Yesterday I was wrong

This is the final part of a 5-part series on agentic engineering.

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For most of my career, “doing engineering well” has meant doing Agile well.

Does CapsLock annoy you?

After upgrading to an NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti (Blackwell architecture, released January 2025), WebGL stopped working in Chrome.

https://openswitcher.org/

https://github.com/josh-richardson/cadmus

I’ve been doing some NFT research for myself, but though I would share in case one else finds some value. 30 second intro to NFTs: https://niftygateway.com/whatisanifty In depth description of an NFT (and lots more information): https://blog.opensea.io/gu…

So I had installed the latest version of OBS Studio (26.x) from the official channels but when I went to the output mode it only listed software encoding.

https://github.com/ulid/spec https://github.com/segmentio/ksuid

PyCaret -> https://pycaret.org/

Special thanks to Scott Muc and S+C.

So I had my usual problem with screen tearing on Ubuntu 19.10 but instead of my usual switching to Metacity + Compton I wanted to try using Gnome Shell.

Probably the weakest element on the laptop is the Webcam which can output 720p@30fps.

I was experiencing a loop where after suspending and resuming the laptop it would go back into suspend over and over again.

First install powertop and TLP .

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" T…

sudo nano /etc/systemd/user.conf DefaultLimitNOFILE=65535 sudo nano /etc/systemd/system.conf DefaultLimitNOFILE=65535 sudo nano /etc/security/limits.conf * hard nofile 65535 * soft nofile 65535 Source

So I’ve been working on a little side project for the last couple of weeks to try and create a video based training school to allow myself to scale and maybe not have to repeat myself as much when ever I join a new client.

Just because something is compelling doesn’t mean it’s right i.e. transitive dependencies or the easiest location to add feature X in your codebase Plugins are a sign of bad composeability or lack of craftsmanship or both i.e Ridiculous NPM modules that p…

gsettings set org.gnome.metacity alt-tab-thumbnails true

Install Compton (https://github.com/chjj/compton/) sudo apt-get install compton Disable existing compositor (I used Metacity with Gnome Flashback) gsettings set org.gnome.metacity compositing-manager false Add Compton to “Startup Applications” compton…

https://api.github.com/users/danielbodart/keys Will return [ { "id": 11647754, "key": "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDhoeoQelGjp0Oz3m64SV8AszPTyxlK1jJ8lYlW28WaSK5hu79BemIibekO06P2aA47vhI8hc4R90aqE0Ja1qG6A+jkezn2jeSzZZq7/dvoYFC0i96ljlJTK…

# Install Arc soft fork sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fossfreedom/arc-gtk-theme-daily sudo apt-get install arc-theme gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme 'Arc-Dark' # Materia sudo apt install materia-gtk-theme gsettings set org.gnome.desktop…

# Git branch in prompt. parse_git_branch() { git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/\1/' } export PS1="${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\W\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[32m\]\$(parse_git_branc…

This worked with a cheap Phillips universal remote: 51029

UPDATE: Bitmain did eventually respond and fix mine and others orders but it took 8 days without any response in between.

pointer-events:none; display:block; Display block is required if the label contains other block level elements.

I only just found out about this… # Send data via TCP to host 127.0.0.1 port 12201 echo "hello" >/dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/12201 # Send data via UDP to host 127.0.0.1 port 12201 echo "hello" >/dev/udp/127.0.0.1/12201 Now is there a way to listen via the same /…

This mini guide will show you how to rebuild the exact version of FFmpeg that comes with your version of Ubuntu and just add support for NVidia GPU encoding via the NVENC API and ACC via libfdk_aac

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https://hub.docker.com/add/automated-build/github/ Just because it’s hard to find and seem to break all the time in their docs!

DIR=`dirname $(readlink -f $0)`

So I have a closed loop water cooler on my GPU and I replaced the stock single speed fan with two Noctua PWM fans (doing push/pull) connected to my motherboard.

gsettings set org.gnome.metacity theme "Arc-Dark" # For good measure... gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme 'Arc-Dark' gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences theme 'Arc-Dark' Window Decorations on Gnome Flashback not changing

template.txt contains: Hello ${NAME} Then you could run: export NAME=Dan envsubst < template.txt And the result would be “Hello Dan”

After reading Atlassian worflow comparison and Vincent Driessen original post about GitFlow I have come to realise a couple of worrying things: I incorrectly assumed GitFlow was the same thing as GitHub flow (fork project, do work then pull request) This…

alias json='xclip -o | jq -C "." | less -r'

By default Ubuntu does not install the EWS (Exchange Web Service) plugin for Evolution sudo apt-get install evolution-ews Then go into Evolution and choose the following settings: Server Type: Exchange Web Service Username: WINDOWS-DOMAIN\username Host U…

Related to my QCon talk and original blog post, I’m soft launching my 10second.build project.

I had to switch to using proprietor AMD drivers as the open source ones don’t support audio via display port, but after switching, Chrome was tearing and just going completely black.

Failures are opportunities in disguise - Johan Ernst Nilson The Art of being Kind - Stefan Einhorn Designing For Generosity - Nipun Mehta What is Happiness?

The Limits to Growth The Limits to Growth is a 1972 book about the computer simulation of exponential economic and population growth with finite resource supplies.

The Spirit Level (Book) Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan?

The Hard Thing About Hard Things Have bought the book, looks very applicable to me at the moment.

These are my random links from the excellent 2 day conference Operability.IO.

HOST=tcp://server:443/ echo ${HOST//tcp/https} # prints https://server:443/

Firstly make sure you can run the standard CloudFoundry cli: cf logs [APP_NAME] Then turn on tracing: export CF_TRACE=true You will see a HTTP request and then it will switch to a secure WebSocket: WEBSOCKET REQUEST: [2015-04-22T11:27:22+01:00] GET /tai…