions/checkout@<commit hash> # <version>` to be `uses: actions/checkout@<version>`, with the comment: "Consider using the official version tag (e.g. actions/checkout@v4) instead of a commit hash for easier maintenance and to ensure you receive upstream security updates."

Well, this feels like some dangerous advice from @github.com Copilot given the recent issues with using tags for Actions.

You know you've become an adult when the exciting birthday gifts are chopping boards and a fire extinguisher.

Part of it is also that a load of my projects have old ESLint v8 configs that I just don’t have the energy to move to v9 — I very much like that Prettier is opinionated and just works, no (complex) config needed.

The timing on this, I've literally just ripped ESLint out of one of my projects and switched to just using Prettier for it.

Episode 5: Donkey Edition | Animal Quest | Alveus Sanctuary Meet the donkeys at Alveus, Serrano and Jalapeño, learn about the history of donkeys and their interaction with humans over time. We'll also discuss the production of ejiao and using wildlife for medi...

Very pleased to say that I've just finished moving @alveussanctuary.org's Animal Quest series over to @cloudflare.social's Stream video-on-demand solution.

alveus.gg/aq/donkey-ed..., as well as all the other episodes, now use the Stream player with auto-generated captions included.

this is really sad

there are lots of solutions to the problem of pinning package manager versions but something distributed with node was the closest to a possible pragmatic solution

maintainers will have much more friction in our lives going forward

I’m losing my mind at the lack of fiber internet, and now my provider is telling me their estimate they gave for when it would be available is no longer valid. Sounds like I’m not getting fiber this year 🙄

All the new plant ambassadors are now up on the @alveussanctuary.org website with some great high-quality photos: alveus.gg/ambassadors#...

Genuinely not sure I had ever emptied the bin on this Mac, and I’ve had it since 2019

Yes, Alveus is a non-profit

It is definitely disheartening to see a substantial Discord community that you built and cared for over many years be completely abandoned by a company the second you leave it. Completely unmoderated and just full of spam now.

The brit in you is surfacing, that is all

Why are settings that can be org-aware not org-specific. I don't mind if this org doesn't want me using Copilot on PRs in their org, but this now prevents me using it in *any* org, including ones where I was actively using it before...

Please fix this policy management @github.com

So turns out that if you have your own @github.com Copilot subscription and then are also given a subscription by an org, that org can then manage your access to Copilot features globally... I can't use Copilot for PR reviews in any org now because they disabled it...