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Moving Teams after Three Years (4 mins read).
Announcing my move between teams at Capital One, and looking back over three years in my previous team.
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Diagnosing my Slow Netlify Deploy Times (2 mins read).
How I managed to shave off 7 minutes of my deploy time, (in true clickbait fashion) just by removing one line of code.
The Web Can't Survive a Monoculture
This is a great article on why we can't just let Google Chrome / Chromium take over the Web, and need to fight for other alternatives.
But as well as looking at the browsers, we need to look to the platforms too. If everyone ie uses Twitter, then Twitter are less likely to make changes because no one has an alternative. Whereas when we have multiple viable options, folks can jump around and use better platforms if they exist.
The IndieWeb is looking to do this - check out https://indieweb.org/why for a bit more info
Recommended read: The Web Can't Survive a Monoculture http://mikepennisi.com/blog/2019/the-web-cant-survive-a-monoculture/
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Day trip to London tomorrow, so 4+ hours on the train - hoping to finish my writeup of DevOpsDays London as it was a great conference and I'd love to share it with y'all!
Turns out my tests hadn't all passed 😂
https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/pull/6392 should work now!
I guess you could say I'm officially a Go developer now that I've made this tiny contribution to Hugo! https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/pull/6391
On Panic Attacks (3 mins read).
Remembering my first (and so far only) panic attack.
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Had a very exciting end to the week.
I'm looking forward to sharing some news on Monday - keep an eye out for a blog post!
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Apple Successfully Implements OpenID Connect with Sign In with Apple
This is very good news - open standards like OpenID Connect (OIDC) make interoperability and integration easier, so hats off to Apple!
Recommended read: Apple Successfully Implements OpenID Connect with Sign In with Apple https://openid.net/2019/09/30/apple-successfully-implements-openid-connect-with-sign-in-with-apple/
IndieWebCamp Amsterdam 2019 (19 mins read).
Recapping my time at IndieWebCamp Amsterdam, my first 'official' IndieWeb event, and meeting some of the big names in the community.
So very close to having my IWC Amsterdam blog post finished before WIT Notts - may have to see if I can get the last bit sorted before the talks start!
Blog service workers and the chicken and the egg
Recommended read: Blog service workers and the chicken and the egg https://remysharp.com/2019/10/01/blog-service-workers-and-the-chicken-and-the-egg
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Logs were our lifeblood. Now they're our liability
This is an interesting post, and is an important one to think about. We need to remember that although now we've got lax data privacy / retention laws, it's only going to get more user-focused and protect everyone more (which is universally a good thing!) but that we need to make sure we're architecting things in the right way to handle this.
Also, while you're thinking about this - have a read through some production logs and wonder "what could a bad actor do with these? Could they phish a customer? Could they steal their identity? Or are these so useless that we may as well not be logging anything at all?"
Recommended read: Logs were our lifeblood. Now they're our liability https://vicki.substack.com/p/logs-were-our-lifeblood-now-theyre
#Hacktoberfest PR #3 complete! https://github.com/phpminds/website/issues/136 - another productive #HomebrewWebsiteClub, and I even managed to support some other repos + get some stuff ready for maybe number 4
Great stuff, Ton! I hope you'll be able to use this to count towards https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com !
Completely agree with this, as a meetup organiser, and would go one step further to say if you're able to RSVP if you're not coming that'd help too, otherwise there's the assumption you'll turn up, especially if you're a regular!
Recommended read: RSVP Rant https://www.danclarke.com/rsvp-rant
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I will not be attending Cyber Nottingham - October Meetup on
It's a shame as this sounds good, but it clashes with https://www.jvt.me/events/homebrew-website-club-nottingham/2019/10/16/ and as it's Hacktoberfest it's going to be pretty busy, methinks!
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Hey, can you share a bit more what you mean? Do you mean how to get Hugo rendering webmentions?
I will be attending Next Frontier in Front-end Development: Real-time monitoring and alerting on
I will be attending DEVEL-OPS - BRINGING DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES TO OPERATIONS TASKS on
Auto-linking URLs with Hugo (2 mins read).
How to get URLs automagically converted to links in Hugo, using Regular Expressions.
This is an interesting read - I'm a big fan of TDD but a few things here hold true
Recommended read: Against TDD http://neopragma.com/index.php/2019/09/29/against-tdd/
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