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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 […]
Filed under: Docker, InfoQ news, technology | 2 Comments
Tags: Anil Madhavapeddy, Bryan Cantrill, Docker, InfoQ, OCAML, unikernel, Unikernels
Three days with Bryan Cantrill
On my first day with Bryan Cantrill he did a wonderful (and very amusing) presentation on Debugging Microservices in Production on the containers track at QCon SF. On my second day with Bryan Cantrill we talked about Containers, Unikernels, Linux, Triton, Illumos, Virtualization and Node.js – it was something of a geekfest[1]. On my third day with Bryan […]
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Tags: Bryan Cantrill, containers, Docker, Illumos, Linux, node.js, Triton, Unikernels
Southern Railway recently upgraded their train ticket buying website. The new user interface (UI) is very pretty, and I would guess it’s an easier place to buy train tickets online if you’ve never done that before. If you buy tickets frequently, and particularly if you need receipts for expenses then it’s a user experience (UX) […]
Filed under: could_do_better, grumble, technology | 1 Comment
Tags: Southern, ticket, train, UI, UX
After all of the noise surrounding Apple’s special relationship with Intel when it first launched the Macbook Air the IT press have been strangely quiet about it ending[1]. Intel’s 6th generation ‘Skylake‘ Core CPUs have been out for a few weeks now, and it seems like the only machines you can buy them in come […]
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Tags: apple, Core, Dell, Gen6, HP, Intel, lenovo, Microsoft, Skylake, Surface, ultrabook
A/B Testing Into Mediocrity
I’ve been noticing that lots of the services I use online have been getting worse. My friends have been complaining too. I think I know why. A/B testing is a great way for product managers to make decisions based on data (rather than their own gut feel). But what happens when A/B testing meets the […]
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Tags: A/B, product management, testing, user experience, UX
TV Cable Tidy
TL;DR If you’re putting a TV on a modern open stand then the ancillaries and cables can make a real mess and spoil the overall look. I put a board onto the VESA mount on the back of my TV to hold everything, which then let me arrange the cables into one tidy trunk running […]
Filed under: howto, making, Raspberry Pi, technology | 2 Comments
Tags: amp, AV, cable, DVD, DVR, mount, stand, tidy, tv, VESA
Gizmo2 first impressions
The kind folk at Newark Element14 sent me a Gizmo2 dev board to try out. I’ve not been able to do much with it yet, so here are some first impressions. What is it? I’d completely missed the first generation Gizmo, and hadn’t heard of the new one until it was brought up by Brandon at Element14. […]
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Tags: board, dev, Gizmo2, Kodi, SFF, USB, x86, XBMC
TL;DR Anybody wanting a high spec laptop that isn’t from Apple is probably getting a low end model with small RAM and HDD and upgrading themselves to big RAM and SSD. This skews the sales data, so the OEMs see a market where nobody buys big RAM and SSD, from which they incorrectly infer that nobody […]
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Tags: apple, Chromebook, data, Intel, laptop, lenovo, MacBook, OODA, RAM, ssd
The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has introduced ‘software security requirements’ obliging WiFi device manufacturers to “ensure that only properly authenticated software is loaded and operating the device”. The document specifically calls out the DD-WRT open source router project, but clearly also applies to other popular distributions such as OpenWRT. This could become an […]
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Tags: android, CyanogenMod, FCC, firmware, open source, OpenWRT, router, wifi, WRTnode
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