Kind notes

Anyone using #RestAssured who wants to play with Mutual TLS / Client Certificates? I've updated https://www.jvt.me/posts/2020/01/14/mutual-tls-auth-rest-assured/ so that it now actually works 👍

Heh, day 69 of quarantine

#ApexLegends crashed and when it rejoined I didn't get any other XP cause I had "0 kills/damage" 😥 did at least get some for the duration, I guess. Shame as I was in the final 2 squads!

Second random outage on my Scaleway server that hosts my analytics server - I guess, after putting it off for about 2 and a half years, I need to finally bite the bullet and move to Hetzner

Waking up to a blaring house alarm, being rudely awakened by the lights at full brightness, and then more house alarms? Yay for a power cut

#Java friends testing using #RestAssured, you may enjoy my article https://www.jvt.me/posts/2020/05/18/rest-assured-curl/ which can help you convert its logs to curl requests, for cases you need to do some manual testing, too

Trying to write three blog posts simultaneously isn't helpful. Got to focus on Week Notes, then my post-deploy changes, then one that I'm pretty happy about for Rest Assured!

Just won a game of #ApexLegends despite incredible lag on the servers - #HugOps to the folks no doubt working on remediating the issue!

Why was there just an ice cream van blaring its siren call down our road? Surely that's a great way to give #coronavirus to folks

We're learning about a large migration Richard Paul did for thousands of domains to Let's Encrypt certs, fronted by HAProxy at tonight's #PHPMiNDS - quite a feat!

One of the reasons I love having #Matomo analytics on my site? So I can find out which companies are using my blog posts, from all the internal URLs showing as referrers 👀

It's #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham tonight! Looking forward to seeing folks there for the new structure of the event https://www.jvt.me/posts/2020/05/10/homebrew-website-club-nottingham-structure/

Of course the #ApexLegends update drops just as I'm available to play! I guess I'm waiting for the download now

Very much enjoying @MrAndrew kicking off the opening slides at #TechNott with a microphone and his background photo at Antenna - it's just like we're back in person, again!

How is it already Sunday evening? 😳

"I want to be a page in somebody else's survival guide" is such a lovely subtitle for Rachel Morgan-Trimmer's talk at #WiTNotts about #MentalIllness

I'm so jealous of everyone who's able to attend Rachel Morgan-Trimmer's talk today at #WiTNotts and experience it for the first time. It's such a raw, eye opening, and hilarious talk, thank you so much for sharing so much with us 🧡

Having a muffin and a tea before #WiTNotts, while working on my site, it's just like an in-person event!

I'd seriously forgotten how weird #ParadisePd is 😅

Thanks for another great virtual #EscapeRoom @short_louise! Was a great bowling-themed adventure with Anna Dodson, Carol Gilabert, and @balhayre and Simon!

Great point from David McKay at #DevOpsNotts - not having SSH access to a Production system is hugely important for investing in logging/traceability. That was something I didn't really "get" until I was having to support things and realising I couldn't diagnose it as easily (although the key reason for us not having access is to ensure we can't be near customer production data)

Was wondering why the calendar entry for #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham wasn't in my calendar - it's cause I'd got the date wrong on the event (doh!) - it's updated now and I hope to see you there tomorrow https://events.indieweb.org/2020/04/online-homebrew-website-club-nottingham-q0LsZr0uDBS7

So Anna Dodson and I have reshuffled our office so we can work better full-time remote with the #coronavirus sitatuon - I've shared the new layout and some photos at https://www.jvt.me/posts/2020/04/26/new-office-setup/

Does anyone know the best way to export all your tweets from #Twitter? The data export I requested from them only has tweets until 2018 but my account is a few years older than that

Best part of getting a new monitor is going through and getting a tonne of new wallpapers!

Folks who follow my blog's #Microformats feed will now see the context (as an h-cite) that is visible on my site, allowing you to have some context for at least interactions with Twitter, but hopefully other stuff in the future!

Thanks for a really fun virtual #EscapeRoom tonight, @short_louise - was really fun playing with Anna Dodson and @balhayre this evening!

It's #TechNott time - looking forward to a great talk from @efinlay24 and learning some top tips to improve remote working!

For folks seeing Twitter notifications from me, I am not stalking you, it looks like I've not sent a lot of responses so they're suddenly appearing now 😅

Hey @kickscondor not sure if you've seen but the cert for https://indieweb.xyz/ seems to have expired - "4/18/2020, 12:32:43 AM (British Summer Time)" according to the cert. May need a nudge to renew it!

This note will be published to Twitter, and then have its syndicated Twitter URL updated in the post's metadata when the Webmentions are send, so shortly after seeing this post, it'll link directly to its tweet!

Enjoying remote #NottsJS so far - @mr_goodwin's intro to Web Security was well summed up by "(the Cyber security team) put the 'no' in 'innovation'"

It's #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham tomorrow, which again will only be available for Nottingham folks - apologies in advance! The Zoom link will be available on the Tech Nottingham slack before the event https://events.indieweb.org/2020/04/online-homebrew-website-club-nottingham-h2HHF0o7NPtg

Woo! Got #Micropub edit functionality working 🙌 https://gitlab.com/jamietanna/jvt.me/-/commit/fda688f955c351000095a7e5c8ee294513afad6b is my first update through the API. Next will be getting my syndication links auto updated once syndication is reported as successful, but not one to do tonight

Just had my easiest game of #ApexLegends just now, where most of the other squads lagged out, leaving just 3 including me left, and then I somehow won in the end because even though I was outside the ring, it looks like the other played disconnected first 😂

It's 1700 and Anna Dodson and I are only just eating an Easter egg. We've definitely done something wrong 🤔

With apologies to Mattias Geniar and Jan-Piet Mens after their conversation on @SysCast_Online - I don't write POSIX scripts, and instead use GNU tools, even on BSD https://www.jvt.me/posts/2020/04/11/bad-posix-citizen/

Made some good progress on my Micropub edit/delete functionality today - hopefully will be in a state to look at getting live tomorrow 🙌🏼

For folks running #Tomcat in Production, you may not be aware that there's an opportunity for it to log (potentially sensitive) cookies out-of-the-box - I've shared how you can resolve it in https://www.jvt.me/posts/2020/04/07/tomcat-cookie-disclosure/

The height of a pandemic really is the time for the monitor you use for work to start to play up 🙄 at least I've got the laptop screen

So some refactoring I did in my Micropub endpoint resulted in me breaking it 😅 looks like I have a gap in my testing of how Jackson serialises data

PSA to folks with washing machines that sit under a counter with a little space on top - next time you're cleaning, pull it out. I've just found a treasure trove of washing up gloves, dishcloths, tubs and a bowl!

I'm really surprised that with all the other amazing stuff Dyson have made, they've not yet made a vacuum cleaner that doesn't scare animals 🤷🏽‍♂️

So turns out that when I said "yes dinner is ready" to Anna Dodson I actually meant "I put it in the oven on the wrong temperature and dinner isn't cooked yet" 😳

For those of you that weren't able to make Pauline Narvas's talk at #WiTNotts, it's on her YouTube channel 🙌 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fybQ2oId1I4

And for folks who've rightfully come out of Pauline Narvas's talk at #WiTNotts wanting to start blogging, there's #HomebrewWebsiteClub Nottingham which is every other week (online) and is a great space to put two hours aside to blog / work on your website

Another good point by Pauline Narvas - be careful about oversharing / sharing things that may make hurt you/your company's public image, as well as hurt folks you know #WiTNotts

I'm enjoying how Pauline Narvas has answered lots of questions with "I'll send you a blog post I've written about this", it's nice to see someone other than me doing it 😅 #WiTNotts

YES! Pauline Narvas's comment at #WiTNotts about having blogging influence the quality/length of her Pull Request descriptions resonates massively with me. Since doing more blogging / technical writing I've found that my written communication has improved greatly - or maybe it's just more verbose 😅

Really lovely to hear how much of an inspiration Pauline Narvas's blog has had on building communities and inspiring folks to do things #WiTNotts