Generating a JSON Web Key (JWK) With Ruby (1 mins read).
How to create a new JWK with Ruby.
by 
Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#pki
#ruby
#pem
#jwks.
Creating a Personal IndieAuth Server (6 mins read).
Announcing the release of my personal IndieAuth server, and what I've spent my time on.
Setting up Passwordless Authentication using the Okta Factors API (3 mins read).
How to use Okta's Factors API to use push notifications to authenticate yourself.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#authentication
#okta
#passwordless.
How to List Gradle's Buildscript / Plugin Dependencies (1 mins read).
How to list the dependencies that are used by Gradle's plugins as part of its buildscript.
Filtering Tasks and their Subtasks in JIRA (1 mins read).
How to filter issues, and their subtasks, with JIRA Query Language.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#jira.
Globally Logging all Spring (Boot) Exceptions (3 mins read).
How to log whenever an exception triggers on an exception handler with Spring.
Using Git Diff Without a Repo (1 mins read).
How to use git diff when you're not in a Git repo.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#git.
Changing the Storage of Cites on my Site (2 mins read).
Changing how I store and render context for other posts.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#www.jvt.me
#hugo.
Providing Hints for Autoconfiguring Micropub Clients (3 mins read).
Enhancing my Micropub Server and autoconfiguring Micropub client with the support for hints.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#www.jvt.me
#micropub.
Creating an Auto-configuring Micropub Client (2 mins read).
Announcing support for my Micropub Client configuring itself based on support in my server.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#www.jvt.me
#micropub.
unknown revision or path not in the working tree after Jenkins Git Plugin Update (1 mins read).
How to fix git rev-parse suddenly not working after a Jenkins Git plugin update.
Publishing + Consuming Artefacts in the Local Maven Repository with Gradle (1 mins read).
How to use Gradle to publish and consume artefacts build on your local machine.
Women in Tech October: How to Manage Your New Manager (4 mins read).
A writeup of the Women in Tech October meetup in October, where Ruth Lee spoke about How to Manage Your New Manager.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#wit-notts
#management.
Unit Testing Auth0 Rules (8 mins read).
How to write unit tests for your Auth0 Rules, without running it on an Auth0 tenant.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#auth0
#unit-testing
#testing
#javascript
#nodejs.
Resolving Gradle Error Unexpected Parent Dependency in IntelliJ (1 mins read).
How to resolve the error Unexpected Parent Dependency when building Gradle projects in IntelliJ.
Debugging Git Errors Using Environment Variables (1 mins read).
How to use environment variables such as GIT_TRACE to debug what's going wrong / what's happening under the hood with git.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#git.
Celebrating Four Years at Capital One (3 mins read).
Reflecting on my time at Capital One so far.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#job
#capital-one.
Hacktoberfest Comes to Homebrew Website Club Nottingham (2 mins read).
Announcing Hacktoberfest-themed events at Homebrew Website Club Nottingham in late September and October.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#hacktoberfest
#homebrew-website-club-nottingham.
Creating Signed JOSE Objects with Ruby (1 mins read).
How to use ruby-jose to create a signed JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) object on the command-line.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#ruby
#command-line
#jwt
#jose.
Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io and Online JSON Validators (5 mins read).
Why you should be opting for local tooling when working with sensitive data, even Non-Production ones.
by Jamie Tanna
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#security
#privacy.
Investigating Solutions for Private/Friends-Only Posts on a Static Website (6 mins read).
Discussing the options available for posts that require authentication while using a static site, using my own personal requirements.
by Jamie Tanna
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#www.jvt.me
#indieweb
#indieauth
#micropub
#www-private.jvt.me.
Running Multiple JDK Versions with the Maven Toolchains Plugin (1 mins read).
How to use the maven-toolchains-plugin to configure multiple JDKs on your machine.
Diffing Pretty-Printed JSON Files (4 mins read).
How to compare two JSON documents by pretty-printing them.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#json
#pretty-print
#command-line.
Sorting a Hash Recursively with Ruby (1 mins read).
How to sort a Hash in Ruby recursively, when nested Array exist.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#ruby.
Generate Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs) from XML Schema Definitions with Maven (1 mins read).
How to generate POJOs really quickly and easily, with no manual work, using the Mojohaus jaxb2-maven-plugin.
My First Experience With Setting a Squad Healthcheck (8 mins read).
Documenting a squad healthcheck I ran last year, and the good learnings that came out of it.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#squad-healthcheck
#technical-leadership
#leadership.
JWKS-iCal Release v1.2.0: Determine the jwks_uri from Configuration (1 mins read).
Updating jwks-ical to add support for discovering jwks_uri endpoints automagically.
Globally Disable TLS Checks with Java for HttpsURLConnection (1 mins read).
How to disable TLS checks when using HttpsURLConnections in Java.
JWKS-iCal Release v1.1.0: Adding Calendar Reminder (1 mins read).
Updating jwks-ical to add support for calendar reminders before the certificate's expiry.
Connecting to the Docker Host from a Child Container (2 mins read).
How to access ports from the host machine when running in a child container.
How to Manually Trigger JSR380 Bean Validation on a Class (2 mins read).
How to perform validation on a class using JSR380, when not using a framework like Spring Boot.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#java
#jsr380
#bean-validation.
Configure Gradle to Allow Listing All Subproject Dependencies (1 mins read).
How to set Gradle configuration globally to add a task to list all your dependencies.
Configure Gradle to Configure Tasks Globally with an initscript (1 mins read).
How to use Gradle's initialization scripts to globally configure tasks across all of your projects.
Capital One Promotion Celebrations (2 mins read).
Reflecting on the fun of today's promotion announcements session.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#capital-one
#job.
New Job Title, Who Dis? (1 mins read).
Moving into the world of being a Tech Lead.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#personal
#job.
Spring Boot: 'junit-vintage' failed to discover tests When Using Only JUnit5 Tests (2 mins read).
How to avoid the error 'junit-vintage' failed to discover tests when using Spring Boot.
Creating My Own Personal Micropub Client (3 mins read).
Announcing my own personal Micropub client to publish content that is very specific to my workflows.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#www.jvt.me
#micropub.
Generating Random Bytes On the Command Line with OpenSSL (1 mins read).
How to generate random bytes as binary, base64 or hex, using openssl on the command-line.
Using @Mock as a Method Parameter with Mockito (2 mins read).
Using @Mock on method parameters to reduce manual mock setups with Mockito.
Converting a Byte Array to a String in Ruby (1 mins read).
How to convert an array of bytes to a String with Ruby.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#ruby.
Disabling the logging of Spring Security's Default Security Password (2 mins read).
How to disable Spring Boot logging the generated security password.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#spring-boot
#spring-security.
Changing my Static Site Search Setup (1 mins read).
Making changes to fix my search setup, and reduce download overhead for visitors.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#search
#www.jvt.me.
Generating the Client Assertion JWT for private_key_jwt Authentication with Ruby (1 mins read).
A helper script to generate the client assertion required to authenticate to an Authorization Server that supports private_key_jwt, on the command-line with Ruby.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#ruby
#command-line
#jwt
#json
#oidc.
Verifying Signed JWTs (JWS) with Ruby (2 mins read).
Using the ruby-jwt library to verify a signed JSON Web Token (JWS) on the command-line.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#ruby
#command-line
#jwt
#json.
Creating Signed JWTs (JWS) with Ruby (1 mins read).
Using the json-jwt and ruby-jwt libraries to sign a JSON Web Token on the command-line.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#ruby
#command-line
#jwt
#json.
Issues with Ordering When Using Vault CLI's -no-print Argument (1 mins read).
A possible solution for no-print not taking effect with the vault CLI when using AWS EC2 auth.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#blogumentation
#vault
#aws.
Keeping Track of Certificate Expiry with a JWKS to iCalendar Converter (4 mins read).
Creating an iCalendar feed for certificate expiry details, given a URI for a JSON Web Key Set.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#java
#jwks
#certificates
#jwks-ical
#calendar
#google-cloud
#serverless.
New CSS, Who Dis? (2 mins read).
Announcing my new site design, based on Hack.css.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#www.jvt.me
#css.
Review: mycookiedough Delivery (2 mins read).
Reviewing our first mycookiedough delivery, and the corresponding sugar rush that came with it.
by Jamie Tanna
.
#food
#review.
GitLab CI Shell Executor failing builds with ERROR: Job failed: exit status 1 (1 mins read).
How to work around ERROR: Job failed: exit status 1 errors with GitLab CI's shell executor.