Comparing the different Merge Request / Pull Request merge methods in GitLab and GitHub (2 mins read).
How the different merge methods for contributions work between GitLab and GitHub.
Kind articles
How to unpublish/redact/undo/retract a Go release (3 mins read).
How to retract a release version of a Go version, without risking folks automagically upgrade to that version.
by 
Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#go.
Week Notes 24#02 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-01-08?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
How do you represent a JSON field in Go that could be absent, null or have a value? (5 mins read).
Why it's surprisingly hard to work out a field has been sent or whether it's explicitly null, when using Go's encoding/json.
Week Notes 24#01 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-01-01?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Why is set -eu not working? (2 mins read).
Why you may be finding set -u in a shell script not exiting when set -e is also present.
2023's Music In Review (5 mins read).
What music was I listening to in 2023?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#music.
2023's Site In Review (2 mins read).
How did my site perform in 2023?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#www.jvt.me.
Week Notes 23#52 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-12-25?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 23#51 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-12-18?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 23#50 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-12-11?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 23#49 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-12-04?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
You can now interact with dependency-management-data using GraphQL (2 mins read).
Announcing the release of the GraphQL API for dependency-management-data.
Week Notes 23#48 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-11-27?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 23#47 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-11-20?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
You can now use Open Policy Agent with dependency-management-data (2 mins read).
How to use Open Policy Agent to perform much more effective flagging of package compliance with dependency-management-data.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#dependency-management-data
#open-policy-agent.
Week Notes 23#46 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-11-13?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 23#45 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-11-06?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Introducing snyk-export-sbom to export SPDX and CycloneDX SBOM from Snyk (2 mins read).
Creating a new command-line tool for more easily retrieving Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) from Snyk, as well as adding licensing information to SBOMs.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#sbom
#snyk.
Week Notes 23#44 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-10-30?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Using dependency-management-data with npm's SPDX and CycloneDX SBOM export functionality (1 mins read).
How to get started with npm's SBOM export functionality with dependency-management-data.
Introducing renovate-to-sbom to convert Renovate data to Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) (1 mins read).
Creating a new command-line tool for converting Renovate data exports to Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs).
by Jamie Tanna
.
#dependency-management-data
#renovate
#sbom.
dependency-management-data now supports OSS Review Toolkit (ORT) (1 mins read).
How to use data from OSS Review Toolkit (ORT) with dependency-management-data.
Week Notes 23#43 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-10-23?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Getting Go modules to work with nested GitLab groups (3 mins read).
How to get Go modules to work with nested groups in GitLab for public or private repos.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#go
#gitlab.
Performing a v2 release of a Go module (1 mins read).
How to prepare your Go module for its first breaking change release.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#go.
Building resilient, runnable command-line demos with Asciinema and demo (3 mins read).
How to use the demo library alongside Asciinema to make it easier to build and maintain demos for your command-line tools.
Importing a subdirectory from one repo into another (1 mins read).
How to import a subdirectory of a given Git repository into another one, using git subtree.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#git
#git-subtree
#command-line.
How we reduced oapi-codegen's dependency overhead by ~84% (6 mins read).
An example of how to reduce the size of a Go module's dependencies by taking advanage of Go module pruning.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#go.
Week Notes 23#42 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-10-16?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Plea to Software Composition Analysis (SCA) providers and Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) producers: give us more data! (2 mins read).
Why I think dependency scanning tooling should be providing as much data as possible about scanned projects, to allow other tooling to make better inferences about the data.
by Jamie Tanna
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#sbom
#dependency-management-data
#persuasive.
Week Notes 23#41 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-10-09?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Which version of Go was used to compile this binary? (2 mins read).
How to use a few means to work out what version of Go a given binary was compiled with.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#go.
Utilising Renovate's local platform to make renovate-graph more efficient (2 mins read).
How using the local platform with renovate-graph can increase the performance of dependency extraction.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#renovate
#dependency-management-data.
Gotcha: Using vCluster on Elastic Kubernetes Service requires a Container Storage Interface driver (2 mins read).
How to avoid PersistentVolumeClaims getting stuck in a Pending state with vCluster and EKS when you've not set up the cluster with a Container Storage Interface driver for Elastic Block Store.
Listing environment variables used to trigger a Buildkite pipeline (1 mins read).
How to use Buildkite's GraphQL API to list the environment variables provided to trigger a pipeline.
Publishing My On-Call Compensation History (1 mins read).
Publishing a page detailing the on-call compensation I've received over the years.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#job
#on-call
#devopsdays.
Week Notes 23#40 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-10-02?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Why should you blog? (12 mins read).
A writeup of my talk at DDD East Midlands around why you should start blogging.
Solving /usr/lib/Xorg.wrap: Only console users are allowed to run the X server errors with tmux over SSH (1 mins read).
How to avoid Xorg errors when connecting to a Linux machine over SSH that tries to spawn startx.
This talk should also be a blog post (3 mins read).
How you can improve your public speaking by also writing blog posts for your talks.
How blogging has affected me, as a neurodiverse person (5 mins read).
How I've used blogging to help with my ADHD.
Week Notes 23#39 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-09-25?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Introducing tweetus-deletus 🐦🪄💀 - a tool to automate deleting your tweets, through the browser (3 mins read).
Announcing the release of tweetus-deletus, a tool to delete all your tweets, driven through the browser with Playwright.
Reusing a browser session with Playwright (1 mins read).
How to re-use your existing browser sessions with Playwright.
Using dependency-management-data with GitLab's Pipeline-specific CycloneDX SBOM exports (1 mins read).
How to take advantage of SBOM export functionality in GitLab 16.4 with dependency-management-data.
Week Notes 23#38 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-09-18?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Gotchas with pointing Go modules to a fork, when building an installable module (3 mins read).
A gotcha around how to pin a Go module to a fork, if you're building a module that should be go installable.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#go.
Week Notes 23#37 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-09-11?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Building dynamic jobs with BuildKite (2 mins read).
How to dynamically generate job configuration for BuildKite, while running inside a pipeline.