Viewing X.509 PEM Certificate Fingerprints with OpenSSL (1 mins read).
How to view an X.509 PEM certificate's fingerprint using openssl commands.
by 
Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#certificates
#command-line
#pem
#openssl.
Hello IndieAuth! (1 mins read).
Setting up my IndieAuth provider for interacting with IndieWeb applications everywhere.
by Jamie Tanna
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#announcement
#indieweb
#indieauth
#www.jvt.me.
Pretty Printing JSON with Ruby (1 mins read).
Using Kernel.jj to pretty print Ruby objects as JSON objects.
Hello IndieNews! (2 mins read).
Discovering IndieNews and starting to syndicate my posts to it.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#announcement
#indieweb
#microformats
#www.jvt.me.
Specifying datetime in your Hugo posts' front matter (1 mins read).
Setting your posts' date to a datetime string to specify the time a post was published at.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#hugo.
Marking up Events with Microformats (1 mins read).
Announcing the events content type and their markup with h-event.
by Jamie Tanna
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#announcement
#indieweb
#microformats
#www.jvt.me.
Beyond Rest: The Future of Web APIs (8 mins read).
A writeup of the meetup talking about what could come next for APIs.
by Jamie Tanna
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#events
#openapi
#internet-of-things
#apis
#graphql
#containers.
Homebrew Website Club: Nottingham, Session 1 (2 mins read).
A recap of our first Homebrew Website Club: Nottingham.
by Jamie Tanna
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#events
#indieweb
#hwc.
Easily rewriting Git URLs from HTTPS to SSH and vice versa (2 mins read).
How to use Git's config to rewrite HTTPS URLs to SSH and vice versa, for repo pushes and pulls.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#git.
Adding the microformats h-entry markup to my blog posts (1 mins read).
Announcing the addition of the h-entry markup to my blog posts.
by Jamie Tanna
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#announcement
#indieweb
#microformats
#www.jvt.me.
Displaying Webmentions on my Hugo website (3 mins read).
How and why I've gone about getting Webmentions rendered on my static Hugo site.
by Jamie Tanna
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#announcement
#indieweb
#microformats
#www.jvt.me.
Setting up a personal hCard for myself (2 mins read).
Setting up an hCard to allow microformats parsing for details about myself.
by Jamie Tanna
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#announcement
#indieweb
#microformats
#www.jvt.me.
Homebrew Website Club: Nottingham (2 mins read).
Thoughts about setting up the first Homebrew Website Club in Nottingham.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#announcement
#indieweb
#hwc
#homebrew-website-club-nottingham.
I'm Not Good With People (12 mins read).
A bit of a raw look about how I'm really poor in social situations, how I've got to this realisation, and how I want to do better about it.
Verifying Signed JWTs (JWS) with Node.JS (3 mins read).
How to use the jsonwebtoken and node-jose libraries to verify the signature of a Signed JSON Web Token (JWS) with Node.JS.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#nodejs
#command-line
#jwt
#json.
Moving talks.jvt.me to reveal-hugo (3 mins read).
Migrating my custom Reveal.JS setup to using reveal-hugo.
Performing a No-Op with chef-client using JSON (2 mins read).
How to perform a chef-client run without executing anything.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#chef.
FOSDEM 2019 (31 mins read).
Recapping my time at the Free and Open Source Developers Europe Meeting conference in Brussels.
by Jamie Tanna
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#events
#fosdem
#open-source
#progressive-web-app
#decentralisation
#indieweb
#javascript
#free-software
#cloud
#linux.
Using git worktree to have multiple branches checked out at once (4 mins read).
How to use git worktree to check out multiple Git branches from the same repo at once.
Using Git refs to help track your GitLab Environments, from your local repo (2 mins read).
How to pull the Git refs that GitLab Environments exposes in your GitLab repo.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#git
#gitlab
#review-apps
#git-ref.
Using Git refs to check out GitHub Pull Requests, from your local repo (2 mins read).
How to pull the Git refs for Pull Requests to your GitHub repo.
Using Git refs to check out GitLab Merge Requests, from your local repo (2 mins read).
How to pull the Git refs for Merge Requests to your GitLab repo.
I will be attending PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DETAILS: Tech Nottingham Jan 2019: Innovation And A Retro on
by Jamie Tanna
.
Performing Code Review on Your own Merge/Pull Requests (4 mins read).
Why the first step to getting others to review your code is to review it yourself.
Pretty Printing JSON using Node.JS on the Command Line (1 mins read).
Using Node.JS's JSON module to pretty print JSON objects from the command line.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#nodejs
#json
#pretty-print.
Automating Promotion of Jekyll Posts from Draft to Post (2 mins read).
The handy script I've created to automate publishing a draft in Jekyll, with handy Zsh + Bash autocomplete.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#automation
#jekyll
#zsh
#bash
#shell.
Converting X.509 and PKCS#8 .pem file to a JWKS (in Node.JS) (2 mins read).
Converting X.509 and PKCS#8 files to JWKS format, using the node-jose library.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#pki
#nodejs
#x509
#pkcs8
#pem
#jwks.
Using git commit --fixup= to track changes that need to be applied on top of another commit (4 mins read).
Using git commit --fixup= and git rebase --autosquash to easily track and squash fix commits.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#git.
Goodbye Jekyll, Hello Hugo! (5 mins read).
My move from Jekyll to super speedy Hugo, and what I've needed to do to migrate.
2018's Music In Review (5 mins read).
What music was I listening to in 2018?
by Jamie Tanna
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#music.
Creating Microservices for my Static Website (2 mins read).
Exploring moving data out of my site's remit and into its own 'microservices' which can be consumed at build-time, as well as via client-side JavaScript.
by Jamie Tanna
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#announcement
#jamstack
#microservices
#www.jvt.me
#spectat-designs
#netlifycms
#jekyll.
Leaving BTRFS as my primary filesystem (5 mins read).
Why I'm moving away from using BTRFS as the primary filesystem on my personal devices, and why it had nothing to do with BTRFS itself.
by Jamie Tanna
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#thoughts
#linux
#btrfs.
TYKJS Middleware Gotcha When Base 64 Decoding Data (3 mins read).
How to workaround the Failed to base64 decode: illegal base64 data at input byte error when trying to use b64dec in TYKJS middleware.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#tyk
#tykjs
#unit-testing
#testing
#javascript
#nodejs.
Unit Testing Your TYK (TYKJS) Middleware (6 mins read).
Writing unit tests (in this case using Jasmine) for the TYK API Gateway's JavaScript middleware functionality.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#tyk
#tykjs
#unit-testing
#testing
#javascript
#nodejs.
Hackference 2018 (31 mins read).
A review of my time at Hackference's 1-day conference and 24-hour hackathon.
by Jamie Tanna
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#events
#hackference
#aws
#cloud
#devops
#serverless
#nodejs
#deno
#identity
#auth0
#hackathon
#hacktoberfest.
How to run tests from the ChefDK in Docker (6 mins read).
How to get up and running with the ChefDK to perform common tests, such as unit tests and linting.
Using Fake Cookbooks for Writing ChefSpec Tests for your Custom Chef Resources (3 mins read).
A directory structure I've found quite useful for writing ChefSpec tests for custom resources, by creating a fake cookbook within the cookbook you're testing.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#chef
#custom-resource
#chefspec.
Creating a versionable, self-contained (fat-/uber-) JAR for Gatling tests (17 mins read).
Why you'd want a fat JAR for your Gatling tests and how you'd achieve it.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#java
#gatling
#testing
#jar
#artifact
#artefact
#maven
#uber-jar.
Tweaking Gatling HighCharts Response Time Bounds (3 mins read).
How to configure the bounds that Gatling marks your response times within for console output and graphing purposes.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#gatling
#gatling-highcharts.
Setting your default AWS profile for the AWS CLI and SDKs (2 mins read).
Setting the default AWS profile when working with multiple profiles and the AWS CLI / SDKs.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#aws
#aws-cli
#aws-sdk
#command-line.