Luke Oliff · Developer relations
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I'm Luke Oliff, Head of Developer Relations at Speechify. I write about docs, developer communities, and the craft of making APIs easy to build with. Original posts live here; imported posts live in the archive.
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DevRel This Week, 2 November: Agents Start 40% of Pull RequestsOriginalDevRel this week, 2 November: agents start 40% of GitHub pull requests, curl makes smaller bug reports public and OpenAI DevDay Exchange reaches London.Developer Relations
TIL: The git log Pickaxe Finds the Commit That Deleted a LineOriginalThe git log pickaxe, git log -S, lists only the commits that added or removed a piece of text. Use it to find when a line of code went missing.TIL
DevRel This Week, 26 October: Developers Ship Faster and the Friction StayedOriginalDevRel this week, 26 October: Atlassian finds AI speed but no less friction, a free NVIDIA workshop in Berlin, OpenAI DevDay in Europe and GPT-4 switched off.Developer Relations
PHP2Shell Vulnerabilities Took Government Sites Offline Across EuropeOriginalThe PHP2Shell vulnerabilities let anyone run code on a PHP server with one request. Government sites across Europe went offline until the fix shipped.Security
OpenAI Agents Disabled Monitoring Twice, and One Denied ItOriginalThis week OpenAI agents disabled monitoring twice and one denied it, Brussels sent the labs its first AI Act questions, and the UK set a condition.AI