For varying levels of seniority, from senior, to staff, and beyond.
Recommended read: An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding https://skamille.medium.com/an-incomplete-list-of-skills-senior-engineers-need-beyond-coding-8ed4a521b29f
There have been discussions in the aftermath of the log4j vulnerability about whether or not open source is broken or sustainable, what we can do to improve the sustainability of the open source ecosystem moving forwards, and the entitlement of users and companies in expecting maintainers to fix their problems.
Recommended read: Entitlement in Open Source https://mikemcquaid.com/entitlement-in-open-source/
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#open-source.
The website of Robin Rendle, a designer and writer from the UK.
Recommended read: Take Care of Your Blog https://www.robinrendle.com/notes/take-care-of-your-blog-/
Remains of your attention span. Photo by Pablo Martinez on Unsplash This is exactly why you can’t focus on reading anything longer than a mobile page length these days. Not even a blog post, let alone …
Recommended read: Your attention span is being robbed! – Unstructed.tech https://unstructed.tech/2022/09/07/your-attention-span-is-being-robbed/
by Jamie Tanna
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Life without a REPL, and how to still be able to manipulate production which even has quite a few benefits over more one-off REPL-driven operations..
Something I've been thinking about for an alternative to rails console for Go, and of course Brandur Leach has excellent thoughts about it
Recommended read: Operational convergence, for REPL-less languages like Go — brandur.org https://brandur.org/fragments/operational-convergence
by Jamie Tanna
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#go
#automation.
Recommended read: 'Managing Kubernetes without losing your cool' by Marcus Noble https://marcusnoble.co.uk/2022-07-04-managing-kubernetes-without-losing-your-cool/
by Jamie Tanna
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#kubernetes.
As the world changes, so too must Tech Nottingham. We explore the future of Tech Nottingham events.
A lovely post, and I know that it was a very difficult post to write - but also not that TN will cease to be a thing.
The team have worked so incredibly hard to make remote work and it definitely feels like the right call, albeit a shame!
Recommended read: The Future of Tech Nottingham Events - 2022 and beyond — Tech Nottingham - Your local tech community https://www.technottingham.com/news/2022/6/8/the-future-of-tech-nottingham-events-2022-and-beyond
by Jamie Tanna
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#tech-nottingham.
For many open source consumers the "logical units" being depended on are libraries. However, the libraries themselves are only a product of what consumers are actually depending on: people. Y...
Recommended read: People in your software supply chain https://sethmlarson.dev/blog/people-in-your-software-supply-chain
Recommended read: Infrastructure as software https://www.justingarrison.com/blog/2022-06-01-infrastructure-as-software/
The pandemic made evident how much work can, and should, be different. The forced change to accommodate remote workflows also brought to light what I like to call “virtual offices”. Unlike truly remote friendly workplaces optimized for asynchronous communication, these aim to merely transport the office into a virtual space keeping the same unnecessary constraints of synchronous work intact, only replacing shoulder taps with Zoom calls. I’d love if we collectively agreed to start using a more appropriate name for these. They are office-less companies but they are not remote-friendly.
Recommended read: Stop Pretending Your Company is Remote https://mycodingtales.com/stop-pretending-your-company-is-remote/
by Jamie Tanna
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#remote-work.
Map your (least) favorite programming language to your favorite Planet Express crew member based on its characteristics.
Recommended read: If Programming Languages Were Futurama Characters https://www.netmeister.org/blog/futurama.html
by Jamie Tanna
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#futurama.
Recommended read: RSS Feed Best Practises https://kevincox.ca/2022/05/06/rss-feed-best-practices/
by Jamie Tanna
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#feed
#rss.
The problem is when you have a lot of posts, names start overlapping, or you want to make the date it was from more visible.
Still I do agree it can be useful!
Recommended read: Short URLs: why and how https://sive.rs/su
by Jamie Tanna
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Documenting my experiences and learnings, with the goal of helping other software engineers on their journey
Some really great posts here that have made it much easier for me to get started with Go!
Recommended read: Bookmark of https://ieftimov.com/categories/testing-in-go/ https://ieftimov.com/categories/testing-in-go/
by Jamie Tanna
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#go
#testing.
Ruby made its YAML interpreter more secure by default at the cost of backward compatibility. Developers weren’t given heads up warning about the changes.
Recommended read: Ruby 3.1’s incompatible changes to its YAML module (Psych 4) https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/ruby-psych4.html
by Jamie Tanna
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#ruby.
Recommended read: Twelve-factor app anno 2022 https://xenitab.github.io/blog/2022/02/23/12factor/
by Jamie Tanna
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A report of my positive and negative experiences with Go after using it for 6 months at work.
Recommended read: Experience Report: 6 months of Go https://typesanitizer.com/blog/go-experience-report.html
by Jamie Tanna
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#go.
Small and independent blogs are always full of surprises. The more blogs I stumble upon, the more genuinely surprised I am by the things people do with their blogs. It seemed like a good idea to …(https://brainbaking.com/post/2022/04/cool-things-people-do-with-their-blogs/)
Recommended read: Cool Things People Do With Their Blogs | Brain Baking https://brainbaking.com/post/2022/04/cool-things-people-do-with-their-blogs/
by Jamie Tanna
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Recommended read: Introducing zq: an Easier (and Faster) Alternative to jq | Brim Data https://www.brimdata.io/blog/introducing-zq/
by Jamie Tanna
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#command-line.
A "logical flaw" has been disclosed in the NPM package manager that allowed attackers to pass off rogue libraries as legitimate.
Recommended read: NPM Bug Allowed Attackers to Distribute Malware as Legitimate Packages https://thehackernews.com/2022/04/npm-bug-allowed-attackers-to-distribute.html?m=1
by Jamie Tanna
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#nodejs
#npm.
What? you can do that in Linux? It turns out you can! First, let’s see it in action. Here I retrieve a binary from my Raspberry Pi which is an ARM binary and execute it in my x86_64 machine …
Recommended read: Transparently running binaries from any architecture in Linux with QEMU and binfmt_misc – Own your bits https://ownyourbits.com/2018/06/13/transparently-running-binaries-from-any-architecture-in-linux-with-qemu-and-binfmt_misc/
by Jamie Tanna
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#linux.
Over the course of 2021, the IndieWeb community had several popup sessions to continue the refining of the spec. This culminated in a release of the latest iteration on February 22, 2022. I really …
Recommended read: IndieAuth Spec Updates 2022 – David Shanske https://david.shanske.com/2022/04/21/indieauth-spec-updates-2022/
by Jamie Tanna
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#indieauth.
The long-running BBC sci-fi show Doctor Who has a recurring plot device where the Doctor manages to get out of trouble by showing an identity card which is actually completely blank. Of course, this …
Recommended read: CVE-2022-21449: Psychic Signatures in Java – Neil Madden https://neilmadden.blog/2022/04/19/psychic-signatures-in-java/
by Jamie Tanna
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#java
#security.
Key principles using modern CSS, fluid type, fluid space, flexible layout and progressive enhancement will help you to build better front-ends that work for everyone.
Recommended read: Be the browser’s mentor, not its micromanager. - Build Excellent Websites https://buildexcellentwebsit.es/
by Jamie Tanna
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#web.
Before we begin: The content in this article assumes knowledge of table-driven tests in Go.
Recommended read: Testing in Go: Subtests · Ilija Eftimov 👨🚀 https://ieftimov.com/posts/testing-in-go-subtests/
by Jamie Tanna
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#go.
So, GitHub just got bought by Microsoft and this got me and a bunch of people thinking about the dependence of Go on GitHub as a piece of…
Recommended read: Making a Golang Vanity URL. So, GitHub just got bought by Microsoft… | by Jon Betti | Medium https://medium.com/@JonNRb/making-a-golang-vanity-url-f56d8eec5f6c
by Jamie Tanna
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#go.
Introduction If you have been working with Go programming language for a while, you would have noticed that a lot of open source packages that you import start with github.com/…. You would then use go get command to download the package and add it to your go.mod file. For instance: $ go get -u github.com/abvarun226/goiplookup What if you did not want this dependency on Github and rather wanted to host your own git server?
Recommended read: The Code Library | Vanity URL for Go packages https://ayada.dev/posts/vanity-url-for-go-packages/
by Jamie Tanna
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#go.
Recommended read: Get a repo-scoped GitHub Access Token quickly https://wesbos.com/scoped-github-access-token/
by Jamie Tanna
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#github.
Recommended read: Advancing from a Mid-Level to Senior Developer https://joshghent.com/mid-to-senior-dev/
by Jamie Tanna
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#job.
Lightspin obtains credentials to an internal AWS service by exploiting a local file read vulnerability on the RDS EC2 instance using the log_fdw extension.
Recommended read: AWS RDS Vulnerability Leads to AWS Internal Service Credentials https://blog.lightspin.io/aws-rds-critical-security-vulnerability
by Jamie Tanna
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#aws
#security.
Recommended read: Random Indie Weblog Posts https://indieblog.page/
Recommended read: Internet ‘algospeak’ is changing our language in real time, from ‘nip nobs’ to ‘le dollar bean’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/08/algospeak-tiktok-le-dollar-bean/
by Jamie Tanna
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#social-media.
Recommended read: PIPEFAIL: How a missing shell option slowed Cloudflare down https://blog.cloudflare.com/pipefail-how-a-missing-shell-option-slowed-cloudflare-down/
by Jamie Tanna
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#shell
#scripting
#bash.
Do you need a staging environment? We've written this short blog post to share how an alternative approach is saving us time, and helping us ship better code.
Recommended read: The Squeaky Blog | Why we don’t use a staging environment https://squeaky.ai/blog/development/why-we-dont-use-a-staging-environment
by Jamie Tanna
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Recommended read: That simple script is still someone's bad day https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/04/05/pipe/
by Jamie Tanna
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#shell
#command-line.
With all the fuss about Twitter’s promised edit button, and how they might design it, we’re missing a disturbing development — Twitter is using its embedded javascript to edit other people’s sites.
Recommended read: Twitter Edits You http://www.kevinmarks.com/twittereditsyou.html
by Jamie Tanna
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#twitter
#social-media.
This post is written by Mark Sailes, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect. This blog post shows how to optimize the performance of AWS Lambda functions written in Java, without altering any of the function code. It shows how Java virtual machine (JVM) settings affect the startup time and performance. You also learn how you can benchmark […]
Recommended read: Optimizing AWS Lambda function performance for Java | Amazon Web Services https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/optimizing-aws-lambda-function-performance-for-java/
by Jamie Tanna
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#java
#aws-lambda.
Managing teams has taught me a lot about my own behaviors and motivations. For example, I overworked for a long time. This left me continually teetering on the brink of burnout, and I had no energy left to absorb the typical sorts of organizational changes that happen at any company. Despite doing good work, I handled change poorly, and I picked up the reputation for being difficult to manage. I’d like to say that I learned from my mistakes directly, but the honest version is that I came to understand this dynamic mostly through working with folks struggling from the same issue.
Recommended read: Hard to work with. https://lethain.com/hard-to-work-with/
by Jamie Tanna
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Recommended read: Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source https://opensource.org/open-source-protestware-harms-open-source
Want to keep up to date, automatically, easily and for free? You Need Feeds. Read an introduction to feeds, view providers, and you'll be well on the way to your own personal one-stop-shop for all your favourite sites.
Recommended read: You Need Feeds https://www.youneedfeeds.com/
by Jamie Tanna
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#feed.
Recommended read: Russian plugin, go fuck yourself – Hi, I’m Heather Burns https://webdevlaw.uk/2022/03/25/russian-plugin-go-fuck-yourself/
This was a great talk at Women in Tech when Carol Gilabert did it, and there was a lot of really great things that I took away from it for my own application process 👀
Recommended read: Looking for a job while looking after yourself https://carol.gg/blog/looking-for-a-job/
I’m playing Wordle. I love a word puzzle and like many have been hooked by the daily game. I wrote wordle-to-yaml-action to archive my Wordle games to a yaml file....
Recommended read: Wordle to yaml | Katy DeCorah https://katydecorah.com/code/wordle-to-yaml/
by Jamie Tanna
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#wordle.
API-first. "Headless" e-commerce. "Headless" BI. We've seen a resurgence of startups reimagine startups like Shopify and Wordpress, but built for developers and built for composability. The API is the product. There's three major risks to building on an API. (1) Requests and responses aren't always the full contract. What happens
Recommended read: API Warfare https://matt-rickard.com/api-warfare/
by Jamie Tanna
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#api.
Using else often encourages complexer code structure, makes code less readable. In most cases you can refactor it using early returns.
This is a good tip for any language!
Recommended read: Avoid using else - Freek Van der Herten's blog on PHP, Laravel and JavaScript https://freek.dev/2212-avoid-using-else
by Jamie Tanna
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#php.
Is the idea after the first resolution it'll rely on OS caching? Still this seems inefficient and in cases of multiple domains resolving to the same IP, incorrect. What am I missing?
Recommended read: Why does java.net.URL's hashcode resolve the host to an IP? - Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2348399/why-does-java-net-urls-hashcode-resolve-the-host-to-an-ip
by Jamie Tanna
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#java.
Recommended read: Tech Debts https://pauldambra.dev/2021/07/tech-debts.html
by Jamie Tanna
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#tech-debt.
Recommended read: More Than a Dozen Command Line Tools I've Written—and So Can You! · The Ethically-Trained Programmer https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2018/go-cli-tools/
Recommended read: How to design better APIs https://r.bluethl.net/how-to-design-better-apis
by Jamie Tanna
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#api.
I've recently been doing similar with some of my utilities, albeit with an informal comparison between Ruby and Go versions, but would agree that for large, production critical scrips, this is a great way to do it
Recommended read: Rewriting Bash scripts in Go using black box testing https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/03/09/rewriting-bash-scripts-in-go-using-black-box-testing/
by Jamie Tanna
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#command-line
#bash
#shell
#go.
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