An interesting look at why you'd want to work for a startup, not a tech giant - although not everyone will have the same experience.
Very interesting to see that there's even more to the command than expected - and some great new features coming soon.
Some interesting points in here that reinforce my thoughts about the difficulties of knowing what the right version number should be - although I hugely push for and use SemVer.
Gotcha: Running both JUnit4 and JUnit5 Together with Gradle (1 mins read).

How to make sure your JUnit4 and JUnit5 Gradle tests work within the same project.
Gotcha: Running both JUnit4 and JUnit5 Together with Maven (1 mins read).

How to make sure your JUnit4 and JUnit5 Maven tests work within the same project.
Arthur Christmas is such a great Christmas movie - we discovered it maybe four years ago, but it's part of our yearly routine now!
An interesting approach - but I wonder why you'd implement like so (requiring SSH usage) instead of the Systems Manager's run-command
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/walkthrough-cli.html ?
A safer way to parse YAML by removing some of the more dangerous parts of YAML parsing - an interesting approach that means you don't need everyone well-versed in the minutiae of the YAML spec!
Since setting up the ability to syndicate posts from my website to other sites automagically the other day, I've been manually ticking the boxes in my posting UI, which isn't the best experience.
So I've now got it to automagically syndicate to Twitter any notes (like this one) or interactions such as likes/replies/reposts on Twitter, so folks still on Twitter are able to see the content I'm publishing to my site, too.
A good read by Terence about how the Semantic Web and using metadata (be it Schema.org, microdata or Microformats) will build a more usable and interconnected life
A subtle and not so fun source of bugs if you're affected - worth investigating!
No spoilers:
Just seen Star Wars Episode 9 and damn JJ did it - what a great ending to the series. Expect more when the spoiler embargo lifts.
I'd seen some tweets similar to this and was a bit apprehensive but it was so good. Wanna go see it again!
What do all you lovely #IndieWeb folks use to consume Twitter? I'd like to hook some of my favourite people into my reader but not sure the best way to do it
meetup-mf2.herokuapp.com
release 0.2.0: Adding h-feed
support (2 mins read).

Adding h-feed
support for my Microformats translation layer for Meetup.com.
I will be attending
I will not be attending
I will be attending
I will be attending
Just trimmed my site's build/test/deploy pipeline's lifecycle from 10 minutes to about 5 minutes. A fair saving but still not as speedy as I want.
My next job is to see whether I can cache the images on my own infra running a GitLab-runner, but I seem to be having some difficulty getting it running with a Unix file socket rather than a TCP socket - a shame because in the past the GitLab-runner has worked literally out of the box
Well, it's official - I'm on holiday for the rest of the decade ππΌ
Pretty Printing XML on the Command-Line (1 mins read).
How to use xmllint
to pretty-print XML/HTML files.
Backporting/Replaying Changes using git format-patch
and git apply
/ git-am
(2 mins read).

Using git format-patch
and git apply
/git am
to apply a patch, if git cherry-pick
isn't available.
For anyone having issues not seeing #MrRobot Season 4 Episode 11 in their Fire TV / Prime video account, try skipping through Ep 10 until it autoplays 11
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Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 38:10 β 26.3MB) We find out what Ubuntu 19.10 is like on the Raspberry Pi 4, and then take it too far. Plus plenty of news, Graham channelling Vangelis, and β¦
Happy Second Appendixaversary (2 mins read).
Celebrating the second anniversary since my appendix ruptured - and reminiscing on the benefits of a well-funded NHS.
List What Files Changed in a Git Commit (1 mins read).

How to list what files changed in a given commit.
Sorry to anyone who's just received a tonne of webmentions from me - I'm tweaking the way the sending works so there are a few new places you may see them come from
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Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 37:34 β 25.9MB) Chrome OS is by far the most popular Linux-based desktop OS and we find out if that top spot is deserved. Plus Ubuntu, Zorin, Firefox, Kali, and β¦
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Listen to this episode from Rizamblings on Spotify. A most delightful ramble with the brilliant, Tom Jepson, on a long list of UX, design, community, personal goals, hype, books, jelly babies, and so, so much more! Find our guest: Tom Jepson -> @thepixelgrid Don't forget to #RizambleAlong on Twitter, find me -> @rizbizkits
Just been shown this by a colleague - it's a great way to learn shortcuts for the thing you just did and how you can do that task with a handy keystroke in the future!
An interesting idea, but surely you'd not want to break existing links to your articles, and instead have it update the article to say "this may be outdated, we're reviewing this"?
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Listen to this episode from Rizamblings on Spotify. Longest ramble YET with my dearest friend, Emma Seward. We (laughed &) chatted on Doughnotts, bees, photography, hobbies, HP, words, Hamilton (duh), & more! I can't thank her enough. Find our guest: Emma Seward -> @MrsEmma β¨β¨Don't forget to #RizambleAlong on Twitter, find me -> @rizbizkits
Some interesting ones in here I'll look at using - escaping things is one of my biggest gripes with every language, so this is pretty nice