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/
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/
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/
Recommended read: Improving CLIs with isatty https://blog.jez.io/cli-tty/
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
Defragmenting your Calendar and your Outlook
Recommended read: Defragmenting your Calendar and your Outlook https://www.hanselman.com/blog/DefragmentingYourCalendarAndYourOutlook.aspx
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.
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!!
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
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
Recommended read: It was 20 years ago today http://boston.conman.org/2019/12/04.1
Properly managing your `.gitignore` file
Recommended read: Properly managing your `.gitignore` file https://julien.danjou.info/properly-managing-your-gitignore/
Setting up a directory for OpenSSL's SSL_CERT_DIR
(2 mins read).
How to configure a directory of trusted certificates for OpenSSL to trust.
I will be attending DotJS debrief and Christmas quiz! on
Locking Your Machine Before Suspending Using systemd (2 mins read).
How to get systemd to automagically lock your machine before it suspends.
Recommended read: Black Widow Teaser Trailer https://youtu.be/tXXZOKQ9VU8
Self-hosted site outranking Medium Publication
Another reason folks should be part of the IndieWeb, not only owning your data but getting better SEO!
Recommended read: Self-hosted site outranking Medium Publication https://www.indiehackers.com/product/prototypr-io/self-hosted-site-outranking-medium-publication--LuqyKHQ9gno3JFsyoXc
Recommended read: Born in a Garage https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/born-in-a-garage/
cron.weekly is a great newsletter, I'm glad you're coming back Mattias!
Recommended read: cron.weekly is coming back! https://ma.ttias.be/cron-weekly-is-coming-back/
abbreviate - Go package to shorten strings with common abbreviations
Recommended read: abbreviate - Go package to shorten strings with common abbreviations https://github.com/dnnrly/abbreviate
Please put dates ABOVE your posts
Recommended read: Please put dates ABOVE your posts https://jlelse.blog/thoughts/2019/11/dates-above/
So around ~1312 my server that hosts services such as https://meetup-mf2.jvt.me and https://eventbrite-mf2.jvt.me/ but also my Micropub endpoint and other things restarted. Not 100% sure why (as it turns out that the logs didn't persist) but turns out that my webserver ( https://caddyserver.com/ ) hadn't been configured to restart post-boot, but all the other services had. Woops! Glad I didn't have a tonne of content to push, but it was a bit worrying having no way to resolve it, as I had no laptop to SSH and diagnose.
Recommended read: Beware of shell globs https://soptik.tech/articles/beware-of-shell-globs.html
Hey https://realize.be is the source code for the Web page hosted at https://indigenous.realize.be anywhere? I was looking to contribute client metadata https://indieauth.spec.indieweb.org/#client-information-discovery similar to how Jacky does at https://v2.jacky.wtf/post/1f8ffba0-e948-4dac-aa6a-3975074cced9
(issue was raised at https://gitlab.com/jamietanna/jvt.me/issues/821 to implement)
Reader Mail: Getting an RSS Feed of Only Posts (2 mins read).
Updating my site to allow for RSS feeds for specific post content such as posts, as per a reader's request.
Public SSH keys can leak your private infrastructure
An interesting look at how using one key for everything (SSH to servers, SSH for git hosting, etc) can be a Bad Thing™
Recommended read: Public SSH keys can leak your private infrastructure https://rushter.com/blog/public-ssh-keys/
What I've Learned Over National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) 2019 (4 mins read).
Looking back at a month of blogging every day, and what I've learned.
Slyvia has some amazing artwork in general, but also has some really beautiful representations of each of the Ubuntu distributions' namesakes.
Recommended read: Slyvia Ritter's Gallery https://www.sylvia-ritter.com/new-gallery/
Parsing URL Querystrings with Node.JS (1 mins read).
How to easily parse a URL querystring with Node.JS.
Using the OpenSSL Command-Line to Verify an SSL/TLS Connection (2 mins read).
How to use the openssl
command-line to verify whether certs are valid.
Viewing Jenkins Jobs' Configuration as XML (1 mins read).
How to view the XML configuration for a given Jenkins job.
BadSSL - test with expired, misconfigured or weak SSL/TLS configuration
Recommended read: BadSSL - test with expired, misconfigured or weak SSL/TLS configuration https://badssl.com/
Recommended read: Jenkins Artwork and Logos https://jenkins.io/artwork/
"Do you have kids?" - "Thankfully, no."
Recommended read: "Do you have kids?" - "Thankfully, no." https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/11/do-you-have-kids-thankfully-no/
Trusting Self-Signed Certificates from Ruby (1 mins read).
How to configure Ruby to trust self-signed certificates.
Storing UTC is not a silver bullet
Recommended read: Storing UTC is not a silver bullet https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a-silver-bullet/
I will be attending #NottTechParty - The Nottingham Tech Community Christmas Party 2019 on
Pretty Printing YAML with the Ruby Command-Line (1 mins read).
Using Ruby's YAML
library to pretty-print YAML files from the command-line.
Nostalgia Is Gross, But That’s What I’ve Got Now That I’m Blogging Every Day — Elan Morgan
Recommended read: Nostalgia Is Gross, But That’s What I’ve Got Now That I’m Blogging Every Day — Elan Morgan https://elanmorgan.com/blog/blogging-nostalgia-is-gross
Definitely yes to this! I've also proposed how we can do this using Microformats2 in https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/04/10/pronouns-microformats/
Recommended read: Pronouns in the Bio https://gregorlove.com/2019/11/pronouns-in-the-bio/
Blocking Twitter Widgets from This Site (2 mins read).
Enforcing a privacy-aware removal of Twitter's JavaScript widget from this site.
This is my go-to for tidying up disk space issues when working with Docker
Recommended read: Docker Cleanup Commands https://www.calazan.com/docker-cleanup-commands/
Neurodiversity and Blogumentation (1 mins read).
Sending links to people to save myself explaining things isn't always the best idea.
Hacking JSON Web Tokens (JWTs)
Recommended read: Hacking JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) https://medium.com/swlh/hacking-json-web-tokens-jwts-9122efe91e4a
This is a really nice recap of https://dddeastmidlands.com and gives you a nice feel of the day!
Recommended read: DDD: East Midlands 2019 https://youtu.be/UXEMuBVSXyM
I'm interested in attending IndieWeb Summit on
I'm quite up for coming to IndieWeb Summit, but I'd need it to either map to some work while I'm out there, or some holiday, as it's a long way to come. But would be very cool!
Preventing The Capital One Breach
Recommended read: Preventing The Capital One Breach https://ejj.io/blog/capital-one