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.
Kind articles
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
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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.
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.
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.
Week Notes 24#36 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-09-02?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
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.
Week Notes 24#35 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-08-26?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
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.
Week Notes 24#34 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-08-19?
by Jamie Tanna
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#week-notes.
Week Notes 24#33 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-08-12?
by Jamie Tanna
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#week-notes.
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.
Week Notes 24#32 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-08-05?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
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
.
#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.
Week Notes 24#31 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-07-29?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
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
.
#blogumentation
#shell
#command-line
#linux.
Week Notes 24#30 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-07-22?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
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.
Week Notes 24#29 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-07-15?
by Jamie Tanna
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#week-notes.
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?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
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.
Week Notes 24#27 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-07-01?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
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
.
#blogging
#www.jvt.me.
Week Notes 24#26 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2024-06-24?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
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.