Product at @TrustVanta focusing on privacy and data security. Formerly @Vercel, @GitHub, @Microsoft. Maintainer of @libgit2.
Cambridge, UK
Joined April 2008
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It’s October 1 — the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act takes effect today!
Do you know where the personal data lives in your organization? What tools are you using to track this and maintain records?
Throughout my career, I’ve focused on developer tools… mostly because I checked the wrong box on a form once…
I thought "vibe coding" was silly... until I watched my design counterpart — who has never written a line of code in his life — create a real outcome. Watching him succeed with these tools was the breakthrough for me to become a believer.
What made vibe coding real for _you_?
Edward Thomson retweeted
Celebrating by watching @ethomson's really cool talk on hidden Git features and functionality at NDC London last week
youtu.be/DZI0Zl-1JqQ
Edward Thomson retweeted
Great talk by @ethomson about git
Worth watching 📺 link in the comment 👇
ALT YouTube cover thumbnail that show a photo of a bold man in glasses in checkered shirt on the right and on the left there is a title "You Don't Know Git" by Edward Thomson Product Manager, Stacklok from NDC { London }
What’s an example of a developer tool with “great taste”? And why? What does that phrase mean to you?
Update: it didn’t arrive in March… new delivery date: September. A rare Amazon logistics failure, but what a complete failure it is.
Who’s at #NDCLondon this week and wants to talk about security and privacy with AI models and generated code?
Let me buy you a coffee. (DMs open.) ☕️
Edward Thomson retweeted
Gitlip Editors: Demo Launch 🌷
Gitlip is a collaborative coding platform, and today we’re launching the demo for Gitlip Editors - our take on collaborative coding environments.
If you've ever wanted to collaborate on Markdown or code with the convenience of Google Docs, our demo is for you.
When you use generative AI to write code, do you know how much local state you send in context? Are you concerned about sending PII to the models? If so, do you do something about it?
20%Yes! I scrub PII manually
20%Concerned but don't act
30%Not concerned
30%Should I be worried!? 😵
10 votes • Final results
VS Code users: when you work with multiple different projects, do you open one VS Code window for all of them, or separate windows for each project?
7%One window for everything
90%Window per project
2%Something else? (Reply!)
42 votes • Final resultsI’m really excited about this release, and I intend for this to be the last v1.x. I plan for the next release to be v2.0, moving SHA256 support out of experimental phase and into the standard builds of the library itself.
Announcing @libgit2 v1.9.0, with many new features, bug fixes, and compatibility improvements. github.com/libgit2/libgit2/r…
