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

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

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

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 😠

Been listening to Phaeleh's Signature Sound: 100% Originals Mix a fair bit, and it's the usual awesome chilled mix of great music you can expect

🎶 Never gonna stop, stop, stop, stop

Welp it turns out that the slow builds on my site (> 25 minutes, mostly due to the size of it) that have been causing GitLab to time out can be resolved by upgrading the size of CI runner that was launched several months ago!

Microdosing productivity by writing a sentence of a blog post at a time between lives in #ApexLegends team deathmatch

I've just gotten around to looking at the analytics data that I have on my personal website and it's pretty wild looking at how I increased my readership ~1500% since 2016.

I don't have a 🧵 for you, but if you're interested, check out my site in review posts.

Maybe I'll talk more about what I've done for it - but it's not like I've done that much to try and boost engagement and readership, although colleagues and friends will disagree, as I'm quite openly trying to point people to my blog, as seen when I got promoted at Capital One.

These stats don't include anything around my Week Notes, as I don't count them as "blog posts" per se, and they'd definitely boost the numbers of posts for the years I've been doing them.

After many recommendations over the years by Terence Eden ive finally joined Prospect 👏🏽

For those that may or may not have seen the news that Deliveroo are going through redundancies, I'm unfortunately one of the roles at risk.

Although I'm not looking for a change - redundancy process permitting 🤞🏽 - I'd be happy to hear if there are roles that you think I may be interested in.

Looking for Senior level roles for similar compensation to now and working on and with Go, Open Source, OpenAPI, Renovate, Dependency Management and distributed systems.

Check out my CV for a bit more info

Back to the front page of Hacker News with my salary history 🤓

🎶 I'm not playing to your storyline 🎶

For those of you interested in being able to build queries on top of your dependency management data, ie via Renovate or Dependabot then https://dmd.tanna.dev/ may be of interest - still a work in progress, but expect to see some more stuff there in the future!

Losing Whamaggedon in February is... Interesting 😅 worse is that my brain just started playing it, I'd not even heard it anywhere

I feel like I need my /now page, but for "my current hyperfocus is..."

Trying to type glob but every time writing blog 🫠

🎶 I'm feeling fire and I'm ready to slay 🎶

Podcasts that don't give you a permalink to the given episode (whether to an aggregate or the podcast's official site) are so annoying 😩

Waiting 4 hours for a GitHub Actions run to finish only for it to crash almost at the end 😬

Big day today - I'm rolling out #Renovate across the org which is my first whole-tech-org-wide impacting piece of work I'm doing 🤞🏽 also very excited to start iterating based on folks' feedback!

Something funny I realised in the last few years is that I've internalised the way that JD from Scrubs tilts his head off to one side to daydream, but instead of daydreaming it's better process or imagine something that someone is saying 😅

Does anyone know if the list of deprecated AWS Lambda runtimes is codified anywhere official, so I can use it in automation instead of managing it myself?

Finally got around to writing up the work that I did at Capital One on our #Chef pipelines which I was very proud of.

It's a bit of a long read, but details some pretty impactful changes made over several months of solo work - between games of Apex Legends - and hopefully is transferrable to other folks.

TL;DR is listen to what your users want, instead of telling them to use a thing they don't particularly like but have no choice in

Wow Kaleidoscope was very good. Very much recommend a watch!

We got the order green, yellow, blue, violet, orange, red, pink, white and that was very good 👀

Are you dealing with the #Circleci breach? I've written a post about how to list all the secrets in your organisation

2023 has started with disappointment, as Netflix has not created a Death to 2022 special, like it did in 2020 and 2021

Happy new year 🥂

Turns out I'd not got my following code working correctly from my blogroll, so now I should have a load more folks being followed on Bridgy Fed 👋🏽

Once this PR is merged to Fedifinder folks should be able to discover my Fediverse address through it, which is @www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me for those who don't want to wait, if you wanna follow what used to get published to Twitter (always via my site first and foremost!)

Just got a haircut and my head is already feeling a little chilly 🥶

Cut the top of my mouth while eating an M&M, AMA

✅ Achievement Unlocked:

Get COVID for the first time

Been meaning to subscribe to The Changelog's subscriber programme, changelog++ for some time now, as I love the various podcasts + content they produce, and I've listened to 203(!) of their podcasts since my records began in August 2016(!).

I now am, and it feels great to support the folks who create the great content we consume 😻

I dislike how effective taking a break (like going for a shower or a walk) from things leads to solutions in things you've been fighting for days 😅 Related

Fun JS bug of the day introduced by a linting change, that lost me a good amount of time trying to work out what was going wrong:

-  const tokenSet = await client.oauthCallback(redirect, params, { code_verifier });
+  const tokenSet = await client.oauthCallback(redirect, params, { codeVerifier })

Silently changed the meaning of the code here, and needed to be fixed with:

-  const tokenSet = await client.oauthCallback(redirect, params, { codeVerifier }).catch((err) => {
+  const tokenSet = await client.oauthCallback(redirect, params, { code_verifier: codeVerifier }).catch((err) => {

Funnily enough, I've had this lead to dangerous logging in the past, but didn't spot this at first. That'll teach me!

Love to be told "we tried to deliver your package but no one was in" without any of the security cameras or our very sensitive guard dog triggering, while both me and Anna Dodson are working from home 🙃

With everyone moving towards the #Fediverse, you can still follow me at @www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me - big thanks to Ryan Barrett for https://fed.brid.gy and making it a breeze to take my existing website and federate it out. My Atom feed may not be working perfectly though, I'll look to improve it in the coming weeks if it's looking a bit janky!

Folks who've printed stickers in the UK in the last couple of years - who'd you recommend? Happy to pay a little more for quality, but only looking at getting a small batch of stickers 👀

Love to spend a good chunk writing a library for Go to wrap an http.Handler and make it straightforward to run in AWS Lambda, only to discover this morning that there's a library already for it - woops 😅 Saves me finishing off the README or blogging about my "novel" approach, I guess

Since rediscovering Close Your Eyes - Dezza on my liked songs I've definitely) had it on loop 🎶

The fact that it's almost September means one thing - it's coming up to #Hacktoberfest 😱🎃👕👚🎽

How have I only just found the absolute bop that is Bulgogi by Fox Stevenson 😱

I was recently reminded of the importance of error handling by the memory of a time when I thought I'd hacked my school at age 12 because I found some software (CSE toolkit) that when I went in and tried to change a student's password, from my own account, it rendered it as successfully changed. The folks building it didn't even consider the fact that someone with access to the program wouldn't have Domain Administrator rights - always make sure edge cases and error handling works, folks!

Top tip - if your dog won't stop barking, just turn your music up louder 😌

I'm excited to be talking at the #Deliveroo summer tech event tonight - I'll be covering #OpenAPI and we've got a tonne of stickers thanks to the awesome OpenAPI Initiative!

Bit concerning how many public #Postman workspaces / collections there are that include credentials in them 🙃

Is there a bug on MyMcDonalds for Android where two push notifications appear - one with the actually notification, and one empty one?

Is there a bug on Spotify for Android where they keep asking for Bluetooth access every 1-2 days?

#ThorLoveAndThunder was pretty great! A great mix of hilarious, heartfelt, some great soundtrack and visuals, and beautifully shot. As promised, was also super gay 🏳️‍🌈 very much recommend seeing it!