Determining the (Git) Branch of the Jenkins Pipeline Job (1 mins read).

How to find out what branch the currently executing script has been checked out from.
Encrypting and Decrypting Text with OpenSSL (2 mins read).
How to use openssl
to encrypt text with a shared passphrase.
Reminder that it's #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham tomorrow! I hope to see you there at 1730 for some website stuff! https://events.indieweb.org/2021/03/homebrew-website-club-nottingham-zpkxpaQ4wCgD
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I may get canceled for this but exiting vim isn’t that hard.
jay gordon 🦍 (@jaydestro)Mon, 01 Mar 2021 20:31 GMT
Welp, backlog of webmentions from telegraph.p3k.io means you may see some poorly timed interactions from me - sorry 🙃
I find it nice seeing folks refreshing my blog on a Sunday night, waiting for my week notes to be there. Well, they are now 🙃
Week Notes 21#08 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-02-22?
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You are not faking. If you were, you wouldn't have doubts. You would know for sure.
♡ The Calm System ♡ (@the_calm_system)Sun, 28 Feb 2021 16:27 GMT
It's a good thing I'm preparing to reinstall my desktop cause rm -rf *
in my home directory is not a fun thing to accidentally do 😳😬
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⭐ We need your help ⭐ The team is looking into the possibility of bringing DDD East Mids Conference back in October 2021. Please take the following survey and share this post to help guide us to make the right decision. us20.list-manage.com/survey?u=b5ad7…DDD East Midlands (@dddeastmidlands)Sat, 27 Feb 2021 19:02 GMT
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Today is a hard day for me, it is the anniversary of Trayvon Martin's death. For me, that was the most excruciating reminder to me that I could be killed for how I looked. Take time today for silence to pay respect to many named and unnamed Black folks that deserve justice.
Prince Wilson (@maxcell)Fri, 26 Feb 2021 14:56 GMT
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In every Zoom/Teams/Google call I was on this week, I noted what happened when a man and a woman tried to talk at the same time. 86% woman apologized and asked the man to continue 10% man apologized and asked the woman to continue 4% someone else suggested who should go firstAlyssa Miller - 🌈Rainbow Teamer🌈 (@AlyssaM_InfoSec)Fri, 26 Feb 2021 02:36 GMT
Hey you, #Jenkins folks! If you're still configuring things in the UI / using Jenkinsfile
s but haven't yet gotten around to looking into #JobDSL I've got you covered https://www.jvt.me/posts/2021/02/23/getting-started-jobdsl-standardised/
Getting Started With Jenkins Job DSL Plugin for Standardising Your Pipelines (10 mins read).

A worked example of how to use Jenkins Job DSL to set up a standardised pipeline for Java libraries.
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you cannot tell people's gender by looking at them. straight up, you can't. I am a short sparkly femme who twirls my pigtails and I could be the world's manliest man for all you know you have to ask. check people's bios. don't assumeIan Coldwater 📦💥 (@IanColdwater)Tue, 23 Feb 2021 18:52 GMT
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Me on the 22nd June:
🅱️ill (Human not dog) (@Rauer_2)Mon, 22 Feb 2021 16:18 GMT
Well it's taken me a few years, but I've finally worked out how to manage Gems in #Chef without horrible chef exec bundle exec ...
commands https://www.jvt.me/posts/2021/02/22/chefdk-gemfile/
Installing Gems From Your Gemfile
When Developing Chef Cookbooks using the ChefDK / Chef Workstation (2 mins read).

How to install Ruby Gems in local development using your Gemfile
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Week Notes 21#07 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-02-15?
Moving meetup-mf2 and eventbrite-mf2 to Heroku (1 mins read).
Moving my APIs meetup-mf2.herokuapp.com
and eventbrite-mf2.herokuapp.com
to Heroku-hosted apps.
Science, bitch!
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You can now Rick roll in 4K, thanks to machine learning. bit.ly/37ms0aHMIT CSAIL (@MIT_CSAIL)Sat, 20 Feb 2021 17:05 GMT
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is there ever a point in your technical career where you *don't* look back at something you wrote a year ago and wonder why anyone lets you near a code editor
Kat Cosgrove (@Dixie3Flatline)Fri, 19 Feb 2021 15:34 GMT
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(isbn:9781405520782)Nothing says a great start to a three day weekend than pushing the boat out for some Doughnotts doughnuts! Must've been 18 months since we had them, but #Deliveroo's #TastyThursday deal was too good to pass on!
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Internet of Things
Patch Friday (@PatchFriday)Thu, 18 Feb 2021 10:07 GMT
I will be attending
I will be attending
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(isbn:9780356504209)Thanks for those coming to #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham - we had some good discussions about Choose Your Own Adventures and versioning!
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This is an interesting experiment. Try opening a new tweet and posting the words "trans women are women". See what kind of response you get. Afraid to do so? Well guess what it's like to actually be trans on here. Don't think I'm a woman? Then please just fuck off.Post details
Trans women are women. adactio.com/notes/17823Jeremy Keith (@adactio)Tue, 16 Feb 2021 14:36 GMT
Charlie Don't Surf (@sonniesedge)Wed, 17 Feb 2021 12:04 GMT
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In this episode of Identity. Unlocked, principal architect at Auth0 and podcast host, Vittorio Bertocci, has a conversation with John Bradley. John is the Senior Standard Architect at Yubico and the author of many important specifications pertaining to identity management including FIDO2.

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On the first episode of Identity. Unlocked, host Vittorio Bertocci, Principal Architect at Auth0, is joined by Brian Campbell. Brian joins the show to discuss sender constraint and associated specifications.

Reminder that it's #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham tomorrow! I hope to see you there at 1730 for some website stuff! https://events.indieweb.org/2021/02/homebrew-website-club-nottingham-IQvjBLoWhFHJ
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For lent I’m giving up
Jaimi Shrive (@Jaimi_Shrive)Tue, 16 Feb 2021 10:12 GMT
Week Notes 21#06 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-02-08?
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Tonys chocolonely specfically makes sure not to use slave labor, as in its their main mission, and is really good!
I am having a T I M E (@Angryginger13)Sat, 13 Feb 2021 20:42 GMT
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I know you’re making bank on this stuff folks, but the environmental impact is really shocking
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Now Bitcoin overtakes Argentina in annual energy use, and close to Norway
Rory Cellan-Jones (@ruskin147)Tue, 09 Feb 2021 16:54 GMT
Sophie Koonin (@type__error)Wed, 10 Feb 2021 08:40 GMT