Hi, I'm Jamie Tanna (he/him/his), and I'm currently a Tech Lead (Software Development Engineer 3) at Capital One UK where I'm working on Customer Acquisitions.
I currently live in Nottingham with my partner Anna Dodson and our beautiful terror of a cat Morph.
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.
Drop me an email at hi@jamietanna.co.uk, or using any of the other social links below.
Why you need a service registry
Recommended read: Why you need a service registry https://blog.lawrencejones.dev/service-registry/
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Recommended read: RBAC like it was meant to be https://tailscale.com/blog/rbac-like-it-was-meant-to-be/
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#authorization.
Tackling Structural Racism and Sexism in Open Source
Recommended read: Tackling Structural Racism and Sexism in Open Source https://cucumber.io/blog/open-source/tackling-structural-racism-(and-sexism)-in-open-so/
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#diversity-and-inclusion
#cucumber
#community.
Week Notes 21#37 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-09-13?
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#week-notes.
An incident response starter-pack: how do you handle production outages?
Recommended read: An incident response starter-pack: how do you handle production outages? https://blog.lawrencejones.dev/incident-response/
How To Rapidly Improve At Any Programming Language
Recommended read: How To Rapidly Improve At Any Programming Language https://www.cbui.dev/how-to-rapidly-improve-at-any-programming-language/
What I Learnt Becoming a Tech Lead | Tom Gamon
Recommended read: What I Learnt Becoming a Tech Lead | Tom Gamon https://tomgamon.com/posts/things-i-have-learned-new-tech-lead/
I'm interested in attending DataConnect21 - a week of data-themed activities 27 Sept -1 Oct on
Although I'm on holiday this week and may not be able to make a lot of this - there's some really exciting stuff happening that's being run by my new team!
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Definitely gonna be keeping this thread in mind for my new role next month!
https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1370575853554266118
And now, a small thread on what to do in your first two weeks of starting a new job.
Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig)Sat, 13 Mar 2021 03:22 GMT
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AWS federation comes to GitHub Actions | Aidan Steele’s blog (usually about AWS)
Recommended read: AWS federation comes to GitHub Actions | Aidan Steele’s blog (usually about AWS) https://awsteele.com/blog/2021/09/15/aws-federation-comes-to-github-actions.html
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#aws
#github.
Recommended read: Enough https://pawlean.com/2021/09/15/enough/
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We've been using emoji for this in the past, which works well as long as everyone remembers what the emoji reflect - I often forget - but doing it this way makes a lot of sense, and having them to be machine-parseable is a benefit!
Recommended read: Conventional Comments https://conventionalcomments.org/
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#code-review.
Thanks everyone for some really great engagement with this!
https://twitter.com/JamieTanna/status/1435908763119230978
Welp, I'm sure I'll regret this, but I'm publishing my salary/compensation history publicly now! Blog post: jvt.me/posts/2021/09/… Numbers: jvt.me/salary/ (jvt.me/mf2/2021/09/4t…)Jamie Tanna | www.jvt.me (@JamieTanna)Thu, 09 Sep 2021 10:11 +0000
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Thanks everyone for some really great engagement with this!
https://www.jvt.me/mf2/2021/09/4tvml/
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Week Notes 21#36 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-09-06?
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#week-notes.
Packaging Wiremock Extensions into the Standalone Server Runner (2 mins read).
How to use Gradle to package a standalone JAR for Wiremock, including any extensions needed.
I will be attending Tech Nottingham September 2021 - What You Should Know About Tech Leadership on
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Recommended read: Mistakes I've Made in AWS https://laravel-news.com/aws-mistakes
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#aws.
No More Medium. Build Your Own Site, Please.
Recommended read: No More Medium. Build Your Own Site, Please. https://nomedium.dev/
Recommended read: The Phantom Token Approach https://curity.io/resources/learn/phantom-token-pattern/
Top OAuth API Vulnerabilities | Nordic APIs
Recommended read: Top OAuth API Vulnerabilities | Nordic APIs https://nordicapis.com/top-oauth-api-vulnerabilities/
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#api
#oauth
#oauth2.
Testing Java Callbacks with Mockito (1 mins read).
How to test invoking a real callback in a Java project, as a unit test.
Welp, I'm sure I'll regret this, but I'm publishing my salary/compensation history publicly now!
Blog post: https://www.jvt.me/posts/2021/09/09/public-salary-history/
Numbers: https://www.jvt.me/salary/
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Providing a Public Salary History Page (2 mins read).
Publishing my salary and compensation history for public use.
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#job.
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https://twitter.com/JoshuaOgundu/status/1435684103915905028
Tech CEO talks about the all hands meeting
Josh (@JoshuaOgundu)Wed, 08 Sep 2021 19:18 +0000
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First day back at #CapitalOne's offices in Nottingham after a whopping 545 days is a very weird feeling. Got some freebies, a free breakfast, and our first hybrid standup. Been nice to just wave to people, and I'm looking forward to making the most of the day!
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#capital-one.
Releasing a Java Library for Gherkin Formatting (4 mins read).
Announcing the release of a Java library that can pretty-format a Gherkin feature file.
Pushing Back to Git In a Jenkins Multibranch Pipeline (1 mins read).
How to push back to a Git repo using a Jenkins multibranch pipeline.
Week Notes 21#35 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-08-30?
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#week-notes.
What We Learned from 200,000 OpenAPI Files | Postman Blog
Recommended read: What We Learned from 200,000 OpenAPI Files | Postman Blog https://blog.postman.com/what-we-learned-from-200000-openapi-files/
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#api
#openapi.
The fact that it's September means #Hacktoberfest is only around the corner 😱
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#hacktoberfest.
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Week Notes 21#34 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-08-23?
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#week-notes.
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#politics.
Using Bill of Materials to Simplify Dependency Management (3 mins read).
Producing a Bill of Materials to simplify dependency management for Java projects.
Right now I'm attending the #IndieWeb #IndieAuth pop-up to look at further improving the specifications, and making it easier for folks to implement and integrate
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#indieweb
#indie-auth.
How and why we switched to Continuous Deployment on GOV.UK
Recommended read: How and why we switched to Continuous Deployment on GOV.UK https://insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/2021/08/05/how-and-why-we-switched-to-continuous-deployment-on-gov-uk/
Is the Meetup.com GraphQL API down? I'm seeing HTTP 502s with x-amzn-errortype: InternalServerErrorException. Was hoping to start a migration from REST to the GraphQL API but I guess not!
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Software deploys and cognitive biases
Recommended read: Software deploys and cognitive biases https://charity.wtf/2021/08/27/software-deploys-and-cognitive-biases/
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Recommended read: API Tokens: A Tedious Survey https://fly.io/blog/api-tokens-a-tedious-survey/
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#authentication
#authorization
#jwt
#paseto
#oauth
#oauth2.
Making Your Gherkin Scenarios Written Using Human-Readable Language (4 mins read).
A lukewarm take about why you should use natural language, so someone not-as-technical can read it and still derive value.
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#software-testing
#cucumber
#communication.