Hacktoberfest Comes to Homebrew Website Club Nottingham (2 mins read).

Announcing Hacktoberfest-themed events at Homebrew Website Club Nottingham in late September and October.
Hacktoberfest Comes to Homebrew Website Club Nottingham (2 mins read).
Announcing Hacktoberfest-themed events at Homebrew Website Club Nottingham in late September and October.
We're giving away a Fathom cat hoodie. They are in super high demand and cannot be bought anywhere. And this will be the only time we do a retweet competition for a cat hoodie. RT to win. Good luck 😃Fathom Analytics (@usefathom)Mon, 07 Sep 2020 15:49 +0000
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Week Notes 20#36 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2020-08-31?
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we have our speaker for Sept 10th join us online to talk code complexity with @RobDWaller #phpminds #nottingham #tech #phpc link to follow soon - if you already have our email please rsvp also we have free @jetbrains stuff & maybe a book giveaway cc @RebelRecruiters @wearejhphp[minds] (@PHPMinds)Fri, 04 Sep 2020 20:38 +0000
Thanks for those coming to #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham - a productive session, and we played around with live Closed Captioning courtesy of Tech Nottingham
Creating Signed JOSE Objects with Ruby (1 mins read).
How to use ruby-jose
to create a signed JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) object on the command-line.
Forgot to mention I'm attending #SpringOne over the next couple of days - really looking forward to some great talks both now, and when I get a chance to catch up on those I miss!
Reminder that it's #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham tomorrow! I hope to see you there at 1730 for some website stuff! https://events.indieweb.org/2020/09/homebrew-website-club-nottingham-WAiW57QjvHe2
New blog post: Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io and Online JSON Validators https://www.jvt.me/posts/2020/09/01/against-online-tooling/
Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io
and Online JSON Validators (5 mins read).
Why you should be opting for local tooling when working with sensitive data, even Non-Production ones.
Web developers: when you say, “this browser does not support our site,” what you REALLY mean is that you don’t support the browser. Don’t turn it around on the browser/user because you chose not to stick to universally-supported standards, or worse, are doing user agent sniffing.
Cassidy James Blaede 🏡 at home (@CassidyJames)Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:22 +0000
Week Notes 20#35 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2020-08-24?
This is something I really liked when doing Literate Programming at university. It's really nice to be able to wrap the code with written meaning, in a way that regular comments don't do as well.
https://jgregorymcverry.com/2020-01-02indiewebupdate
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Luvvie is the #ProfessionalTroublemaker. PREORDER. (@Luvvie)Sat, 29 Aug 2020 03:07 +0000
A super interesting idea. I've been thinking recently whether I should maybe look at making this site dynamically rendered, but still backed with my site's content being in a Git repo
mood rn
The Expanse No Context (@ExpanseNContext)Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:52 +0000
📢 Tickets on sale TODAY 12pm!!!! Our Negotiation Workshop with @SheWinsCo will provide you with valuable skills for your career and life 🎟️nott.tech/wit-negotiatio…Women In Tech, Nottingham 🌈✨ (@WiT_Notts)Thu, 27 Aug 2020 07:39 +0000
When I worked with @MrAndrew, this happened so much over email. He'd get reasonable, polite responses and I'd get unreasonable rude ones. When he sent newsletters with minor mistakes missed, no follow-ups. When I sent them, multiple men emailing me corrections. It's exhausting.Post details
So. A (male) publicist was trying to book a (male) colleague and I for podcast. We gave availability but didn't get confirmation. The publicist informed us with hours notice that we were on today. My (male) colleague and I both said we couldn't do it. Here are the two responses.Heather Parry (@HeatherParryUK)Wed, 26 Aug 2020 18:52 +0000
Emma Seward (@MrsEmma)Thu, 27 Aug 2020 08:56 +0000
Investigating Solutions for Private/Friends-Only Posts on a Static Website (6 mins read).
Discussing the options available for posts that require authentication while using a static site, using my own personal requirements.
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The fact that I didn’t even realise what she was doing till the end is just so terrifying. It’s really THAT easy😰
kenny (@kenabifer)Mon, 24 Aug 2020 17:14 +0000
Running Multiple JDK Versions with the Maven Toolchains Plugin (1 mins read).
How to use the maven-toolchains-plugin to configure multiple JDKs on your machine.
Diffing Pretty-Printed JSON Files (4 mins read).
How to compare two JSON documents by pretty-printing them.
Sorting a Hash Recursively with Ruby (1 mins read).
How to sort a Hash
in Ruby recursively, when nested Array
exist.