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Autogenerating Postman Collections for Micropub Servers (3 mins read).

Creating Postman collections programmatically from a Micropub server's supported configuration.

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 19:37 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #postman #ruby #micropub #micropub-postman.

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Releasing Two Lightweight Libraries for Server-Driven Content Negotiation (2 mins read).

Introducing two new Java libraries for performing server-driven content negotiation.

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 15:52 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #java #media-type #content-negotiation.

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Why I Consistently Reach for Server-Driven Content Negotiation (For Versioning) (5 mins read).

Why I use server-driven content negotiation for APIs to allow for versioning and allowing different representations of APIs.

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 11:35 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #api #content-negotiation #rest #web #versioning #version-pinning.

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Inexactly Comparing MediaTypes with Spring (1 mins read).

How to compare Spring's MediaType by ignoring charset or parameters.

Sat, 12 Dec 2020 17:28 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #spring #java.

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Converting X.509 and PKCS#8 .pem file to a JWKS (in Ruby) (2 mins read).

Converting X.509 and PKCS#8 files to JWKS format, using the ruby-jose library.

Sat, 12 Dec 2020 16:58 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #pki #ruby #x509 #pkcs8 #pem #jwks.

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Generating a JSON Web Key (JWK) With Ruby (1 mins read).

How to create a new JWK with Ruby.

Sat, 12 Dec 2020 16:23 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #pki #ruby #pem #jwks.

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Creating a Personal IndieAuth Server (6 mins read).

Announcing the release of my personal IndieAuth server, and what I've spent my time on.

Wed, 09 Dec 2020 11:49 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #www.jvt.me #indieauth.jvt.me #indieauth.

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Setting up Passwordless Authentication using the Okta Factors API (3 mins read).

How to use Okta's Factors API to use push notifications to authenticate yourself.

Wed, 11 Nov 2020 16:43 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #authentication #okta #passwordless.

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How to List Gradle's Buildscript / Plugin Dependencies (1 mins read).

How to list the dependencies that are used by Gradle's plugins as part of its buildscript.

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 11:44 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #gradle #java.

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Filtering Tasks and their Subtasks in JIRA (1 mins read).

How to filter issues, and their subtasks, with JIRA Query Language.

Tue, 03 Nov 2020 13:14 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #jira.

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Globally Logging all Spring (Boot) Exceptions (3 mins read).

How to log whenever an exception triggers on an exception handler with Spring.

Thu, 29 Oct 2020 22:26 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #spring #spring-boot.

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Using Git Diff Without a Repo (1 mins read).

How to use git diff when you're not in a Git repo.

Thu, 29 Oct 2020 09:24 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #git.

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Changing the Storage of Cites on my Site (2 mins read).

Changing how I store and render context for other posts.

Mon, 26 Oct 2020 22:07 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #www.jvt.me #hugo.

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Providing Hints for Autoconfiguring Micropub Clients (3 mins read).

Enhancing my Micropub Server and autoconfiguring Micropub client with the support for hints.

Mon, 19 Oct 2020 21:20 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #www.jvt.me #micropub.

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Creating an Auto-configuring Micropub Client (2 mins read).

Announcing support for my Micropub Client configuring itself based on support in my server.

Thu, 15 Oct 2020 22:19 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #www.jvt.me #micropub.

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unknown revision or path not in the working tree after Jenkins Git Plugin Update (1 mins read).

How to fix git rev-parse suddenly not working after a Jenkins Git plugin update.

Wed, 07 Oct 2020 22:09 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #jenkins #git.

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Publishing + Consuming Artefacts in the Local Maven Repository with Gradle (1 mins read).

How to use Gradle to publish and consume artefacts build on your local machine.

Wed, 07 Oct 2020 20:51 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #java #gradle.

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Women in Tech October: How to Manage Your New Manager (4 mins read).

A writeup of the Women in Tech October meetup in October, where Ruth Lee spoke about How to Manage Your New Manager.

Wed, 07 Oct 2020 15:56 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #wit-notts #management.

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Unit Testing Auth0 Rules (8 mins read).

How to write unit tests for your Auth0 Rules, without running it on an Auth0 tenant.

Thu, 01 Oct 2020 20:42 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #auth0 #unit-testing #testing #javascript #nodejs.

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Resolving Gradle Error Unexpected Parent Dependency in IntelliJ (1 mins read).

How to resolve the error Unexpected Parent Dependency when building Gradle projects in IntelliJ.

Tue, 29 Sep 2020 19:52 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #gradle #intellij.

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Debugging Git Errors Using Environment Variables (1 mins read).

How to use environment variables such as GIT_TRACE to debug what's going wrong / what's happening under the hood with git.

Tue, 22 Sep 2020 13:48 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #git.

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Celebrating Four Years at Capital One (3 mins read).

Reflecting on my time at Capital One so far.

Wed, 16 Sep 2020 22:53 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #job #capital-one.

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Hacktoberfest Comes to Homebrew Website Club Nottingham (2 mins read).

Announcing Hacktoberfest-themed events at Homebrew Website Club Nottingham in late September and October.

Tue, 08 Sep 2020 17:46 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #hacktoberfest #homebrew-website-club-nottingham.

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Creating Signed JOSE Objects with Ruby (1 mins read).

How to use ruby-jose to create a signed JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) object on the command-line.

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 15:21 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #ruby #command-line #jwt #jose.

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Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io and Online JSON Validators (5 mins read).

Why you should be opting for local tooling when working with sensitive data, even Non-Production ones.

Tue, 01 Sep 2020 14:53 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #security #privacy.

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Investigating Solutions for Private/Friends-Only Posts on a Static Website (6 mins read).

Discussing the options available for posts that require authentication while using a static site, using my own personal requirements.

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 22:08 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #www.jvt.me #indieweb #indieauth #micropub #www-private.jvt.me.

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Running Multiple JDK Versions with the Maven Toolchains Plugin (1 mins read).

How to use the maven-toolchains-plugin to configure multiple JDKs on your machine.

Mon, 24 Aug 2020 21:52 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #java #maven.

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Diffing Pretty-Printed JSON Files (4 mins read).

How to compare two JSON documents by pretty-printing them.

Mon, 24 Aug 2020 20:56 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #json #pretty-print #command-line.

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Sorting a Hash Recursively with Ruby (1 mins read).

How to sort a Hash in Ruby recursively, when nested Array exist.

Mon, 24 Aug 2020 20:56 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #ruby.

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Generate Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs) from XML Schema Definitions with Maven (1 mins read).

How to generate POJOs really quickly and easily, with no manual work, using the Mojohaus jaxb2-maven-plugin.

Sat, 22 Aug 2020 19:10 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #maven #java #xml.

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My First Experience With Setting a Squad Healthcheck (8 mins read).

Documenting a squad healthcheck I ran last year, and the good learnings that came out of it.

Tue, 18 Aug 2020 14:13 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #squad-healthcheck #technical-leadership #leadership.

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JWKS-iCal Release v1.2.0: Determine the jwks_uri from Configuration (1 mins read).

Updating jwks-ical to add support for discovering jwks_uri endpoints automagically.

Sun, 16 Aug 2020 20:59 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #jwks #certificates #jwks-ical #calendar.

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Globally Disable TLS Checks with Java for HttpsURLConnection (1 mins read).

How to disable TLS checks when using HttpsURLConnections in Java.

Sun, 16 Aug 2020 16:03 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #java #certificates.

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JWKS-iCal Release v1.1.0: Adding Calendar Reminder (1 mins read).

Updating jwks-ical to add support for calendar reminders before the certificate's expiry.

Sun, 16 Aug 2020 11:42 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #jwks #certificates #jwks-ical #calendar.

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Connecting to the Docker Host from a Child Container (2 mins read).

How to access ports from the host machine when running in a child container.

Sat, 15 Aug 2020 15:19 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #docker.

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How to Manually Trigger JSR380 Bean Validation on a Class (2 mins read).

How to perform validation on a class using JSR380, when not using a framework like Spring Boot.

Thu, 06 Aug 2020 10:47 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #java #jsr380.

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Configure Gradle to Allow Listing All Subproject Dependencies (1 mins read).

How to set Gradle configuration globally to add a task to list all your dependencies.

Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:14 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #gradle #java.

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Configure Gradle to Configure Tasks Globally with an initscript (1 mins read).

How to use Gradle's initialization scripts to globally configure tasks across all of your projects.

Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:14 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #gradle #java.

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Capital One Promotion Celebrations (2 mins read).

Reflecting on the fun of today's promotion announcements session.

Wed, 15 Jul 2020 13:52 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #capital-one #job.

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New Job Title, Who Dis? (1 mins read).

Moving into the world of being a Tech Lead.

Thu, 09 Jul 2020 10:04 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #personal #job.

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Spring Boot: 'junit-vintage' failed to discover tests When Using Only JUnit5 Tests (2 mins read).

How to avoid the error 'junit-vintage' failed to discover tests when using Spring Boot.

Tue, 30 Jun 2020 21:24 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #spring-boot #java #junit.

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Creating My Own Personal Micropub Client (3 mins read).

Announcing my own personal Micropub client to publish content that is very specific to my workflows.

Sun, 28 Jun 2020 21:08 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #www.jvt.me #micropub.

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Generating Random Bytes On the Command Line with OpenSSL (1 mins read).

How to generate random bytes as binary, base64 or hex, using openssl on the command-line.

Sat, 27 Jun 2020 14:50 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #openssl #command-line.

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Using @Mock as a Method Parameter with Mockito (2 mins read).

Using @Mock on method parameters to reduce manual mock setups with Mockito.

Sat, 27 Jun 2020 14:21 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #java #mockito.

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Converting a Byte Array to a String in Ruby (1 mins read).

How to convert an array of bytes to a String with Ruby.

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 13:24 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #ruby.

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Disabling the logging of Spring Security's Default Security Password (2 mins read).

How to disable Spring Boot logging the generated security password.

Fri, 19 Jun 2020 17:04 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #spring-boot #spring-security.

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Changing my Static Site Search Setup (1 mins read).

Making changes to fix my search setup, and reduce download overhead for visitors.

Wed, 17 Jun 2020 19:49 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #search #www.jvt.me.

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Generating the Client Assertion JWT for private_key_jwt Authentication with Ruby (1 mins read).

A helper script to generate the client assertion required to authenticate to an Authorization Server that supports private_key_jwt, on the command-line with Ruby.

Mon, 15 Jun 2020 23:12 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #ruby #command-line #jwt #json #oidc.

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Verifying Signed JWTs (JWS) with Ruby (2 mins read).

Using the ruby-jwt library to verify a signed JSON Web Token (JWS) on the command-line.

Mon, 15 Jun 2020 22:59 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #ruby #command-line #jwt #json.

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Creating Signed JWTs (JWS) with Ruby (1 mins read).

Using the json-jwt and ruby-jwt libraries to sign a JSON Web Token on the command-line.

Mon, 15 Jun 2020 22:40 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #ruby #command-line #jwt #json.

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