README

Welcome to readme.jvt.me.

Hey, I’m Jamie Tanna (he/him/his) 👋

I’m currently a Senior Software Engineer at Elastic, 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:

• Looking back at oapi-codegen’s last year
• Overriding a Gradle project property which has . and characters, without modifying the buildscript_
• How to set up the ‘Follow’ button on LinkedIn

I blog as a form of documentation, as noted in my post Blogumentation - Writing Blog Posts as a Method of Documentation:

• Overriding a Gradle project property which has . and characters, without modifying the buildscript_
• How to set up the ‘Follow’ button on LinkedIn
• Migrating secrets between two Vault instances
• Using type assertions in Go with concrete types
• Getting Renovate to provide a changelog for digest updates to packages (on GitHub.com)

I track articles and resources that I recommend I/others read as bookmarks on my site, the latest of which are:

• XKCD’s “Is It Worth the Time?” Considered Harmful
• https://marcusnoble.co.uk/2025-04-30-my-tips-on-giving-technical-talks/
• Just Enough Docs | LornaJane
• What Makes a Great Developer Experience? » Code Simplicity
• Bored of it

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#18.

I like to track my data in IndieWeb fashion. For instance, the last book I read was From Project to Profit by Heather Meeker, and yesterday, I took 7809 steps.

This is an autogenerated README, which is automagically deployed using GitLab CI.