Tag: reference
BLS Payroll Survey Series ID Reference
What's the BLS series ID for healthcare, manufacturing, or information? Every Establishment Survey industry code in one page to help you build US payroll charts
ATProto glossary
A quick-reference glossary of AT Protocol terms — DID, PDS, XRPC, record, lexicon, AT-URI, AppView, DPoP, Bearer — each linked back to the overview pages.
Issues in the Repo
refs/bugs, refs/notes, refs/heads/ticgit, or a directory full of YAML.
Content addressing in package managers
Names are for humans, hashes are for everything else
Using IO's Local Certificates
How to make IO your local certificate authority.
Sunsetting a Package Manager
A frozen registry is the one place a package can never be patched again.
How Open Source Projects Change Hands
There are fewer ways to leave your package than to kill it.
Forms of Open Source Government
Open source has more forms of government than countries do.
Package Manager Patents
A reference list of patents and applications relevant to package manager design, with notes on prior art.
Install-script allowlists
A survey of install-script allowlist mechanisms across package managers and language ecosystems.
Skills Registry Threat Models
How long until we see a CVE filed against a markdown file?
Language Semiring
RegEx notation looks a lot like ring expressions.
MujiMasque Forum Rules
I’m setting up this site as a dedicated (and long-lasting, hopefully) space for discussion and appreciation of the band, Ave Mujica. I do not expect this to get too big, but just in case, here are some guidelines for how to navigate and post in this forum:
Package Security Problems for AI Agents
Packages all the way down, agents all the way up.
What does Open Source mean?
A stack of incompatible expectations.
Package Manager Easter Eggs
A tour of the easter eggs hiding inside package managers.
Git Diff Drivers
What git's diff drivers can do, from built-in language support to custom textconv filters.
Package Manager Mirroring
Every mirroring tool I could find, and the protocols underneath them.
Git Remote Helpers
Git can talk to anything if you write the right helper.
100 Posts
This is post number 100.
The Explorer's Trial
Exploring different utilities
Package Manager Magic Files
Package manager magic files and where to find them: .npmrc, MANIFEST.in, Directory.Packages.props, .pnpmfile.cjs, and more.
Forge-Specific Repository Folders
Magic folders in git forges: what .github/, .gitlab/, .gitea/, .forgejo/ and .bitbucket/ do.
AI Agent Directory on Bluesky/ATProto
A catalog of AI agents operating on Bluesky/ATProto as of April 2026. Focus: architecture, governance, and what makes each interesting.
Package Manager Podcast Episodes
A reference list of podcast episodes about package managers, grouped by ecosystem.
Dependency Resolution Methods
A reference on how package managers solve the version constraint satisfaction problem, from SAT solvers to content-addressed stores.
Git's Magic Files
Magic files and where to find them: .gitignore, .gitattributes, .mailmap, .git-blame-ignore-revs, .lfsconfig, and more.
2026 New Year's Resolution
This is my New Year's Resolution - The 3 Doohickey System
Package Manager People
People who built, maintain, or research package managers.
Package Manager Glossary
A cross-ecosystem glossary of package management terms.
Package Management Blog Posts
Blog posts, talks, and essays that changed how people think about dependency management.
The Package Management Landscape
A directory of tools, systems, and services that relate to package management.
Categorizing Package Manager Clients
Sorting package manager clients by resolution algorithms, lockfile strategies, build hooks, and manifest formats.
Categorizing Package Registries
Sorting package registries by architecture, review model, namespacing, governance, and other structural differences.
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
This is a critique of the Frieren: Beyond Journey's End series's season 1
The Phoenician Scheme Critique
This is a critique of The Phoenician Scheme (2025) by Wes Anderson.
Package Manager Design Tradeoffs
Design tradeoffs in package managers
What is a Package Manager?
What is a package manager? Perhaps quite a few more components than you might think
Documenting Package Manager Data
Six repositories documenting how package managers work: commands, manifests, APIs, hooks, and more.
Extending Git Functionality
A practical guide to the different ways you can extend git: subcommands, filters, hooks, remote helpers, and more.
Package Manager Timeline
A chronological timeline of package manager releases, major milestones, and significant events in the history of software dependency management.
Package Management Papers
A collection of academic research papers on package management systems, dependency resolution, supply chain security, and software ecosystems.
Kuba Suder: Introduction to AT Protocol
Running IO with Docker
The best way to run IO is with its Docker container. Here's how.
IO Header Parameters
Here are the HTTP header parameters that IO uses.
Ask Me Anything
IO Command-Line Options
Controlling IO from the command line.
IO Configuration Reference
Here's how you can configure IO using its HCL-based configuration language.
MCP Tools Usage Guide
So, since the Model Context Protocol (MCP) was announced at the end of November 2024 I immediately saw the potential that this could offer me. Me being a person that likes to gather information to add to an LLMs context before doing anything. When...