Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer

Listened to Why I choose humanism over faith by Leo Igwe

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As a humanist, Leo Igwe doesn't believe in divine intervention -- but he does believe in the power of human beings to alleviate suffering, cure disease, preserve the planet and turn situations of poverty into prosperity. In this bold talk, Igwe shares how humanism can free Africans from damaging superstitions and give them the power to rebuild the continent.

Sun, 15 Apr 2018 11:43 by Jamie Tanna .

Listened to https://lunduke.com/2018/03/28/the-time-of-the-internet-giants-is-coming-to-an-end/ .

Sat, 14 Apr 2018 20:02 by Jamie Tanna .

Listened to Episode 325 | Trae Robrock - Automate Everything by Dave Rael

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Sat, 14 Apr 2018 19:39 by Jamie Tanna .

Listened to https://lunduke.com/2018/03/27/eu-listens-to-lunduke-considers-breaking-up-google/ .

Sat, 14 Apr 2018 16:13 by Jamie Tanna .

Listened to https://www.deezer.com/us/episode/4793479 .

Sat, 14 Apr 2018 16:03 by Jamie Tanna .

Listened to Food Fight Show - 117 - Facebook Cookbooks

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The Food Fight Show

Sat, 14 Apr 2018 13:19 by Jamie Tanna .

Deploying to Netlify using GitLab CI (3 mins read).

How adding two lines to my .gitlab-ci.yml migrated my existing site from GitLab Pages to Netlify.

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 22:06 by Jamie Tanna . #netlify #gitlab-ci #automation #continuous-deployment #ci #deploy #howto.

I will be attending It's time for Chef! Four! Teen!

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On Wednesday, Apr 18 2018

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 23:04 by Jamie Tanna .

Listened to How to connect with depressed friends by Bill Bernat

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Want to connect with a depressed friend but not sure how to relate to them? Comedian and storyteller Bill Bernat has a few suggestions. Learn some dos and don'ts for talking to people living with depression -- and handle your next conversation with grace and maybe a bit of humor.

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:51 by Jamie Tanna .

Listened to https://player.fm/episodes/199046970 .

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:50 by Jamie Tanna .

Listened to Developing Online Identity with Sarah Squire by Scott Hanselman

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Sarah Squire is a Senior Technical Architect at Ping Identity. So much has happened since "Identity 2.0" so Sarah catches Scott up to date. OpenID, OAuth and beyond, what's new and what direction is the web heading?

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:43 by Jamie Tanna .

Executing an Interactive Python Shell (REPL) for a Script (1 mins read).

Using python -i to get an interactive REPL after running a Python source file.

Sun, 08 Apr 2018 16:07 by Jamie Tanna . #command-line #python #blogumentation #tools #howto.

I will be attending inspireWiT 2018

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On Saturday, Apr 7 2018

Sat, 07 Apr 2018 08:15 by Jamie Tanna .

Bundling Common Rake Tasks into a Gem (8 mins read).

An example of how to create a helper gem for common Rake task, using the real-world example of Chef cookbooks.

Thu, 05 Apr 2018 21:17 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #chefdk #gem #ruby #rake #foodcritic #rubocop #rspec #knife-cookbook-doc #gitlab-ci.

I will be attending Session #01 - The First Meet

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On Saturday, Mar 31 2018

Sat, 31 Mar 2018 10:00 by Jamie Tanna .

Listened to https://aws.amazon.com/podcasts/233-integrating-sftp-and-enterprise-challenges-with-thorn-technologies .

Thu, 29 Mar 2018 21:44 by Jamie Tanna .

Listened to https://changelog.com/gotime/69 .

Thu, 29 Mar 2018 21:27 by Jamie Tanna .

Listened to a post on developertea.simplecast.com

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Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:27 by Jamie Tanna .

Listened to https://lunduke.com/2018/03/20/facebook-and-cambridge-analytica-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg/ .

Wed, 28 Mar 2018 12:56 by Jamie Tanna .

Listened to https://changelog.com/gotime/71 .

Wed, 28 Mar 2018 12:29 by Jamie Tanna .

Listened to BookClubPod Episode 1 - Twine Radio

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BookClubPod is a new podcast featuring 4 Nottingham tech community people from operations, development, design & management backgrounds to talk about books.

Tue, 27 Mar 2018 14:26 by Jamie Tanna .

Running docker login as another user in Chef (2 mins read).

Hitting the error permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket when trying to run docker login as a non-root user in Chef.

Mon, 26 Mar 2018 21:14 by Jamie Tanna . #docker #chef #blogumentation.

Listened to Admin Admin Podcast #62 – Admin in the Ham Shack | The Admin Admin Podcast

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Mon, 26 Mar 2018 19:19 by Jamie Tanna .

Listened to Late Night Linux – Episode 33 by Joe

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Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 43:37 — 30.0MB) A new GNOME release, a new Raspberry Pi, more distros on the Windows Subsystem, and more apps are Snapped. Plus why rms refused to come on the …

Fri, 23 Mar 2018 22:52 by Jamie Tanna .

My First Week Back to Working (Remotely) After Three Months (6 mins read).

How I've found the first week back to work after almost three months, and the productivity gains of working reduced hours.

Thu, 15 Mar 2018 17:57 by Jamie Tanna . #thoughts #capital-one #spectat-designs.

I will be attending April 2018 - Alexa Skill Development with Amazon

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On Tuesday, Apr 10 2018

Thu, 15 Mar 2018 12:03 by Jamie Tanna .

Listened to 1: Why remote work? — Remote Work Podcast

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To kick off the Remote Work Podcast, Carla joins me to discuss what remote work is, and especially answer why remote working is something to discuss at all.  It's terrifying to publish a first of something. There are a million things I want to have done differently or better, but a first s

Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:28 by Jamie Tanna .

Listened to Pursuit Podcast: Learning to Code While Blind: Parham Doustdar

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Learning a new skill can be a daunting task, with programming being especially tricky. But what can you do when most learning materials and tools aren't accessible to you? Blind backend developer Parham Doustdar joins us to talk about how he taught himself to program, the challenges he faced and his advice for other visually impaired developers. We also look at the ways educational resources and programming as a whole can be made more accessible, opening up technology to eager new learners and makers.

Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:01 by Jamie Tanna .

Listened to Late Night Linux – Episode 32 by Joe

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Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 56:19 — 38.7MB) It’s a mobile-heavy news section this week with Sailfish, Linux on Samsung phones, Lineage and Purism, followed by a look at the upcoming …

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 10:08 by Jamie Tanna .

Listened to Late Night Linux – Episode 31 by Joe

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Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 1:09:21 — 47.7MB) We speak to the CEO of Purism about their totally free software phone and laptops but before that, a new Plasma desktop is out, and Ubuntu and …

Mon, 12 Mar 2018 10:12 by Jamie Tanna .

I will be attending Hack24 2018

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On Saturday, Mar 10 2018

Sat, 10 Mar 2018 09:30 by Jamie Tanna .

Fri, 09 Mar 2018 17:30 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-13-upgrade #chef #knife-cookbook-doc #chef-13 #documentation #chef-13-upgrade-rubocop.

Chef 13 Upgrade: knife-cookbook-doc Rubocop Updates (1 mins read).

Disabling the Missing space after # and Do not use block comments errors for your knife-cookbook-doc formatted comments.

Listened to https://pursuitpod.libsyn.com/bad-advice-crossover-special-scott-hanselman .

Thu, 08 Mar 2018 11:18 by Jamie Tanna .

Listened to Jessica Rose and the Worst Advice Ever by Scott Hanselman

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Scott teams up with Pursuit Podcast's Jessica Rose for a collaboration. Jessica asked her audience "What's the worst advice you've ever received?" We took their audio clips and turned it into a two-part discussion! You can check out Part 2 at The Pursuit Podcast https://twitter.com/pursuitpod http://hyperurl.co/zukdmh

Thu, 08 Mar 2018 10:46 by Jamie Tanna .

Listened to 66: Learning About Netlify w/ Phil Hawksworth · SpecFM

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Today we're learning about Netlify and joining us is the incredible Phil Hawksworth to share his tips and tricks around it all. Datadog Datadog is a…

Thu, 08 Mar 2018 10:25 by Jamie Tanna .

Chef 13 Upgrade: knife-cookbook-doc gem upgrade (1 mins read).

Fixing odd Logger entries in autogenerated knife-cookbook-doc README.mds for Chef 13.

Wed, 07 Mar 2018 20:34 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-13-upgrade #chef #knife-cookbook-doc #chef-13 #documentation.

Chef 13 Upgrade: Deprecation of Namespace Collisions in Custom Resources (1 mins read).

Preparing for breaking changes in Chef 14 by renaming property_name to new_resource.property_name in Custom Resources.

Wed, 07 Mar 2018 20:34 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-13-upgrade #chef-13-upgrade-deprecation #chef #chef-13 #chef-14.

Verify a Ruby Class Method is Called with Arguments in Rspec, Without Doubles or Mocks (1 mins read).

Rspec code to verify that a Ruby Class Method is called from another method, without needing to mock anything.

Wed, 07 Mar 2018 15:28 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #ruby #testing #rspec.

Testing Chef's ruby_blocks with ChefSpec (3 mins read).

Testing implementation of a ruby_block in ChefSpec, to ensure that the code executes as expected.

Wed, 07 Mar 2018 12:01 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef #chefspec #testing.

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 20:34 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-13-upgrade #chef-13-upgrade-rubocop #chef-13-upgrade-chefspec #chef #rubocop #chefspec #chef-13 #chefspec-7 #rubocop-0-49.

Chef 13 Upgrade: Lessons Learnt and Documented for Posterity (1 mins read).

Notes on the main problems encountered when upgrading from Chef 12 to Chef 13, both with ChefSpec and Rubocop.

Chef 13 Upgrade: Rubocop Changes for lazy Parameters (1 mins read).

How to resolve the Parenthesize the param lazy Rubocop error when upgrading your cookbook to Chef 13.

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 20:34 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-13-upgrade #chef-13-upgrade-rubocop #chef #rubocop #chef-13 #rubocop-0-49.

Chef 13 Upgrade: Rubocop Changes for Testing render_file with ChefSpec and a with_content Block (1 mins read).

How to resolve the Parenthesize the param render_file Rubocop error when upgrading your cookbook to Chef 13.

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 20:34 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-13-upgrade #chef-13-upgrade-chefspec #chef #chefspec.

Chef 13 Upgrade: Rubocop Changes for Word Array Literals (%w) (1 mins read).

A one-liner shell command to fix Rubocop errors %w-literals should be delimited by [ and ].

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 20:34 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-13-upgrade #chef-13-upgrade-rubocop #chef #rubocop #chef-13 #rubocop-0-49.

Chef 13 Upgrade: Testing ruby_blocks with ChefSpec (1 mins read).

Replace your block.old_run_action with block.block.call to trigger ruby_blocks within ChefSpec 7 and Chef 13.

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 20:34 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef-13-upgrade #chef-13-upgrade-chefspec #chef #chefspec #chef-13 #chefspec-7.

Listened to Serverless Containers with Sean McKenna

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After two weeks of episodes about Kubernetes, our in-depth coverage of container orchestration is drawing to a close. We have a few more shows on the topic before we move on to cover other aspects of the software. If you have feedback on this thematic format (whether you like it or not), send me an

Sat, 03 Mar 2018 17:38 by Jamie Tanna .

Emoji Support in Dunst (2 mins read).

How to see Emoji when using the Dunst notification system.

Wed, 28 Feb 2018 17:42 by Jamie Tanna . #arch-linux #dunst #dotfiles #blogumentation #emoji.

Listened to Clean Architecture – Keeping Your Options Open

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Joe drinks too much coffee, Allen spits his coffee out, and Michael feels vindicated as the discussions about Robert C. Martin's latest book, Clean Architecture, continues.

Mon, 26 Feb 2018 17:41 by Jamie Tanna .