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Reminder that it's #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham tonight! I hope to see you there at 1730 for some website stuff, and maybe playing around with some of the stuff I mentioned at #TechNott! https://events.indieweb.org/2021/04/homebrew-website-club-nottingham-7uyCl6f2j0vV

Had a fun bug tonight with the new #ApexLegends "Second Chance" mode that, as I was being respawned, my team was wiped, but me and one teammate still respawned. I couldn't control anything but they could and managed to fight a bit longer even though we were dead 😂

Thanks to everyone who joined me last night at #TechNott for my talk about the #IndieWeb - you can find the recording of the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFXOZww5mmE - I'll also look at getting it uploaded to Archive.org for longevity!

Happy #TechNott day all! Looking forward to seeing you later to hear a bit more about what the #IndieWeb is, and the ways you can get involved owning your data and building cool things for yourself https://www.technottingham.com/events/tech-nottingham-april-2021

Reminder that it's #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham tomorrow! I hope to see you there at 1730 for some website stuff! https://events.indieweb.org/2021/03/homebrew-website-club-nottingham-VSpbmyQEbxQZ

Not only is today my own birthday, but tonight's #HomebrewWebsiteClub is celebrating its second birthday! 🎂 not included

Well it's my second lockdown birthday - here's hoping there won't be a third! Come to my website to enjoy the birthday balloons 🥳

Been wondering for a while - has anyone else seen the Sentinel in #ApexLegends has a hop-up slot? Do we know if it's a bug or a new hop-up planned?

Reminder that it's #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham tomorrow! I hope to see you there at 1730 for some website stuff! https://events.indieweb.org/2021/03/homebrew-website-club-nottingham-zpkxpaQ4wCgD

Welp, backlog of webmentions from telegraph.p3k.io means you may see some poorly timed interactions from me - sorry 🙃

I find it nice seeing folks refreshing my blog on a Sunday night, waiting for my week notes to be there. Well, they are now 🙃

It's a good thing I'm preparing to reinstall my desktop cause rm -rf * in my home directory is not a fun thing to accidentally do 😳😬

Hey you, #Jenkins folks! If you're still configuring things in the UI / using Jenkinsfiles but haven't yet gotten around to looking into #JobDSL I've got you covered https://www.jvt.me/posts/2021/02/23/getting-started-jobdsl-standardised/

Well it's taken me a few years, but I've finally worked out how to manage Gems in #Chef without horrible chef exec bundle exec ... commands https://www.jvt.me/posts/2021/02/22/chefdk-gemfile/

Reminder that it's #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham tomorrow! I hope to see you there at 1730 for some website stuff! https://events.indieweb.org/2021/02/homebrew-website-club-nottingham-IQvjBLoWhFHJ

Reminder that it's #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham tomorrow! I hope to see you there at 1730 for some website stuff! https://events.indieweb.org/2021/02/homebrew-website-club-nottingham-JpmhTGghTju3

Well it looks like I've now got refresh tokens working nicely on my #IndieAuth server - expect a write up tomorrow!

Highlight of the week was probably Jack Gough talking about #HomebrewWebsiteClub in a technical architecture meeting 😂

Welp if I still had that Dogecoin from all those years ago, I'd have 11k today 😥

It feels odd to suddenly have i.e. replies to tweets be sent ~90 seconds after I post the comment, instead of ~8 minutes later. Turns out that some tweaking of #Netlify settings, reducing some of the size of files on my site, and migrating from Netlify to #Cloudfront with a self-hosted shell #gitlab CI runner makes a big difference!

Managed to track down what the ~5 minutes of post processing was on my #Netlify site (thanks to the wonderful support from https://community.netlify.com/t/slow-deploy-times/30857/4) - now I wonder how else I can trim the deploy speed to something more reasonable

Folks who use #cloudfront for regularly changing sites (ie multiple times an hour) how do you handle caching? Is it off? Fine tuned for the content? Always cache invalidate on a publish?

Feeling especially lazy - does anyone have a good resource for setting up S3 + CloudFront + a custom domain name, with an IAM role that can only read/write to the bucket? My brain wants to outsource the work for this one 🙃

Reminder that it's #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham tomorrow! I hope to see you there at 1730 for some website stuff! https://events.indieweb.org/2021/01/homebrew-website-club-nottingham-LwVx3NUZ2dKh

One of the perks of moving into my #NewHouse was that it'd allow me to go over to Lidl to get warm cookies whenever I wanted. It's been just over a month, and I've done it - starting the day with a warm, gooey cookie and a good cup of tea is the best ways to start a week 🍪🍵

Is there an alternative to the Web Share Target API that I can use for a #firefox #pwa on #android? I'm writing something for myself and it'd be cool to be able to share links directly to it

I know that's kinda the point, but I'm a little unsettled by #WandaVision

Has anyone successfully generated Java POJOs from the #Postman #JsonSchema? Using the Maven/Gradle plugin seems to not be able to understand all the different definitions (ie Request) which I kinda don't wanna have to write bindings for myself 🤔

Tonight I've been investigating a few things for my #Postman API Hack and I've found that Postman's OAuth2 support is pretty awesome - it works very nicely with #Indieauth which is an important part of my hack 😉 I'm also pretty happy with what I'm planning on doing - hoping to get some good progress with the hack itself this weekend, too!

Reminder that it's #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham tomorrow! I hope to see you there at 1730 for some website stuff! https://events.indieweb.org/2021/01/homebrew-website-club-nottingham-rVrKwhxmCz4D

In an unsurprising turn of events, @uppermostmusic and @Phaeleh have yet again been my most popular artists over 2020! Thanks for keeping me going through the year https://www.jvt.me/music-in-review/2020/

So #Deathto2020 is a great way to see in the new year - what a shit year it was, so many "oh god yeah remember that" moments

Last year I wrote https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/12/16/second-appendixaversary/ as a reflection on the rupturing of my #appendix two years ago. I can't believe it's three years on, and I really can't imagine how I would have coped if it were this year

I'm really surprised #github has only got "merge when this PR succeeds" - at work we've got an internal bot to do this for us but it'll be great when it's part of the platform!

Happy fifth birthday to PHPMiNDS - here's to five more years of a great meetup!

Had an awesome time at the #NottTechParty tonight - #WiFiWars is always an awesome time, and the festivities were extra fun. Doesn't hurt that I came third overall, too!

Watching #TheGrinch with my sister (remotely) which means it's now officially #Christmas!

Well, tonight at #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham I managed to get my staging site using my new #indieauth server, and aside from a couple of hiccups, it works 🎉 now I just need to clean up a few bits and add some logging for debugging, then we're good to go 😱

As December is a pretty busy month, this week's #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham will be the last of the year - so we're going to look back at the year, and try to see some of the good in it. Note that it's on Thursday, not Wednesday!

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Folks who work a lot with #OpenApi - is there a way to specify different securitySchemes and different headers based on what type of server is being used? I.e. to clarify between local/integrated systems?

Reminder that it's #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham tomorrow! I hope to see you there at 1730 for some website stuff! https://events.indieweb.org/2020/11/homebrew-website-club-nottingham-8eXBVZsBh40O

Reminder that it's the last #Hacktoberfest themed #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham tomorrow! I hope to see you there at 1730 for some Open Source or website stuff! https://events.indieweb.org/2020/10/homebrew-website-club-nottingham-hacktoberfest-edition--2BrVspWn4jPt

Today has mostly been rocking along to new heartbreak - sad alex and it's been pretty great

Is it just me, or does Koven's song Speaking Through Smoke Detectors sound like it could be a Bond theme song?

Does anyone know why traffic for X509 fingerprints may have increased? Seeing a significant rise in hits on my site, but that could just be I'm ranked higher now 🤷🏽‍♂️

Reminder that it's a #Hacktoberfest themed #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham tomorrow! I hope to see you there at 1730 for some #FreeSoftware and #OpenSource work! https://events.indieweb.org/2020/10/homebrew-website-club-nottingham-hacktoberfest-edition--UHGfScpJfzyp

#TheMandalorian was very good - can't believe we've only just gotten around to watching it, but at least not long until season 2!

A perfect Friday evening with Anna Dodson - we've got Asda 🍕, #TheBoys, a fire, and we're just about to (finally) start #TheMandalorian

First day in the new team! Very exciting, and kicking it off with PI planning. Sad to be leaving Asgard, but looking forward to working with the Purple Pandas and getting stuck in as a new team 🙌