Deleting Excessive JIRA Web Links

I have a Jira ticket with a ton of web links all created by the Jira/Burp Suite connector.   While I can delete them manually, I wanted to look to see if I do this via the API.  There is a way to l0ok up all the links on a ticket with the API, and then […]

Generating OpenAPI and PostMan Collections with Q

Generating out descriptive schema for your existing applications that AI can well. Working on a Grails API application, I am using with BurpSuite DAST to do some security testing on a regular basis for it. I’ve needed an API list of endpoints for their API security scan feature for quite some time, that’s easy to […]

AWS Adding a Repository to Q

GitHub Becoming 2FA

GitHub is switching most of the sites now to 2FA. The warning has been out there since at least 2023. Just now, on my current team’s site, have I gotten the message. Our organization is now doing this. Check it out here on GitHub. As of March 2023, GitHub required all users who contribute code […]

Amazon Q Reviews with GitHub Repos

This is about hooking up Amazon Q to GitHub, so it can code review your pull requests.  Also, to see what happens if you have an unsupported language reviewed (Groovy, and for supported looking at Java). List of Q supported code review languages as of today is here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qdeveloper-ug/q-language-ide-support.html Here is a printout of the […]

Audio Driver Removal in Sequoia 15

I use some Skullcandy Smokin’ Buds with my work Mac running Sequoia 15 for use with meetings at times — but whenever they disconnect the audio driver reverts to one of the virtual audio drivers I had installed (and wasn’t using) for screen recordings. So, I could be in a meeting, disconnect my earbuds and […]

Infrastructure/AI – Decentralized

Have started a project building decentralized cloud and AI infrastructure. I’ve been working on several projects for the last several years, mostly on job sites, and feel my work/family life is at a good balance as to where I can start producing off hours tech again. I’ve always just been a builder, very simply, and […]

A Plan for Quality

Here’s a plan for team code quality I’ve devised over a several years of working with different applications. Most of these can be done open source. Each category represents a type of monitoring methodology. This is by no means comprehensive, but is a good guide for the type of project hygiene that has to be […]

Meetings and Studies and Bizzies

I haven’t been at this in a while although I have a backlog of things to write about that I have been accumulating from my readings and talks with other devs associates over the last few years.  Unfortunately some of it is timely technical material and the relevancy has probably fallen by the wayside. One […]

Hard Work

”The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.” – Mark Twain. I was reading through some Code Newbie tweets and was quite impressed with the enthusiasm of potential developers who had little, if any, work experience.  Well I’ve got some news for them. Know that stress you are having at finding your first […]