John McBride
@johncodes.com
🌊 | Co-Founder & CTO @ <stealth> | 🥡 Prev: Zuplo, Linux Foundation, OpenSauced, AWS, VMware, Pivotal | 🕺 https://johncodes.com
How did we unlock a fully local, cached, reproducible build and release CI/CD that cross compiles Go CGO binaries? With @dagger.io and @ziglang.bsky.social of course!
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Cross compiling CGO with Dagger and Zig
Cross compiling CGO with Dagger and Zig
johncodes.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:52 PM
How did we unlock a fully local, cached, reproducible build and release CI/CD that cross compiles Go CGO binaries? With @dagger.io and @ziglang.bsky.social of course!
johncodes.com/archive/2026...
johncodes.com/archive/2026...
📼 Introducing tapes: transparent telemetry for your AI agents
Last week, we open sourced tapes, a new tool for agentic telemetry. We built this to help you understand the "what", "why", and "how" of your agents. It also requires zero code changes!!
johncodes.com/archive/2026...
Last week, we open sourced tapes, a new tool for agentic telemetry. We built this to help you understand the "what", "why", and "how" of your agents. It also requires zero code changes!!
johncodes.com/archive/2026...
Introducing tapes: transparent AI agent telemetry
Introducing tapes: transparent AI agent telemetry
johncodes.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:59 PM
📼 Introducing tapes: transparent telemetry for your AI agents
Last week, we open sourced tapes, a new tool for agentic telemetry. We built this to help you understand the "what", "why", and "how" of your agents. It also requires zero code changes!!
johncodes.com/archive/2026...
Last week, we open sourced tapes, a new tool for agentic telemetry. We built this to help you understand the "what", "why", and "how" of your agents. It also requires zero code changes!!
johncodes.com/archive/2026...
📼 We've shipped a TUI for tapes!! Want to understand your previous agent sessions? Want to see success rates? Want to quickly grok token costs? We got it!
February 6, 2026 at 4:57 PM
📼 We've shipped a TUI for tapes!! Want to understand your previous agent sessions? Want to see success rates? Want to quickly grok token costs? We got it!
📼 Introducing tapes: transparent AI agentic telemetry. In every single AI session or workflow, there's an incredible amount of lost information on the "what", "why", and "how".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATeU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATeU...
I started a company.
YouTube video by John McBride
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January 31, 2026 at 8:01 PM
📼 Introducing tapes: transparent AI agentic telemetry. In every single AI session or workflow, there's an incredible amount of lost information on the "what", "why", and "how".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATeU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATeU...
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Save open source. Star my repo github.com/papercompute...
GitHub - papercomputeco/tapes: Transparent telemetry collector for agents
Transparent telemetry collector for agents. Contribute to papercomputeco/tapes development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 31, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Save open source. Star my repo github.com/papercompute...
Curious what I’ve been up to? Check it out: 🦞
What does long term care for agents look like?
Wrote about tapes, an open source project @johncodes.com and I have been working on these past 2 weeks.
briandouglas.me/posts/2026/0...
Wrote about tapes, an open source project @johncodes.com and I have been working on these past 2 weeks.
briandouglas.me/posts/2026/0...
January 31, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Curious what I’ve been up to? Check it out: 🦞
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I'm once again reviving this meme template for the Kubernetes community
January 29, 2026 at 10:09 PM
I'm once again reviving this meme template for the Kubernetes community
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Joint statement from Kubernetes Steering and Security Response Committees: In March 2026, Kubernetes will retire Ingress NGINX, a piece of critical infrastructure for about half of cloud native environments. This is an emergency. Please pay attention.
kubernetes.io/blog/2026/01...
kubernetes.io/blog/2026/01...
Ingress NGINX: Statement from the Kubernetes Steering and Security Response Committees
In March 2026, Kubernetes will retire Ingress NGINX, a piece of critical infrastructure for about half of cloud native environments. The retirement of Ingress NGINX was announced for March 2026, after...
kubernetes.io
January 29, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Joint statement from Kubernetes Steering and Security Response Committees: In March 2026, Kubernetes will retire Ingress NGINX, a piece of critical infrastructure for about half of cloud native environments. This is an emergency. Please pay attention.
kubernetes.io/blog/2026/01...
kubernetes.io/blog/2026/01...
+1 It’s not just kubernetes nginx ingress: it’s the whole ecosystem. Open source program offices have been absolutely gutted and open source funding has dried up.
It’s a travesty that it takes a monumental project dying on the vine for people to wake up. The OSS maintenance tsunami is coming.
It’s a travesty that it takes a monumental project dying on the vine for people to wake up. The OSS maintenance tsunami is coming.
incredible that everyone just looked at a drowning project and said "ah well, hopefully someone else will help" until they all watched in unison as it fully died
the absolute state of OSS. horrifying stuff
the absolute state of OSS. horrifying stuff
January 29, 2026 at 11:58 PM
+1 It’s not just kubernetes nginx ingress: it’s the whole ecosystem. Open source program offices have been absolutely gutted and open source funding has dried up.
It’s a travesty that it takes a monumental project dying on the vine for people to wake up. The OSS maintenance tsunami is coming.
It’s a travesty that it takes a monumental project dying on the vine for people to wake up. The OSS maintenance tsunami is coming.
Ok, but what do you mean Claude Code won't respond to my obscure star trek references 😭
January 29, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Ok, but what do you mean Claude Code won't respond to my obscure star trek references 😭
Still, over 10 years latter, the work by Onsi on Ginkgo and Gomega are having a huge impact on my dev flow. Providing really rich and expressive BDD testing in Go is incredible, especially in the age of AI assisted code editing
onsi.github.io/ginkgo
onsi.github.io/ginkgo
Ginkgo is sometimes described as a "Behavior Driven Development" (BDD) framework. In reality, Ginkgo is a general purpose testing framework in active use across a wide variety of testing contexts: unit tests, integration tests, acceptance test, performance tests, etc.
onsi.github.io
January 29, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Still, over 10 years latter, the work by Onsi on Ginkgo and Gomega are having a huge impact on my dev flow. Providing really rich and expressive BDD testing in Go is incredible, especially in the age of AI assisted code editing
onsi.github.io/ginkgo
onsi.github.io/ginkgo
"There is no secure ai enclave, Neo"
I continue to bang the gong on how crazy it is we're shipping and integrating all these agentic systems with critical services with nearly zero guardrails.
johncodes.com/archive/2026...
I continue to bang the gong on how crazy it is we're shipping and integrating all these agentic systems with critical services with nearly zero guardrails.
johncodes.com/archive/2026...
there is no secure ai enclave
there is no secure ai enclave
johncodes.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:13 PM
"There is no secure ai enclave, Neo"
I continue to bang the gong on how crazy it is we're shipping and integrating all these agentic systems with critical services with nearly zero guardrails.
johncodes.com/archive/2026...
I continue to bang the gong on how crazy it is we're shipping and integrating all these agentic systems with critical services with nearly zero guardrails.
johncodes.com/archive/2026...
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I paid my therapist a zillion dollars to tell me this, so I’m passing it on to anyone else in MN who needs to hear it:
Think of taking time away to recharge not as not doing the work, but as doing quality control for the work. You’re not going to be able to show up to do it well if you’re depleted
Think of taking time away to recharge not as not doing the work, but as doing quality control for the work. You’re not going to be able to show up to do it well if you’re depleted
January 27, 2026 at 11:17 PM
I paid my therapist a zillion dollars to tell me this, so I’m passing it on to anyone else in MN who needs to hear it:
Think of taking time away to recharge not as not doing the work, but as doing quality control for the work. You’re not going to be able to show up to do it well if you’re depleted
Think of taking time away to recharge not as not doing the work, but as doing quality control for the work. You’re not going to be able to show up to do it well if you’re depleted
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This is very important: there is absolutely nothing new going on here.
The CVE, bug bounty, and security advisory systems embedded across tools like NPM and GitHub, while incredibly important, are built to be leveraged by the security industry, not software maintainers or vendors.
The CVE, bug bounty, and security advisory systems embedded across tools like NPM and GitHub, while incredibly important, are built to be leveraged by the security industry, not software maintainers or vendors.
What I’m hearing: large open source projects are being absolutely hammered by AI-generated security reports. To the point of not being able to handle them.
Feeling is lots of ppl want an easy way to put a CVE on their CV and collect $$ for bug bounty.
Super bad for maintainers
Feeling is lots of ppl want an easy way to put a CVE on their CV and collect $$ for bug bounty.
Super bad for maintainers
January 27, 2026 at 10:47 PM
This is very important: there is absolutely nothing new going on here.
The CVE, bug bounty, and security advisory systems embedded across tools like NPM and GitHub, while incredibly important, are built to be leveraged by the security industry, not software maintainers or vendors.
The CVE, bug bounty, and security advisory systems embedded across tools like NPM and GitHub, while incredibly important, are built to be leveraged by the security industry, not software maintainers or vendors.
Mistakes have been made.
January 27, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Mistakes have been made.
idk, might f around, go to starbucks, try to "ollama pull kimi-k2.5" over wifi, and find out.
January 27, 2026 at 8:38 PM
idk, might f around, go to starbucks, try to "ollama pull kimi-k2.5" over wifi, and find out.
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my therapist knows more about linting than any human should
January 27, 2026 at 2:20 PM
my therapist knows more about linting than any human should
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going to the .DS_store, anyone need anything?
January 27, 2026 at 1:34 AM
going to the .DS_store, anyone need anything?
OpenCode's plan mode is very very good: something I really missed in Amp. It's honestly nice to slow down, plan it out, and I feel I get much better results.
January 27, 2026 at 1:40 AM
OpenCode's plan mode is very very good: something I really missed in Amp. It's honestly nice to slow down, plan it out, and I feel I get much better results.
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Idea: clock that tells the time by looking up the IP address of docker container that crashes every second
January 25, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Idea: clock that tells the time by looking up the IP address of docker container that crashes every second
Who’s building the clubhouse / Twitter spaces of AT proto?
January 24, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Who’s building the clubhouse / Twitter spaces of AT proto?
because AMD is uninterested in supporting an ecosystem of software tooling: nvidia's moat is not just CUDA GPU drivers, it's infiniband, their k8s operators, dgx cloud, etc. etc. and all the software ecosystem support that comes along with it.
Nvidia is a software company that happens to sell GPUs.
Nvidia is a software company that happens to sell GPUs.
I don't get this headline-- claude code isn't a superhuman qualitative coder and if the cuda moat could 'just' be broken in 30 minutes of 2026 AI vibe coding it would be worth having hundreds of human programmers do it too, already, years earlier. what am I missing?
How funny would it be if AI models trained by Nvidia hardware destroyed Nvidia's moat?
wccftech.com/the-claude-c...
wccftech.com/the-claude-c...
January 24, 2026 at 1:37 AM
because AMD is uninterested in supporting an ecosystem of software tooling: nvidia's moat is not just CUDA GPU drivers, it's infiniband, their k8s operators, dgx cloud, etc. etc. and all the software ecosystem support that comes along with it.
Nvidia is a software company that happens to sell GPUs.
Nvidia is a software company that happens to sell GPUs.
> there were approximately 2,000 agents running concurrently at one time. And they were making, I believe, thousands of commits per hour.
🤯 the multi-agent future is here.
🤯 the multi-agent future is here.
I had a fascinating conversation with Wilson Lin about FastRender, the browser rendering engine he built with the help of 2,000+ coding agents over the past few weeks. It's 47m on YouTube or you can read my highlights here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/23/...
Wilson Lin on FastRender: a browser built by thousands of parallel agents
Last week Cursor published Scaling long-running autonomous coding, an article describing their research efforts into coordinating large numbers of autonomous coding agents. One of the projects mention...
simonwillison.net
January 24, 2026 at 1:18 AM
> there were approximately 2,000 agents running concurrently at one time. And they were making, I believe, thousands of commits per hour.
🤯 the multi-agent future is here.
🤯 the multi-agent future is here.