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.
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.
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.
Week Notes 24#31 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-07-29?
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 exec
ing an executable on Linux (2 mins read).
Some common issues you may face, with esoteric error messages, and how to fix them.
Week Notes 24#30 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-07-22?
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.
Week Notes 24#29 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-07-15?
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.
Week Notes 24#28 (6 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-07-08?
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.
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.
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.
Week Notes 24#27 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-07-01?
One THOUSAND blog posts (3 mins read).
Celebrating a massive milestone in my blog, and a short reflection.
Reader survey: Who reads my blog? (2 mins read).
Wondering how my readers read my blog, and why.
Week Notes 24#26 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-06-24?
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.
Week Notes 24#25 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-06-17?
Performing cross-database queries with SQLite (2 mins read).
How to query multiple database files with SQLite.
Week Notes 24#24 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-06-10?
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.
Week Notes 24#23 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-06-03?
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.
Week Notes 24#22 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-05-27?
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.
Week Notes 24#21 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-05-20?
Week Notes 24#20 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-05-13?
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.
Week Notes 24#19 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-05-06?
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.
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.
Responsible Disclosure: Using GitHub Search (without logging in using SSO) still allows searching (4 mins read).
Reporting on a HackerOne responsible disclosure that I found in GitHub, where you could exfiltrate data without signing in to GitHub SSO.
Creating a more sustainable model for oapi-codegen
in the future (9 mins read).
Announcing a request for sponsorship to continue to allow allocating more time to oapi-codegen
as well as to make more ambitious changes to the project.
oapi-codegen is moving to its own org (7 mins read).
Announcing oapi-codegen
's move to its own GitHub org, and a history lesson about the project.
Week Notes 24#18 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-04-29?
Lessons learned self-hosting Renovate (13 mins read).
What I've learned operating Renovate as a self-hosted app on GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and the Mend Renovate Community Edition, and some tips for getting started
Week Notes 24#17 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-04-22?
Automating the syncing of files between repos with GitHub Actions (2 mins read).
Creating a GitHub Action workflow to periodically update vendored files which are out-of-sync between GitHub repos.
Week Notes 24#16 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-04-15?
Week Notes 24#15 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-04-08?
Querying your organisation's Renovate configuration using SQL(ite) (3 mins read).
A new tool, renovate-config-sqlite
to pull Renovate configuration into an SQLite database.