Alumni Blogs
Lots of our people have lots of opinions. Here are just a few of them
ThoughtWorks embraces the individuality of the people in the organization and hence the opinions expressed in the blogs may contradict each other and also may not represent the opinions of ThoughtWorks.
ThoughtWorks blogs New Course – Level Up in Swift
Want to learn the #1 programming language that the iPhone? Don’t have the time to watch countless random YouTube videos? If the answer is yes – this course is for you. Get up to speed fast This course distills all the fundamental basics of Swift into a series of short, powerful videos that cut out […]
24 January 2020
How to Adobe MultiExport script
22 January 2020
VCS Nirvana
Being generally obsessed with source-control means that I’m always interested in seeing better VCS implementations than the ones we already have. Here’s my list of features that I’d want for the next VCS tech. Note: This is an update to a previous blog posting, and follows a new Git release which addresses something I’ve been talking about for a while - “sparse clone” (see below).
Unlimited Repo Size.
Subversion, Perforce and PlasticSCM can go up to terabytes of history quite easily, whereas Git has a hypothetical top limit. Git can’t go to terabytes yet. Sure, Git-LFS allows Git…
19 January 2020
github permission denied
If you even see this error when trying to commit to git Open up keychain on mac and delete any old cached entries It will then prompt your for new username password at next github push or login. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47465644/github-remote-permission-denied
18 January 2020
2020 Tech Predictions
It’s that time of the year again, when I make predictions for the upcoming year. As has become my tradition now for nigh-on a decade, I will first go back over last years’ predictions, to see how well I called it (and keep me honest), then wax prophetic on what I think the new year has to offer us.
17 January 2020
Getting More Negotiating One Sheet
I’ll often use this sheet to prepare for negotiation. It’s from Getting More. The most useful concept from this book is the idea that each sides values things differently, and unequally. If you can uncover those, you might be willing … Continue reading →
16 January 2020
Negotiate as if your life depended on it
Like the Baader Meinhoff Phenomenon, when I read a book about something, I start to see everything as related to that book. I recently read the book Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz, and this book … Continue reading →
16 January 2020
A scavailable Squid proxy cache because Maven!
I had opportunity to use Squid recently at work and want to share - also because Google didn't just hand me this blueprint as I had expected.
Actually it was Julian Simpson, he of ThoughtWorks/ Neo4j/ DevOps New Zealand fame, who inspired me down the pub one night (John Scott's Lund, lovely place).
The problem we had was Maven Central's infrastructure not being good enough for our needs; we had too many failing builds because of connectivity issues - artifact downloads. Basically HTTP GET. Between Maven-the-client and Sonatype's CDN things just weren't working well…
Actually it was Julian Simpson, he of ThoughtWorks/ Neo4j/ DevOps New Zealand fame, who inspired me down the pub one night (John Scott's Lund, lovely place).
The problem we had was Maven Central's infrastructure not being good enough for our needs; we had too many failing builds because of connectivity issues - artifact downloads. Basically HTTP GET. Between Maven-the-client and Sonatype's CDN things just weren't working well…
16 January 2020
Bootstrapping Windows for programmatic fun & profit
At work we do a bunch of work to ensure our database product works as expected. You're familiar with unit tests and integration tests of course, but take that up a notch and consider the domain - a database product - and you just need a lot more engineering around the thing. A full blown database is a different beast than your bog standard mom & pop web shop, and product is another level of complexity over common website type of stuff, in that we send out binary artifacts to customers, and they run them for years. I trust you…
15 January 2020
Stay A While and Listen Book II – Heaven, Hell, and Secret Cow Levels
Just finished reading David Craddock’s second book on the making of Diablo series and I have got to say – it’s really neat seeing how some of the most iconic games in the word get made. Through countless interviews, discussions, and research Dave pieces together incredible hard work the designers, engineers, and game developers put […]
9 January 2020
Webcam on Razer Stealth Late 2019 with Ubuntu 19.10
Probably the weakest element on the laptop is the Webcam which can output 720p@30fps. By default the low light performance is not that great but you can improve it considerably by trading frame rate for low light performance. First install the Video 4 Linux utils: Now run the following command (the default is 0) Now […]
1 January 2020
Suspend Loop Fix for Razor Stealth Late 2019 with Ubuntu 19.10
I was experiencing a loop where after suspending and resuming the laptop it would go back into suspend over and over again. To fix this just update /etc/default/grub and add button.lid_init_state=open to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT I also had to add the following to stop errors during the update Then update GRUB
1 January 2020
Power Management for Razor Stealth Late 2019 (GTX 1650) with Ubuntu 19.10
First install powertop and TLP . We use powertop to estimate power usage when unplugged and TLP to run as a service I then did a little tweaking in my /etc/rc.local Lastly switch from NVidia GTX 1650 to the Intel Iris Pro After this my power usage dropped to as low as 1.6 W when […]
1 January 2020
Microbit via WebUSB on Ubuntu 18.04
Make sure you are running the latest firmware on the microbit Create a new udev rule sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/80-microbit.rules With the following content SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="0d28", ATTR{idProduct}=="0204", MODE="0660", GROUP="plugdev" Then if you want non-admin users to be able to use it (like your kids) run sudo usermod -a -G plugdev non-admin-user If you are admin you […]
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