Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer

Pretty Printing XML on the Command-Line (1 mins read).

How to use xmllint to pretty-print XML/HTML files.

Tue, 17 Dec 2019 21:47 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #html #xml #pretty-print #command-line.

Backporting/Replaying Changes using git format-patch and git apply / git-am (2 mins read).

Using git format-patch and git apply/git am to apply a patch, if git cherry-pick isn't available.

Tue, 17 Dec 2019 21:33 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #git.

For anyone having issues not seeing #MrRobot Season 4 Episode 11 in their Fire TV / Prime video account, try skipping through Ep 10 until it autoplays 11

Tue, 17 Dec 2019 19:53 by Jamie Tanna .

Happy Second Appendixaversary (2 mins read).

Celebrating the second anniversary since my appendix ruptured - and reminiscing on the benefits of a well-funded NHS.

Mon, 16 Dec 2019 20:52 by Jamie Tanna . #personal #politics #health #appendix.

List What Files Changed in a Git Commit (1 mins read).

How to list what files changed in a given commit.

Sun, 15 Dec 2019 22:28 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #git #command-line.

Sorry to anyone who's just received a tonne of webmentions from me - I'm tweaking the way the sending works so there are a few new places you may see them come from

Sun, 15 Dec 2019 18:01 by Jamie Tanna .

This post has been published by my Micropub endpoint (code in https://gitlab.com/jamietanna/www-api ) and syndicated to Twitter via https://brid.gy 🙌 #IndieWeb - I'm able to own my tweets from my personal website at https://www.jvt.me and you can too by joining the folks at https://indieweb.org/discuss

Sun, 15 Dec 2019 16:11 by Jamie Tanna . #www.jvt.me.

49% of workers, when forced to update their password, reuse the same one with just a minor change

Recommended read: 49% of workers, when forced to update their password, reuse the same one with just a minor change https://www.grahamcluley.com/49-of-workers-when-forced-to-update-their-password-reuse-the-same-one-with-just-a-minor-change/

Sun, 15 Dec 2019 11:26 by Jamie Tanna . #security.

Using Bash to automate Rubocop fixes

Recommended read: Using Bash to automate Rubocop fixes https://krmannix.com/2019/12/12/using-bash-to-automate-rubocop-fixes/

Sun, 15 Dec 2019 01:32 by Jamie Tanna . #shell #ruby #automation.

Inside Gousto’s Chaos Engineering Hackathon

Recommended read: Inside Gousto’s Chaos Engineering Hackathon https://medium.com/gousto-engineering-techbrunch/inside-goustos-chaos-engineering-hackathon-2afb6a2243ad

Sat, 14 Dec 2019 13:58 by Jamie Tanna . #chaos-engineering.

How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer

Recommended read: How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer https://markosaric.com/google-amp/

Sat, 14 Dec 2019 13:47 by Jamie Tanna . #amp #web.

Binary Planting with the npm CLI

Recommended read: Binary Planting with the npm CLI https://blog.npmjs.org/post/189618601100/binary-planting-with-the-npm-cli

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 17:43 by Jamie Tanna . #npm #nodejs #javascript #security.

IntelliJ Key Promoter X

Just been shown this by a colleague - it's a great way to learn shortcuts for the thing you just did and how you can do that task with a handy keystroke in the future!

Recommended read: IntelliJ Key Promoter X https://github.com/halirutan/IntelliJ-Key-Promoter-X

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 11:35 by Jamie Tanna . #intellij #jetbrains.

Blogcop: A GitHub app that helps you manage your Jekyll blog

An interesting idea, but surely you'd not want to break existing links to your articles, and instead have it update the article to say "this may be outdated, we're reviewing this"?

Recommended read: Blogcop: A GitHub app that helps you manage your Jekyll blog https://www.ombulabs.com/blog/github/jekyll/ruby/blogcop-for-jekyll.html

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 11:32 by Jamie Tanna . #jekyll #github #blogging #automation.

It's Time for OAuth 2.1

Recommended read: It's Time for OAuth 2.1 https://aaronparecki.com/2019/12/12/21/its-time-for-oauth-2-dot-1

Fri, 13 Dec 2019 08:14 by Jamie Tanna . #oauth.

Ruby Literals You May Not Know

Some interesting ones in here I'll look at using - escaping things is one of my biggest gripes with every language, so this is pretty nice

Recommended read: Ruby Literals You May Not Know https://citizen428.net/blog/ruby_literals_you_may_not_know/

Thu, 12 Dec 2019 12:45 by Jamie Tanna . #ruby.

Do We Really Need a Web API?

Recommended read: Do We Really Need a Web API? https://liaison.dev/blog/articles/Do-We-Really-Need-A-Web-API-yq12wz

Thu, 12 Dec 2019 12:43 by Jamie Tanna . #javascript #web.

Will ‘Star Wars’ Stick the Landing? J.J. Abrams Will Try

Recommended read: Will ‘Star Wars’ Stick the Landing? J.J. Abrams Will Try https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/movies/star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker-jj-abrams.html

Thu, 12 Dec 2019 10:11 by Jamie Tanna . #star-wars.

What 10,000 Steps Will Really Get You

An interesting read, especially since I keep a watch on these by https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/10/27/owning-step-count/

Recommended read: What 10,000 Steps Will Really Get You https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/05/10000-steps-rule/590785/

Wed, 11 Dec 2019 23:30 by Jamie Tanna . #health.

I will be attending IndieWebCamp London on Saturday, Mar 14 2020

Wed, 11 Dec 2019 20:00 by Jamie Tanna .

I will be attending IndieWebCamp London 2020 on Saturday, Mar 14 2020

Wed, 11 Dec 2019 20:00 by Jamie Tanna .

It’s Time to Get Personal

This is a great read about the things that being in the https://indieweb.org/ (Independent Web) can empower you with, and the ownership and agency that it affords you.

I'd recommend a read of https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/07/22/why-website/ and https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/10/20/indieweb-talk/ for a bit more info, too.

Recommended read: It’s Time to Get Personal https://24ways.org/2019/its-time-to-get-personal/

Wed, 11 Dec 2019 09:54 by Jamie Tanna . #indieweb #personal-website #ownership.

“Link In Bio” is a slow knife

Recommended read: “Link In Bio” is a slow knife https://anildash.com/2019/12/10/link-in-bio-is-how-they-tried-to-kill-the-web/

Tue, 10 Dec 2019 23:19 by Jamie Tanna . #indieweb #personal-website #ownership.

Using Chef to Delete Files that aren't in a List (2 mins read).

How to delete files in a directory that don't match a list.

Tue, 10 Dec 2019 23:10 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef.

This is a brilliant talk about the quirks of JavaScript, from a number of years ago.

Although it's fun to hate on JavaScript, it can also be seen about other languages.

Definitely worth a watch if you've never seen it before, or are working with JavaScript and want to have to think very hard about what the language does.

Recommended read: Wat https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

Tue, 10 Dec 2019 19:38 by Jamie Tanna . #javascript.

Converting a JSON Web Key to a X.509 .pem file (in Node.JS) (2 mins read).

Converting a JSON Web Key (JWK) to an X.509 PEM file, using the node-jose library.

Tue, 10 Dec 2019 18:20 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #pki #nodejs #x509 #pem #jwks.

Day 10 - It’s OK if you’re not running Kubernetes

Recommended read: Day 10 - It’s OK if you’re not running Kubernetes https://sysadvent.blogspot.com/2019/12/day-10-it-ok-if-you-not-running.html?m=1

Tue, 10 Dec 2019 09:21 by Jamie Tanna . #sysadvent #kubernetes #sysadmin.

Blogging Less in the 2020s

Recommended read: Blogging Less in the 2020s https://www.kickscondor.com/blogging-less-in-the-2020s/

Tue, 10 Dec 2019 07:50 by Jamie Tanna . #blogging #indieweb.

There is no “Linux” Platform (Part 1)

Recommended read: There is no “Linux” Platform (Part 1) https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2019/12/04/there-is-no-linux-platform-1/

Tue, 10 Dec 2019 07:38 by Jamie Tanna . #linux.

Level of Effort

Recommended read: Level of Effort https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/level-of-effort/

Mon, 09 Dec 2019 22:35 by Jamie Tanna . #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

Mon, 09 Dec 2019 17:31 by Jamie Tanna . #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!

Mon, 09 Dec 2019 17:29 by Jamie Tanna .

In the Beginning was the Website

Recommended read: In the Beginning was the Website https://desmondrivet.com/2019/12/08/intro-to-indie-web

Mon, 09 Dec 2019 12:46 by Jamie Tanna . #indieweb #personal-website #blogging #ownership #ethics #decentralisation.

2019 Firefox Flashback

Recommended read: 2019 Firefox Flashback https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/flashback/

Sat, 07 Dec 2019 23:22 by Jamie Tanna . #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/

Sat, 07 Dec 2019 01:11 by Jamie Tanna .

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

Sat, 07 Dec 2019 00:57 by Jamie Tanna . #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/

Sat, 07 Dec 2019 00:52 by Jamie Tanna . #docker #version-pinning.

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.

Fri, 06 Dec 2019 23:49 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #jenkins #job-dsl.

ChefSpec Gotcha: Using render_file When Deleting Files (2 mins read).

How to use render_file with ChefSpec when you're deleting the file.

Fri, 06 Dec 2019 21:44 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #chefspec.

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/

Fri, 06 Dec 2019 18:16 by Jamie Tanna . #linux.

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/

Fri, 06 Dec 2019 08:10 by Jamie Tanna . #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/

Fri, 06 Dec 2019 01:13 by Jamie Tanna . #linux.

Improving CLIs with isatty

Recommended read: Improving CLIs with isatty https://blog.jez.io/cli-tty/

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 17:25 by Jamie Tanna . #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

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 17:24 by Jamie Tanna . #indieweb #personal-website #blogging.

Defragmenting your Calendar and your Outlook

Recommended read: Defragmenting your Calendar and your Outlook https://www.hanselman.com/blog/DefragmentingYourCalendarAndYourOutlook.aspx

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 17:23 by Jamie Tanna . #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.

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 11:56 by Jamie Tanna . #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!!

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 12:50 by Jamie Tanna .

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

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 11:18 by Jamie Tanna . #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

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 10:49 by Jamie Tanna . #on-call.

It was 20 years ago today

Recommended read: It was 20 years ago today http://boston.conman.org/2019/12/04.1

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 09:39 by Jamie Tanna . #blogging.