Recommended read: Level of Effort https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/level-of-effort/
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Jamie Tanna
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#web.
Developers shouldn't distribute their own software
Recommended read: Developers shouldn't distribute their own software https://drewdevault.com/2019/12/09/Developers-shouldnt-distribute.html
by Jamie Tanna
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#linux.
I thought something weird was happening - I've not seen any incoming webmentions since Friday from my own posts, and it seems that my webmention sending post-deploy isn't working.
I'll look into that tonight!
by Jamie Tanna
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In the Beginning was the Website
Recommended read: In the Beginning was the Website https://desmondrivet.com/2019/12/08/intro-to-indie-web
by Jamie Tanna
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#indieweb
#personal-website
#blogging
#ownership
#ethics
#decentralisation.
Recommended read: 2019 Firefox Flashback https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/flashback/
by Jamie Tanna
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#firefox.
Interactive Gender Pay Gap Tool
Recommended read: Interactive Gender Pay Gap Tool https://www.starlingbank.com/current-account/tools/interactive-gender-pay-gap-tool/
by Jamie Tanna
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Zsh prompt with asynchronous Git status
This is an interesting idea - I've not been bitten by it before, but may be worth adding to my dotfiles anyway
Recommended read: Zsh prompt with asynchronous Git status https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2019-zsh-async-vcs-info
by Jamie Tanna
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#zsh
#git
#dotfiles.
Choose Your Docker Base Image Wisely
Version pinning is always a difficult line to walk - you don't want things to change when you're not expecting them to (such as here) but you also don't want to be pinned to really old versions of software, as that increases risk
Recommended read: Choose Your Docker Base Image Wisely https://www.innoq.com/en/blog/choose-your-docker-base-image-wisely/
Configuring a Jenkins Multibranch Pipeline to Use an External Script with Job DSL (2 mins read).
How to set up a Multibranch Pipeline to use an external Git repo for running your Jenkins script.
ChefSpec Gotcha: Using render_file When Deleting Files (2 mins read).
How to use render_file with ChefSpec when you're deleting the file.
What Stable Kernel Should I Use?
Recommended read: What Stable Kernel Should I Use? http://kroah.com/log/blog/2018/08/24/what-stable-kernel-should-i-use/
by Jamie Tanna
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#linux.
Reply to https://lostfocus.de/2019/12/26782/
I had a quick look at the API but it doesn't seem to have a way to look at the user's play history. May require more digging, or using something like Last.FM
by Jamie Tanna
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Thames Water don't get password security
Recommended read: Thames Water don't get password security https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/12/thames-water-dont-get-password-security/
by Jamie Tanna
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#security.
Linux exists only because of a happy accident
Recommended read: Linux exists only because of a happy accident https://augustl.com/blog/2019/linus_and_linux_happy_accident/
by Jamie Tanna
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#linux.
Recommended read: Improving CLIs with isatty https://blog.jez.io/cli-tty/
by Jamie Tanna
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#command-line.
How to Fix Social Media by Injecting A Chunk of the Blogosphere
Recommended read: How to Fix Social Media by Injecting A Chunk of the Blogosphere https://kottke.org/19/01/how-to-fix-social-media-by-injecting-a-chunk-of-the-blogosphere
Defragmenting your Calendar and your Outlook
Recommended read: Defragmenting your Calendar and your Outlook https://www.hanselman.com/blog/DefragmentingYourCalendarAndYourOutlook.aspx
by Jamie Tanna
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#productivity.
PHPMiNDS August - the Politics of Tool Shaming (7 mins read).
A writeup of James' talk at PHPMiNDS about the impacts of criticising others for their technology choices.
by Jamie Tanna
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#events
#neurodiversity
#diversity-and-inclusion
#phpminds.
Being in First Class on a train is great and all (only £2 more expensive than an open return - bargain!) but they can't make tea correctly. They put the milk in first!!
by Jamie Tanna
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After seeing my Spotify Wrapped playlist for the year, and some of the usage stats, I think I'm definitely going to be writing an application to get that data out for myself and my own usages
by Jamie Tanna
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#indieweb.
Day 2 - 15 Ways to Make On-Call More Fun
Recommended read: Day 2 - 15 Ways to Make On-Call More Fun https://sysadvent.blogspot.com/2019/12/day-2-15-ways-to-make-on-call-more-fun.html?m=1
by Jamie Tanna
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#on-call.
Recommended read: It was 20 years ago today http://boston.conman.org/2019/12/04.1
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogging.
Properly managing your `.gitignore` file
Recommended read: Properly managing your `.gitignore` file https://julien.danjou.info/properly-managing-your-gitignore/
by Jamie Tanna
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#git.
Recommended read: Big Pile of Vim-like https://vim.reversed.top/
by Jamie Tanna
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#vim.
Recommended read: No Time To Die Trailer https://youtu.be/Og2vYP7VzUs
by Jamie Tanna
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Reply to https://realize.be/reply/content/1968
Thanks, I've raised https://github.com/swentel/indigenous-android/issues/262 for it
by Jamie Tanna
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Setting up a directory for OpenSSL's SSL_CERT_DIR (2 mins read).
How to configure a directory of trusted certificates for OpenSSL to trust.
Locking Your Machine Before Suspending Using systemd (2 mins read).
How to get systemd to automagically lock your machine before it suspends.
Recommended read: Black Widow Teaser Trailer https://youtu.be/tXXZOKQ9VU8
by Jamie Tanna
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#marvel.