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advent of code

• A hammer in a kingdom of screws

ansible

• DigitalOcean Codes for Ansible Provisioning
• Immutable Infrastructure and Sources of Truth
• How to write an ansible role for Ansible Galaxy

blogging

• Linting my prose with Vale
• Finding your tone

canvas

• Building my own tixy.land

ci

• Comparing speed of Concourse and GitHub Actions
• Notes from the Week #23
• CI and Structured Changelogs

civic tech

• How many all-party parliamentary groups have twitter accounts?
• When two bugs cancel out
• Legislation as Code

code review

• Off the beaten path: finding code to review
• I don't like code reviews

collaboration

• Notes from the Week #12
• Notes from the Week #5
• Decision Making with Improve, No Change, Worsen

community

• Mental Health in Software Development

conference

• Diving into readability
• Notes from the Week #35

conferences

• The Unbelievable Knuth - Version Control
• Notes from the Week #10

continuous delivery

• Assets ⊆ Changes ⊆ Releases ⊆ Features
• What being a tech lead means to me
• CI and Structured Changelogs
• Mob Programming enables Continuous Integration
• Ghosts in the Pipes - Diagnosing and Fixing a 0.005% Discrepancy
• Injecting Application Failures in Production
• Continuous Delivery - High Tempo Learning
• Continuous Delivery from Scratch - Part 1
• Reducing Variance and Increasing Mean in Continuous Delivery
• Continuous Delivery from Scratch (I'm writing a book!)
• Quarantining Failing Tests with JUnit
• Adding Chaos to Workstations

conventional commits

• CI and Structured Changelogs

cooking

• Recipe: Small batch cupcakes

development

• Making time to make improvements

devops

• The Values of DevOps

dns

• Serving DNS records from etcd

docker

• Notes from the Week #10
• Using Docker with Apache Flume - Part 2
• Using Docker with Apache Flume - Part 1

etcd

• Serving DNS records from etcd

feedback

• Notes from the Week #34
• Notes from the Week #33

film

• Why I prefer film to theatre

flume

• Using Docker with Apache Flume - Part 2
• Using Docker with Apache Flume - Part 1

fun

• Redacted

gds

• What being a tech lead means to me
• Joining the civil service
• Notes from the Week #32
• Notes from the Week #31
• Notes from the Week #30
• Notes from the Week #29
• Notes from the Week #28
• Notes from the Week #27
• Notes from the Week #26
• Notes from the Week #25
• Notes from the Week #24
• Notes from the Week #23
• Notes from the Week #22
• Notes from the (Half) Week #21

git

• Extending git with custom commands
• How to tell if your GitHub wiki has stuff in it

golang

• Notes from the Week #11
• Serving DNS records from etcd

gpg

• Signing my blog posts
• Publishing my GPG public key

how i work

• An Unruly Farewell
• Debugging an outage without an internet connection
• This is how I work ... give or take

html5

• Building my own tixy.land

java

• Build Your Own Dependency Injection Library - Part 2
• Easy multi-dimensional maps using records
• Build Your Own Dependency Injection Library - Part 1
• Quick and Dirty Result Type in Java 15
• Character sorting exercise in linear time
• My toolbox
• 15 Minute Rock-Paper-Scissors with Test Commit Revert
• The unexpected joy of small libraries
• Notes from the Week #31
• Notes from the Week #30
• Byte-Monkey: Bytecode-level fault injection for the JVM
• Test-Driving Performance
• Ghosts in the Pipes - Diagnosing and Fixing a 0.005% Discrepancy
• java-dirty - A fast append-only data store
• Quarantining Failing Tests with JUnit
• Using Docker with Apache Flume - Part 2
• Using Docker with Apache Flume - Part 1
• Jenever – A stab at Virtualenv for Java
• Instrumentation with Annotations

line management

• Notes from the Week #35

linked data

• Notes from the Week #31
• Notes from the Week #27

lua

• Shelua – Shell commands in lua

measures

• Every change should alter a measure of success

mental health

• Software development is a moral hazard
• Notes from the Week #30
• Notes from the Week #28
• Mental Health in Software Development

migration

• Notes from the Week #35
• Notes from the Week #34

misc

• Comparing speed of Concourse and GitHub Actions
• Living in the garden of software
• The Unbelievable Knuth - Version Control

mob programming

• Notes from the Week #29
• Notes from the Week #27
• Mob Programming enables Continuous Integration

nablopomo

• My Strictly Come Dancing Predictions 2020
• Build Your Own Dependency Injection Library - Part 2
• Building my own tixy.land
• Easy multi-dimensional maps using records
• How many all-party parliamentary groups have twitter accounts?
• Extending git with custom commands
• Coding exercise: Build a stopwatch
• Recipe: Small batch cupcakes
• Build Your Own Dependency Injection Library - Part 1
• Second Attempt at finishing NaBloPoMo
• Character sorting exercise in linear time
• Linting my prose with Vale
• My toolbox
• Off the beaten path: finding code to review
• I don't like code reviews
• Finding your tone
• How to tell if your GitHub wiki has stuff in it
• Software development is a moral hazard
• 15 Minute Rock-Paper-Scissors with Test Commit Revert
• Signing my blog posts
• How I split stories
• When two bugs cancel out
• Joining the civil service
• Publishing my GPG public key
• The unexpected joy of small libraries
• Why I prefer film to theatre
• Every change should alter a measure of success

pair programming

• Notes from the Week #33
• XP and Giant Robots - Compatibility in Pair Programming

puppet

• Avoiding Duplication in Puppet Tests
• Enforcing State with Puppetlets
• Cracking the Monolith with Librarian-Puppet
• Immutable Infrastructure and Sources of Truth
• Faster puppet package installation with multipkg
• Puppet Patterns for Personal Provisioning

python

• My toolbox
• Legislation as Code

rust

• Notes from the Week #11

shell

• Comparing speed of Concourse and GitHub Actions
• My toolbox

shitpost

• Alternative meanings of k8s

software

• Avoiding Work Commits When On Leave
• Assets ⊆ Changes ⊆ Releases ⊆ Features
• Software development is a moral hazard

sql

• A hammer in a kingdom of screws

sqlite

• sqlite-unit - a test framework for SQLite queries

story splitting

• How I split stories
• Notes from the Week #29

strictly come dancing

• My Strictly Come Dancing Predictions 2020

tdd

• Solving Weekly Challenge 254 with Uiua
• Sparking creativity with tweet-driven development
• Reflections on a technical interview
• sqlite-unit - a test framework for SQLite queries
• Coding exercise: Build a stopwatch
• Character sorting exercise in linear time
• 15 Minute Rock-Paper-Scissors with Test Commit Revert

testing

• Sparking creativity with tweet-driven development
• Reflections on a technical interview
• sqlite-unit - a test framework for SQLite queries
• Notes from the Week #28
• Notes from the Week #27
• Byte-Monkey: Bytecode-level fault injection for the JVM
• Test-Driving Performance
• Avoiding Duplication in Puppet Tests
• Injecting Application Failures in Production

thinking

• Living in the garden of software

uiua

• Solving Weekly Challenge 254 with Uiua

unruly

• An Unruly Farewell

weeknotes

• Notes from the Week #37
• Notes from the Week #36
• Notes from the Week #35
• Notes from the Week #34
• Notes from the Week #33
• Notes from the Week #32
• Notes from the Week #31
• Notes from the Week #30
• Notes from the Week #29
• Notes from the Week #28
• Notes from the Week #27
• Notes from the Week #26
• Notes from the Week #25
• Notes from the Week #24
• Notes from the Week #23
• Notes from the Week #22
• Notes from the (Half) Week #21
• Notes from the Week #20
• Notes from the Week #19
• Notes from the Week #18
• Notes from the Week #17
• Notes from the Week #16
• Notes from the Week #15
• Notes from the Week #14
• Notes from the Week #13 - Season Finale
• Notes from the Week #12
• Notes from the Week #11
• Notes from the Week #10
• Notes from the Week #9
• Notes from the Week #8
• Ghosts from the Week #7 - Hallowe'en Edition
• Notes from the Week #6
• Notes from the Week #5
• Notes from the Week #4
• Notes from the Week #3
• Notes from the Week #2
• Notes from the Week #1

wiki

• How to tell if your GitHub wiki has stuff in it

work

• Diving into readability
• How I split stories
• Joining the civil service

xp

• Diving into readability
• Assets ⊆ Changes ⊆ Releases ⊆ Features
• Mental Health in Software Development
• An Unruly Farewell
• Decision Making with Improve, No Change, Worsen
• Mob Programming enables Continuous Integration
• XP and Giant Robots - Compatibility in Pair Programming
• The Values of DevOps