Something funny I realised in the last few years is that I've internalised the way that JD from Scrubs tilts his head off to one side to daydream, but instead of daydreaming it's better process or imagine something that someone is saying 😅
Week Notes 23#02 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-01-09?
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I don’t know about you, but child beauty pageants are way more problematic then consensual drag shows.
ArianaJasmine 🔴 on Twitch (@arianajasmine__)Thu, 12 Jan 2023 20:56 GMT
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Read the complete incident report from CircleCI’s January 4, 2023 security alert.

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It's somewhat comforting that the most globally unfortunate Friday the 13th of our lifetimes has likely come to pass (Friday March 13th 2020)
j ❄ (@silvergelpen)Fri, 13 Jan 2023 13:58 GMT
Automagically determining which AWS Lambda runtimes are deprecated or end-of-life (2 mins read).

Introducing a tool that can list AWS Lambda functions and whether their runtimes are approaching or past deprecation/end-of-life dates.
Does anyone know if the list of deprecated AWS Lambda runtimes is codified anywhere official, so I can use it in automation instead of managing it myself?
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Welcome to 2023 — we’re kicking off the year talking to Justin Searls about the state of web development and why he just might write a “You Might Not Need React” post. He’s been so productive using Turbo and Stimulus (and tailwind) in Rails 7 that we had to talk about the state of Rails development today and a bunch of...

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https://snarfed.org/matrix.webp https://snarfed.org/matrix.webp A long time ago, I decided to show Bridgy‘s end users its raw logs. Like, raw logs. HTTP requests, database reads and writes, JSON …
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Dr Suzi Gage and Scroobius Pip discuss psychedelics, including LSD, magic mushrooms and DMT. The risks of taking them, but also potential medical benefits currently being investigated. As well as discussing myths surrounding psychedelics.

Who do these AWS credentials belong to? (1 mins read).

How to work out whether arbitrary AWS credentials are valid, and if so, what account/role/user they're bound to.
Finally got around to writing up the work that I did at Capital One on our #Chef pipelines which I was very proud of.
It's a bit of a long read, but details some pretty impactful changes made over several months of solo work - between games of Apex Legends - and hopefully is transferrable to other folks.
TL;DR is listen to what your users want, instead of telling them to use a thing they don't particularly like but have no choice in
What I learned rebuilding our CI/CD pipelines for Chef Cookbooks (22 mins read).

How a focus on developer experience and user needs helped us rebuild (Capital One's) CI/CD pipelines for Chef cookbooks the right way.
Week Notes 23#01 (7 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-01-02?
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I struggle to tell people when I’m not doing well.
Wow Kaleidoscope was very good. Very much recommend a watch!
We got the order green, yellow, blue, violet, orange, red, pink, white and that was very good 👀
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I’m terrible at keeping in touch with people and simultaneously if someone doesn’t answer my message I’m: they hate me, I’m annoying, I shouldn’t bother them anymore 😭
Are you dealing with the #Circleci breach? I've written a post about how to list all the secrets in your organisation
Listing secrets stored in CircleCI (1 mins read).

How to list all the secrets in your CircleCI organisation.
2022's Music In Review (1 mins read).
What music was I listening to in 2022?
👋🏽 It's me
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It's rare to find an engineer that wants to spend a portion of their time writing instead of coding. It's a skill set like any other and if it's important you have to hire for it.
keeb (@nickstinemates)Wed, 04 Jan 2023 19:07 GMT
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In this series, I’m investigating different drugs, busting some myths and explaining potential harms and benefits. This week, I say yay or neigh to ketamine

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In this series, I’ll be investigating different drugs, busting some myths and explaining potential harms and benefits. This week I’m looking at the highs and lows of MDMA

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Nothing good comes from being insecure about your worth, especially at your job. That's what today's episode is about. That's what today's guest is here to discuss. It's a slow burn, but if you listen to the end, I think you will value yourself more professionally. My Guest is Don Mckay. Someone longtime listeners will undoubtedly know. […]

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Full Stack Developers Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski dive deep into web development topics, explaining how they work and talking about their own experiences. They cover from JavaScript frameworks like React, to the latest advancements in CSS to simplifying web tooling.

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Jackson Huff’s clipboard powertool for the command line, Fernando Borretti thinks tools for thought should be unbundled, Listen Notes helps you run a microfeed on Cloudflare, Martin Rue says to be productive, be prepared & Paul Sawers takes TechCrunch readers inside Matrix and features its recent adoption wins.

Enabling/Disabling GitHub Issues via the GitHub API (1 mins read).

How to use the GitHub API to update whether Issues are enabled on a given repo or not.
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Debugging problems really is a quick way to learn new stuff for me.
Week Notes 22#52 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2021-12-27?
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In the two years since I've posted I want off Mr Golang's Wild Ride , it's made the rounds time and time again, on Reddit, on Lobste.rs, on HackerNews, and elsewhere. And every...

2023 has started with disappointment, as Netflix has not created a Death to 2022 special, like it did in 2020 and 2021
Happy new year 🥂
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in the coming year we’re doing away with the concept of “cringe.” we’re being our weirdest selves, we’re embracing our nichest obsessions, we’re recovering the passion society tried to shame out of us. ignore the haters. become the exuberant nerd you were born to be.
Owl! at the Library 😴🧙♀️ (@SketchesbyBoze)Fri, 30 Dec 2022 19:14 GMT
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In this episode with Taylor Lorenz, we talk about how she became the It-Girl in reporting, her thoughts on Elon Musk buying Twitter, her constant online bullying and harassment, and her thoughts on how the recession will affect the creator economy space. You don't want to miss this!

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Ty Franck (one half of James S.A. Corey) and Naren Shankar (Showrunner of The Expanse) welcome our special guest CLiton Shorter (Composer of The Expanse) to dive deep into the music of The Expanse...

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If a child is too young to know they are gay, they are too young to know they are straight. If a child is too young to know they are trans, they are too young to know they are cis. Stop treating being cishet as the default.Nelson Flores (@nelsonlflores)Tue, 27 Dec 2022 06:01 GMT
Turns out I'd not got my following code working correctly from my blogroll, so now I should have a load more folks being followed on Bridgy Fed 👋🏽
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isn’t the grinch’s whole deal that he was reformed by a loving society that refused to act punitively against a clearly troubled individual
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NYPD arrests the Grinch, stops him from 'stealing Christmas joy' trib.al/7WdPeOaNew York Post (@nypost)Sun, 25 Dec 2022 20:55 GMT
sorrel kerr-jung (@sorrelkj)Mon, 26 Dec 2022 05:20 GMT
Once this PR is merged to Fedifinder folks should be able to discover my Fediverse address through it, which is @www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me for those who don't want to wait, if you wanna follow what used to get published to Twitter (always via my site first and foremost!)
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Ash Huang & Ryan Putnam on a microsite: For the month of January, we’ll make a pact to blog a few times to get into the habit, and create a directory of all the creators who participate. Readers can then find new makers to follow before we all scatter to the winds. Win-win! I’m all […]

Week Notes 22#51 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2022-12-19?
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Own your posts. Own your words. Own your identity. Own your ethics. Own your ideas.
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Finalizing my schedule for Christmas.
vacation mb ❄️ (@mb)Sun, 25 Dec 2022 04:25 GMT
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I for one think it’s totally healthy and normal that some people get to have a billion dollars and some people get to freeze to death on the streets
big honkin caboose (@itsmegangraves)Sat, 24 Dec 2022 15:40 GMT
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Rich Burroughs is a Staff Developer Advocate at Loft Labs who interacts with the community and works with Kubernetes. In this episode he takes us through his journey from growing up with ADHD and being involved in improv comedy, to having a succe...
Was cool to be featured in this one, too �������� (at the end, as I'd missed the deadline woopsie ����)
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Our 5th annual year-end wrap-up episode! Sit back, relax, pour a glass of your favorite beverage and join us for listener voice mails, our favorite episodes, some must-listens, and of course the top 5 most listened to episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚


