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.
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
.
#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
.
#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
.
#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.
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
.
#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
.
#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
.
#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
.
#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.