Kind notes

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!

Well this is exciting, my first blog post for Deliveroo Engineering is all about OpenAPI and how we're using it to ship services quicker 🚀 https://deliveroo.engineering/2022/06/27/openapi-design-first.html

The best part about smart lights is when your hub stops working so you can't turn them on or off 🤪

Hey socket.dev this may be one for you https://www.jvt.me/posts/2022/06/01/idea-supply-chain-monetisation/ 👀

It's payday at #Deliveroo and wow was it a fun one to wake up to 🤑 it included my starting bonus, but it's really something to think about how my salary increases in a year have almost doubled my compensation. Money isn't everything, but given I've spent most of this month writing code and working on interesting things, it's a massive cherry on top!

Has anyone got a good example of a CLI that allows CRUD operations across many fields, some which are optional and some which are multi-value?

I'm using glab and gh as inspiration, but wondered if there are other ones I can follow

Very excited to be on my way to London to the annual internal #Deliveroo hackathon, #hackaroo! Looking forward to meeting some of my new colleagues and getting a chance to build some cool stuff that I probably can't tell you about unless you come join the team 👀

Has anyone built a bot that replies to screenshots of tweets to give original source? Weirdly really grinds my gears

Always a fan of appearing across the Internet unexpectedly - today it's front page of Hacker News. I wonder how long it stays and whether it appears anywhere else!

The best thing about getting a puppy after redecorating the living room is their very clear respect for all the nice things 🫣🙄

Had a pretty great first week at Deliveroo Engineering with a lot of great onboarding sessions, a super speedy access + setup, and I even managed to make some contributions across a few codebases! 🚀 Excited to spend some "first week!" credit tonight 😋

For y'all who are (rightfully) looking at RSS / Atom feeds for your blogs, please remember to make the feed discoverable automagically! https://www.jvt.me/posts/2021/11/10/rss-discovery/

I'm very excited to announce that I'm starting a new job at Deliveroo Engineering today as a Senior Software Engineer!

You can read a bit more in my post https://www.jvt.me/posts/2022/04/25/joining-deliveroo/

Do I know anyone doing #Go that handles go get on their production API URL, and it then resolves the SDK with that base URL? I can see this being a fairly straightforward thing to do based on the ?go-get=1, but wondering how this would work for applications deployed to different environment, but built from the same source code 🤔

Is there a standard way to do content-negotiation in #Go? Preferably not as part of a Web framework, but as a standalone library

Today is my first official day of funemployment! I had a great few months at the Data Standards Authority in the Central Digital and Data Office in @cabinetofficeuk, but I'm looking forward to my next role, which I'll announce shortly 👀

Was nice having a week off last week with the new pup, and I'm looking forward to a couple more weeks off to reset before the new role!

Very much enjoy that "keep my games up to date" never seems to work for #ApexLegends on #EaOrigin, it always leads to a need to manually download every update

Totally enjoy being kicked off my Internet for ~15 mins during the working day for my #VirginMedia router to do a software update 😤

Can anyone else remember a movie(?) from a few years back where there was a faked attack on a beach holiday that was to improve what I think was couples' relationships? It's stuck in my head and I can't work out what it was 😅 It was a jokey film / more lighthearted than a horror movie

For those who aren't aware, Anna Dodson and I are getting a puppy 🐶 tomorrow so keep an eye out for a lot of photos over the next few weeks/months/years

Think I've managed to track down the versions of libraries used in AWS Lambda on JDK11 - I've updated my previous post about it with more details, and am hoping to get confirmation from AWS about it!

In the words of the Grandmaster of Sakaar, 🎵 it's my birthday 🎵 - check out my website for some celebratory JavaScript 🎊

Has anything changed with the way that JSON Patch works in #Kubernetes recently? Seeing some failed interactions due to missing the /data/ in the path, and requiring it to be a list of operations. Not quite sure why my code has ever worked tbh 😅

March 14th will always be FCA deadline day for me