Multipass on Mac
Multipass from Canonical is a tool for quickly deploying VM's (running Ubuntu) on the native Hypervisor, the VM also has a kernel optimized for the Hypervisor. Pros and Cons Rapid…
Tips for Fedora 28 on Digital Ocean
I'm moving again, from an Ubuntu 16.04 droplet with a rather complex deployment (in Brexit-land) to Docker containers on a Fedora 28 droplet (in Europe-land). These are some tips I…
2 Weeks with a Macbook Pro 2017 in New York
Things change Since I last posted, I've left my job of 17 years and started a new adventure with MongoDB. My daily work machine is no longer a Dell Latitude…
Solus Linux (and Windows) on Dell XPS 13 – 9360 Kaby Lake
Time to put Linux on my XPS 13. Pick a distro, any distro. Historically I'm an Arch Linux user and what is not to like about a rolling distribution with…
Dependency Hell
It all seemed so straightforward I have a Udacity project to complete in 4 weeks, working in my personal time as part of the FastTrack course. Take a semi-working app,…
Dell XPS 13 9360
New laptop time! My Inspiron 13 (7000 2-in-1) was a nice laptop. It wasn't the lightest but it was light enough. It was a good size. After adding an SSD…
Lithuania
In September I spent more than 2 weeks in Lithuania, it was an adventure, lots of food, people and moving around the country. Kaunas We started by flying into Kaunas…
SSH tunnel as socks proxy
You need: A machine you can SSH too Putty on your Windows client machine A web browser you can change the proxy settings of Configure your putty session and go…
Python script for multiple image creation
Needing 5 sizes of each image for an android app is annoying, so I did what any sane person would do. I wrote a python script that does all the hard work…
Android Basics Nanodegree with Udacity
So I'm currently learning all about Android application development. I've made an app before while experimenting but decided to go with the Udacity course so I would not run into…