2019's Music In Review (5 mins read).
What music was I listening to in 2019?
2019's Music In Review (5 mins read).
What music was I listening to in 2019?
20xx Decade of Music In Review (10 mins read).
What music was I listening to in 20xx?
Happy new year everyone! Hope 2020, and the new decade, is kinder to you than this one 🙌🏼
I haven't yet gotten around to writing my 2019 In Review post (and may not until the weekend) but I don't think it's going to be as long as 2017's. I quite like Max's format to keep it short https://mxb.dev/blog/year-in-review-2019/
Recommended read: The People's Web https://anildash.com/2019/12/23/the-peoples-web/
An interesting way to manage it - I quite like the approach.
I'm a fan of how I do my own, and will write about it at some point - https://gitlab.com/jamietanna/jvt.me/issues/847
Recommended read: Managing my dotfiles as a git repository https://drewdevault.com/2019/12/30/dotfiles.html
Real shame to see that @Meetup are further restricting their platform by locking down API access - maybe document this better before going through the process to register?
Thank you for submitting an application to access Meetup’s API and authenticate with OAuth2. This process provides a better and more secure experience for all Meetup members. Your request for API Access through OAuth has been denied. In order to be eligible for API access through OAuth you need to have a Meetup Pro Account.
I will be attending
Recommended read: What makes type checking Ruby hard? https://blog.jez.io/ruby-mutation/
Open Request to Spotify About Data Requests and Spotify Wrapped Data (2 mins read).
A copy of an email I've sent to Spotify to request my full Spotify streaming history.
Recommended read: What exactly is being sent to Ubuntu in the MOTD? https://ma.ttias.be/what-exactly-being-sent-ubuntu-motd/
My site is now running Hugo v0.62! Not too painful an upgrade from 0.58.3, given changes in the Markdown parser - https://gitlab.com/jamietanna/jvt.me/merge_requests/637 - largely Table of Contents related, and one place where I'd not got enough spacing in around fenced codeblocks
I will not be attending
I won't be able to make it as I'm in Tenerife, but hope it's a good one!
I will be attending
Happy birthday https://aaronparecki.com 🎂 Hope you're having a great day!
I've managed to reduce my site's build/test/deploy pipeline to a total of ~4 minutes (a couple of minutes further than https://www.jvt.me/mf2/2019/12/isqba/ ) but still isn't as fast as I'd like, albeit much better!
May have to see if it's possible to speed up with my own GitLab runner.
Recommended read: "server" is hard to define https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/12/26/whats-a-server/
Recommended read: How to create a free website https://mblaney.xyz/2019-12-28-How_to_create_a_free_website
Recommended read: Alex.js: Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing https://alexjs.com
Recommended read: Let us make 2020 a year of empowerment and decentralization https://nilsnh.no/2019/12/25/let-us-make-2020-a-year-of-empowerment-and-decentralization/
Setting up a Staging Server for my Micropub Endpoint (4 mins read).
Setting up a Micropub server that I can use to test changes before it publishes content to this site.
Recommended read: Everything you should know about certificates and PKI but are too afraid to ask https://smallstep.com/blog/everything-pki/
Recommended read: How tracking pixels work https://jvns.ca/blog/how-tracking-pixels-work/
Recommended read: API Practices If You Hate Your Customers https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3375635
Recommended read: r/AskReddit - What free things online should everyone take advantage of? https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ecscwk/what_free_things_online_should_everyone_take/
Recommended read: How to tweet with accessibility in mind https://amberley.blog/2019-05-21-accessible-tweeting/
Those of us in the EU are pretty worried about it, so I can imagine it's not going to be fun for folks whose countries haven't even had a say in it!
Recommended read: Dear Americans: Be Very, Very Afraid Of The EU's New Copyright Rules https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191220/16454343611/dear-americans-be-very-very-afraid-eus-new-copyright-rules.shtml
Recommended read: Cash withdrawals in the European Economic Area are now free! https://monzo.com/blog/cash-withdrawals-in-the-european-economic-area-eea-are-now-free/
An interesting look at why you'd want to work for a startup, not a tech giant - although not everyone will have the same experience.
Recommended read: Working for Microsoft cost me $200 million https://blog.garrytan.com/working-for-microsoft-cost-me-200-dollars-million
Recommended read: I found Christmas the loneliest time of year. Then I started working at Crisis https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/24/christmas-loneliest-crisis-charity
Recommended read: Should workers be allowed to nap at work? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50396297
Very interesting to see that there's even more to the command than expected - and some great new features coming soon.
Recommended read: What You Probably Didn’t Know About Sudo https://aster.cloud/2019/12/17/what-you-probably-didnt-know-about-sudo/
Some interesting points in here that reinforce my thoughts about the difficulties of knowing what the right version number should be - although I hugely push for and use SemVer.
Recommended read: SemVer is an intent - not a promise https://damieng.com/blog/2019/12/19/semver-is-an-intent-not-a-promise
Gotcha: Running both JUnit4 and JUnit5 Together with Gradle (1 mins read).
How to make sure your JUnit4 and JUnit5 Gradle tests work within the same project.
Gotcha: Running both JUnit4 and JUnit5 Together with Maven (1 mins read).
How to make sure your JUnit4 and JUnit5 Maven tests work within the same project.
Recommended read: A thread on common misconceptions of mental illness https://twitter.com/LeftAtLondon/status/1208667177043120128?s=09
Arthur Christmas is such a great Christmas movie - we discovered it maybe four years ago, but it's part of our yearly routine now!