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:
- Checking out the branch from a fork in GitHub Actions, when using pull_request_target
- Disabling zsh history for a given shell session
- Generating Go code from JSON Schema documents
I blog as a form of documentation, as noted in my post Blogumentation - Writing Blog Posts as a Method of Documentation:
- Checking out the branch from a fork in GitHub Actions, when using pull_request_target
- Disabling zsh history for a given shell session
- Generating Go code from JSON Schema documents
- Creating cross-compiled Docker images from Go binaries
- Accessing your Renovate Dependency Dashboard, without GitHub/GitLab Issues enabled
I track articles and resources that I recommend I/others read as bookmarks on my site, the latest of which are:
- https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/06/11/github-actions-policies-dumb-bypass
- If you are useful, it doesn’t mean you are valued
- 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
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#24.
I like to track my data in IndieWeb fashion. For instance, the last book I read was Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins, and yesterday, I took 4450 steps.
This is an autogenerated README, which is automagically deployed using GitHub Actions.