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Listened to Creating Mock APIs with Tom Akehurst
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API mocking is a technique used to simulate the behavior of an API without actually connecting to the real API. It is useful for various reasons, including testing, isolation, development, and cost reduction. By using API mocking, developers can test their code without relying on the availability of the real API, isolate the code being

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Listened to Episode 14: The Secret Life of Maven Central by Wicked Good Development
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In this episode, Joel Orlina joins Kadi Grigg to provide insights and knowledge on “The Secret Life of Maven Central,” his talk given at Devoxx UK and OpenSFF Day. Joel sheds light on the previously unknown history of Maven Central and how it works under the covers. He also discusses how the Central team addresses critical security risks like dependency confusion and how it responded to security events such as Log4Shell, and most importantly, how you can get involved. Check out the resources from today's episode here. 

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Listened to Growing your career via technical content creation with Mohammed Osman by Scott Hanselman 
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Mohammed Osman strongly believes that blogging greatly improved his my career and encourages everyone to give it a try. Things like content research, learning SEO, hosting your own sites and blogs and lead to job opportunities, speaking opportunities and more! He talks to Scott about how he's used this blog to teach (and learn) Azure and help get folks all over the world Azure Cloud certified!

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So.. do I submit talks? 👀

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Bookmarked Tech's Elite Hates Labor by Ed Z 
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I am furious. Though I try not to humour conspiracy theories, or suggest that there is any grand overture to what is usually an uncaring and cold world, but I cannot ignore what is a transparently-synchronized movement against the tech industry’s workforce.

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Listened to Cup o' Go | Go 1.20.1 & 1.19.6 upcoming, controversy surrounding transparent telemetry in the toolchain, Apache Arrow 11.0, and more
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Pre-release announcement for Go 1.20.1 & 1.19.6 to fix private security issuesPre-release announcement for golang.org/x/image/tiff & golang.org/x/image to fix private security issuesTransparent TelementryGitHub Discussion (now locked)Blog post explaining the problem and proposed solutionGopherCon...

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Every time we drive past this shop - the Arnold Hearing Specialists - I chuckle to myself, thinking that it's capitalised as if it's being shouted at to someone who's hard of hearing 😅

A photo of the Arnold Hearing Specialists shop front, but "hearing" is in all capitals, as if it's being shouted. And yes, this is a little ableist 😥

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I've just gotten around to looking at the analytics data that I have on my personal website and it's pretty wild looking at how I increased my readership ~1500% since 2016.

I don't have a 🧵 for you, but if you're interested, check out my site in review posts.

Maybe I'll talk more about what I've done for it - but it's not like I've done that much to try and boost engagement and readership, although colleagues and friends will disagree, as I'm quite openly trying to point people to my blog, as seen when I got promoted at Capital One.

These stats don't include anything around my Week Notes, as I don't count them as "blog posts" per se, and they'd definitely boost the numbers of posts for the years I've been doing them.

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For those that may or may not have seen the news that Deliveroo are going through redundancies, I'm unfortunately one of the roles at risk.

Although I'm not looking for a change - redundancy process permitting 🤞🏽 - I'd be happy to hear if there are roles that you think I may be interested in.

Looking for Senior level roles for similar compensation to now and working on and with Go, Open Source, OpenAPI, Renovate, Dependency Management and distributed systems.

Check out my CV for a bit more info