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Bookmarked https://linderud.dev/blog/reproducible-arch-linux-packages/ .

Tue, 12 Nov 2019 12:07 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #arch-linux #reproducible-builds.

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Bookmarked https://www.netmeister.org/blog/mktemp.html .

This is a great resource to highlight the difficulty of creating temporary files safely - something I've tried to share before but without these great examples.

Its especially bad if using a shared CI/CD server and putting downloaded files into /tmp as you don't know whether it'll be clobbered / stolen by others on the instance

Tue, 12 Nov 2019 12:06 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #linux #command-line.

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Getting Started With Vim (3 mins read).

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How to dip your toes into Vim to learn some of the basics.

Tue, 12 Nov 2019 11:20 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #vim #emacs #getting-started #nablopomo.

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Bookmarked https://rc3.org/2012/05/12/the-grammar-of-vim/ .

Tue, 12 Nov 2019 12:19 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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Bookmarked https://www.jhsheridan.com/officially-indieweb/ .

Tue, 12 Nov 2019 08:24 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #indieweb #personal-website.

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Bookmarked https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/09/11/unnecessary-use-of-curl-x/ .

Tue, 12 Nov 2019 08:16 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #curl #command-line.

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Bookmarked https://youtu.be/t_oAsDWYjM8 .

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 23:15 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #monzo #regulation #open-banking.

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Bookmarked https://lukeb.co.uk/2019/11/11/building-the-new-leedsjs-website/ .

A great look at how folks are looking at taking ownership back from Meetup.com

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 21:20 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #events #meetup.com #personal-website #indieweb.

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Gotcha: Netlify Makes All Your Filenames Case-Insensitive (1 mins read).

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Beware if you have a requirement for case-sensitive URLs for Netlify.

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 19:40 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #nablopomo #netlify #www.jvt.me.

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Bookmarked https://github.com/goodwithtech/dockle .

Mon, 11 Nov 2019 16:11 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #docker #security #containers.

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I will not be attending PHPMiNDS November 2019: ⚑ Lightning Talks ⚑

Post details On Thursday, Nov 14 2019

Unfortunately I won't be able to make this due to family circumstances, but hope everyone has a great time!

Sun, 10 Nov 2019 22:44 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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Bookmarked https://roytang.net/2019/11/indieweb/ .

Sun, 10 Nov 2019 22:04 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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Making Hugo Generate Case Sensitive URLs (2 mins read).

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How to make your Hugo URLs case sensitive.

Sun, 10 Nov 2019 16:14 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #nablopomo #hugo #www.jvt.me.

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Bookmarked https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/11/you-have-to-take-people-with-you/ .

Sun, 10 Nov 2019 14:11 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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New Push Notification: Suspicious Transactions (2 mins read).

A concerning experience with fraudulent transactions on my Monzo account.

Sat, 09 Nov 2019 19:17 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #monzo #banking #nablopomo.

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Bookmarked https://paulrobertlloyd.github.io/indiekit/ .

Fri, 08 Nov 2019 13:36 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #indieweb #micropub.

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Request for Enhancement for Gousto: Reducing Partial Use of Ingredients (1 mins read).

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An opportunity to reduce food waste by suggesting when meals use only some of an ingredient.

Fri, 08 Nov 2019 12:45 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #nablopomo #cooking #gousto #thoughts.

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Bookmarked http://msaavedra.com/posts/my-personal-linklog/ .

I love this concept - partly why I bookmark posts under https://www.jvt.me/kind/bookmarks/ for longevity and to share with others

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 23:45 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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Chef Attributes and default.rb - it's in the name (3 mins read).

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Why you should only be setting defaults in your Chef attributes, and moving heavy lifting elsewhere.

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 18:49 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #nablopomo #chef #chefspec.

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Bookmarked https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/11/how-to-present-at-a-hack-day/ .

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 15:39 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #public-speaking.

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Bookmarked https://ma.ttias.be/fresh-new-look-site-2019/ .

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 08:44 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #personal-website #hugo #wordpress #caddy.

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Take Take Take: Rethinking How I Consume Free and Open Source Software (4 mins read).

Thinking about how I should be contributing back to the projects I rely on so heavily, both financially and with my own contributions.

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 22:24 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #personal #free-software #open-source #licensing #nablopomo.

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Bookmarked https://gomakethings.com/the-web-is-not-dying/ .

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 20:30 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #web.

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Bookmarked https://monzo.com/blog/we-built-network-isolation-for-1-500-services/ .

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 20:06 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #microservices #monzo #kubernetes #security #networking.

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Bookmarked https://forrestbrazeal.com/2019/07/24/cloud-irregular-amazon-wont-spin-off-aws-and-thats-too-bad-for-aws/ .

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 17:38 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #aws.

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Bookmarked https://www.jamesgallagher.app/writing/why-you-should-have-a-website .

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 17:34 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #personal-website #personal-brand #blogging #indieweb.

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Bookmarked https://ma.ttias.be/sysadmin-guide-move-content-new-website/ .

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 14:27 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #command-line #personal-website.

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I will be attending Homebrew Website Club: Nottingham

Post details On Wednesday, Dec 11 2019

Tue, 05 Nov 2019 22:55 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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I will be attending Homebrew Website Club: Nottingham

Post details On Wednesday, Nov 27 2019

Tue, 05 Nov 2019 22:55 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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I will not be attending Homebrew Website Club: Nottingham

Post details On Wednesday, Nov 13 2019

Unfortunately I'm going to be unable to make this due to family circumstances - I hope some of you still make it and it's a good one!

Tue, 05 Nov 2019 22:54 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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Auto-announcing Events in my Feed (2 mins read).

Updating my main site feed to publish a note when I've published a new event.

Tue, 05 Nov 2019 22:11 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #www.jvt.me #nablopomo.

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I will be attending #NottTechParty - The Nottingham Tech Community Christmas Party 2019

Post details On Monday, Dec 2 2019

Tue, 05 Nov 2019 14:51 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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Bookmarked http://containertutorials.com/ .

Tue, 05 Nov 2019 12:17 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #containers #docker #tutorial.

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Bookmarked https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/11/17-years-of-blogging/ .

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

Mon, 04 Nov 2019 22:22 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #indieweb #blogging.

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Bookmarked https://blog.dddeastmidlands.com/2019/11/04/it-takes-a-community.html .

Mon, 04 Nov 2019 22:15 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #dddem.

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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.

Mon, 04 Nov 2019 21:42 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #openssl #certificates #nablopomo.

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Bookmarked https://adamsilver.io/articles/javascript-isnt-always-available-and-its-not-the-users-fault/ .

Mon, 04 Nov 2019 20:15 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #javascript #web-development #web.

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Bookmarked https://charity.wtf/2019/10/28/deploys-its-not-actually-about-fridays/ .

Mon, 04 Nov 2019 17:33 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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Bookmarked https://alexdanco.com/2019/10/26/everything-is-amazing-but-nothing-is-ours/ .

Mon, 04 Nov 2019 17:26 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #indieweb #web #ownership.

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Bookmarked https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/11/you-are-not-the-devils-advocate/ .

Mon, 04 Nov 2019 14:28 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna .

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Bookmarked https://gravitational.com/blog/ssh-handshake-explained/ .

Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:07 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #ssh.

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Bookmarked https://blog.craigtp.co.uk/Post/2019/11/01/DDD_East_Midlands_2019_In_Review .

Such a great, in-depth writeup! I'd not been able to make it to many of the sessions so this is super helpful

Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:00 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #dddem #events #microservices #software-testing #test-pyramid #solid #ddd #monolith.

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Bookmarked https://peteris.rocks/blog/htop/ .

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

Sun, 03 Nov 2019 22:31 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #linux #tools.

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Bookmarked https://pointersgonewild.com/2019/11/02/they-might-never-tell-you-its-broken/ .

Sun, 03 Nov 2019 22:29 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #open-source #free-software.

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Off Days (1 mins read).

It's OK to not be 100% every day.

Sun, 03 Nov 2019 18:32 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #mental-health #self-care #nablopomo.

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Bookmarked https://kvz.io/tobuntu.html .

Sun, 03 Nov 2019 14:04 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #ubuntu #linux #mac.

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Bookmarked https://www.zerotier.com/on-the-gpl-to-bsl-transition/ .

Sun, 03 Nov 2019 13:39 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #licensing.

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Bookmarked https://00f.net/2019/10/28/go-is-the-new-ruby/ .

Sun, 03 Nov 2019 12:56 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #golang #ruby.

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Bookmarked https://snarky.ca/why-you-should-use-python-m-pip/ .

Sun, 03 Nov 2019 10:44 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #python.

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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.

Sat, 02 Nov 2019 23:50 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #nablopomo #personal.

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