https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/posts/ Recent content in Posts on Jonathan Share's Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Sat, 10 Sep 2022 21:37:00 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2022/09/three-tips-for-hardening-microservice-database-access-javazone-2022/ Sat, 10 Sep 2022 21:37:00 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2022/09/three-tips-for-hardening-microservice-database-access-javazone-2022/ This week I had the privilege of holding a talk at the JavaZone conference in Oslo. https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2022/05/bulk-renaming-terraform-resources/ Sun, 08 May 2022 18:56:00 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2022/05/bulk-renaming-terraform-resources/ Recently I wrote a script to bulk rename terrraform resources and thought this might be useful to share with others. https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2022/01/increasing-your-range-in-terraform/ Thu, 20 Jan 2022 21:55:00 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2022/01/increasing-your-range-in-terraform/ The first Terraform trick I learnt while solving Advent of Code in Terraform. https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2022/01/advent-of-code-in-terraform/ Mon, 10 Jan 2022 18:30:00 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2022/01/advent-of-code-in-terraform/ Advent of Code is a calendar of small programming puzzles, this year I tried to solve them in Terraform https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2022/01/k8s-network-policies-break-service-encapsulation/ Sun, 09 Jan 2022 17:14:00 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2022/01/k8s-network-policies-break-service-encapsulation/ I’ve been looking into how to make use of Kubernetes network policies and had a surprising realisation. https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2022/01/yesterday-i-learnt/ Sat, 08 Jan 2022 18:31:00 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2022/01/yesterday-i-learnt/ A quick update to my daily routines https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2022/01/sorting-numerically-in-terraform/ Thu, 06 Jan 2022 18:50:00 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2022/01/sorting-numerically-in-terraform/ Terraform’s sort function only sorts lexicographically. What do you do if you want numerical sorting? https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2022/01/gitpod-and-hledger/ Mon, 03 Jan 2022 16:45:00 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2022/01/gitpod-and-hledger/ A quick tip for how to configure Gitpod when working with hledger data. https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2021/01/appinsights-surefire-action-notable-alternatives/ Sun, 31 Jan 2021 20:45:00 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2021/01/appinsights-surefire-action-notable-alternatives/ GitHub Actions and Jenkins are far from the only options for implementing build pipelines, but before I continue I wanted to highlight two notable alternatives. https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2021/01/appinsights-surefire-action-project-intro/ Sat, 30 Jan 2021 21:55:00 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2021/01/appinsights-surefire-action-project-intro/ Using GitHub Actions for build pipelines instead of tried and tested Jenkins, I was missing a feature, so of course I decided to hack together a solution. https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2021/01/xlights-tools-project-intro/ Sun, 17 Jan 2021 21:40:00 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2021/01/xlights-tools-project-intro/ Last January I started work on a Rust library for parsing FSEQ files, time to take it to the next level. https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2021/01/hashitalks-cfp-2021/ Sun, 17 Jan 2021 16:00:00 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2021/01/hashitalks-cfp-2021/ A little last minute but I decided to send in a talk to the the HashiTalks CFP https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2021/01/what-have-i-done-2020-edition/ Sun, 10 Jan 2021 22:30:00 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2021/01/what-have-i-done-2020-edition/ When responding to a recent request for my social media details, I quickly opened my blog and realised that I’ve not published anything here at all in 2020, what have I been doing?!? https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2019/11/shame/ Sun, 24 Nov 2019 10:53:30 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2019/11/shame/ After realising that I just purchased three books in the last week I decided it’s time to publicly shame myself with a list of the books I have that I haven’t read or haven’t finished reading. So here we go, in no significant order; https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2019/11/datavisualisering-i-samfunnet/ Fri, 22 Nov 2019 12:53:30 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2019/11/datavisualisering-i-samfunnet/ Datavisualisering i samfunnet (data visualisation in society) was a free, half-day conference, arranged to conclude INDVIL, a 3.5 year research project administered by the University of Agder on trends and consequences of increased usage of data visualisation for communication (my paraphrasing). https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2019/11/full-stack-europe-2019/ Fri, 08 Nov 2019 09:33:30 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2019/11/full-stack-europe-2019/ A little later than I would have liked but I’ve finally found the time to summarise my experience at Full Stack Europe. https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2019/04/cukenfest-2019/ Sun, 07 Apr 2019 14:06:35 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2019/04/cukenfest-2019/ I’m just back home from an inspirational couple of days at CukenFest, time for a quick summary while things are still fresh in my head. https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2019/02/office-christmas-tree-modelling-in-xlights/ Sun, 24 Feb 2019 17:00:45 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2019/02/office-christmas-tree-modelling-in-xlights/ Time to catch up on my blogging plans for this project before moving on to the next one. The next step in the process was to create a model of my Christmas tree in xLights so that xLights knows how it looks, then create some simple sequences to be run when the status of builds in Jenkins changes. https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2019/02/oslo-elm-day/ Sat, 23 Feb 2019 13:00:52 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2019/02/oslo-elm-day/ Last weekend I attended Oslo Elm Day. Oslo Elm Day is an two track conference of talks regarding the Elm language with 174 attendees. Personally I’m quite excited about the promise of writing applications that can’t crash at runtime and want to learn more. https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2019/02/mirroring-to-a-projector-from-linux/ Fri, 01 Feb 2019 16:13:44 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2019/02/mirroring-to-a-projector-from-linux/ While I’m reasonably comfortable running Linux on the desktop these days, connecting to a projector has always been a challenge, until yesterday when I finally found the right link on the internet to explain what I needed. https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2019/01/directaccess-vpn-from-linux-vmware-guest/ Fri, 25 Jan 2019 10:40:40 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2019/01/directaccess-vpn-from-linux-vmware-guest/ I’m currently on my second office where the preferred computer setup for developers is to run Linux in a VM on a beefy laptop. From Windows the DirectAccess VPN works out of the box, but giving Linux in a VM the same access has proved to be non-trivial. What follows is a step by step configuration that worked for me. https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2019/01/office-christmas-tree-3d-modelling/ Thu, 24 Jan 2019 07:40:20 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2019/01/office-christmas-tree-3d-modelling/ Once the lights were working I then needed some structure to put them in. The Christmas lighting community use many different materials, with corrugated plastic being a popular choice, but we have a 3D printer at the office so I decided to see what I could do with that. https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2019/01/office-christmas-tree-connectivity-test/ Wed, 16 Jan 2019 07:18:20 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2019/01/office-christmas-tree-connectivity-test/ Once my order from Ray Wu arrived I was able to continue progress on my office Christmas tree project. Time to connect things and see if I can make some light. https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2019/01/office-christmas-tree-project-intro/ Mon, 14 Jan 2019 20:15:25 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2019/01/office-christmas-tree-project-intro/ Meet my Christmas nerd project from last year. https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2019/01/meet-bitbucket-exporter/ Fri, 04 Jan 2019 07:20:22 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2019/01/meet-bitbucket-exporter/ Since early summer last year I’ve been working on a small hobby project in Rust. I recently reached a level of functionality where it might be useful to someone so I wanted to write a few words about the project. https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2018/12/rust-first-impressions-json-deserialisation-with-serde/ Mon, 31 Dec 2018 14:14:18 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2018/12/rust-first-impressions-json-deserialisation-with-serde/ For reasons that I touch upon at the end of the post I’ve been starting to look into Rust for “back-end” projects that I write in my spare time, and I want to brain dump my initial thoughts when trying something new or investigating a new crate. First up is Serde. https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2018/12/advanced-wifi-configuration-with-connman-on-falcon-player/ Sat, 29 Dec 2018 20:06:12 +0200 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2018/12/advanced-wifi-configuration-with-connman-on-falcon-player/ For reasons that will be clearer in future posts I’ve been poking around with some software called Falcon Player. The only thing I have really struggled with here was the wireless configuration here’s a quick summary of what I have done to configure WiFi on the Falcon Player. https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2018/12/rebooting-my-blog-like-its-1999/ Wed, 26 Dec 2018 20:37:42 +0100 https://blog.sharebear.co.uk/2018/12/rebooting-my-blog-like-its-1999/ My previous blog saw a little action in 2009, which then died off during 2010 and finally died completely in 2011 with a post claiming I was going to start writing a lot more… that went well. ‘tis the season for cheesy sterotypical new year’s resolutions so here we go for another attempt at a reboot.