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RISC-V[1] is something that I’ve been aware of via the Open Source Hardware Users Group (OSHUG) for a little while, and their most recent meeting was a RISC-V special, with talks on core selection and porting FreeBSD to the platform. Suddenly it seems that RISC-V is all over the news. A sample from the last […]
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Tags: ARM, hardware, innovation, open source, RISC-V, x86
The Politics of Data
TL;DR Organisations of all types are increasingly making decisions based on data and its analysis, but the rigour involved in this hasn’t yet entered our broader social discourse. I’m hopeful that we all start getting better access to data, and better understanding of the analysis and modelling process so that decisions can be made for […]
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Tags: data, data science, news, opinion, politics
Restoring Power
TL;DR I had a huge problem with ‘nuisance trips’ of the residual current device (RCD) in my house, which has been resolved by the installation of residual current circuit breakers with overcurrent protection (RCBOs). More reliable power to individual circuits in the house (and particularly the garage) has forced me to set up better monitoring so […]
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Tags: breaker, nuisance, NUT, RCBO, RCD, suppressor, trip, UPS
Amongst the flurry of announcements at re:invent 2016 was the launch of a developer preview for a new F1 instance type. The F1 comes with one to eight high end Xilinx Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to provide programmable hardware to complement the Intel E5 2686 v4 processors that come with up to 976 GiB […]
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Tags: aws, cloud, FPGA
Review – Lenovo X250
TL;DR I’ve been very happy with the X250 – it’s given me the same performance I got from my X230, but with better battery life, a smaller form factor and it seems more robust. Long term review I started writing this post in January not long after I got my X250, but I never got […]
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Tags: lenovo, review, X250
Let the 80s and 90s computer nostalgia continue… Between writing about how I learned to code, and watching the latest season of Halt and Catch Fire, I’ve been thinking about how the online services I’ve used over the years have shaped my view of the IT landscape. WarGames Like so many others my journey started […]
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Tags: CIX, Compunet, FTP, Internet, ISP, JANET, Kermit, modem, Prestel, Telnet, Usenet, WWW
A quick overview of WebVR based on Ada Rose Edwards’ awesome ‘getting started with WebVR‘ presentation that I saw at Nineworlds Geekfest The demos that I showed off can be seen from Ada’s GitHub pages: basic demo track demo Sadly the odd colour basic demo and the T-Rex thing haven’t (yet) made it from the […]
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Tags: Virtual Reality, vr, web, WebVR
Learning to Code
TL;DR Code defines our relationship with machines, and we all have a unique relationship with machines because we all learn code differently. This is my journey. Yours won’t be the same, because ‘the past is a foreign land’. All that I can hope is that there are some lessons/inspiration here. Background This post was inspired […]
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Tags: .Net, Ada, ARexx, BASIC, c, code, coding, Delphi, FORTRAN, Go, golang, HTML, java, javascript, LOGO, Lua, Objective-C, OCAML, Occam, Pascal, Perl, Processing, programming, python, Ruby, Rust, Swift
Background The last two interviews that I’ve done for InfoQ have been with Anil Mahavapeddy and Bryan Cantrill, and in both cases we talked about unikernels. Anil is very much pro unikernels, whilst Bryan takes the opposing view. A long and rambling Twitter thread about oncoming architecture diversity in Docker images took a turn into the unikernel […]
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Tags: Anil Madhavapeddy, Bryan Cantrill, Docker, InfoQ, OCAML, unikernel, Unikernels
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