Welcome! I'm Lorna: engineer, author and speaker. I'm a Developer Evangelist and I love technology and sharing technology with others. On this site you'll find my blog and links to all the other things I think you (or I) might need to know about me - my opinions are my own and not those of my employer or any other organisation. If you'd like to get in touch, I'd be delighted to hear from you.
From The Blog
28 Jan
2019
Windows removed my grub menu
I know this will happen to me again at a bad moment so I'm putting it here on my blog and hoping I can find it in my future hour of need ...
My work machine is a Windows PC, with dual boot to the Ubuntu partition that I actually use. Sometimes, when booting Windows, it "repairs" its disks and removes my grub menu, booting straight into Windows without showing me the grub menu.
To fix this: interrupt the startup, choose the boot device and pick the Ubuntu partition from the list.
Once booted, you can boot-repair to sort out grub - I also travel with a boot disk, just in case!
08 Jan
2019
Ready-to-wear API Collections with OpenAPI and Postman
Have you noticed that API providers are starting to offer "descriptions" of their APIs? These are usually OpenAPI specifications, computer-readable documents that describe every aspect of an API's endpoints. They can be used to generate documentation, SDKs, but now they can also be used for my favourite API-related activity: poking around! Postman just added a feature to allow importing OpenAPIs and I love it. Continue reading
14 Dec
2018
Test Web Requests with a Local RequestBin
I've been a long-time fan of RequestBin, but it's no longer active since it suffered so much bad traffic. It's never been too difficult to set up locally and when I tried to do that last week, I realised it has got even easier because it now has a
docker-compose configuration. Continue reading 
