This also explains why there’s a . at the end of example.com. – zone files require a trailing dot at the end of a domain name (because otherwise they’re interpreted as being relative to the zone). So dig does too. I really wish dig had a +human flag that printed out al...

Most businesses don’t have a plan in place for when a security breach occurs. That’s a costly oversight given that, according to the same research, the majority of large U.S. businesses have experienced some form of cyber attack before. An effective incident response plan...

loads of developers already use SSH keys to push code to GitHub. Now they can use SSH keys to sign their code as well.

And the best part? 1Password makes creating new keys a breeze whether you’re using 1Password on your desktop, or creating and filling new keys directly into GitHub with 1Password in your browser. It just works.

***

// Written by thechelsuk
// Published 2022-09-09, with 61 words.

---

💬 Thanks for keeping RSS alive. If you have an RSS feed please share it with me on any of these socials or AMA / Contact me. If you get value from this site, please share this post with someone you think will like it and support me with a ko-fi.

Finally, here is a special sponsor/advert link just for you; Octopus EV - £25 Visa card when you install a charger. [T&Cs apply].

Companies House on gov.uk should tell you. And you should be asking at interviews Chris Maslin, director at Tunbridge Wells-based employee ownership specialists, Go Eo: “Inflation is currently hurting workers more than businesses and that’s very evident in this latest da...

Join me and invest with Freetrade. Get started with a free share worth between £3 and £200. T&Cs apply. Capital at risk.

***

// Written by thechelsuk
// Published 2022-09-03, with 24 words.

---

💬 Thanks for keeping RSS alive. If you have an RSS feed please share it with me on any of these socials or AMA / Contact me. If you get value from this site, please share this post with someone you think will like it and support me with a ko-fi.

Finally, here is a special sponsor/advert link just for you; Cybaa - Monitor your domains for security issues and get real time alerts. [T&Cs apply].

Here’s one more helpful feature: Any package hosted on GitHub comes with download statistics and a complete history, which makes it easy to track its usage in your repository, organization, or across the broader open source GitHub ecosystem.

***

// Written by thechelsuk
// Published 2022-08-08, with 40 words.

---

💬 Thanks for keeping RSS alive. If you have an RSS feed please share it with me on any of these socials or AMA / Contact me. If you get value from this site, please share this post with someone you think will like it and support me with a ko-fi.

Finally, here is a special sponsor/advert link just for you; Monzo Bank - Join and get up reward up to £100 [T&Cs apply].

Design patterns cheat sheet

***

// Written by thechelsuk
// Published 2022-08-08, with 6 words.

---

💬 Thanks for keeping RSS alive. If you have an RSS feed please share it with me on any of these socials or AMA / Contact me. If you get value from this site, please share this post with someone you think will like it and support me with a ko-fi.

Finally, here is a special sponsor/advert link just for you; Sponsor thechelsuk on GitHub [T&Cs apply].

At the most basic level a Terraform Module is a collection of Terraform code files (.tf) in the same folder. This is the same as a normal Terraform project, except with a Terraform Module you consume the module from another module or project to get infrastructure code reu...

• Distance: 13.26 km
• Duration: 0:30:26
• Calories: 276.763
• Avg power: 159 W
• Max power: 400 W
• Avg heart rate: 115 bpm
• Max heart rate: 130 bpm
• Elevation gain: 99 m

***

// Written by thechelsuk
// Published 2022-08-06, with 31 words.

---

💬 Thanks for keeping RSS alive. If you have an RSS feed please share it with me on any of these socials or AMA / Contact me. If you get value from this site, please share this post with someone you think will like it and support me with a ko-fi.

Finally, here is a special sponsor/advert link just for you; Cybaa - Monitor your domains for security issues and get real time alerts. [T&Cs apply].

In today’s world, a well-tuned CI/CD pipeline is a critical component for any development team looking to build and ship high-quality software fast. But here’s the thing: It’s rare you’ll find two CI/CD pipelines that are exactly the same. And that’s by design. Every CI/C...

They may not work, or you may want to augment them with other metrics, but they’ll work for the vast majority of teams. Unless and until you have evidence that they’re not working for your team, you should use these metrics

***

// Written by thechelsuk
// Published 2022-07-24, with 43 words.

---

💬 Thanks for keeping RSS alive. If you have an RSS feed please share it with me on any of these socials or AMA / Contact me. If you get value from this site, please share this post with someone you think will like it and support me with a ko-fi.

Finally, here is a special sponsor/advert link just for you; YouFibre - Up to £100 when taking a broadband plan with code 5QGYSF [T&Cs apply].

A great part of the “magic” is to convert both tasks and whims into physical and visible actions as you soon will see.

***

// Written by thechelsuk
// Published 2022-07-24, with 25 words.

---

💬 Thanks for keeping RSS alive. If you have an RSS feed please share it with me on any of these socials or AMA / Contact me. If you get value from this site, please share this post with someone you think will like it and support me with a ko-fi.

Finally, here is a special sponsor/advert link just for you; EngMan - Get the Engineering Manager Coach Cards App on iOS. [T&Cs apply].

Our goal is to get an additional £1,000,000,000 in tax relief to charities and individuals every year!

***

// Written by thechelsuk
// Published 2022-07-24, with 19 words.

---

💬 Thanks for keeping RSS alive. If you have an RSS feed please share it with me on any of these socials or AMA / Contact me. If you get value from this site, please share this post with someone you think will like it and support me with a ko-fi.

Finally, here is a special sponsor/advert link just for you; ShortKeys - Multi-line text replacement on iOS. [T&Cs apply].

To fully understand what “honesty” means in a professional setting, we need to unpack why honesty matters at work. A fundamental purpose of organizations is strength in numbers: a group of people, working together, can accomplish much more than a bunch of individuals a...

Access requests and approvals are typically hard to track and audit. Without a scalable system in place, you may find yourself granting or requesting access that requires manual point-and-click actions. This makes it hard to track and prove audit controls. For instance, v...

Making someone sit through a long interview process just to offer them a package they were never going to take is a waste of their time (and yours). If you know that your offer might be less competitive, you need to tell people right away and give them the chance to drop out.

***

// Written by thechelsuk
// Published 2022-07-24, with 55 words.

---

💬 Thanks for keeping RSS alive. If you have an RSS feed please share it with me on any of these socials or AMA / Contact me. If you get value from this site, please share this post with someone you think will like it and support me with a ko-fi.

Finally, here is a special sponsor/advert link just for you; Tomoz - Plan for tomorrow, today on iOS. [T&Cs apply].

When I was a child I assumed that all the adults running the world knew what they were doing. Now that I am an adult, I am under no such illusions. Just look at the current British government. They clearly don’t have a clue. A more mediocre bunch of individuals would be hard to find.

***

// Written by thechelsuk
// Published 2022-07-24, with 57 words.

---

💬 Thanks for keeping RSS alive. If you have an RSS feed please share it with me on any of these socials or AMA / Contact me. If you get value from this site, please share this post with someone you think will like it and support me with a ko-fi.

Finally, here is a special sponsor/advert link just for you; Hiyd - The Jekyll companion app for iOS. [T&Cs apply].

Video –

Want some practical tips about how to push your testing earlier? in this video Marie Drake and I discuss how to test stories as part of Triforce / 3Amigos / Story Shaping and give some actual examples.

***

// Written by thechelsuk
// Published 2022-07-24, with 41 words.

---

💬 Thanks for keeping RSS alive. If you have an RSS feed please share it with me on any of these socials or AMA / Contact me. If you get value from this site, please share this post with someone you think will like it and support me with a ko-fi.

Finally, here is a special sponsor/advert link just for you; Mltply - Chat-style maths practice for kids on iOS. [T&Cs apply].

The analogy throughout the book is poker, which is a combination of skill and luck. It’s an example of the key bias humans have – to associate winning with good skill, and losses to bad luck. Learning from decisions means separating out the luck and the skill, and focusin...

A developer can directly push changes to the main branch, but if a coding activity requires more extensive time — perhaps a few days — they can check out a branch from main, move the changes into it, then merge it back in when development is complete. Fellow developers...

Compared to their social circle/network this wouldn’t be surprising. How many people hang out or socialise with people they look up to, are trying to get ‘in’ with. An £100k city worker trying be mates with the seasoned pro on double gross salary. Even most the right-wing p...

Seccl has boosted its senior leadership team with the hire of Adam Jones as its first chief technology officer (CTO). Jones will be responsible for shaping the Octopus-owned custodian and platform technology provider’s future technology vision, with executive accountabili...

• Distance: 5.16 km
• Duration: 0:10:17
• Calories: 128.32
• Avg power: 218 W
• Max power: 370 W
• Avg heart rate: 129 bpm
• Max heart rate: 146 bpm
• Elevation gain: 67 m

***

// Written by thechelsuk
// Published 2022-06-30, with 31 words.

---

💬 Thanks for keeping RSS alive. If you have an RSS feed please share it with me on any of these socials or AMA / Contact me. If you get value from this site, please share this post with someone you think will like it and support me with a ko-fi.

Finally, here is a special sponsor/advert link just for you; Hiyd - The Jekyll companion app for iOS. [T&Cs apply].

• Distance: 15.63 km
• Duration: 0:30:22
• Calories: 298.618
• Avg power: 172 W
• Max power: 318 W
• Avg heart rate: 108 bpm
• Max heart rate: 133 bpm
• Elevation gain: 82 m

***

// Written by thechelsuk
// Published 2022-06-29, with 31 words.

---

💬 Thanks for keeping RSS alive. If you have an RSS feed please share it with me on any of these socials or AMA / Contact me. If you get value from this site, please share this post with someone you think will like it and support me with a ko-fi.

Finally, here is a special sponsor/advert link just for you; Cybaa - Monitor your domains for security issues and get real time alerts. [T&Cs apply].

• Distance: 12.53 km
• Duration: 0:24:59
• Calories: 279.41
• Avg power: 195 W
• Max power: 347 W
• Avg heart rate: 142 bpm
• Max heart rate: 159 bpm
• Elevation gain: 49 m

***

// Written by thechelsuk
// Published 2022-06-18, with 31 words.

---

💬 Thanks for keeping RSS alive. If you have an RSS feed please share it with me on any of these socials or AMA / Contact me. If you get value from this site, please share this post with someone you think will like it and support me with a ko-fi.

Finally, here is a special sponsor/advert link just for you; Support thechelsuk with Merch from Redbubble [T&Cs apply].

This is similar to a career narrative, but with more focus on self-diagnosis than something presentable to others.

I’ve been experimenting with reusable templates over on Infrastructure Engineering, and decided to try something similar here. (That experiment is itself inspired by Brie Wolfson’s use of templates in The Kool-Aid Factory.)

***

// Written by thechelsuk
// Published 2022-06-12, with 52 words.

---

💬 Thanks for keeping RSS alive. If you have an RSS feed please share it with me on any of these socials or AMA / Contact me. If you get value from this site, please share this post with someone you think will like it and support me with a ko-fi.

Finally, here is a special sponsor/advert link just for you; EngMan - Get the Engineering Manager Coach Cards App on iOS. [T&Cs apply].

What’s Changed Bump lycheeverse/lychee-action from 1.4.1 to 1.5.0 by @dependabot in #292 pods by @MatBenfield in #294 Feat: Podcast - roblox by @github-actions in #300 Feat: Pod - word notes by @github-actions in #302 Feat: New Podcast - control loop by @gith...

This was news to me, yet I do struggle to read, for example, Martin Lewis’ MSE website because of the tone and contractions used heavily.

Use ‘do not’, ‘can not’, ‘would not’ and so on instead of ‘don’t’, ‘can’t’ and ‘wouldn’t’ because some people rely on reading the ‘not’ to understand what is being said.

***

// Written by thechelsuk
// Published 2022-06-07, with 57 words.

---

💬 Thanks for keeping RSS alive. If you have an RSS feed please share it with me on any of these socials or AMA / Contact me. If you get value from this site, please share this post with someone you think will like it and support me with a ko-fi.

Finally, here is a special sponsor/advert link just for you; Tomoz - Plan for tomorrow, today on iOS. [T&Cs apply].

Exponential backoff with jitter. If all the failed calls back off at the same time, they cause contention or overload again when they retry. Jitter adds some amount of randomness to the backoff to spread the retries.

***

// Written by thechelsuk
// Published 2022-06-07, with 39 words.

---

💬 Thanks for keeping RSS alive. If you have an RSS feed please share it with me on any of these socials or AMA / Contact me. If you get value from this site, please share this post with someone you think will like it and support me with a ko-fi.

Finally, here is a special sponsor/advert link just for you; Electroverse - £5 free credit when you join. [T&Cs apply].

I work with 50 odd people in the engineering space, almost all of us suffer from imposter syndrome. According to Wikipedia it is a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their skills, talents, or accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being e...