Hey, I'm Jamie Tanna (he/him/his) 👋
I'm currently a Senior Developer and Open Source project maintainer at Mend, and I'm currently based in Nottingham.
I have a /now page, which aims to be a more up-to-date about page.
If you're looking at how best to work with me, you may want to read my Manual of Me.
I use my personal website as a method of blogging about my learnings, as well as sharing information about projects I have previously, or am currently, working on in my spare time.
Right now, my two biggest Open Source side projects are dependency-management-data and oapi-codegen, and the SAAS platform deps.fyi.
As well as them, I maintain a number of other Open Source projects, and primarily use GitLab for my source control, but also use GitHub for some things.
You may also know me for being very public with sharing my salary history publicly.
I write a fair bit on my blog:
- Creating a gh CLI extension for creating GitHub Discussions via category forms
- Using jqp for interactive queries with jq
- Determining the digest for a GitHub Action
I blog as a form of documentation, as noted in my post Blogumentation - Writing Blog Posts as a Method of Documentation:
- Creating a gh CLI extension for creating GitHub Discussions via category forms
- Using jqp for interactive queries with jq
- Determining the digest for a GitHub Action
- Setting up govulncheck in GitHub Actions with GitHub Code Scanning alerts
- Gotcha: referencing symlinks with go:embed result in irregular file errors
I track articles and resources that I recommend I/others read as bookmarks on my site, the latest of which are:
- https://refactoringenglish.com/chapters/release-announcements/
- https://ohhelloana.blog/my-indieweb-journey/
- Why MCP’s Disregard for 40 Years of RPC Best Practices Will Burn Enterprises
- If you're remote, ramble
- https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/06/11/github-actions-policies-dumb-bypass
I also write Week Notes as a way of summarising what's going on in my life. The last one can be found at Week Notes 25#38.
I like to track my data in IndieWeb fashion. For instance, the last book I read was Caliban's war by James S. A. Corey, and yesterday, I took 5501 steps.
This is an autogenerated README, which is automagically deployed using GitHub Actions.