Determining if there are uncommitted changes in Git (1 mins read).
A one-liner to work out whether there are uncommitted changes in a repository.
Blog posts from April 2022
Extracting Podcast Addict listening history from the SQLite database (2 mins read).
How to get raw listening history from the Podcast Addict database.
Building a fault-tolerant work queue for command-line executions with GNU Parallel (2 mins read).
How to use parallel to create a lightweight work queue of commands, with retry logic and a record of what's been executed.
by 
Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#command-line
#gnu-parallel.
Removing 'smart' quotes from a file, on the command-line (2 mins read).
A one-liner with sed to replace 'smart' quotes with regular quotes.
I'm Joining Deliveroo (2 mins read).
Announcing my move into Deliveroo as a Senior Software Engineer.
by Jamie Tanna
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#personal
#job
#announcement
#cddo
#deliveroo.
Automagically setting the project version for Go projects in SonarQube (2 mins read).
How to automagically set sonar.projectVersion for Go projects, based on Git tags.
Converting a Byte Array to String from a Node.JS Buffer, in Go (1 mins read).
How to convert an array of bytes to a string using Go.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#go
#nodejs.
Prefactoring: Preparatory Refactoring (2 mins read).
Why I use prefactoring as a means to perform up-front refactoring for codebases, splitting these into separate PRs/MRs where possible.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#git
#workflow
#refactoring
#code-review.
Protecting an Architect Framework Application with OAuth2 or OpenID Connect Authentication (4 mins read).
How to set up OAuth2/OpenID Connect authentication with an Architect Framework application.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#architect-framework
#nodejs
#aws-lambda
#oidc
#indieauth
#oauth2.
Getting node-canvas to run on AWS Lambda (3 mins read).
Some common issues that occur when using node-canvas on AWS Lambda, and how to solve them.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#javascript
#nodejs
#aws-lambda.
Parsing the Cookie and Set-Cookie headers with Go (2 mins read).
How to parse the value of a Cookie or Set-Cookie header to a JSON object.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#go
#http.
Generating a Go HTTP Client from OpenAPI schemas (2 mins read).
How to generate a Go HTTP client really quickly and easily, with no manual work, using the oapi-codegen project.
Generating Go structs from OpenAPI schemas (2 mins read).
How to generate Go structs really quickly and easily, with no manual work, using the oapi-codegen project.
Setting up GitLab CI for Go projects (2 mins read).
How to set up a basic set of automated builds for Go projects on GitLab CI, for modern Go projects.
Introducing tiktok-mf2.tanna.dev, for converting TikTok video metadata to Microformats2 (1 mins read).
Announcing a hosted service for converting TikTok metadata to a Microformats2 object.
by Jamie Tanna
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#tiktok
#tiktok-mf2
#indieweb
#microformats2.
Adding a Non-AWS Hosted Custom Domain to an AWS API Gateway without CloudFront (2 mins read).
How to set up a domain name for AWS API Gateway for a domain that isn't managed through AWS Route 53.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#aws.