Who do these AWS credentials belong to? (1 mins read).
How to work out whether arbitrary AWS credentials are valid, and if so, what account/role/user they're bound to.
by 
Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#aws.
Kind articles
What I learned rebuilding our CI/CD pipelines for Chef Cookbooks (22 mins read).
How a focus on developer experience and user needs helped us rebuild (Capital One's) CI/CD pipelines for Chef cookbooks the right way.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#chef
#capital-one
#jenkins
#job-dsl
#developer-experience.
Week Notes 23#01 (7 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-01-02?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Listing secrets stored in CircleCI (1 mins read).
How to list all the secrets in your CircleCI organisation.
2022's Music In Review (1 mins read).
What music was I listening to in 2022?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#music.
Enabling/Disabling GitHub Issues via the GitHub API (1 mins read).
How to use the GitHub API to update whether Issues are enabled on a given repo or not.
Week Notes 22#52 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-12-27?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 22#51 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-12-19?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Using Renovate to manage updates to go install commands (1 mins read).
How to run Renovate to manage dependency version updates for cases where you're go installing them.
Week Notes 22#50 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-12-12?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Using Renovate to manage updates to golangci-lint versions (1 mins read).
How to run Renovate to manage your golangci-lint dependency versions, using the official installation script.
Performing arbitrary executions with Renovate (2 mins read).
How to run Renovate for one-off package upgrades, rather than using it for longer term maintenance.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#renovate
#open-source
#security
#typescript.
Week Notes 22#49 (6 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-12-05?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Getting diagnosed with ADHD (10 mins read).
Looking back at the process to get diagnosed with ADHD.
Prefilling OAuth2 scopes for GitHub Personal Access Tokens (1 mins read).
How to make it easier to set up your OAuth2 scopes on a Personal Access Token with GitHub.
Prefilling OAuth2 scopes for GitLab Personal Access Tokens (1 mins read).
How to make it easier to set up your OAuth2 scopes on a Personal Access Token with GitLab.
Week Notes 22#48 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-11-28?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 22#47 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-11-21?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 22#46 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-11-14?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 22#45 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-11-07?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Performing AND conditionals in HAProxy (1 mins read).
How to string multiple conditions together in HAProxy to perform an AND.
Creating a JSON Patch endpoint in Go (2 mins read).
How to create a server-side JSON Patch API endpoint in Go.
Week Notes 22#44 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-10-31?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Extracting the dependency tree from Renovate for given repositories (4 mins read).
Creating a (hacky) solution to retrieve the dependency graph from Renovate for a set of repositories.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#renovate
#open-source
#security
#typescript
#dependency-management-data.
Week Notes 22#43 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-10-24?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Listing all GitHub repositories in a GitHub Organisation (3 mins read).
How to use the GraphQL API to list all the repositories that can be found in a given GitHub organisation.
Week Notes 22#42 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-10-17?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
'Should I be able to learn how to be more productive at work?' (3 mins read).
Looking at whether learning how to be more productive, during work hours, is a reasonable thing to do.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#career
#productivity.
Does the tech industry thrive on free work? (6 mins read).
Thinking about how there are subtle expectations to work on your career outside of tech, and how it's not necessarily great.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#career
#job
#adhd
#open-source
#mental-health.
Retrofitting OpenAPI documentation to your Rails codebase (12 mins read).
How to take a Rails codebase and introduce OpenAPI documentation and contract tests, in a test-driven manner.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#ruby
#rails
#rspec
#openapi
#testing
#contract-testing
#tdd.
Week Notes 22#41 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-10-10?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Phew, that's a lot of traffic 😅 What happens when a blog post goes viral? (5 mins read).
Looking at some of the things that happen when my posts have gone viral, from how much traffic it brings, to the various sources of traffic.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogging
#analytics.
Week Notes 22#40 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-10-03?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
I've got ADHD (4 mins read).
Announcing my recent diagnosis with ADHD Inattentive Type.
Week Notes 22#39 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-09-26?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Analysing our dependency trees to determine where we should send Open Source contributions for Hacktoberfest (8 mins read).
How we (at Deliveroo) are using GitHub Advanced Security's dependency scanning functionality to determine what our most popular dependencies are, and whether we can find any Open Source contributions for the month of Hacktoberfest.
Week Notes 22#38 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-09-19?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Lessons learned since posting my salary history publicly (8 mins read).
What I've learned in the year since posting my salary history publicly.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#salary
#job
#capital-one
#cddo
#deliveroo.
Week Notes 22#37 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-09-12?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 22#36 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-09-05?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 22#35 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-08-29?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Gotcha: testable examples in Go need an output comment (2 mins read).
Beware that your Go Example tests may not actually be running.
Week Notes 22#34 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-08-22?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 22#33 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-08-15?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Introducing the tidied tool, to more easily check whether go mod tidy has been run (2 mins read).
Why I've created a command-line application called tidied to check go mod tidy has been run.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#go.
Week Notes 22#32 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-08-08?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Converting HTTP requests to Wiremock stubs, with Go (2 mins read).
How to take an HTTP request and convert it into a Wiremock JSON mapping, on the command-line, in Go.
The first script I write in a new job: gg (2 mins read).
Why writing a script to easily git clone repos is my first step as a new starter.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#automation
#scripting.
Learning a new language, or how I gained familiarity with Go (10 mins read).
How I've eased into a new language, Go, as a Senior Software Engineer, and some initial thoughts on the language.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#go.
Week Notes 22#31 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-08-01?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.