Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
August 2020
ICYMI It’s been something of a busy month for blogging, with posts on Cloud Migration, Java, the UK exam fiasco, Hugo. and RIP Dougal. BBQ The new Kamado Joe that I mentioned last month got its first run, which looked good, but ended up being a little dry: Hawksmore @ Home The Hawksmore at Home […]
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Tags: Actions, BBQ, Beat Saber, CD, CI, cloud native, constraints, DIY, github, Modern Apps, Oculus, Quest, vr, VSCode, WSL2
Which Java?
Or should that be: TL;DR Practices for installing and maintaining Java have evolved over time, which can lead to tension between teams who are set in a particular way, and other teams who see that as backward. The present state of the art is not to have Java on hosts at all, and to containerise […]
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Tags: APT, conatiners, containerisation, deb, dependencies, Docker, installation, java, OpenJDK, patching, rpm, SDKMAN, yum
July 2020
Another month has rolled by. These were the highlights. Hot tub We’ve always enjoyed a hot tub in rented holiday places, which led to some discussion on whether to get one at home. I’ve not been keen due to cost, hassle and environment concerns; but on a sweltering hot day $wife came home and ordered […]
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Tags: Alpine, Apple TV+, BBQ, comedy, Duet, hot tub, iPad, Kamado, Kamado Joe, Mspa, OBS, Raspberry Pi, SMWS, streaming, whisky, Zoom
The Front Row
This seems important enough not to just be a note in my July 2020 post when it comes. I’ve seen a new interaction model emerge for virtual events, which I think maps into Fred Wilson’s 100/10/1[1] “rule of thumb” with social services: 1% will create content 10% will engage with it 100% will consume it […]
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Tags: audience, comedy, engagement
June 2020
As another month comes to an end, a quick digest of things that June brought… Black Lives Matter June seems to have been another one of those months full of “there are weeks where decades happen”. As a family we spent one of those weeks educating ourselves a little. Starting out with the BBC’s ‘Sitting […]
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Tags: Air Conditioning, AirPods, CogX, DevOps, DOES, Linux, MotionEye, Windows, Windows 10, WSL2
Synology DS420j mini review
TL;DR The DS420j is one of my more boring tech purchases. It does exactly the same stuff as my old DS411j from nine years ago. But has enough CPU and memory to do it with ease rather than being stretched to the limit. Background I bought a Synology DS411j Network Attached Storage (NAS) box in […]
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Tags: DS411J, DS420j, NAS, Synology
What are Modern Applications?
TL;DR Modern Apps use Platforms, Continuous Delivery, and Modern Languages. Or more specifically, Modern Apps are written in Modern Languages, get deployed onto Platforms, and that deployment process is Continuous Delivery (as these things are all interconnected). Background ‘Modern Apps’ seems to be a hot topic right now. Some of my DXC colleagues are getting […]
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Tags: 12 Factor, app, application, Borg, BOSH, CD, cloud, Cloud Foundry, cloud native, DXC, google, Kubernetes, modern, native, paas, platform
“I’m not technical”
I hear these words a lot. They’re a shield for ignorance. A statement that the details don’t matter (when they really do). Learning has stopped. Submission to the people in the conversation who are technical – it’s your problem now, “I wash my hands of it”. A power play, “I care about the business, you’re just […]
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Tags: learning, technical
Open Source and Export Controls
This is the blog version of a Twitter conversation with my colleague Graham Chastney. Huawei, and the war on trade POTUS #45 has been pursuing a ‘trade war’ with China, as this appears to be popular with his base, even though it makes stuff more expensive for them and will ultimately harm the US economy. […]
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Tags: amazon, android, AOSP, ARM, export, google, government, hardware, Huawei, open source, RISC-V, software, trade
Swift Playgrounds
I mentioned Swift Playgrounds in my Learning to Code post a few years back, but at that time I didn’t have a new enough iPad to try it for myself. That changed when I recently got an iPad Mini 5[1], so I’ve been running through the Learn to Code modules. It’s like a puzzle game, […]
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Tags: iPad, Playgrounds, Swift
