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.
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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.
Week Notes 23#15 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-04-10?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 23#14 (6 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-04-03?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 23#13 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-03-27?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Generating Equal methods for Go structs with goderive (3 mins read).
How to use goderive to generate an Equal method between structs, so you don't have to.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#go.
Week Notes 23#12 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-03-20?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Checking if files are synced between repos with GitHub Actions (2 mins read).
Creating a GitHub Action workflow to indicate when vendored files are out-of-sync between GitHub repos.
I don't think I want my next promotion (yet) (5 mins read).
Taking a second to pause and think about what Staff Engineer means to me, and why (right now) I may be looking to stay happy at Senior Engineer.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#job
#career
#roodundancies
#deliveroo
#adhd.
Week Notes 23#11 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-03-13?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Working out which Docker namespaces and images you most depend on (2 mins read).
How to use dependency-management-data to visualise the most popular Docker namespaces and images you depend on.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#docker
#dependency-management-data.
Querying JSON with SQLite (1 mins read).
How to use json_each and json_extract to query a JSON field in SQLite.
Week Notes 23#10 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-03-06?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Dynamically retrieving the version of a Node.JS/Typescript dependency, at runtime (1 mins read).
How to retrieve metadata about packages that are depended on at runtime.
Automating boilerplate/scaffolding code with custom code generation in Go, with jen (3 mins read).
How to generate Go code using github.com/dave/jennifer.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#go.
Debugging HTTP Client requests with Go (2 mins read).
How to add debug logging to http.Client in Go.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#go.
Who do these Twilio credentials belong to? (2 mins read).
How to work out whether arbitrary Twilio credentials are valid, and if so, what type they are.
Week Notes 23#09 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-02-27?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Getting a --version flag for Cobra CLIs in Go, built with GoReleaser (2 mins read).
How to get Cobra to provide a --version flag when using GoReleaser.
Week Notes 23#08 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-02-20?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Cross-compiling a CGO project using Goreleaser (2 mins read).
How to use goreleaser-cross to cross-compile a Go command-line tool.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#go
#goreleaser
#gitlab-ci.
Introducing dmd, a command-line tool for Dependency Management Data (DMD) (2 mins read).
Introducing a command-line tool for better interacting with databases for managing dependency management data.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#dependency-management-data
#announcement
#go.
Week Notes 23#07 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-02-13?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Week Notes 23#06 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-02-06?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Getting a GitHub App installation token on the command-line (2 mins read).
How to get a GitHub App installation token (using Typescript) for a given installation.
Passing a private key as an environment variable (1 mins read).
How to convert a PEM-encoded private key in a form to be stored in an environment variable.
2022's Site In Review (1 mins read).
How did my site perform in 2022?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#www.jvt.me.
2021's Site In Review (1 mins read).
How did my site perform in 2021?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#www.jvt.me.
2020's Site In Review (1 mins read).
How did my site perform in 2020?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#www.jvt.me.
2019's Site In Review (2 mins read).
How did my site perform in 2019?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#www.jvt.me.
2018's Site In Review (1 mins read).
How did my site perform in 2018?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#www.jvt.me.
2017's Site In Review (1 mins read).
How did my site perform in 2017?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#www.jvt.me.
2016's Site In Review (1 mins read).
How did my site perform in 2016?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#www.jvt.me.
Week Notes 23#05 (5 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-01-30?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Listing the status of your branch protection in GitHub (1 mins read).
Creating a command-line Go tool to list the branch protection status of your repositories.
Getting comfortable with the lack of privacy with my Week Notes (6 mins read).
Looking back at a few years of writing week notes publicly, and how I approach privacy around what I (want to) write in them.
Determining missing translation keys from gettext .po files (1 mins read).
Creating a Go command to check for missing translation keys across gettext .po files.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#go.
Setting up default Renovate configuration while allowing overriding of that configuration (2 mins read).
How to run Renovate to provide some defaults for repos that aren't opted-in, as well as allowing repos to opt-in.
Week Notes 23#04 (3 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2023-01-23?
by Jamie Tanna
.
#week-notes.
Does this Slack Webhook still work? (1 mins read).
How to check if a Slack Webhook is still active.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#slack.
Who does this NPM token belong to? (2 mins read).
How to work out whether an arbitrary NPM token is valid, and if so, which user account it belongs to.