Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer

Hi, I'm Jamie Tanna (he/him/his), and I'm currently a Senior Software Engineer at Deliveroo.

I currently live in Nottingham with my partner Anna Dodson and our cat Morph and our puppy Cookie.

I use my site as a method of blogging about my learnings, as well as sharing information about projects I have previously, or are currently, working on in my spare time.

I'm a GNU/Linux user, a big advocate for the Free Software Movement, and the IndieWeb movement and I try to self host my own services where possible, instead of relying on other providers.

I have ADHD (Inattentive Type) and am learning how to make my life work better around it.

Drop me an email at hi@jamietanna.co.uk, or using any of the other social links below.

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Listened to Cup o' Go | Early look at Go 1.21 changes, ChatGPT plugin templates for Go, and releases in the Git universe

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Coming in Go 1.21Blog post: Planning Go 1.21 Cryptography Work by Filippo Valsordadisallow anonymous interface cyclespurego implementation of hash/maphashReleasesv8go v0.9.0gitea v1.19.0go-github v50.2.0Community newsShay Nehmad's make-git-better CTFGo Time podcastchatGPT-plugin-template on...

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 08:09 by Jamie Tanna .

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Listened to https://www.hanselminutes.com/719/myself-its-not-weird-at-all .

Tue, 28 Mar 2023 07:19 by Jamie Tanna .

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Generating Equal methods for Go structs with goderive (3 mins read).

How to use goderive to generate an Equal method between structs, so you don't have to.

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 20:52 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #go.

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Week Notes 23#12 (3 mins read).

What happened in the week of 2023-03-20?

Sun, 26 Mar 2023 21:40 by Jamie Tanna . #week-notes.

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Listened to Goodbye Atom. Hello Zed. with Nathan Sobo (The Changelog #531)

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This week we’re talking with Nathan Sobo about his next big thing. Nathan is known for his work on the Atom editor while at GitHub. But his work wasn’t finished when he left, so…he started Zed, a high-performance multiplayer editor that’s engineered for performance. And today, Nathan talks us through all the details.

Sun, 26 Mar 2023 14:06 by Jamie Tanna .

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Me too 👀 made good use of a train to London to get some abstracts together, let's see how they're received.

Whatever happens, there'll still be a blog post to TL;DW what would've been the talk

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I've just submitted a couple talk proposals to @dddem@mastodon.me.uk 🎉 Y'all should totally submit too! It's an awesome conference run my truly wonderful humans! 💙 https://sessionize.com/ddd-east-midlands-conference-2023/

Sat, 25 Mar 2023 12:49 by Jamie Tanna . #public-speaking #dddem.

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Bookmarked Continuous Productivity Is Toxic by Wouter Groeneveld

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A few days ago, a stressed-out gamer confessed on ResetERA he was considering giving up on gaming, as he felt the time spent could be put to “better” use. The thread somehow struck a chord here, not …

(https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/03/continuous-productivity-is-toxic/)

Recommended read: https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/03/continuous-productivity-is-toxic/ https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/03/continuous-productivity-is-toxic/

Sat, 25 Mar 2023 11:47 by Jamie Tanna . #burnout.

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Bookmarked Why Engineers Need To Write by Ryan Peterman

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I hated writing in high school. It wasn’t objective like my favorite subjects, math and science. It also didn’t help that we had to write about old, hard-to-understand literature like Shakespeare. But my perspective on writing changed once I started working full-time as a software engineer.

Recommended read: https://www.developing.dev/p/why-engineers-need-to-write https://www.developing.dev/p/why-engineers-need-to-write

Sat, 25 Mar 2023 11:34 by Jamie Tanna . #blogging.

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Bookmarked SOS: Sustainable Open Source by Floor Drees

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relicensing and lack of resources for maintainers are only two top-level issues plaguing open source

Recommended read: https://thenewstack.io/sos-sustainable-open-source/ https://thenewstack.io/sos-sustainable-open-source/

Sat, 25 Mar 2023 10:52 by Jamie Tanna . #open-source.

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In this new world of LLMs (often referred to as “AI”) data ownership and the quality of that data will very soon become the moat, not the algorithms. Any org that to hands over their data to a vendor -which vendor then keeps this data and gets to use it as training- is foolish. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:00 GMT

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:37 by Jamie Tanna .

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Ensuring files are synced between repos with GitHub Actions (2 mins read).

Creating a GitHub Action workflow to indicate when vendored files are out-of-sync between GitHub repos.

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 21:12 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #github #github-actions.

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Listened to APIs You Won't Hate | Jazzed about API client library codegen, with Danny Sheridan from Fern

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Fern - Build APIs Twice as fast - https://buildwithfern.com/Fern on GitHub - https://github.com/fern-api/fernFern's Profile with YCombinator - https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/fern Danny Sheridan - CEO and cofounder of Fern danny@buildwithfern.combuf.build - protobuf codegen utility -...

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 17:14 by Jamie Tanna .

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Thu, 23 Mar 2023 10:40 by Jamie Tanna .

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Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:35 by Jamie Tanna .

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Listened to Cup o' Go | Are we testing? testing.Testing() will tell you! Plus official security patches, goreleaser v1.16, and more.

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Go 1.20.2 & 1.19.7 releasedGo 1.20.2 milestoneGo 1.19.7 milestonegoreleaser v1.16.0 & v1.16.1 releasedOpenCollectiveBabel.jsWomen Who CodeProposalsAccepted: Add testing.Testing() bool functionNew: Track tool usage in go.modNew: Opt-in transparent telemetryIntroducing ngrok-go: Ingress to your Go...

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:11 by Jamie Tanna .

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Listened to The bits of Go we avoid (and why) (Go Time #269)

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The panel discuss the parts of Go they never use. Do they avoid them because of pain in the past? Were they overused? Did they always end up getting refactoring out? Is there a preferred alternative?

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 15:46 by Jamie Tanna .

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I'm fortunately not being made redundant today by Deliveroo Engineering but I know a lot of wonderful colleagues who have been 😢💜

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 10:10 by Jamie Tanna . #roodundancies #deliveroo.

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I don't think I want my next promotion (yet) (5 mins read).

Taking a second to pause and think about what Staff Engineer means to me, and why (right now) I may be looking to stay happy at Senior Engineer.

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 09:26 by Jamie Tanna . #job #career #roodundancies #deliveroo #adhd.

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Today is the day I find out, along with a whole load of my colleagues, whether I am losing my job. Fuck this shit. #Layoffs #engineering #programming

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 08:28 by Jamie Tanna . #deliveroo #roodundancies.

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🎶 You could take this one change, don't let me drown 🎶

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 06:47 by Jamie Tanna . #music.

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Bookmarked It’s worth putting in the effort to regularly update dependencies

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Wherein I argue that you should plan to regularly put in the work required to keep your dependencies up-to-date, because doing so gives you more predictability and control for the same overall effort.

Recommended read: https://felixcrux.com/blog/it-is-worth-regularly-updating-dependencies https://felixcrux.com/blog/it-is-worth-regularly-updating-dependencies

Tue, 21 Mar 2023 17:05 by Jamie Tanna .

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Just over 49 hours until all of us affected by Deliveroo Engineering redundancies find out 😬🫠

Mon, 20 Mar 2023 08:13 by Jamie Tanna . #deliveroo #job #roodundancies.

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Week Notes 23#11 (3 mins read).

What happened in the week of 2023-03-13?

Sun, 19 Mar 2023 21:07 by Jamie Tanna . #week-notes.

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Got some Doughnotts from my team at Deliveroo Engineering today 😋 #Cookie seems interested in them too 👀

Fri, 17 Mar 2023 11:27 by Jamie Tanna . #cookie.

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It's my #birthday! (visit my site for a surprise 🥳)

To practice some self indulgence, I'd love to hear some compliments and/or contributions to support my ongoing work blogging and Open Source'ing 🤓

And while I've got your attention:

support the people who blog and build Open Source you use, and get your company to support the projects they rely on
build a website
join a union

Fri, 17 Mar 2023 07:47 by Jamie Tanna . #birthday.

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Bookmarked Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know

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This controversial decision coupled with poor messaging has created anxiety the Open Source community. Learn what's happening and how we can move forward.

Recommended read: https://blog.alexellis.io/docker-is-deleting-open-source-images/ https://blog.alexellis.io/docker-is-deleting-open-source-images/

Wed, 15 Mar 2023 22:07 by Jamie Tanna . #docker.

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Working out which Docker namespaces and images you most depend on (2 mins read).

How to use dependency-management-data to visualise the most popular Docker namespaces and images you depend on.

Wed, 15 Mar 2023 21:44 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #docker #dependency-management-data.

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I have finished reading Unmasking Autism Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by DeVon Price

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#JustFinished Unmasking Autism Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by DeVon Price

Tue, 14 Mar 2023 18:35 by Jamie Tanna .

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Querying JSON with SQLite (1 mins read).

How to use json_each and json_extract to query a JSON field in SQLite.

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 21:43 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #sqlite #json.

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Week Notes 23#10 (5 mins read).

What happened in the week of 2023-03-06?

Sun, 12 Mar 2023 21:47 by Jamie Tanna . #week-notes.

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Dynamically retrieving the version of a Node.JS/Typescript dependency, at runtime (1 mins read).

How to retrieve metadata about packages that are depended on at runtime.

Sun, 12 Mar 2023 11:21 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #nodejs #typescript.

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Automating boilerplate/scaffolding code with custom code generation in Go, with jen (3 mins read).

How to generate Go code using github.com/dave/jennifer.

Sat, 11 Mar 2023 22:11 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #go.

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Listened to How to position yourself to land the job you want by Eira May

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The home team talks with Wesley Faulkner, Senior Community Manager at AWS, about what’s going on with this cycle of tech layoffs, how to position yourself for success on the job market, and why it’s worth interviewing for jobs you might not want. Plus: The two things you should do as soon as you get an offer.

Sat, 11 Mar 2023 12:13 by Jamie Tanna .

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Debugging HTTP Client requests with Go (2 mins read).

How to add debug logging to http.Client in Go.

Sat, 11 Mar 2023 10:08 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #go.

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Listened to This will blow your docs off with Mark Bates & Cory LaNou (Go Time #268)

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In a world where most documentation sucks, large language models write better than humans, and people won’t be bothered to type full sentences with actual punctuation. Two men… against all odds… join an award-worthy podcast… hosted by a coin-operated, singing code monkey (?)… to convince the developer world they’re doi...

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 19:40 by Jamie Tanna .

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Listened to APIs Unplugged - S3 E12 - Orghitecture and Team APIs with Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais

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Thu, 09 Mar 2023 14:07 by Jamie Tanna .

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I wish more APIs had an endpoint to get a whoami style response to work out if a) the credentials work and b) who they're for.

When you find a thing and want to check it's still active it's super handy, although I do appreciate that some platforms probably don't add that so you can't check if creds are active as easily

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 22:22 by Jamie Tanna .

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Listened to Cup o' Go | Opting in to Transparent Telemetry, new community releases, and more

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Opting In to Transparent Telemetry by Russ CoxAccepted proposal: net/http: add ResponseController.EnableFullDuplexLast call for comments: log/slog: structured, leveled loggingBadgerDB v4.0.1 releaseddominikbraun/graph v0.16.0 releasedService Weaver announced by Googleconc v0.3.0...

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 20:44 by Jamie Tanna .

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Who do these Twilio credentials belong to? (2 mins read).

How to work out whether arbitrary Twilio credentials are valid, and if so, what type they are.

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 20:23 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #twilio.

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I have finished reading ADHD 2.0 New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction--from Childhood through Adulthood by Edward M. Hallowell M.D. and John J. Ratey M.D.

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#JustFinished ADHD 2.0 New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction--from Childhood through Adulthood by Edward M. Hallowell M.D.

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 22:43 by Jamie Tanna .

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Don't know what the cause of it is but every time I see he or she instead of they I get unnecessarily annoyed. Like, just use the third person word that's more inclusive too 😠

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 16:17 by Jamie Tanna .

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Week Notes 23#09 (2 mins read).

What happened in the week of 2023-02-27?

Sun, 05 Mar 2023 21:24 by Jamie Tanna . #week-notes.

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Listened to Netlify with Mathias Biilmann Christensen

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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 episode is hosted by Mike Bifulco. To learn more about Mike visit mikebifulco.com

Sun, 05 Mar 2023 19:13 by Jamie Tanna .

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Bookmarked Be Careful Using tmux and Environment Variables

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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-careful-using-tmux-and-environment-variables/

Sun, 05 Mar 2023 09:57 by Jamie Tanna . #tmux.

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Listened to Kaizen! Embracing change 🌟 with Adam & Jerod (Ship It! #90)

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This is our 9th Kaizen with Adam &amp; Jerod. We start today’s conversation with the most important thing: embracing change. For Gerhard, this means putting Ship It on hold after this episode. It also means making more time to experiment, maybe try a few of those small bets that we recently talked about with Daniel. Ka...

Sat, 04 Mar 2023 18:45 by Jamie Tanna .

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The different ways I work as a software engineer with ADHD: - Do nothing all day. - Work sporadically throughout the day with random spurts of energy. - Do all the work for the week in one hour, usually around 5pm.
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Sat, 04 Mar 2023 08:53 by Jamie Tanna . #adhd.

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Me, with ADHD and wanting to post whatever, whenever: no

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“optimal posting times” “stagger your posts” if you see me you see me. it’s in gods hands and i am not praying
🍓jazz! (@juhuachai)Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:57 GMT

Sat, 04 Mar 2023 08:04 by Jamie Tanna .

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Listened to You’re just a devcontainer.json away with Brigit Murtaugh, PM on the Visual Studio Code team (The Changelog #529)

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This week we’re joined by Brigit Murtaugh, Product Manager on the Visual Studio Code team at Microsoft, and we’re talking about Development Containers and the Dev Container spec. Ever since we talked with Cory Wilkerson about Coding in the cloud with Codespaces we’ve wanted to get the Changelog.com codebase setup with ...

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 18:08 by Jamie Tanna .

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Listened to Julia Ferraioli on Open Source Stories, and Responsible Recognition for Open Source Contributions by SustainOSS

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Julia shares about her background, what Open Source Stories is, and how she quantifies a black swan open source.

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 17:27 by Jamie Tanna .

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Listened to Amanda Brock of OpenUK on Open Source Law, Policy and Practice by SustainOSS

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Amanda goes in-depth about creating a broader engagement across the UK government on security, technical issues, and security policy issues.

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 21:17 by Jamie Tanna .

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