I will not be attending Cyber Nottingham - July Meetup on
I've decided to attend Homebrew Website Club instead
I will not be attending Cyber Nottingham - July Meetup on
I've decided to attend Homebrew Website Club instead
I will be attending Homebrew Website Club on
Visualising My Posting Habits (2 mins read).
Adding the capability to my site to enable visualisation of how often I post content.
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A Reflection on Four Months of Gousto (11 mins read).
Looking back at the last four months of using Gousto to prepare meals for dinner.
Being Celebrated in the 2019 Tyk Community Awards (1 mins read).
Announcing my win in the 2019 Tyk Community Awards for my blogging efforts.
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DDD East Midlands: Speaker Workshop (18 mins read).
A writeup of my notes from the awesome Speaker Workshop run by DDD East Midlands.
Get your work recognized: write a brag document - Julia Evans
This is a great idea, which I believe I've seen Julia mention in the past, and I definitely agree that this can help with making sure you remember what you've done! In a previous job we had 'monthly status reports' which were an overhead at the time, but when leaving the job (as my placement year was up) I was able to look back at all the stuff that I'd achieved.
I like to get microfeedback from colleagues, so throughout the year I'm getting bits of feedback on things I've worked on, so for 6-month checkins I've got lots of evidence.
Recommended read: Get your work recognized: write a brag document - Julia Evans https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/
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IndieWeb Summit 2019, day 1 - fluffy
What a great writeup of some of the happenings at IndieWeb Summit! This looked like an awesome event, and although I was unable to make it in person this year, I'm definitely planning on it next year.
There were some great sessions that I'm still catching up on, and will be interested to see what folks produce off the back of their conversations there.
Recommended read: IndieWeb Summit 2019, day 1 - fluffy https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/3785-IndieWeb-Summit-2019-day-1
This is a very interesting post by Carol. I very much empathise with this - my mind is almost always in the 'on' position (as anyone who knows me and the frequency of my blogging).
Be it at work, at home, trying to get to sleep, or having a massage, I'll be thinking. Likely it'll be projects-related (be they work or personal) and it means I'm not able to enjoy the other things.
In a couple of weeks Anna and I are off on holiday, so I really hope I'll be able to switch off a little, as we've decided we're not taking laptops...
I obviously have some work to do to make this possible to start switching off and not always thinking about what's next.
Recommended read: How am I? - Carol Gilabert https://carolgilabert.me/blog/how-am-i
Tricking the tricksters with a next level fork bomb - Vidar Holen
A sneaky and interesting way to trick someone into running a fork bomb, even if they know it may be one!
Recommended read: Tricking the tricksters with a next level fork bomb - Vidar Holen https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=766
Debugging the .gitignore file - Kennard
I've not had to debug that many .gitignore files in the past, but it's great to know how I would do it in the future
Recommended read: Debugging the .gitignore file - Kennard https://blog.kennard.dev/2019-06-19-git-debug-gitignore/
Rendering Webmentions using Client Side JavaScript (2 mins read).
Replacing my server-side rendered webmentions with client-side rendering.
I will be attending Tech Nottingham on
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I've just removed categories as a thing from my website. I'm still using tags on all the content, but categories no longer exist. This is for a few reasons:
p-category
which we use for tags)So we may as well just remove support for them, as they serve exactly zero purpose.
I will be attending Speakers Workshop on
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TL;DR Legal - Software Licenses in Plain English
This is a resource I've used time and time again for getting straight-forward explanations of Free and Open Source licenses - I shared it in chat.indieweb.org the other day, so I thought I may as well share it here, too
Recommended read: TL;DR Legal - Software Licenses in Plain English https://tldrlegal.com/
Untangling the IndieWeb - David Yates
This is a great post by David recounting the 'levels' of IndieWeb capabilities, in a way that makes more sense to those who haven't been as involved in the community, and want to know how to relate to more common points of reference, like social media.
Recommended read: Untangling the IndieWeb - David Yates https://davidyat.es/2019/06/24/indieweb/
I will be attending NottsJS: SVG + JS on
I'm super excited for another chance to see Terence Eden speak! He's always brilliant, and most definitely knows his stuff.
Welcome to the IndieWeb, Craig! Glad to see it's helped you think about getting to self-publishing all your content, and I look forward to following you (once there's an RSS/h-feed set up!).
Discovering the IndieWeb - Craig Burgess
When I was promoting the last Homebrew Website Club on Twitter ( https://twitter.com/JamieTanna/status/1138339357121744897 ), a friend of Craig's tweeted to mention to him about it. We then spent a couple of days talking about it - and boom, Craig is now running his own Homebrew Website Club on 18th July ( https://getdoingthings.com/homebrew-website-club-barnsley-1/ ).
Last night Craig posted this great post about joining the community and with some great explanations for newbies. Welcome, Craig!
Recommended read: Discovering the IndieWeb - Craig Burgess https://getdoingthings.com/discovering-the-indieweb/
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Force a Refresh of an Emby Library in Kodi (1 mins read).
How to force an update of an Emby library from Kodi.
Notts Techfast: What do testers even do all day? (6 mins read).
A writeup and some thoughts about Dan Caseley's talk at Notts Techfast.
I will be attending DevOps Notts on
After the previous iteration of DevOps Nottingham died a death, it's exciting to see a new one starting again!
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Recommended read: https://shubheksha.com/posts/2019/06/a-few-things-i-wish-i-knew-before-i-started-working-as-a-software-engineer/ https://shubheksha.com/posts/2019/06/a-few-things-i-wish-i-knew-before-i-started-working-as-a-software-engineer/
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Talking about the IndieWeb at OggCamp 2019 (1 mins read).
Announcing my talk at OggCamp 2019 about the IndieWeb.
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I will be attending Homebrew Website Club Nottingham on
https://monzo.com/blog/2019/06/20/why-bank-transfers-failed-on-30th-may-2019/
This is a really interesting read from Monzo about a recent incident they had. I really enjoy reading their incident management writeups because they show a tonne of detail, yet are stakeholder-friendly.
It's always interesting to see how other banks deal with issues like this, and what they would do to make things better next time.
Recommended read: https://monzo.com/blog/2019/06/20/why-bank-transfers-failed-on-30th-may-2019/ https://monzo.com/blog/2019/06/20/why-bank-transfers-failed-on-30th-may-2019/