Very much enjoying @slsmithwell's talk at #TechNott about the many ways businesses mess things up with heavy reliance on metrics
The #TechNott announcement is here - they're running seasons, with three months of amazing speakers planned.
This is yet another thing to show why the tech community in #Nottingham is booming - it's like a monthly mini conference!
As @MrAndrew mentioned at #TechNott, @CapitalOneUK are hiring! Come have a chat about #LifeAtCapitalOne - we've got Software Development, Software Testing, Infrastructure Engineering, Management, Cyber Security and more at https://jobs.capitalone.co.uk
StrongVersions - Enforce a strict versioning policy in your Gemfile
Recommended read: StrongVersions - Enforce a strict versioning policy in your Gemfile https://github.com/bobf/strong_versions
The tools you'd miss if you left a company
Recommended read: The tools you'd miss if you left a company http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/02/08/miss/
Do you have any questions for me?
Recommended read: Do you have any questions for me? https://deniseyu.io/2020/02/04/interview-questions-to-ask.html
Learning to deal with grief as an adult
Recommended read: Learning to deal with grief as an adult https://deniseyu.io/2018/11/19/grief.html
How to Extract a Twitter Profile URL (But Not Status URL) with a Regex (1 mins read).
A regular expression to match Twitter Profile URLs, but not Status URLs.
Local First, Undo Redo, JS-Optional, Create Edit Publish
Recommended read: Local First, Undo Redo, JS-Optional, Create Edit Publish http://tantek.com/2020/037/b2/local-first-undo-redo-create-edit-publish
A (good) night's sleep is seriously the best #debugging trick you can use - managed to get a regex right the first time that was kicking my ass all evening yesterday!
I'm seriously wondering if #WiTNotts this month decided that to mix things up, we'd have https://twitter.com/SorrisoLearning for some stand-up comedy. Great talk, and lots of really interesting things to think about
I'm such a fan of the "selfless plug [to my blog]" - https://twitter.com/SorrisoLearning is on-brand for me! #WiTNotts
Converting a Ruby Hash to a String (1 mins read).
The ways that we can convert a Hash to a String with Ruby.
#WiTNotts is kicking off with the wonderful https://twitter.com/anna_hax and https://twitter.com/CarolSaysThings
I will not be attending Audio Augmented Reality (feat. a demo app...and music composed by plants?!) on
I will not be attending Carters Boutique: An Introduction to Carter with Richard Tasker on
Happy #HomebrewWebsiteClub from Nottingham!
I've just received the #Spotify data I'd requested in https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/12/29/spotify-wrapped-data-request/ and am going to enjoy looking through all the data I've got from 2012-2020! I may even publish my own "Year in Review" of music.
Meant to share this a couple of weeks ago - this is really great, and was very timely after a presentation from a colleague about #Kotlin, and the fact that the data
class that Kotlin has is very cool. Still a while away from my own Java code but interesting nonetheless!
Recommended read: Records Come to Java https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/records-come-to-java
Recommended read: A new hash algorithm for Git https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/811068/cfeb6a67b8dfbe47/
Also for folks coming to #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham, beware that there aren't many places to charge laptops, so may be worth charging before you come!
Happy #HomebrewWebsiteClub day! I've already done some stuff on my site today - managed to do a quick tweak on the bus
Pretty happy with first few games of #ApexLegends season 4 - some good changes to things, map is different and I even played a couple of games with Revenant π - not sure I've sussed him out yet though
How To Add CSS Dark Mode To A Website
Recommended read: How To Add CSS Dark Mode To A Website https://kevq.uk/how-to-add-css-dark-mode-to-a-website/
Anyone else seeing a weird issue where "tab closed" hangs around on #FirefoxPreview until you close another tab, then it disappears? V3.2.0 on Android 10
Week Notes 20#5 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2020-01-27?
Generate Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs) from XML Schema Definitions with xjc
(4 mins read).
How to generate POJOs really quickly and easily, with no manual work, using the xjc
command.
Reminder that on Wednesday its #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham! I hope to see you there to work on your personal website - be it new or existing https://events.indieweb.org/2020/02/homebrew-website-club-nottingham-8IgcYeAQhIKX
A new bill could punish web platforms for using end-to-end encryption
Recommended read: A new bill could punish web platforms for using end-to-end encryption https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/31/21116788/earn-it-act-section-230-lindsey-graham-draft-bill-encryption
So I sorted my Webmention sending issue after an incredibly frustrating day of fighting with Jackson parsing my XML sitemap. I'm still not sure what the issue was, as I've ended up replacing my POJO with another one, but π€·π½ββοΈ at least Webmentions are sending again
Just watched the finale of #TheGoodPlace - an emotional, but lovely and fitting end for a group that we've come to love