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Force a Refresh of an Emby Library in Kodi (1 mins read).

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How to force an update of an Emby library from Kodi.

Wed, 26 Jun 2019 21:20 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #kodi #emby.

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Notts Techfast: What do testers even do all day? (6 mins read).

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A writeup and some thoughts about Dan Caseley's talk at Notts Techfast.

Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:52 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #events #notts-techfast #testing.

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Talking about the IndieWeb at OggCamp 2019 (1 mins read).

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Announcing my talk at OggCamp 2019 about the IndieWeb.

Mon, 24 Jun 2019 22:08 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #events #oggcamp #announcement #indieweb #speaking.

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Explaining Networking and Packet Switching with LEGO and the Postal Service (3 mins read).

A recap of how I've explained the concept of packet switching through the use of LEGO and the postal service.

Mon, 17 Jun 2019 19:51 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #networking.

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Pretty Printing JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) on the Command Line using OpenSSL (3 mins read).

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How to easily introspect a JWT on the command line using OpenSSL and optionally Python for real pretty-printing.

Thu, 13 Jun 2019 13:02 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #python #command-line #jwt #json #pretty-print.

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Women In Tech June 2019 - Negotiating For Fun And Profit (5 mins read).

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A writeup of Ashley's talk at Women In Tech June about how to negotiate for a fairer deal.

Sat, 08 Jun 2019 10:56 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #events #wit-notts #negotiation.

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URL Decoding with Ruby on the Command Line (1 mins read).

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How to use Ruby's standard library to decode URLs with a handy one-liner.

Fri, 31 May 2019 21:58 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #ruby #command-line.

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Why www.jvt.me? (3 mins read).

Why is this site www.jvt.me? Why do I use www.? All will be explained.

Sun, 26 May 2019 16:26 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #identity #indieweb #www.jvt.me.

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Using Hugo .Render to Save Repetition (3 mins read).

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Replacing ifs with .Render to save duplication in Hugo templates.

Sun, 26 May 2019 11:15 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #hugo #www.jvt.me.

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.NET Notts May: Software Quality in the DevOps World (4 mins read).

A writeup of Matteo's talk at .NET Notts about Software Quality and DevOps.

Wed, 22 May 2019 20:24 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #events #dotnetnotts #software-quality.

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Adding iCalendar Feeds for Events in Hugo (1 mins read).

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Using Hugo's custom output formats to automagically create an iCalendar feed for events.

Wed, 22 May 2019 12:15 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #announcement #events #www.jvt.me #hugo.

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Cyber Nottingham May (5 mins read).

A writeup of the Cyber Nottingham meetup in May.

Sun, 19 May 2019 16:35 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #events #cyber-nottingham #security.

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Using <details> tags for HTML-only UI toggles (3 mins read).

How using the <details> HTML tag can provide a toggleable UI element with only built-in HTML.

Sun, 19 May 2019 10:04 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #html #www.jvt.me.

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Creating a /now page (1 mins read).

Joining the Now Movement by creating a /now page.

Fri, 17 May 2019 15:03 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #announcement #now #www.jvt.me.

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Implementing h-feed, and making all site content discoverable (2 mins read).

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Announcing h-feeds for this website, and making it easier to read non-blog posts.

Sun, 12 May 2019 18:43 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #announcement #microformats #www.jvt.me.

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PHPMiNDS May: Running your PHP site on AWS Lambda with Bref (3 mins read).

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The May edition of the PHPMiNDS meetup, and things I've learnt about porting existing applications to AWS Lambda.

Thu, 09 May 2019 22:19 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #events #phpminds #serverless #aws-lambda.

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Re-enabling search on my static website (2 mins read).

Announcing the re-enabling of search functionality on my static website.

Wed, 01 May 2019 20:15 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #announcement #indieweb #search #www.jvt.me #jsonfeed.

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Verify if a field in a JSON response is not set with Rest Assured (1 mins read).

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How to verify whether a field is not present in a JSON Rest Assured Response.

Tue, 23 Apr 2019 22:07 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #java #rest-assured #json.

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Pretty Print JSON with Java (1 mins read).

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How to pretty print a JSON object using Java and Jackson.

Tue, 23 Apr 2019 21:22 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #java #json #pretty-print.

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Gotcha: URL Encoding for consecutive double slashes issue with Rest Assured (2 mins read).

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How to workaround consecutive double slashes being URL encoded (as %2Fs) in Rest Assured.

Mon, 15 Apr 2019 22:16 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #java #rest-assured.

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PHPMiNDS April (2 mins read).

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A recap of PHPMiNDS' April meetup.

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 23:01 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #events #phpminds.

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Marking up my pronouns with Microformats (2 mins read).

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Adding my pronouns to my personal h-card to help others determine how I identify.

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 22:46 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #announcement #microformats #diversity-and-inclusion #www.jvt.me.

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Tech Nottingham April (5 mins read).

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A recap of Tech Nottingham's April meetup.

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 21:45 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #events #tech-nottingham.

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Prettier HTML Reports for Cucumber-JVM (2 mins read).

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How to generate prettier HTML reports for Cucumber with cucumber-reporting and cucumber-reporting-plugin, with and without Jenkins.

Sun, 07 Apr 2019 21:40 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #java #cucumber #testing #reporting.

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Using Netlify for hosting www.jvt.me in Production (2 mins read).

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Announcing my move to Netlify for hosting www.jvt.me.

Sun, 07 Apr 2019 16:10 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #announcement #netlify #www.jvt.me.

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Adding a JSON Feed to my site (1 mins read).

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Setting up JSON feed for site for better interoperability with the IndieWeb.

Sun, 07 Apr 2019 10:53 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #announcement #indieweb #jsonfeed #www.jvt.me.

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Viewing X.509 DER Certificate Fingerprints with OpenSSL (1 mins read).

How to view an X.509 DER certificate's fingerprint using openssl commands.

Wed, 03 Apr 2019 19:10 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #certificates #command-line #der #openssl.

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Viewing X.509 PEM Certificate Fingerprints with OpenSSL (1 mins read).

How to view an X.509 PEM certificate's fingerprint using openssl commands.

Wed, 03 Apr 2019 19:10 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #certificates #command-line #pem #openssl.

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Hello IndieAuth! (1 mins read).

Setting up my IndieAuth provider for interacting with IndieWeb applications everywhere.

Sat, 30 Mar 2019 12:15 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #announcement #indieweb #indieauth #www.jvt.me.

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Pretty Printing JSON with Ruby (1 mins read).

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Using Kernel.jj to pretty print Ruby objects as JSON objects.

Fri, 29 Mar 2019 18:04 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #ruby #json #pretty-print.

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Hello IndieNews! (2 mins read).

Discovering IndieNews and starting to syndicate my posts to it.

Wed, 27 Mar 2019 21:50 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #announcement #indieweb #microformats #www.jvt.me.

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Specifying datetime in your Hugo posts' front matter (1 mins read).

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Setting your posts' date to a datetime string to specify the time a post was published at.

Sun, 24 Mar 2019 13:43 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #hugo.

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Marking up Events with Microformats (1 mins read).

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Announcing the events content type and their markup with h-event.

Sat, 23 Mar 2019 14:19 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #announcement #indieweb #microformats #www.jvt.me.

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Beyond Rest: The Future of Web APIs (8 mins read).

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A writeup of the meetup talking about what could come next for APIs.

Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #events #openapi #internet-of-things #api #graphql #containers.

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Homebrew Website Club: Nottingham, Session 1 (2 mins read).

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A recap of our first Homebrew Website Club: Nottingham.

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 22:16 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #events #indieweb #hwc.

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Easily rewriting Git URLs from HTTPS to SSH and vice versa (2 mins read).

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How to use Git's config to rewrite HTTPS URLs to SSH and vice versa, for repo pushes and pulls.

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:39 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #git.

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Adding the microformats h-entry markup to my blog posts (1 mins read).

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Announcing the addition of the h-entry markup to my blog posts.

Tue, 19 Mar 2019 21:54 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #announcement #indieweb #microformats #www.jvt.me.

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Displaying Webmentions on my Hugo website (3 mins read).

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How and why I've gone about getting Webmentions rendered on my static Hugo site.

Mon, 18 Mar 2019 17:22 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #announcement #indieweb #microformats #www.jvt.me.

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Setting up a personal hCard for myself (2 mins read).

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Setting up an hCard to allow microformats parsing for details about myself.

Fri, 15 Mar 2019 23:29 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #announcement #indieweb #microformats #www.jvt.me.

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Homebrew Website Club: Nottingham (2 mins read).

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Thoughts about setting up the first Homebrew Website Club in Nottingham.

Thu, 14 Mar 2019 21:41 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #announcement #indieweb #hwc #homebrew-website-club-nottingham.

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I'm Not Good With People (12 mins read).

A bit of a raw look about how I'm really poor in social situations, how I've got to this realisation, and how I want to do better about it.

Sat, 02 Mar 2019 16:03 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #thoughts #personal #introvert #social.

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Verifying Signed JWTs (JWS) with Node.JS (3 mins read).

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How to use the jsonwebtoken and node-jose libraries to verify the signature of a Signed JSON Web Token (JWS) with Node.JS.

Mon, 25 Feb 2019 22:13 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #nodejs #command-line #jwt #json.

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Moving talks.jvt.me to reveal-hugo (3 mins read).

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Migrating my custom Reveal.JS setup to using reveal-hugo.

Sun, 17 Feb 2019 18:11 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #announcement #revealjs #hugo.

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Performing a No-Op with chef-client using JSON (2 mins read).

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How to perform a chef-client run without executing anything.

Sun, 10 Feb 2019 22:33 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #chef.

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FOSDEM 2019 (31 mins read).

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Recapping my time at the Free and Open Source Developers Europe Meeting conference in Brussels.

Sun, 10 Feb 2019 12:04 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #events #fosdem #open-source #progressive-web-app #decentralisation #indieweb #javascript #free-software #cloud #linux.

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Using git worktree to have multiple branches checked out at once (4 mins read).

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How to use git worktree to check out multiple Git branches from the same repo at once.

Tue, 29 Jan 2019 21:39 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #git #git-worktree.

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Using Git refs to help track your GitLab Environments, from your local repo (2 mins read).

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How to pull the Git refs that GitLab Environments exposes in your GitLab repo.

Sat, 19 Jan 2019 18:06 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #git #gitlab #review-apps #git-ref.

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Using Git refs to check out GitHub Pull Requests, from your local repo (2 mins read).

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How to pull the Git refs for Pull Requests to your GitHub repo.

Sat, 19 Jan 2019 17:18 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #git #github #git-ref.

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Using Git refs to check out GitLab Merge Requests, from your local repo (2 mins read).

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How to pull the Git refs for Merge Requests to your GitLab repo.

Sat, 19 Jan 2019 17:18 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #git #gitlab #git-ref.

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Performing Code Review on Your own Merge/Pull Requests (4 mins read).

Why the first step to getting others to review your code is to review it yourself.

Sat, 12 Jan 2019 16:22 by Jamie Tanna's profile image Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #code-review #workflow.

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