Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer

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To celebrate GitLab making the right call on their inactive accounts policy, here are some things that really impress me about them as a company 🧵
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We discussed internally what to do with inactive repositories. We reached a decision to move unused repos to object storage. Once implemented, they will still be accessible but take a bit longer to access after a long period of inactivity.
🦊 GitLab (@gitlab)Thu, 04 Aug 2022 22:50 +0000
Simon Willison (@simonw)Fri, 05 Aug 2022 04:36 +0000

Fri, 05 Aug 2022 08:00 by Jamie Tanna . #gitlab.

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We discussed internally what to do with inactive repositories. We reached a decision to move unused repos to object storage. Once implemented, they will still be accessible but take a bit longer to access after a long period of inactivity.
🦊 GitLab (@gitlab)Thu, 04 Aug 2022 22:50 +0000

Fri, 05 Aug 2022 08:00 by Jamie Tanna . #gitlab.

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"GitLab plans to automatically delete projects if they've been inactive for a year and are owned by users of its free tier." Absolutely shocking decision from @gitlab, I very much hope they reconsider this
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ugh GitLab are you alright? theregister.com/2022/08/04/git…
GEOFF 🦩🎼 (@GeoffreyHuntley)Thu, 04 Aug 2022 02:50 +0000
Simon Willison (@simonw)Thu, 04 Aug 2022 21:06 +0000

Thu, 04 Aug 2022 22:36 by Jamie Tanna . #gitlab.

Liked GitLab plans to delete dormant projects from free accounts

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Hopes to save a quarter of hosting costs by binning repos that haven't been touched for a year

Thu, 04 Aug 2022 10:57 by Jamie Tanna . #gitlab.

Automagically deploying Architect Framework applications to AWS uisng GitLab CI (3 mins read).

How to use GitLab's OpenID Connect support with AWS, to allow deployment using the Architect Framework automagically on GitLab CI.

Wed, 30 Mar 2022 15:17 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #oidc #architect-framework #aws #gitlab #gitlab-ci.

Bookmarked https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/02/03/how-we-automatically-fixed-hundreds-of-ruby-2-7-deprecation-warnings/ .

Recommended read: How we automatically fixed thousands of Ruby 2.7 deprecation warnings https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/02/03/how-we-automatically-fixed-hundreds-of-ruby-2-7-deprecation-warnings/

Sun, 06 Mar 2022 10:19 by Jamie Tanna . #ruby #gitlab #automation.

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I'm having the best time in my life, all-remote at @GitLab - today marks my 2nd year 💜 dnsmichi.at/2022/03/02/2-y… It still feels like getting started. 🙃
Michael Friedrich 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🌐 (@dnsmichi)Wed, 02 Mar 2022 21:29 GMT

Wed, 02 Mar 2022 21:57 by Jamie Tanna . #gitlab #remote-work.

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One thing I find really interesting about the GitLab handbook is how many external references it uses for the "why" behind something. There's a constant stream of books, research, frameworks, and more. Usually nobody cites sources because — frankly — there aren't any.
Donnie Berkholz is hiring (@dberkholz)Mon, 21 Feb 2022 04:12 GMT

Mon, 21 Feb 2022 07:23 by Jamie Tanna . #gitlab.

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Did you know you can authenticate to @GoogleCloud from @gitlab CI/CD jobs? Check out this docs page that I helped write: docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/cloud_se…
Seth Vargo (@sethvargo)Mon, 14 Feb 2022 22:46 GMT

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 08:42 by Jamie Tanna . #gitlab #gitlab-ci #google-cloud.

Bookmarked https://research.nccgroup.com/2022/01/13/10-real-world-stories-of-how-weve-compromised-ci-cd-pipelines/ .

Recommended read: 10 real-world stories of how we’ve compromised CI/CD pipelines https://research.nccgroup.com/2022/01/13/10-real-world-stories-of-how-weve-compromised-ci-cd-pipelines/

Sat, 15 Jan 2022 15:20 by Jamie Tanna . #gitlab-ci #gitlab #kubernetes #ci #cicd #security.

Building an Automagically Updating Personal README for GitLab and GitHub (2 mins read).

Announcing the publishing of readme.jvt.me as well as automagically updating READMEs in my GitLab and GitHub profiles.

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 16:21 by Jamie Tanna . #go #github #gitlab #readme.jvt.me #microformats2.

Liked https://gitlab.com/guided-explorations/oidc/configure-oidc-in-aws .

Fri, 17 Dec 2021 10:14 by Jamie Tanna . #gitlab #gitlab-ci #aws #oidc.

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I like how we do technical interviews at @gitlab. - Merge Request upfront to review as home exercise - Go through the review & implement suggestions Gives candidates enough time to prepare without a surprise. Focus on the technical discussion. Hopefully reduces stress.
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There's an even bigger issue with live coding than "just" the potential impact on diversity. If you do stressful live coding, you're excluding a massive population. "A large population of people are impacted by performance anxiety (est. 40% of all adults in the U.S. [23])."
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Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Sat, 27 Nov 2021 10:15 GMT
Nicolas Dular (@nicolasdular)Sat, 27 Nov 2021 11:22 GMT

Sat, 27 Nov 2021 12:53 by Jamie Tanna . #gitlab #interviewing.

Liked https://brandur.org/fragments/gitlab .

Mon, 22 Nov 2021 17:17 by Jamie Tanna . #gitlab.

Thanks for this - this has solved my problem. Once I validated my card, I was able to execute jobs.

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 10:50 by Jamie Tanna . #gitlab-ci #gitlab.

Liked https://blog.ycombinator.com/gitlab-from-yc-to-ipo/ .

Sat, 16 Oct 2021 19:16 by Jamie Tanna . #gitlab.

Liked https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/lyazre/openssh_update_causes_problems/gpuwe3x/ .

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.@gitlab just filed for IPO In 2015 the entire GitLab team drove (me) in a single car to a surprise bachelor party for me in Las Vegas. Wow.
Job (@Jobvo)Fri, 17 Sep 2021 20:25 +0000

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 08:18 by Jamie Tanna . #gitlab #community.

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Is anyone using #gitlab's Auto DevOps with a Maven/Gradle multimodule project? Thinking about maybe giving it a go, with deployment to GKE for ease of management of my services, but wanna find out if its suitable first, and how to pass secrets that would be in an application.properties on the host. Or I guess, do I need to rewire the app instead?

Mon, 03 May 2021 10:36 by Jamie Tanna . #kubernetes #gitlab.

Sun, 25 Apr 2021 21:37 by Jamie Tanna . #openssh #gitlab #git.

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Open source friends: what are the best pieces of "Git/GitHub etiquette" you've picked up over the years? Things like submitting large changes commit-by-commit to help reviewers out.
Celeste Horgan (@celeste_horgan)Thu, 25 Mar 2021 21:06 GMT

Sat, 27 Mar 2021 14:49 by Jamie Tanna . #open-source #git #github #code-review #gitlab.

Congrats on moving! I'd also be interested what triggered the move 🙃

Sun, 07 Feb 2021 14:21 by Jamie Tanna . #github #gitlab.

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It feels odd to suddenly have i.e. replies to tweets be sent ~90 seconds after I post the comment, instead of ~8 minutes later. Turns out that some tweaking of #Netlify settings, reducing some of the size of files on my site, and migrating from Netlify to #Cloudfront with a self-hosted shell #gitlab CI runner makes a big difference!

Tue, 26 Jan 2021 21:06 by Jamie Tanna . #www.jvt.me #netlify #cloudfront #gitlab.

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.@GitLab releases many features years before GitHub. Every month on the 22nd, transparent and open. 10 examples in this thread 💡 about.gitlab.com/is-it-any-good…
Sid Sijbrandij (@sytses)Thu, 21 Jan 2021 20:30 GMT

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 23:28 by Jamie Tanna . #github #gitlab.

Liked https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/15/github_core_features_free_price_drop/ .

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https://twitter.com/tanepiper/status/1350164965857124352
they are not better theregister.com/2019/10/16/git…
Joe (@jna_sh)Fri, 15 Jan 2021 19:43 GMT

Fri, 15 Jan 2021 20:49 by Jamie Tanna . #gitlab.

Liked https://blog.brixit.nl/git-email-flow-versus-github-flow/ .

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 12:10 by Jamie Tanna . #git #github #gitlab.

Liked https://github.com/profclems/glab .

Mon, 10 Aug 2020 09:29 by Jamie Tanna . #gitlab.

I'm wearing a GitLab hoodie that I bought with my own money, so... 🦊

Tue, 28 Jul 2020 22:53 by Jamie Tanna . #gitlab.

Wed, 15 Apr 2020 16:18 by Jamie Tanna . #github #gitlab.

GitLab Runner Docker TCP Error (2 mins read).

Fixing the cannot connect to the Docker daemon error with GitLab Runner and Docker.

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 21:29 by Jamie Tanna . #blogumentation #gitlab #docker.

Thanks GitLab for the Swag! (2 mins read).

Thanking GitLab for the swag store credit for sharing how much I use GitLab.com.

Thu, 05 Mar 2020 13:17 by Jamie Tanna . #gitlab.

Adding a Merge Request Checklist for new Articles (1 mins read).

Adding a checklist for articles in my GitLab Merge Requests.

Sun, 17 Nov 2019 22:10 by Jamie Tanna . #workflow #www.jvt.me #gitlab #nablopomo.

Bookmarked https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/17/gitlab_reverse_ferret/ .

Recommended read: GitLab `reset --hard bad1dea`: Biz U-turns, unbans office political chat, will vet customers https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/17/gitlab_reverse_ferret/

Thu, 31 Oct 2019 19:05 by Jamie Tanna . #gitlab #ethics.

Bookmarked https://bitbucket.org/sealuzh/cd-linter/ .

I've just seen in my GitLab repo's issues that I've had an issue raised about my CI/CD configuration (https://gitlab.com/jamietanna/jvt.me/issues/664).

This seems like a great solution to try and find common issues in pipelines.

Recommended read: cd-linter https://bitbucket.org/sealuzh/cd-linter/

Sat, 14 Sep 2019 15:08 by Jamie Tanna . #gitlab #cicd.

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

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

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

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

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

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

My editorial workflow for blog posts (8 mins read).

Taking you through the journey I go on when writing blog posts, from ideation to publishing the post.

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 23:16 by Jamie Tanna . #www.jvt.me #workflow #ci #gitlab #git #automation #command-line #shell #gitlab-ci #review-apps.

Serving Branches on a Subdomain using Caddy and GitLab Review Apps (2 mins read).

How to dynamically serve a branch on a subdomain for GitLab Review Apps using Caddy Labels.

Sun, 15 Apr 2018 15:18 by Jamie Tanna . #guide #gitlab #review-apps #caddy #howto #deploy.

2017 in Review (68 mins read).

A look back over the awesome (and not so awesome) things that happened in 2017, and a look forward to what 2018 holds.

Wed, 14 Feb 2018 18:51 by Jamie Tanna . #year-in-review #retrospective #appendix #gitlab #github #health #monzo #capital-one #spectat-designs #hackathon #meetups #community #holiday #www.jvt.me.

GitLab Review Apps with Capistrano and Nginx (4 mins read).

Spinning up a version of your application on every push, so others don't have to manually get the code up and running locally.

Tue, 18 Jul 2017 10:24 by Jamie Tanna . #guide #gitlab #review-apps #capistrano #blogumentation.

Building Chef Cookbooks with GitLab (Part 1) (12 mins read).

An introduction to how to build a cookbook using GitLab's Continuous Integration platform in conjunction with kitchen-docker.

Thu, 25 May 2017 11:51 by Jamie Tanna . #guide #howto #blogumentation #gitlab #chef #test-kitchen #docker #gitlab-ci.

Why You Should Use GitLab.com (13 mins read).

A discussion about the reasons that I would greatly recommend the GitLab.com platform for all your Git hosting, opposed to its competitors.

Sat, 25 Mar 2017 10:51 by Jamie Tanna . #gitlab #open-source #persuasive.