In 2022, I left Google in search of a sustainable approach to open source maintenance. A year later, I was a full-time independent professional open source maintainer.
Today I’m announcing the natural progression of that experiment: Geomys, a small firm of professional maintainers with a portfolio of critical Go projects.
Nicola Murino, the maintainer of x/crypto/ssh, and @dominik@mastodon.honnef.co, the maintainer of Staticcheck and Gotraceui, are Geomys’ first Associate Maintainers ✨
https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/geomys/?source=Mastodon
Just refreshed the whoami.filippo.io database.
If you are one of the “lucky 10,000” who’s never heard of it, try
$ ssh whoami.filippo.io
I edited my Cross-Site Request Forgery countermeasures research into a stand-alone article, including recommendations reusable by other projects.
tl;dr: no need for tokens or keys, modern browsers tell you if a request is cross-origin!
https://words.filippo.io/csrf?source=Mastodon
I’m on my way to GopherCon UK!
If you want to chat about Go and security, catch me and @roland@abyssdomain.expert there, exceptionally in the same physical space!
The Go 1.25 change I am most excited about is the new synctest package.
How I think about it is as a way to deflake tests by simulating an infinitely fast processor (because time doesn’t move until all work is done), and then shorten them by compressing time (because time jumps once it moves).
https://hachyderm.io/@golang/115018033878867846
Wish I had the time to get involved in the new code hosts. So many opportunities GitHub consistently missed.
e.g. a tlog of (optionally signed) git pushes, to use as offline-verifiable proof of provenance for any tag or commit. Unlike commit signing, no key management or client config. Instant win.
FYI, I will be taking the second half of July off work 🏝
️ and maaaaybe / hopefully also off social media. I do need the break 😮💨
(If we work together and you need a response / need me to do something before the holidays, let me know ASAP or I might forget!)
In 2022, I left Google in search of a sustainable approach to open source maintenance. A year later, I was a full-time independent professional open source maintainer.
Today I’m announcing the natural progression of that experiment: Geomys, a small firm of professional maintainers with a portfolio of critical Go projects.
Nicola Murino, the maintainer of x/crypto/ssh, and @dominik@mastodon.honnef.co, the maintainer of Staticcheck and Gotraceui, are Geomys’ first Associate Maintainers ✨
https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/geomys/?source=Mastodon
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