Note: all code discussed in this article is available here. If you work in modern web development, chances are you’re probably working on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Although there are other competitors such as Azure, many businesses use AWS as their cloud provider. Its services are well-developed and robust, so it’s no wonder that many… Continue reading localstack: stopping me singin’ those AWS blues…
if your rust’s unsafe, and it don’t look good, who ya gonna call?
tl;dr: Valgrind! As a language, Rust puts memory safety at its heart, in addition to trying to be a more accessible and beginner-friendly route into low level systems development, and for most uses, it lives up to that. The borrow-checker ensures that there are no nasty dangling pointers or badly used variables to cause segfaults,… Continue reading if your rust’s unsafe, and it don’t look good, who ya gonna call?
pizza pizza 2: the cheesy sequel
So a while ago I wrote a post called pizza pizza about how I was learning to make pizza, showing off my progress from how I learned to make pizza from scratch as I was getting sick of takeaway pizza and how much it was costing me (and oh, at £14 a shout plus the… Continue reading pizza pizza 2: the cheesy sequel
going from tech writer to developer: how i did it
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
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…
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
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