Why is Go trying to upgrade my go.mod to Go 1.21? (1 mins read).
Why you may be seeing Go trying to upgrade the Go version in your go.mod to Go 1.21.
by 
Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#go.
Kind articles
Creating a Zoho Mail alias using the API (2 mins read).
How to use the Zoho Mail API to add an alias to your account.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#zoho.
Setting up Mend Renovate Community Edition for GitLab.com on Fly.io (2 mins read).
How to set up Mend Renovate Community Edition on Fly.io, when integrating with GitLab.com.
Custom Advisories: the unsung hero of dependency-management-data (3 mins read).
How to use custom advisories with dependency-management-data to track packages that your organisation may not want to use.
Week Notes 23#34 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-08-21?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Turning on Caps Lock when the Caps Lock key is bound to a different key (1 mins read).
How to trigger a Caps Lock event when you've rebound the key to a differnet key.
Setting up real-time Slack notifications for GitHub (1 mins read).
How to get Slack's real-time notifications integrated with GitHub.
Managing Buildkite Agent Images with Renovate (1 mins read).
How to use Renovate to manage Buildkite Agent Images.
Week Notes 23#33 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-08-14?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Running commands against every module in a Go multi-module project (1 mins read).
How to run commands like go test when using a multi-module Go project.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#go.
Resolving Timeouts when generating entropy when generating a new GPG key (1 mins read).
How I resolved an issue with a Timeout error when generating a new GPG key.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#gpg.
Resolving black screen display with SDDM and NVIDIA GPUs (1 mins read).
How I resolved an issue with a black screen displaying when SDDM is used with an NVIDIA driver.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#linux.
Week Notes 23#32 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-08-07?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Analysing GitHub Pull Request review times with SQLite and Go (3 mins read).
How measuring how long code review took as a team lead to being able to change our processes, and then deliver much more effectively.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#sqlite
#go.
Week Notes 23#31 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-07-31?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 23#30 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-07-24?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Getting started with Dependency Management Data (4 mins read).
How you can get started using Dependency Management Data in 3 commands.
Quantifying your reliance on Open Source software (24 mins read).
A writeup of my talk at DevOpsNotts, about the dependency-management-data project and how to use it to understand your internal and external dependencies.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#dependency-management-data
#public-speaking
#devops-notts
#open-source
#free-software.
Week Notes 23#29 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-07-17?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
LeadDev London 2023 (59 mins read).
A writeup of LeadDev London 2023 conference.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#lead-dev
#lead-dev-london
#events
#leadership
#management
#agile
#on-call.
Week Notes 23#28 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-07-10?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Merging a branch in GitHub - the hard way (4 mins read).
How to (kinda) merge two branches in GitHub using the underlying Git database API.
Validating Renovate configuration changes before merging (2 mins read).
How to perform a dry run to validate your Renovate config before it's merged.
Week Notes 23#27 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-07-03?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Introducing dmd-web, a web frontend for Dependency Management Data (DMD) (2 mins read).
Introducing a web frontend for the dependency-management-data project, to provide a better, centralised interface for interacting with the data.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#dependency-management-data
#announcement
#go.
Sharing state between net/http method calls in Go (1 mins read).
How to construct a struct in Go that can have its state shared between HTTP server handler functions.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#go.
Week Notes 23#26 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-06-26?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Who do these Google (JSON file) credentials belong to? (1 mins read).
Given a JSON credentials file for Google APIs, are they still valid?
I'm joining Elastic (9 mins read).
Announcing my move to Elastic as a Senior Software Engineer, and looking back at my time at Deliveroo.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#job
#career
#roodundancies
#deliveroo
#elastic.
Week Notes 23#25 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-06-19?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Using go.mod versions to go install a binary (1 mins read).
How to use go install to install a binary from the version tracked in go.mod.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#go.
Checking the migration status with golang-migrate (1 mins read).
How to check what version of the schema is curently applied when using golang-migrate.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#go
#sql.
Week Notes 23#24 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-06-12?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 23#23 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-06-05?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 23#22 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-05-29?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Introducing openapi-sorbet, a command-line tool for generating Sorbet types from OpenAPI (2 mins read).
How to generate Sorbet type-checked models from OpenAPI specifications.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#sorbet
#ruby
#go
#command-line
#openapi.
Learn how to build tools (6 mins read).
A guest post on Letters to a New Developer about learning to automate and build tools to progress in your career.
Week Notes 23#21 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-05-22?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Getting a --version flag for Cobra CLIs in Go (2 mins read).
How to get Cobra to provide a --version flag.
Performing downtime-inducing AWS RDS changes with no downtime☆ (2 mins read).
How to limit your downtime to seconds, instead of minutes, when performing downtime-inducing changes with AWS RDS.
The Lazy engineer's guide to running your Go web application to AWS Lambda (4 mins read).
How to take a Go web application and move it to AWS Lambda with two lines of code.
Week Notes 23#20 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-05-15?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Which OS and CPU architecture is this binary compiled for? (4 mins read).
How to use Go to parse an arbitrary executable to work out the Operating System and CPU architecture it's compiled for.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#go.
Week Notes 23#19 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-05-08?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Creating an HTTP 404 handler for Go net/http servers (2 mins read).
How to add a catch-all 404 handler when writing HTTP servers with Go's net/http server.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#go.
Week Notes 23#18 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-05-01?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Serving the current directory over HTTP with Go (1 mins read).
How to use Go's standard library to serve the current directory over HTTP.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#go.
Week Notes 23#17 (4 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-04-24?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 23#16 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-04-17?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Getting the commit author details for a GitHub App account (1 mins read).
How to retrieve the git commit author details for a given GitHub App.