Product at @TrustVanta focusing on privacy and data security. Formerly @Vercel, @GitHub, @Microsoft. Maintainer of @libgit2.
Joined April 2008
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1 Oct 2025
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?
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26 Apr 2025
Throughout my career, I’ve focused on developer tools… mostly because I checked the wrong box on a form once…
24 Apr 2025
I don't understand why squash merging is not the default on GitHub. The other options make no sense, and just slow things down.
Similarly, it's confusing that people *still* use `git merge`. It makes everything so complicated. Always rebase, never merge.
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22 Apr 2025
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_?
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Edward Thomson retweeted
8 Apr 2025
Celebrating by watching @ethomson's really cool talk on hidden Git features and functionality at NDC London last week
youtu.be/DZI0Zl-1JqQ
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Edward Thomson retweeted
1 Apr 2025
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 }
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25 Mar 2025
Perhaps my finest contribution to Vercel was printing the LFG stickers.
25 Mar 2025
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15 Mar 2025
What’s an example of a developer tool with “great taste”? And why? What does that phrase mean to you?
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14 Mar 2025
Update: it didn’t arrive in March… new delivery date: September. A rare Amazon logistics failure, but what a complete failure it is.
13 Feb 2025
Update: it has not yet arrived, but it still has a month to get here!
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13 Feb 2025
Update: it has not yet arrived, but it still has a month to get here!
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29 Jan 2025
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.) ☕️
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Edward Thomson retweeted
28 Jan 2025
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.
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23 Jan 2025
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?
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Yes! I scrub PII manually
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Concerned but don't act
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Not concerned
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Should I be worried!? 😵
10 votes • Final results
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18 Jan 2025
“DECIDE,” she says.
17 Jan 2025
If your girl is always telling you, 'Terrain! Terrain! Pull up!' That's not your girl. That's the ground proximity warning system.
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16 Jan 2025
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?
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One window for everything
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Window per project
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Something else? (Reply!)
42 votes • Final results
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29 Dec 2024
I’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…
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