Chef Attributes and default.rb - it's in the name (3 mins read).
Why you should only be setting defaults in your Chef attributes, and moving heavy lifting elsewhere.
by 
Jamie Tanna
.
#nablopomo
#chef
#chefspec.
Take Take Take: Rethinking How I Consume Free and Open Source Software (4 mins read).
Thinking about how I should be contributing back to the projects I rely on so heavily, both financially and with my own contributions.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#personal
#free-software
#open-source
#licensing
#nablopomo.
Auto-announcing Events in my Feed (2 mins read).
Updating my main site feed to publish a note when I've published a new event.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#www.jvt.me
#nablopomo.
Viewing the Contents of a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) with OpenSSL (1 mins read).
How to look at the contents of a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) with the openssl command-line tool.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#openssl
#certificates
#nablopomo.
Off Days (1 mins read).
It's OK to not be 100% every day.
Adulting: The Constant Struggle of Prioritisation (3 mins read).
A rant about how it sucks to be an adult because there's so much to do, but very little of it is stuff you want to do.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#nablopomo
#personal.
National Blog Post Month (NaBloPoMo) (2 mins read).
Starting National Blog Post Month with a blog post. Very meta.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#nablopomo.
Reader Mail: Webmention Spam (2 mins read).
Replying publicly to an email about my continual webmention sending.
Reader Mail: Getting Started with Hugo and Micropub (5 mins read).
Answering a question by a reader about how to get started with writing a Micropub endpoint for use with Hugo.
Owning My Step Count (5 mins read).
Sharing the journey of starting to own my step counts and my technical solution.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#www.jvt.me
#steps
#google-fit
#indieweb
#micropub
#microformats
#fitness.
The IndieWeb Movement: Owning Your Data and Being the Change You Want to See in the Web (22 mins read).
A look at what the IndieWeb is, why you should care, and how to get started with it.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#indieweb
#www.jvt.me
#micropub
#microsub
#microformats
#webmention
#public-speaking
#oggcamp.
Setting Your Maven Project Versions (1 mins read).
How to set the versions of all Maven pom.xmls within a Maven project.
Introducing a Microformats API for Eventbrite: eventbrite-mf2.jvt.me (3 mins read).
Announcing the Microformats translation layer for Eventbrite.com/Eventbrite.co.uk events.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#www.jvt.me
#microformats
#micropub
#eventbrite.
Listing the Contents of a Java Truststore (3 mins read).
How to extract a list of trusted certificates from a Java Trust store.
DevOpsDays London 2019 (63 mins read).
A writeup of the DevOpsDays London conference, and the talks and Open Spaces I attended.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#devopsdays
#devops
#cloud
#events
#monolith
#microservices
#testing
#security
#git
#sre
#on-call
#legacy-code
#agile
#ethics
#aws
#empathy.
Getting git diff Outputs Without a Prefix (1 mins read).
How to remove a/ and b/ from git diff outputs.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#git.
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.
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.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#www.jvt.me
#netlify
#hugo.
On Panic Attacks (3 mins read).
Remembering my first (and so far only) panic attack.
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.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#indiewebcamp-amsterdam-2019
#indieweb
#indiewebcamp
#webmention
#micropub
#syndication
#privacy.
Auto-linking URLs with Hugo (2 mins read).
How to get URLs automagically converted to links in Hugo, using Regular Expressions.
Proposing a Microformats2 Markup for Licensing Information (7 mins read).
Some recommendations for how to mark up licensing information with Microformats, for making license information machine-discoverable and machine-readable.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#microformats
#licensing
#indieweb
#indiewebcamp-amsterdam-2019.
Pushing your Git Branches to a Matching Remote Branch (1 mins read).
How to save yourself from typing git push --set-upstream origin ${branch} and have Git determine the branch you're pushing to.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#git.
Testing Your SLF4J Logs (3 mins read).
Looking at how we would unit test our SLF4J logs to gain confidence they work, and to catch regressions in the future.
Viewing Logs for a systemd Unit with journalctl (1 mins read).
How to view the logs for a given unit, using systemd and journalctl.
Setting up a custom RubyGems Repository for Chef in Test Kitchen (1 mins read).
How to use a private RubyGems repository for your Chef gem dependencies in Test Kitchen.
Overriding Test Kitchen Driver Configuration (1 mins read).
How to override specific configuration in Test Kitchen's project-specific .kitchen.yml.
How Many Gadgets Does the Kitchen Need?! The Many Tools for Chef Dependency Management (5 mins read).
Looking at the different dependency management solutions of Chef, and how, where and why you would use each one.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#chef.
Adding RSVP Support for Indie Events (1 mins read).
Adding RSVP support to my Micropub endpoint for Indie events.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#micropub
#www.jvt.me
#indieweb
#microformats.
Sending Webmentions Automagically on Deploys of the static website www.jvt.me (4 mins read).
The journey to getting Webmentions sending automatically from my static website, www.jvt.me.
Extracting Request Parameters Dynamically for a application/x-www-form-urlencoded Request (1 mins read).
How to access all key-value pairs of parameters sent in a application/x-www-form-urlencoded request.
Extracting Request Parameters Dynamically for a multipart/form-data Request (2 mins read).
How to access all key-value pairs of parameters sent in a multipart/form-data request.
Adding a 404 page for www.jvt.me on Netlify, with Hugo (1 mins read).
Announcing a swanky new 404 page for www.jvt.me.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#www.jvt.me
#hugo
#netlify.
Converting Ruby Hash keys to Strings/Symbols (2 mins read).
How to recursively convert a Ruby Hash's keys to a String / Symbol.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#ruby.
Merging an 'Override' Ruby Hash into the Original Hash (6 mins read).
How to use Ruby to merge two hashes with nested arrays of hashes, with the second hash overriding values from the first.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#ruby.
Adding Newlines to all Files in Git (3 mins read).
Adding newlines at the end of all Git-tracked files.
Adding Calendar details on events pages (1 mins read).
Adding an iCalendar event as well as an 'Add to Google Calendar' link for each event on this site.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#www.jvt.me
#events.
Introducing a Microformats API for Meetup.com: meetup-mf2.jvt.me (4 mins read).
Announcing the Microformats translation layer for Meetup.com events.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#www.jvt.me
#microformats
#micropub
#meetup.com
#meetup-mf2.
Making it easier to determine the kind of content for Indie posts (2 mins read).
Adding a kind hint to my Indie post types to make it easier to look through each content kind.
Setting Up a Micropub Server for www.jvt.me (7 mins read).
Announcing the creation of my Micropub server, to allow publishing content away from my laptop/desktop.
How to RSVP to an Indie Event from your Website (4 mins read).
How to use your personal website in conjunction with Microformats and Webmention to be able to RSVP to Indie events.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#indieweb
#microformats
#webmention
#guide
#howto.
AWS Nottingham: Where Did All the Money Go? (13 mins read).
A writeup of the AWS Nottingham meetup about cost saving in AWS.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#aws
#cloud
#cost-saving
#events
#nottingham-aws-meetup.
Restructuring The Way That My Site's Content Types Work (5 mins read).
How I've restructured my content to map more closely to Microformats for any Indie content types.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#www.jvt.me
#indieweb
#microformats
#hugo
#micropub.
Easily Parsing Failed Cucumber Scenarios from the JSON Report (2 mins read).
How to parse a Cucumber JSON report to display the failed scenarios and their causes.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#cucumber
#ruby
#command-line.
Using OpenSSL Behind a (Corporate) Proxy (1 mins read).
How to use OpenSSL commands when behind a proxy server.
Extract a Secret Key from a Java Keystore (2 mins read).
How to export a symmetric SecretKey entry from a Java keystore.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#java
#keystore
#certificates.
Parsing Key-Value URL Fragments with Node.JS (1 mins read).
How to easily parse a URL fragment containing key-value pairs of data, with Node.JS.
Creating an iCalendar feed for my RSVPs (2 mins read).
How and why I've created a public calendar for the RSVPs I send from this site.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#calendar
#blogumentation
#indieweb
#www.jvt.me.
Add your Meetup.com Events to your Calendar (1 mins read).
How to get all your upcoming Meetup.com events straight to your calendar.
Pretty Printing JSON Files Inline on the Command Line (2 mins read).
How to rewrite multiple JSON files inline on the Command Line.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#pretty-print
#command-line
#ruby.