Once, nearly ten years ago, I was a tech writer. It was how I got my start in the IT industry, and since then I’ve worked as a developer and a devops engineer. I think I’ve had quite an interesting journey in the world of technology, and this post is something I’ve kicked around for… Continue reading going from tech writer to developer: how i did it
Author: theanswers42
the prince of egypt reboot sucks
So after another year, here I am again, posting to my blog because I now have Something To Say. That Something also perhaps breaks a taboo I had set for myself here, which is: politics. Or things relating to politics. I’m not going to slam the Tory government for things it’s done, or go on… Continue reading the prince of egypt reboot sucks
pizza pizza
So it’s been over a year since I last updated here. A year! But I figure now is the time to carry on. I always have the habit of announcing I’m back and that I intend to regularly post and we all know how those promises go. It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s… Continue reading pizza pizza
installing renderdoc on linux: the road to happiness
If like me you enjoy messing around with Vulkan, I’m sure you’ll be familiar with Renderdoc, the awesomest open-source graphics debugger ever. RenderDoc is a vital tool in sorting out most weird graphical errors that you’ll encounter in your graphics development adventures (it sure is for me), however on Linux things are a bit… homespun.… Continue reading installing renderdoc on linux: the road to happiness
more from the snowstorm in hell
So yesterday, I got excited at the notion of DirectX 12 on Linux and well… now that there’s been a bit of time and discussion of this in kernel maintainer discussion threads, it’s not quite what I thought. The fact that the DX12 library is going to be closed source would be a real problem… Continue reading more from the snowstorm in hell
and finally, a snow storm broke out in hell today…
So for a large chunk of my life, I didn’t like using Microsoft products. Why? Well, a youth of Visual Basic 6 high school computing assignments for one. VB6 has made more money than God, but on the other hand it epitomised for my everything I disliked about Microsoft: it was slow, locked down to… Continue reading and finally, a snow storm broke out in hell today…
have i not got news for you
Maybe it was the SARS reboot that did it. Or Harley Quinn fans going to war with Sonic the Hedgehog fans. Or Election 2020 fever over the seeming inevitability of a Bernie Sanders candidacy and the apparent extreme socialism he will bring in (in the UK he’d be a fairly mainstream social democrat), or the… Continue reading have i not got news for you
so this is christmas…
and what have I done? OK. Couldn’t resist starting my blog this way. I think I’ve managed to avoid the wrath of the copyright lawyers of John Lennon’s estate though because it is a fair comment… what have I done? Personally, it’s been a bit of a “steady as it goes” year. I’ve been working… Continue reading so this is christmas…
rhel 7 to centos 7 migration: the road to happiness
So in my professional life I do a lot of work with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It’s stable, rock-solid (mostly) and easy to use… but however unlike many distros, it comes with a subscription. This is fine: developers gotta eat, and however many anti-capitalist rants people like to go off on, if Linux wasn’t making… Continue reading rhel 7 to centos 7 migration: the road to happiness
pop goes the computer
To those outside of the Linux world, “Linux” is taken to be like “Windows” or “Mac OS”. To those of us who use it regularly, it’s actually “GNU/Linux” as it’s the combination of the GNU userland with the Linux kernel, and variations on this actually form a whole galaxy of operating systems that share a… Continue reading pop goes the computer
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