Creating a private mirror of the Renovate docs (5 mins read).
How to set up a copy of Renovate's documentation, pinned to an older version, for your organisation.
Lessons learned adding OpenTelemetry to a (Cobra) command-line Go tool (10 mins read).
Some reflections on what I've found good and not so good about instrumenting a command-line tool with OpenTelemetry.
by 
Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#go
#command-line
#opentelemetry
#dependency-management-data.
Summarising the skipReasons for Renovate data exports (2 mins read).
How to work out what skipReasons you have for your Renovate package data.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#renovate
#dependency-management-data.
How to diff two datetimes (1 mins read).
How to get the number of seconds, minutes, and a human-readable time comparison between two datetimes.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation.
Why has Firefox 133 lost all my tabs? (2 mins read).
Recounting an issue I'm seeing with Firefox 133 where it creates a new profile, and how to resolve it.
Creating a /slashes page (1 mins read).
Creating a collection of all the /slash pages I have across my site.
by Jamie Tanna
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#www.jvt.me.
OggCamp 2024 (14 mins read).
A recap of this weekend's OggCamp 2024 conference.
by Jamie Tanna
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#events
#oggcamp
#public-speaking
#oggcamp-2024
#free-software
#open-source
#collaborative-culture.
How I manage my dotfiles (8 mins read).
A deep dive into how managing my dotfiles has (not) evolved over the last 10 years.
by Jamie Tanna
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#shell
#command-line
#automation
#dotfiles.
Don't do Agile, be agile (13 mins read).
Why you should ditch the framework and just vibe.
by Jamie Tanna
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#agile
#scrum.
Converting a Reveal.js slide deck to PDF (1 mins read).
How to convert a Reveal.js slide deck to a PDF, using Decktape.
Getting symlinks to work with a git clone on Mac (2 mins read).
How to restore symlinks in a previously cloned repository, where core.symlinks=false.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#git
#mac.
Using a separate Go module for your tools.go (2 mins read).
How to use the tools.go pattern to source-track your Go tool dependencies, but without polluting your top-level go.mod.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#go.
I'm on API Evangelist Conversation (1 mins read).
Announcing a podcast appearance with Kin Lane about API Versioning.
by Jamie Tanna
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#podcast
#api.
Utilising Renovate's local platform to test more easily (4 mins read).
How to use Renovate's local platform for validating configuration changes more easily.
Don't pretty print your API's JSON response body (3 mins read).
Why pretty-printing JSON responses in your APIs is a waste of resources, and you should stop it.
by Jamie Tanna
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#api
#json
#rest.
Nested teams in GitHub don't give you the control you think they do (2 mins read).
Some pain points when using nested teams on GitHub.
Forcing pacman to perform post-upgrade tasks if it's failed part way through (2 mins read).
How I ended up recovering from my Arch Linux upgrade crashing part way through the post-upgrade hooks.
How to use Dependency Management Data to discover which dependencies are participating in Hacktoberfest (3 mins read).
Detailing how you could use dependency-management-data to gain insight into which dependencies you use are participating in Hacktoberfest.
by Jamie Tanna
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#open-source
#hacktoberfest
#dependency-management-data.
You're not mature enough to release your first version as v1 (12 mins read).
Why you should never release your first iteration of a project as your v1.0.0, but it should instead by v0.1.0.
by Jamie Tanna
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#versioning.
GopherCon UK 2024 (22 mins read).
A writeup of the GopherCon UK 2024 conference.
Gotcha: SXHKD doesn't like comments (in bindings) (1 mins read).
Why your SXHKD bindings may be silently ignored
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#sxhkd.
How to get the next window created set to floating in BSPWM (1 mins read).
How to tell BSPWM that the next window created should be floating.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#bspwm.
Creating a /typography page (2 mins read).
Creating a page for viewing different types of content and how they display on my site.
by Jamie Tanna
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#www.jvt.me.
I'm on Go Time! (3 mins read).
Announcing my first podcast appearance on Go Time, talking about OpenAPI, oapi-codegen, versioning, and some fun Unpopular Opinions.
New CSS, Who Dis? (2024 edition) (3 mins read).
Announcing my new site design.
by Jamie Tanna
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#www.jvt.me.
Why isn't Hugo regenerating my SCSS files? (1 mins read).
How to ensure you're using the right Hugo version to build SCSS files.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#hugo.
Why can't I use a comma with gcloud? (1 mins read).
How to resolve commas being ignored when interacting with gcloud, and how to escape them.
Using Spotless to auto-format Gradle Verification Metadata (3 mins read).
How to use Spotless to allow manual changes to the Gradle Verification Metadata to be auto-formatted as if Gradle generated it.
Common issues faced with execing an executable on Linux (2 mins read).
Some common issues you may face, with esoteric error messages, and how to fix them.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#shell
#command-line
#linux.
You can now parse repo-level Renovate configuration with renovate-graph (2 mins read).
Announcing a new release of renovate-graph which now parses repo-level Renovate configuration.
Dependency Management Data's Open Policy Agent support is now a whole lot more efficient (2 mins read).
Talking about the latest release of Dependency Management Data and some refactoring that's led to better performance.
by Jamie Tanna
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#dependency-management-data
#open-policy-agent.
Migrating Renovate bots, while keeping existing PRs updated (2 mins read).
How to migrate between two Renovate bot accounts, in the case you want to do a 'big bang rollout'.
Manually triggering a Buildkite pipeline for a fork (1 mins read).
How to trigger a Buildkite pipeline to run on a fork, if you have access to trigger a build.
Dependency Management Data's now on Mastodon! (1 mins read).
Announcing the dependency-management-data Mastodon account for automated release announcements (and more?).
Dynamically querying EndOfLife.date data for internal packages with Open Policy Agent and Dependency Management Data (3 mins read).
How you can retrieve End-of-Life data via EndOfLife.date using Dependency Management Data's Policies functionality.
by Jamie Tanna
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#dependency-management-data
#blogumentation
#open-policy-agent.
89 things I know about Git commits (7 mins read).
Some of the things I've learned over a decade of Git usage, and working on writing good commit messages.
by Jamie Tanna
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#git.
Dependency Management Data is now a lot easier to work with when using Software Bill of Materials (3 mins read).
Announcing an improved model for interacting with SBOMs, removing the need to understand the Repo Key up-front.
One THOUSAND blog posts (3 mins read).
Celebrating a massive milestone in my blog, and a short reflection.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogging
#www.jvt.me.
Reader survey: Who reads my blog? (2 mins read).
Wondering how my readers read my blog, and why.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogging
#www.jvt.me.
Dependency Management Data can now use sql-studio for database browsing (1 mins read).
Announcing the availability of the sql-studio database browser for dependency-management-data's web application.
Creating a test harness for validating Renovate regex manager rules (4 mins read).
How to set up a test harness to make it eaiser to modify scary looking regexes in your Renovate configuration.
Modifying the response body of an httputil.ReverseProxy response (2 mins read).
How to modify the response from a httputil.ReverseProxy before it goes back to the caller.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#go.
Performing cross-database queries with SQLite (2 mins read).
How to query multiple database files with SQLite.
Dependency Management Data's web application can now be deployed as a single static binary (2 mins read).
Announcing dependency-management-data's embedded SQL browser interface.
Using Go's database/sql to query an arbitrary columns of unknown type(s) (3 mins read).
How you can query an unknown number of columns, of unknown types, with Go's SQL package.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#go.
My workflow for writing SQL(ite) queries (2024 edition) (4 mins read).
Writing about my recent workflow for writing, executing, and sharing SQL queries with others.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#sql
#sqlite
#neovim
#datasette
#lsp.
Calculating the GitHub API's sha representation of a local file (2 mins read).
How to locally calculate the same sha of a given file, so you can compare it against the GitHub API's representation.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#github
#go.
Making it easier to schedule cross-timezones, with the tz CLI (3 mins read).
Writing a command-line tool with Charm's Go libraries to compare the suitability of meetings across timezones.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#command-line
#go
#charm
#elastic
#remote-work.
Installing Google Cloud CLI components on Arch Linux (2 mins read).
How to install gcloud components using pacman, instead of using the officially supported method.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#arch-linux
#google-cloud
#serverless.
I'm on Cup o' Go! (2 mins read).
Announcing my appearance on Cup o' Go, talking about oapi-codegen, OpenAPI, working on Open Source and blogging.
by Jamie Tanna
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#openapi
#oapi-codegen
#podcast
#adhd
#blogging
#public-speaking
#go.