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I joined the No Kings protest in San Mateo California today and walked the two miles from Hillsdale Mall to Central Park with hundreds (maybe more). It was encouraging to see everyone with their signs, their voices, exercising their rights, and hear the cars honking their horns in solidarity.
October 19, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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September 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."

Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.
Jimmy Kimmel Returns: ABC Ends Suspension Starting Tuesday
Jimmy Kimmel will return to late night on Tuesday
variety.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I stand with Kimmel. I stand for the right to free speech.
September 18, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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What do Ruth Asawa’s sculptures have to do with Keeping Developers online?
Let's talk about it! Catch my session as part of the Secure Track at #GitHubUniverse.

🗓️ Oct 28 -29 | San Francisco + Virtual
gh.io/universe-spe...
September 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Some musings on how designing collaborations is providing more value than building automations for me at work these days. jonmagic.com/posts/design...
Designing Collaborations, Not Just Automations
How the blind pursuit of automation can distract from the more important goal of building understanding and how designing collaborations may be the future of coding careers.
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September 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I just finished rewriting a post I first published for coworkers inside GitHub a few months ago so that I could share it with you 😀 The past few years but especially the past few months I've transformed the way I work to leverage transcripts, prompts, and LLMs and I hope these tips can help you too!
Context Rules Everything Around Me
Capture once, reuse everywhere. I record meetings, auto-transcribe, then feed transcripts to AI prompts for summaries, action lists, and architecture drafts. Context Rules Everything Around Me.
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July 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This week as the last RailsConf takes place I reflect on how Rails led me to a career in software development, from the first RailsConf in 2006, joining OrderedList in 2010, being GitHub’s first acquihire in 2011, and 13+ years helping build and protect it since. jonmagic.com/posts/farewe...
Farewell RailsConf and Thank You For Everything
Reflecting on 20 years as a Rails developer, attending the first RailsConf and the career it led to, and celebrating it's impact on my life.
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July 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I’m blogging again and doing even more open source work as I try to contribute to the collective brain. jonmagic.com/posts/the-un...
The Uncertain Future of Coding Careers and Why I'm Still Hopeful
My thoughts on the future of coding careers in the age of AI, and why I believe that human creativity and ingenuity will always be in demand.
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July 10, 2025 at 4:22 AM
New 10k PR today! It’s been many months since my last PR. I think the combination of colder weather and sweatpants plus headphones were holding me back. Today I decided to switch to shorts and take out the headphones right before I left the house and it felt fantastic.
January 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Hi, I’m jonmagic on the interwebs 👋🏻 I work at GitHub (13 years today!) and just accepted an offer for a new role as a principal engineer for our Safety and Integrity team focused on stopping abuse@scale and supporting the Trust & Safety and Privacy teams at GitHub with engineering work.
December 5, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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Today, GitHub announced a Secure Open Source Fund aimed at supporting and enhancing the security of open source software backed with +$1.25MM in funding from partners.

github.blog/news-insight...

Grants of 10k available and they come with “office hours” support from GitHub security
November 19, 2024 at 9:17 PM