Finally worked it out - it wasn't a film, it was the Family Guy episode Take My Wife Finally worked it out - it wasn't a film, it was the Family Guy episode Take My Wife Quoted a post on www.jvt.me by Jamie Tanna Post details Can anyone else remember a movie(?) from a few years … | Continue reading
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Reposted Laurie Voss (@seldo@alpaca.gold) Post details Y'all told me Andreesen was smart, Thiel was smart, Rabois was smart, Musk was smart, they have all outed themselves as lucky and dumb. You need to stop assuming being rich and being smart are the same. | Continue reading
Sometimes you need to check the equality of two structs in Go, and depending on how complicated they are, you probably want to avoid hand-writing the Equal method if possible, and you want to avoid reflect.DeepEqual for performance reasons, at least in your production code. If I … | Continue reading
The week of finding out if I would be part of the redundancies at Deliveroo - TL;DR I was not - but we're losing a lot of good folks which really sucks As the few days off for my birthday and the weekend came to an end, I was feeling like I was more likely to be made redundant, … | Continue reading
There are cases where you want to keep files in-sync between repos by manually vendoring them, and periodically updating them. I've been doing this with OpenAPI specifications in some repos, but wanted a handy way to make it visible that they're up-to-date. Until I get around to … | Continue reading
With the news that Deliveroo are making 9% of the company redundant, of which all Senior Software Engineers are "at risk" of redundancies, I've been considering where I am and where I want to be going in my career regardless of whether I'm made redundant. I'll be finding out in t … | Continue reading
A two-day work week, with three days off for my birthday. Had a bit too much of a lie in on Monday as I'd turned my alarm off and slept in until almost 9 🥱 Had some very cute mornings with Cookie being cuddly, and some evenings of Cookie being cuddly. She's turning into s … | Continue reading
With the news yesterday that Docker Inc is sunsetting the "Free Team" organisations, the engineering community at large is considering the ramifications. Although some answers have been given, there's still a bit of uncertainty around what may happen to existing images that are i … | Continue reading
I really like the fact that a lot of the database engines are allowing for native JSON querying, not least with SQLite, as I'm using it for various projects at the moment. However, I can never seem to remember the incantation for how to actually perform the JSON query. Let's say … | Continue reading
Was fighting for top place in AdVenture Capitalist on Monday, but didn't quite get the top spot Finally gotten around to reading ADHD 2.0, which was recommended to me when I first announced my diagnosis Managed to finish it in the day Yay for 2x speed While listening to it, I th … | Continue reading
Something I've needed for a side project is the ability to retrieve what version of a dependency has currently been resolved. It was quite hard to search around this online so I'm writing how to do it for future folks searching for this. The below examples are based on this examp … | Continue reading
As written about in Automating boilerplate/scaffolding code with custom code generation in Go, being able to take advantage of generating Go code can be super handy. However, you may get to the point where you're working with the codegen that you find working with text-based temp … | Continue reading
Sometimes when you're integrating with APIs or web services, you need to debug the HTTP requests/responses that are occuring. In some toolchains it's part of configuration, but in Go it's unfortunately not part of the standard library to globally turn on logging for the http.Clie … | Continue reading
Let's say you've found some Twilio credentials, and want to work out whether they're still active. Twilio has two types of credentials - "auth tokens" and API Keys. The "auth tokens" are bound to an account or a user, whereas API keys are more of a machine-user credential and hav … | Continue reading
Had Carol round to celebrate her being able to officially go zoomies Didn't end up submitting a talk to GopherCon UK, as I ended up re-reading the talk lengths and realising that a 60 minute session wasn't quite for me Spent some time getting my CV updated, ahead of X-posting my … | Continue reading
Listened to Netlify with Mathias Biilmann Christensen Post details Netlify is a cloud-based platform that provides web developers with an all-in-one workflow to build, deploy, and manage modern web projects. Matt Biilmann is the CEO of Netlify and he joins us today. This epis … | Continue reading
Bookmarked Be Careful Using tmux and Environment Variables Post details Watch out for these common pitfalls when using tmux and environment variables and learn how to avoid them. Recommended read: Be Careful Using tmux and Environment Variables https://aj.codes/posts/be-car … | Continue reading
Listened to Kaizen! Embracing change with Adam & Jerod (Ship It! #90) Post details This is our 9th Kaizen with Adam & Jerod. We start today’s conversation with the most important thing: embracing change. For Gerhard, this means putting Ship It on hold after this ep … | Continue reading
Listened to Amanda Brock of OpenUK on Open Source Law, Policy and Practice by SustainOSS Post details Amanda goes in-depth about creating a broader engagement across the UK government on security, technical issues, and security policy issues. | Continue reading
Listened to Ashley Williams on Open Source Software Sustainability by SustainOSS Post details Ashley shares about her time at Node.js, Rust, and her new company Axo, and has suggestions for how open-source projects can get money to become successful in the long term | Continue reading
Listened to Dudley Carr and Wes Carr on StackAid by SustainOSS Post details Dudley and Wes share all things StackAid, their backgrounds, some of their long-term goals, and exciting things on the horizon for StackAid. | Continue reading
As part of working on my new Go CLI dmd, I wanted to implement a --version flag to be able to check what version is currently installed. I'd started looking at how to do this after I spotted that GoReleaser populates main.version ldflags which mean that you can easily consume the … | Continue reading
Listened to The ADHD Adults Podcast Post details The ADHD Adults Podcast (in)expertly covers issues around ADHD in adults, sharing evidence-based information and personal experiences. Join us for Alex the round-headed psychoeducation monkey's evidence-based information, Jam … | Continue reading
Kicked off the week with an every so slightly themed retro with Phaeleh - Moving On and Yoe Mase - Getaway Car Had a couple of games of Team Deathmatch in Apex Legends this week, one where I was playing a good bit of a hide-and-seek in a 1v1 just to keep the win (as up until then … | Continue reading
Been listening to Phaeleh's Signature Sound: 100% Originals Mix a fair bit, and it's the usual awesome chilled mix of great music you can expect Been listening to Phaeleh's Signature Sound: 100% Originals Mix a fair bit, and it's the usual awesome chilled mix of great music you c … | Continue reading
While working on creating a new Go CLI dmd, I wanted to set up Gorelaser to make builds much simpler, as I wanted to be able to use this with both my Linux machine and my work Mac. I thought I had it working until I realised that I was using a library that required CGO to be buil … | Continue reading
I've been doing a lot of work recently around the dependency data of various projects, which stems from a post and idea of mine from a while ago about monetising the supply chain. Separate to that lofty goal - especially as there are some tools like socket.dev and StackAid workin … | Continue reading
Got my replacement monitor - finally after many days of being told it'd arrive the next day - so 🤞 this one doesn't have the same issue longer term My watch got stuck for a couple of hours "preparing" for an OS update - which started before bed - which meant I lost some s … | Continue reading
Reposted Matt Brunt #[Impure] (@brunty@brunty.social) Post details Transgender rights are human rights. Transgender rights are human rights. Transgender rights are human rights. Transgender rights are human rights. | Continue reading
Had Carol over for dinner on Monday which was nice to chill and catch up 🥰 Managed to get Morph to start washing my face - once when he was washing normally and I tricked him into continuing onto my face, and once he just started licking my face 🥰 Caught Morph ear … | Continue reading
When using GitHub App authentication, there's a slightly more complex setup for authenticating. Depending on what you're doing you can simply use the GitHub SDKs, but sometimes you just want an installation access token, for instance to clone a repository as the app. To do this, … | Continue reading
When working with private keys, one of the awkward things to deal with is how to pass them around to applications. If you're following a twelve-factor app approach where secrets are passed in via the environment variables, but as keys are multi-line there are a few options for ho … | Continue reading
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Accidentally left my watch on overnight and got some interesting sleep data from FitBit. That night I'd also not got my phone properly on the charger so in the morning needed to stay in bed a little more to wait for them to charge Cookie did not appreciate the window cleaners ear … | Continue reading
I've recently been doing an audit of my branches across the repos I have on GitHub, and needed a way to list all the protection in place across various repos. To make it easier, I've created a Go tool, which can be installed like: go install gitlab.com/tanna.dev/github-branch-pro … | Continue reading
This post has been officially on my TODO list since October 2021 when Suze asked in the Tech Nottingham Slack about writing very publicly about my life, and how I find the comfort with it. It's something I wanted to reply to with - as is tradition - a blog post, but had not gotte … | Continue reading
If you're working with applications that require translations, you may be using gettext's .po format to store your translations. One issue I've found with this is that sometimes it can be hard to quickly audit whether there are any missing translations, especially in larger appli … | Continue reading
I've written about how great Renovate is great for managing your dependencies across the toolchains you support, and giving you control over how the updates are made across your repositories. Although it can be handy for teams owning repositories to have full control over their r … | Continue reading
A busy week ahead of my parents coming to stay: One night Cookie was barking to be let back into the kitchen, so begrudgingly we did in case she needed to go to the loo, and it turns out she was narc'ing on Morph who was standing on the counter Played a lot of AdVenture Capitalis … | Continue reading
Let's say you've just found something that looks like a Slack incoming webhook URL and want to check if it's active. The URL may look something like: https://hooks.slack.com/services/T0.../BF.../fXg... I've found that sending a request like so is a good way to test validity, as w … | Continue reading
Let's say you've just found something that looks like it's an NPM token, and you want to work out whether it's still valid. One option is to try and download a dependency using it, but that can be a little more awkward to do, when there are easier means to do so. With npm Let's s … | Continue reading