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…
Tag: linux
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?
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
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
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
return… of the return
Well, hey howdy hey blog. It’s been what… since May since we last spoke? I was there in May speaking after the death of my late, lamented Macbook and found myself back on Microsoft Windows and promising to come back. So here I am… back. I was going to give a rundown of my life… Continue reading return… of the return
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