Setting Your Maven Project Versions (1 mins read).

How to set the versions of all Maven pom.xmls within a Maven project.
Shared by https://dougsillars.com/ at https://www.oggcamp.com/ - this is a great resource for understanding how to better optimise your video content delivery.
Introducing a Microformats API for Eventbrite: eventbrite-mf2.herokuapp.com (3 mins read).

Announcing the Microformats translation layer for Eventbrite.com/Eventbrite.co.uk events.
This is a great, fairly well balanced, look at the latest proposal from http://0pointer.de/lennart/ about user management on Linux systems. An interesting proposal with pros and cons - it'll be interesting to see what comes of it.
Great to see that Meetup.com has realised the error in their ways, even if it was only meant for a small group (but not written as such)
https://www.meetup.com/lp/paymentchanges
I still think there's some lasting damage there and we should still be looking to build open platforms.
This is a great post by https://mindthe.net/devices/ about the awesome tech community we have in Nottingham and why its such a lovely place to be personally and professionally.
Happy #PronounsDay! My pronouns are he/him/his, and you can read them programmatically on my website (using #Microformats), as described in https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/04/10/pronouns-microformats/
It's super important to make them visible so folks everywhere are more comfortable sharing their pronouns
Listing the Contents of a Java Truststore (3 mins read).

How to extract a list of trusted certificates from a Java Trust store.
I've found that I can use Vim for just about everything I do day-to-day (be it personal or professional work) but just not with Java. I feel I need too much of IntelliJ's functionality, and that's OK! I'm happy to admit that it is a better experience for me.
With the recent news of Meetup.com increasing prices for organisers https://twitter.com/securestep9/status/1183798804371386369?s=19 this is great to see the alternatives mapped out!
This is a great resource for how to replace the term "guys" with an inclusive alternative
Dominique shared this at DevOpsDays London, and it's a really great idea.
Because it can be difficult attending meetups on your own, Dominique and co have set up a community that makes it possible to meet folks before a meetup, maybe have a drink and a chat, and then head over together.
It has made a huge difference to folks wanting to attend, and has given people a lower barrier to attending an event, because they'll be able to chat to others on Slack before they go, so it won't be as awkward.
This is something that Tech Nottingham and Women in Tech Nottingham do, where before the event there will be some folks meeting at the Theatre Royal, and then they can walk over together, getting a chance to meet others.
Several of the organisers in the Nottingham tech scene chatted with Dominique about this at DevOpsDays, and we'll be looking to see if we can roll it out in Nottingham, too.
Anna has started to use her /events/ page as a way to help others see what events she's attending and for others to join her, too, and I think I'm going to be copying her and doing similar to make it easier for folks to see what upcoming events I'm attending.
DevOpsDays London 2019 (63 mins read).

A writeup of the DevOpsDays London conference, and the talks and Open Spaces I attended.
Getting git diff Outputs Without a Prefix (1 mins read).

How to remove a/ and b/ from git diff outputs.
This is a really interesting post to hear how some other folks in a similar environment to us manage their secrets.
It's always cool to see how other folks are doing similar things, anyway, and as usual, Monzo have a great blog post.
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Moving Teams after Three Years (4 mins read).
Announcing my move between teams at Capital One, and looking back over three years in my previous team.
Diagnosing my Slow Netlify Deploy Times (2 mins read).

How I managed to shave off 7 minutes of my deploy time, (in true clickbait fashion) just by removing one line of code.
This is a great article on why we can't just let Google Chrome / Chromium take over the Web, and need to fight for other alternatives.
But as well as looking at the browsers, we need to look to the platforms too. If everyone ie uses Twitter, then Twitter are less likely to make changes because no one has an alternative. Whereas when we have multiple viable options, folks can jump around and use better platforms if they exist.
The IndieWeb is looking to do this - check out https://indieweb.org/why for a bit more info
Day trip to London tomorrow, so 4+ hours on the train - hoping to finish my writeup of DevOpsDays London as it was a great conference and I'd love to share it with y'all!
I guess you could say I'm officially a Go developer now that I've made this tiny contribution to Hugo! https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/pull/6391
On Panic Attacks (3 mins read).
Remembering my first (and so far only) panic attack.
Had a very exciting end to the week.
I'm looking forward to sharing some news on Monday - keep an eye out for a blog post!
This is very good news - open standards like OpenID Connect (OIDC) make interoperability and integration easier, so hats off to Apple!
IndieWebCamp Amsterdam 2019 (19 mins read).

Recapping my time at IndieWebCamp Amsterdam, my first 'official' IndieWeb event, and meeting some of the big names in the community.
So very close to having my IWC Amsterdam blog post finished before WIT Notts - may have to see if I can get the last bit sorted before the talks start!