Why I Have a Website and You Should Too (12 mins read).
A persuasive look at the many reasons why you should have your own website, and some of the benefits it will bring you.
by 
Jamie Tanna
.
#persuasive
#personal-website
#www.jvt.me
#indieweb
#webmention
#personal-brand
#homebrew-website-club
#blogging.
Croatia 2019 Summer Holiday (7 mins read).
Some of the highlights of an amazing holiday with Anna in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#holiday
#personal
#croatia
#game-of-thrones.
Visualising My Posting Habits (2 mins read).
Adding the capability to my site to enable visualisation of how often I post content.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#www.jvt.me.
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.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#cooking
#gousto
#thoughts.
Being Celebrated in the 2019 Tyk Community Awards (1 mins read).
Announcing my win in the 2019 Tyk Community Awards for my blogging efforts.
DDD East Midlands: Speaker Workshop (18 mins read).
A writeup of my notes from the awesome Speaker Workshop run by DDD East Midlands.
Rendering Webmentions using Client Side JavaScript (2 mins read).
Replacing my server-side rendered webmentions with client-side rendering.
Force a Refresh of an Emby Library in Kodi (1 mins read).
How to force an update of an Emby library from Kodi.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#kodi
#emby.
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.
Talking about the IndieWeb at OggCamp 2019 (1 mins read).
Announcing my talk at OggCamp 2019 about the IndieWeb.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#events
#oggcamp
#announcement
#indieweb
#speaking.
Explaining Networking and Packet Switching with LEGO and the Postal Service (3 mins read).
A recap of how I've explained the concept of packet switching through the use of LEGO and the postal service.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#networking.
Pretty Printing JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) on the Command Line using OpenSSL (3 mins read).
How to easily introspect a JWT on the command line using OpenSSL and optionally Python for real pretty-printing.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#python
#command-line
#jwt
#json
#pretty-print.
Women In Tech June 2019 - Negotiating For Fun And Profit (5 mins read).
A writeup of Ashley's talk at Women In Tech June about how to negotiate for a fairer deal.
URL Decoding with Ruby on the Command Line (1 mins read).
How to use Ruby's standard library to decode URLs with a handy one-liner.
Why www.jvt.me? (3 mins read).
Why is this site www.jvt.me? Why do I use www.? All will be explained.
Using Hugo .Render to Save Repetition (2 mins read).
Replacing ifs with .Render to save duplication in Hugo templates.
.NET Notts May: Software Quality in the DevOps World (4 mins read).
A writeup of Matteo's talk at .NET Notts about Software Quality and DevOps.
Adding iCalendar Feeds for Events in Hugo (1 mins read).
Using Hugo's custom output formats to automagically create an iCalendar feed for events.
Cyber Nottingham May (5 mins read).
A writeup of the Cyber Nottingham meetup in May.
Using <details> tags for HTML-only UI toggles (3 mins read).
How using the <details> HTML tag can provide a toggleable UI element with only built-in HTML.
Creating a /now page (1 mins read).
Joining the Now Movement by creating a /now page.
Implementing h-feed, and making all site content discoverable (2 mins read).
Announcing h-feeds for this website, and making it easier to read non-blog posts.
PHPMiNDS May: Running your PHP site on AWS Lambda with Bref (3 mins read).
The May edition of the PHPMiNDS meetup, and things I've learnt about porting existing applications to AWS Lambda.
Re-enabling search on my static website (2 mins read).
Announcing the re-enabling of search functionality on my static website.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#announcement
#indieweb
#search
#www.jvt.me
#jsonfeed.
Verify if a field in a JSON response is not set with Rest Assured (1 mins read).
How to verify whether a field is not present in a JSON Rest Assured Response.
Pretty Print JSON with Java (1 mins read).
How to pretty print a JSON object using Java and Jackson.
Gotcha: URL Encoding for consecutive double slashes issue with Rest Assured (2 mins read).
How to workaround consecutive double slashes being URL encoded (as %2Fs) in Rest Assured.
PHPMiNDS April (2 mins read).
A recap of PHPMiNDS' April meetup.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#events
#phpminds.
Marking up my pronouns with Microformats (2 mins read).
Adding my pronouns to my personal h-card to help others determine how I identify.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#announcement
#microformats
#diversity-and-inclusion
#www.jvt.me.
Tech Nottingham April (5 mins read).
A recap of Tech Nottingham's April meetup.
Prettier HTML Reports for Cucumber-JVM (2 mins read).
How to generate prettier HTML reports for Cucumber with cucumber-reporting and cucumber-reporting-plugin, with and without Jenkins.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#java
#cucumber
#testing
#reporting.
Using Netlify for hosting www.jvt.me in Production (2 mins read).
Announcing my move to Netlify for hosting www.jvt.me.
Adding a JSON Feed to my site (1 mins read).
Setting up JSON feed for site for better interoperability with the IndieWeb.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#announcement
#indieweb
#jsonfeed
#www.jvt.me.
Viewing X.509 DER Certificate Fingerprints with OpenSSL (1 mins read).
How to view an X.509 DER certificate's fingerprint using openssl commands.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#certificates
#command-line
#der
#openssl.
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
.
#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
.
#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
.
#blogumentation
#hugo.
Marking up Events with Microformats (1 mins read).
Announcing the events content type and their markup with h-event.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#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
.
#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
.
#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
.
#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
.
#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
.
#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
.
#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
.
#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.