A huge milestone, and a great look back at the way Ton is helping to change the community for the better by promoting better practices on ownership of our data
Viewing the Contents of a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) with OpenSSL (1 mins read).
How to look at the contents of a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) with the openssl
command-line tool.
Such a great, in-depth writeup! I'd not been able to make it to many of the sessions so this is super helpful
This is a great resource - but I'd recommend https://www.jvt.me/posts/2017/04/26/glances/ if you are able to install something, as a much more feature rich version
Off Days (1 mins read).
It's OK to not be 100% every day.
Adulting: The Constant Struggle of Prioritisation (3 mins read).
A rant about how it sucks to be an adult because there's so much to do, but very little of it is stuff you want to do.
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Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 38:50 — 26.7MB) Will tells us why he left his job as Director of Ubuntu Desktop, KDE Korner, and a mixed bag of news. News The BBC has joined the dark web …
Although I've not played for ~1 year, this is very tempting. The Overwatch team sure do know how to create an awesome cinematic!
National Blog Post Month (NaBloPoMo) (2 mins read).
Starting National Blog Post Month with a blog post. Very meta.
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Listen to this episode from Rizamblings on Spotify. A deep dive into Project Function with special guest and fellow Co-Founder, Daryl Cecile. We ramble on orange juice, my issues with saying the word "water", and loads more on our Project Function journey (including a very exciting #PFAnnouncement!) Finally, for the first time, we have an ominous 3rd voice who goes by the name of Mary. Find our guests: Project Function -> @PFNotts Daryl Cecile -> @darylcecile Maryanne Parkinson -> @BoxOfQwert Don't forget to #RizambleAlong on Twitter, find me -> @rizbizkits
A great writeup of what sounds like a great session!
Lots of trick or treaters out tonight. So the best thing is to turn the lights low and pretend you're not in.... Right?
I will not be attending
Unfortunately I'm going to be unable to make this due to family circumstances - I'm sure Katie Walker is going to rock it though, and I'll be sad to miss it.
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Deploying something useless into production, as soon as you can, is the right way to start a new project. It pulls unknown risk forward, opens up parallel streams of work, and establishes good habits.

This is such a great way to find out just how much can be done for you.
I used to do competitive programming competitions (similar to HackerRank challenges) and learning the standard library was a huge driver to finding the best solution without reinventing the wheel.
But even in the day job, knowing what to use without pulling in a new dependency can make a big difference.
This can go a little further to learning common packages that your ecosystem uses, and how best to tackle problems with them.
Reader Mail: Webmention Spam (2 mins read).

Replying publicly to an email about my continual webmention sending.
Reader Mail: Getting Started with Hugo and Micropub (5 mins read).

Answering a question by a reader about how to get started with writing a Micropub endpoint for use with Hugo.
I will be attending
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Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 39:01 — 26.9MB) Félim’s near death experience leads to a conversation about our home network setups. In the news: rms quits, Linux audio improvements, home …
Owning My Step Count (5 mins read).
Sharing the journey of starting to own my step counts and my technical solution.