National Blog Post Month (NaBloPoMo) (2 mins read).
Starting National Blog Post Month with a blog post. Very meta.
National Blog Post Month (NaBloPoMo) (2 mins read).
Starting National Blog Post Month with a blog post. Very meta.
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.
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.
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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.
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I will be attending
Woo, thanks to https://realize.be/ for releasing an update of the wonderful Android app https://indigenous.realize.be/ which adds in a fix to not send multiple bearer tokens in Micropub requests ( https://github.com/swentel/indigenous-android/issues/241 )
This started breaking for me when I upgraded my Micropub endpoint to use the spring-oauth2-resource-server module ( https://gitlab.com/jamietanna/www-api/merge_requests/27 ) which is a well-formed OAuth2 server, whereas my previous implementation was not.
Super speedy fix, and glad to be back to using the app again!
I'm a big fan of www. as you will see from my URL, and from my article https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/05/26/why-wwwjvtme/
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I will be attending
Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 42:20 — 29.1MB) Blender is one of the flagship professional FOSS tools and we talk to one of its senior devs. Plus the dangers of SaaS, Ubuntu 19.10, RISC-V, …
How I feel when I'm ill - https://www.reddit.com/r/AbruptChaos/comments/dk3cad/abrupt_flu
I've just updated my posts https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/06/13/pretty-printing-jwt-openssl/ and https://www.jvt.me/posts/2018/08/31/pretty-printing-jwt-ruby/ to allow it to work with pretty-printing encrypted JWTs (without decrypting) - this was a bit of a pain point of mine I've finally got around to sorting.
Have you ever wondered what it takes to be an effective teacher in the tech industry? Well, wonder no more. We had the pleasure of chatting with Angie Jones, senior developer advocate at Applitools and director at Test Automation University about her experience as a teacher.

The IndieWeb Movement: Owning Your Data and Being the Change You Want to See in the Web (22 mins read).

A look at what the IndieWeb is, why you should care, and how to get started with it.