Why is zsh no longer storing history? (1 mins read).
Spoiler: you may be missing both HISTSIZE and SAVEHIST variables.
by 
Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#zsh.
Kind articles
Week Notes 25#02 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-01-13?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Accessing private Go modules in a Docker container (3 mins read).
How to use a Personal Access Token or SSH to access a private Go module, from a Docker container.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#go
#docker.
Week Notes 25#01 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-01-06?
by Jamie Tanna
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#week-notes.
Getting all comments from a given user on a GitHub Discussion (2 mins read).
How to use the GitHub GraphQL API to retrieve all comments from top-level or reply comments on a GitHub Discussion.
Week Notes 24#53 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-12-30?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
2024's Music In Review (5 mins read).
What music was I listening to in 2024?
by Jamie Tanna
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#music.
What level of access do I have on that GitHub repository? (2 mins read).
How to check, via the GitHub API, what access a given user has on a repository.
2024's Site In Review (3 mins read).
How did my site perform in 2024?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#www.jvt.me.
Week Notes 24#52 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-12-23?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 24#51 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-12-16?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Blocking 'Similar' and 'Because you like ...' suggestions on reddit with uBlock Origin (1 mins read).
How to use uBlock Origin to remove reddit's suggestions in your home feed.
Week Notes 24#50 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-12-09?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
You can now resolve remote presets when using Renovate's local platform in renovate-graph (2 mins read).
Announcing a new release of renovate-graph, which can now follow github> and local> presets.
Some mixed thoughts on The Changelog Podcast Universe (3 mins read).
Some reflections on the bittersweet news about the The Changelog Podcast Universe.
by Jamie Tanna
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#podcast.
Week Notes 24#49 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-12-02?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Creating renovate-packagedata-diff to diff Renovate package data dumps (3 mins read).
Announcing the release of renovate-packagedata-diff which makes it possible to provide a semantic diff between different Renovate package data dumps.
Some useful SQL(ite) tips I've learned (5 mins read).
A collection of SQLite snippets I've picked up recently to improve my queries.
Week Notes 24#48 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-11-25?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
I'm a recipient of the 2024 October Engineering Monthly Award Recognition at Elastic (1 mins read).
Announcing winning the 2024 October Engineering Monthly Award Recognition at Elastic.
by Jamie Tanna
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#job
#career
#elastic.
Gotcha: PersistentPostRunE only runs on successful commands in Cobra (3 mins read).
A possible gotcha when using Cobra to perform cleanup in a PersistentPostRunE.
by Jamie Tanna
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#blogumentation
#go.
Week Notes 24#47 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-11-18?
by Jamie Tanna
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#week-notes.
Creating a Neovim plugin for my standup updates (3 mins read).
Documenting some of my thoughts about writing a (Python) Neovim plugin.
The joy of an asynchronous, always updating standup (5 mins read).
Describing how my team does standups across a globally distributed team.
by Jamie Tanna
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#agile
#scrum
#elastic
#adhd.
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.
Week Notes 24#46 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-11-11?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
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.
Week Notes 24#45 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-11-04?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
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.
Week Notes 24#44 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-10-28?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
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.
Week Notes 24#43 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-10-21?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 24#42 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-10-14?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
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
.
#www.jvt.me.
Week Notes 24#41 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-10-07?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
OggCamp 2024 (14 mins read).
A recap of this weekend's OggCamp 2024 conference.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#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.
Week Notes 24#40 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-09-30?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Don't do Agile, be agile (13 mins read).
Why you should ditch the framework and just vibe.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#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.
Week Notes 24#39 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-09-23?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 24#38 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-09-16?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
I'm on API Evangelist Conversation (1 mins read).
Announcing a podcast appearance with Kin Lane about API Versioning.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#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.
Week Notes 24#37 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-09-09?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
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.
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