At this point of the year, my morning walk is soundtracked by owls hooting

Misty morning 🌅

It's now possible to deploy a custom domain in a single deployment with @azurecontainerapps.io - you can read details on how in this (old and updated) blog post: johnnyreilly.com/azure-contai...

It's quite frustrating that npm does nothing to surface if a package is being published using trusted publishing. There's no information in the CI terminal, there's no information on npm's website for a given package. All you can do is not supply the npm token.. [1/2] docs.npmjs.com/trusted-publ...

The Southbank is so unexpected and so magnificent sometimes

@azurecontainerapps.io has long had a bug with managed certificates and custom domains. The workaround has been a source of much of my blog traffic. The fix is now out, but that seems to require special treatment if you use azd deploy - will blog on it shortly. johnnyreilly.com/azure-contai...

I'm listening to Mike Skinner reading The Story of the Streets and it's sooo good. Like him, I grew up imbibing 90s Easy Coast hip hop, as a white kid in the UK suburbs. His self knowledge&lack of ego make it a fascinating hear. I keep having to rewind - I like Mike www.audible.co.uk/pd/B007XFG0I...

Self reviews were a good idea before AI but are now a necessity. Don't put that burden on your co-workers. If you use AI, review it 🤖

Went on a biltong mission with the family and unexpectedly stumbled on the spot where Marc Bolan of T. Rex sadly ended his days

A lamppost in the rain, in the dark, in Autumn 🍁

It's the annual drain off, where they mostly empty the river so the banks can be maintained. Look closely and you'll see boats sitting on the riverbed

Golden hiring opp.

Josh is a fantastic engineer, speaker and all round thoughtful human being. I recommend him wholeheartedly. If you have a wonderful role you're looking to fill, please consider Josh!

Some clouds have had trouble in the last day. The London cloud situation this morning is stunning 🌅

The picture doesn't do it justice, but the autumn colours are glorious 🍁

Lovely walk into the office with @ashley-c.bsky.social 🌅

A scarf is now necessary to keep me warm

For nine straight years, HalfStack has been my favourite web conference. Friendly. Informal. Fun. Everything a conference should be.

Back home. And 20 degrees cooler. The clocks moved back last night so going from Malta to the UK amounts to a 2 hour time change

Me in front of the remains of the Azure Window. It predates the "other Azure" by centuries but has been suffering an outage since 2017; when it fell into the sea. Local rumours on Gozo persist that this was an example of Microsoft seeking to squash brand competition en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_W...

Waiting in the Maltese morning for our boat to leave to the island of Gozo. Noticed that the boats next to us were quite unusual. Apparently they are shooting a Bollywood movie

A heroic PR on Definitely Typed in preparation for TS 6: github.com/DefinitelyTy... A reminder that @andrewbran.ch is champion of all things TypeScript and modules related

We are still looking for feedback on tsgo, but it is worth calling out we expect some type-checking changes that you may need to adapt to. The native previews are easy to grab from npm, and are published nightly to try out! www.npmjs.com/package/@typ...

I wrote a post with @logrocket.bsky.social on the pros, cons and "huh, interesting"s of using AI to ship code. Replit, GitHub Copilot, that sort of thing. Ended up waaaay longer than planned but I hope you enjoy it. blog.logrocket.com/ai-assisted-...

Way back when pubs first started having TVs which disrupted conversation, an enterprising fellow got a universal remote and launched a guerrilla campaign to quiet the noise and bring back the chat. I'm ready, the world is ready, for the equivalent for people who play TikTok audio out loud on buses

Somehow this passed me by when it came out. So nice to see @joshuakgoldberg.com and @jakebailey.dev talking TypeScript!

It's very quiet now. Last night two things happened: 1. Our cat ran away. 2. Diwali was celebrated in the neighbourhood with many, many fireworks. After many hours I'm happy to say the cat was discovered cowering under a car. Glad she's home 🙀🎇

I'm really quite soggy now

NO!!!!! - dashare.zone ADMIN

I presently have two entries on my "open source projects to start" list. Both things exist in some way already, but aren't quite the shape I'd like. Will I ever get round to actually starting them? 🤔

Have reached the stage of parenthood where my son is offered the opportunity to sit with me on the train or elsewhere in the cabin.... And he picks elsewhere! 😭

I'd highly recommend watching the documentary The Librarians. It talks about the situation in US libraries, and is both moving and a little scary. The UK isn't perfect but I remain glad of our libraries. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002kkmj It's on @bbciplayer.bsky.social if you're in the UK.

Today I may experiment porting azdo-npm-auth to use changesets instead of release-it. I love release-it, but fighting GitHub to write a CHANGELOG on main is too hard. And after initial misunderstanding (apologies @jakebailey.dev) I think I can move that to the PR itself! github.com/johnnyreilly...

If you use the Azure Developer CLIs azd provision to deploy container apps, you might be impacted by a regression in 1.20.0. it only hits if you're using the optimisation to only deploy resources when there are changes. It looks like a fix is on the way github.com/Azure/azure-...

The whole npm token shenanigans has got me looking again at my continuous deployment setup. I hadn't realised just how hard GitHub make it to have automation write to your CHANGELOG.md on main. It explains why I see less file CHANGELOGs in repos these days. "This is too tough; GitHub releases it is"

Woke up to news on npm security changes. Everyone who maintains npm packages probably has some work to do for each package they maintain. And quickly given the dates outlined here github.blog/changelog/20...

Morning walk is now entirely in darkness

End to end integration compilation tests, regardless of your backend language? Oh yes we can! johnnyreilly.com/keeping-fron...

Spotted under a bridge near Waterloo. Unsure if this is an address or a VERY BIG status code

"If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter" - this is a memo that AI coding tools have yet to to take on board. knip.dev totally has though. I just used it to put an AI generated codebase through the deadwood colander and I'm very happy with the results!