Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer

Why I'm starting to use blog posts as a form of documentation, and why I think they're so well suited.

Sun, 25 Jun 2017 14:22 by Jamie Tanna . #musings #blogumentation #thoughts.

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Converting YAML to JSON and vice versa (Part 1 - Ruby) (2 mins read).

Coerce YAML to JSON and vice versa, from the comfort of your Gem-studded command line.

Thu, 22 Jun 2017 21:16 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #ruby #command-line #yaml #json.

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I will be attending June 2017 - Machine Learning for Muggles on Tuesday, Jun 13 2017

Mon, 12 Jun 2017 08:05 by Jamie Tanna .

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I will be attending Tech Nottingham July 2017: Important news from the future on Monday, Jul 3 2017

Sun, 11 Jun 2017 20:23 by Jamie Tanna .

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Clean up your Git branches (3 mins read).

Remove any merged local or branches from your local Git repository.

Wed, 07 Jun 2017 20:33 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #git.

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Pretty Printing JSON on the Command Line with Python (2 mins read).

Using Python's JSON module to pretty print JSON objects from the command line.

Mon, 05 Jun 2017 08:39 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #python #json #pretty-print.

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Viewing your diff while writing your commits with git commit --verbose (3 mins read).

Making it easier to write commit messages by having the diff in your editor.

Thu, 01 Jun 2017 20:04 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #git #commit #shell #workflow.

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I will be attending Tech Nottingham June 2017: Common Ground & Visualisation on Monday, Jun 5 2017

Tue, 30 May 2017 23:40 by Jamie Tanna .

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Building Chef Cookbooks with GitLab (Part 1) (11 mins read).

An introduction to how to build a cookbook using GitLab's Continuous Integration platform in conjunction with kitchen-docker.

Thu, 25 May 2017 11:51 by Jamie Tanna . #guide #howto #blogumentation #gitlab #chef #test-kitchen #docker #gitlab-ci.

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I will be attending A guide to Bitcoin - Mike Preston on Thursday, Jun 8 2017

Mon, 22 May 2017 23:06 by Jamie Tanna .

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I will be attending DevOps Nottingham on Monday, May 22 2017

Mon, 22 May 2017 18:30 by Jamie Tanna .

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Extracting SSL/TLS Certificate Chains Using OpenSSL (1 mins read).

A quick one-liner to get you the full certificate chain in .pem format.

Fri, 28 Apr 2017 16:53 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #bash #shell #oneliner #openssl #certificates.

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glances, a top and htop replacement (1 mins read).

I share the tool I have been using for system utilisation and monitoring, glances.

Wed, 26 Apr 2017 13:09 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #command-line #python #tool #workflow.

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I will be attending May the 4th Be With You - Sharepoint & Browser Security on Thursday, May 4 2017

Mon, 24 Apr 2017 21:35 by Jamie Tanna .

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I will be attending Kickstarting your Automated Build and Continuous Delivery platform on Thursday, May 11 2017

Sat, 22 Apr 2017 19:52 by Jamie Tanna .

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I will be attending Tech Nottingham May 2017: Fun with Clojure! on Monday, May 8 2017

Tue, 18 Apr 2017 17:11 by Jamie Tanna .

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Saving Repetition with Git Commit Templates (3 mins read).

Speed up your commit message writing by providing a template for when you run git commit.

Mon, 17 Apr 2017 19:27 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #tools #git #workflow #automation.

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Cleaning Up Your LaTeX Build Output with latexrun (3 mins read).

A tool to help reduce the amount of unnecessary output when building LaTeX files.

Thu, 13 Apr 2017 13:54 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #latex #tools #workflow.

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I will be attending May 2017 - Chat Bots on Tuesday, May 9 2017

Fri, 07 Apr 2017 11:44 by Jamie Tanna .

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I will be attending DevOps Nottingham on Wednesday, Mar 29 2017

Wed, 29 Mar 2017 18:30 by Jamie Tanna .

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I will be attending April 2017 - Firefox Containers, isolating the web whilst hacking web extensions on Tuesday, Apr 11 2017

Sat, 25 Mar 2017 15:43 by Jamie Tanna .

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I will be attending Content Security Policies: Let’s Break Stuff on Thursday, Apr 13 2017

Sat, 25 Mar 2017 15:40 by Jamie Tanna .

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Why You Should Use GitLab.com (13 mins read).

A discussion about the reasons that I would greatly recommend the GitLab.com platform for all your Git hosting, opposed to its competitors.

Sat, 25 Mar 2017 10:51 by Jamie Tanna . #gitlab #open-source #persuasive.

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I will be attending Tech Nottingham April 2017: Impostors & Muggles on Monday, Apr 3 2017

Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:32 by Jamie Tanna .

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I will be attending Hack24 2017 on Saturday, Mar 18 2017

Sat, 18 Mar 2017 10:00 by Jamie Tanna .

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I will be attending Hack24 2017 on Saturday, Mar 18 2017

Sat, 18 Mar 2017 10:00 by Jamie Tanna .

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I will be attending UoN Women in Technology #WIT17 on Saturday, Feb 18 2017

Sat, 18 Feb 2017 09:30 by Jamie Tanna .

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Resurrecting dinosaurs, what could possibly go wrong? (12 mins read).

How containerised apps (AppImage, Snappy and Flatpak) could eat our users.

Wed, 15 Feb 2017 15:40 by Jamie Tanna . #events #fosdem #open-source #containers #docker #flatpak #snappy #appimage.

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Preparing a Technical Workshop - A Checklist (4 mins read).

What you need to remember to ask the organisers and what to consider in order to ensure your workshop goes smoothly.

Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:57 by Jamie Tanna . #workshop #checklist #guide.

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CloudABI - Easily develop sandboxed apps for UNIX (7 mins read).

An Application Binary Interface to make it possible to create capabilities-based, hardened, software.

Tue, 14 Feb 2017 15:36 by Jamie Tanna . #events #fosdem #cloud #open-source.

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FOSDEM 2017 (4 mins read).

A few words ahead of the storm of articles.

Thu, 09 Feb 2017 15:57 by Jamie Tanna . #events #fosdem #open-source.

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Open S-awesome (5 mins read).

A month of giving back, and a very honest post-mortem of what I learned.

Tue, 07 Feb 2017 19:49 by Jamie Tanna . #retrospective #open-source #free-software #community.

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I will be attending Tech Nottingham February 2017 - Chatbots and Chatops! on Monday, Feb 6 2017

Mon, 30 Jan 2017 13:22 by Jamie Tanna .

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I will be attending Hack24 and The 12 Principles of Animation on Thursday, Feb 2 2017

Sat, 28 Jan 2017 10:24 by Jamie Tanna .

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Continuous Delivery with Capistrano and GitLab Continuous Integration (4 mins read).

How to get up and running with using GitLab CI and the Capistrano deploy tool.

Wed, 25 Jan 2017 22:16 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #capistrano #deploy #ci #gitlab #docker.

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I will be attending January 2017 Meetup on Tuesday, Jan 10 2017

Mon, 09 Jan 2017 23:21 by Jamie Tanna .

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2016's Music In Review (5 mins read).

What music was I listening to in 2016?

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00 by Jamie Tanna . #music.

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I will be attending Tech Nottingham January 2017 - Starting fresh this New Year! on Monday, Jan 9 2017

Mon, 19 Dec 2016 17:30 by Jamie Tanna .

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I will be attending Hack the Holidays 2 on Saturday, Dec 17 2016

Sat, 17 Dec 2016 10:00 by Jamie Tanna .

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I will be attending #NottTechParty - The Nottingham Tech Community Christmas Party on Thursday, Dec 8 2016

Thu, 08 Dec 2016 19:00 by Jamie Tanna .

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I will be attending OxfordHack 2016 on Saturday, Nov 19 2016

Sat, 19 Nov 2016 09:00 by Jamie Tanna .

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I will be attending Kickass Development Environments With Docker on Thursday, Nov 10 2016

Tue, 08 Nov 2016 22:15 by Jamie Tanna .

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I will be attending Tech Nottingham November 2016 - How to talk about APIs & Technical Products and on Monday, Nov 7 2016

Sun, 06 Nov 2016 13:26 by Jamie Tanna .

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I will be attending Tech Nottingham October 2016 - The Mixed Reality Lab takes over! on Monday, Oct 3 2016

Sun, 02 Oct 2016 13:42 by Jamie Tanna .

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Hacktoberfest 2016 (12 mins read).

A few words about my excitement for the start of Hacktoberfest, and some ideas on how to get started yourself.

Sat, 01 Oct 2016 10:50 by Jamie Tanna . #guide #hacktoberfest #open-source #free-software #community.