Ampretia:Dev

The Friction Feature

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Why the inbuilt tax of traditional software development wasn’t a bug — and what happens when AI removes it entirely.

An Intuitive View of the Monty Hall Problem

Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A simple, friction-free way to conceptualize why switching doors always works in your favour.

Real life algorithm performance analysis

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Tracking down a NodeJS performance bug, showcasing correct algorithm choice

Shower Timer - aka Embedded RP2040 with Rust

Sun, 24 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Reduce water usage, and play with Rust on RP2040

Running OpenShift Local on Windows

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

How to run OpenShift Local (Cloud Ready Containers) on Windows

Configuring IP Camera for local use

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

How I configured my IP camera to use the local network and connect to Synology Surveillence Stations AND get motion events detected.

On CI/CD Pipelines

Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

On CI/CD Pipelines; general experience to pass on about creating CI/CD Pipelines

Deadlock on npm install in UBI8

Tue, 10 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Tracking down why npm install didn’t install at all

Getting Contract Logs from IBM Blockchain Platform

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 15:42:49 +0000

With IBM Blockchain Platform running in a Kubernetes cluster how do you get the logs to find out what happened with your contract?

Early Access Coffee on the Blockchain

Wed, 31 Jul 2019 15:13:52 +0000

Introduction of the Fabric Java Contract API

Getting setup for development (CentOS)

Fri, 19 Jul 2019 08:17:23 +0000

At work we’ll often do ‘group testing’ sessions or ‘internal hackathons’. What struck me about the last one was that setting up your development environment can surprisingly tricky, especailly if it’s for a style of development or langage you don’t generally use.

TL;DR: gist of commands

What are we developing for?

The setup we are going for here, is a Node.js and Java environment using VSCode - with a view to using the IBM Blockchain Platform extension for writing applications and smart contracts for Hyperledger Fabric

Windows, Virtual Box, and CentOS

Fri, 19 Jul 2019 07:58:02 +0000

My personal preference for developing is to use Windows 10 as my laptops main OS, but then run VirtualBox with Linux. Succiently this is because

I like to have office style applications available, and as a general ‘just do stuff’ Windows does the job well
Should something go wrong developing, it’s quite easy to through the VM away and start again. Or if you want to test a certain machine configuration.

To date I’ve used Ubuntu as the Linux OS; but thought I’d try CentOS 7 - wasn’t quite as slick if I’m honest. Few gotchas so here’s some notes if needed.

Oh git!

Thu, 18 Apr 2019 15:52:02 +0000

Introduction to git

Make multi-persona demos fun and interactive!

Fri, 08 Jun 2018 15:11:05 +0000

We have several demos that can be shown at conferences to customers etc. But a central feature is there have multiple web apps each driven by a different persona. How could it be possible to make the transition from one persona to another more obvious - and interactive??

Getting outside-in with docker-compose[r] networks

Sat, 11 Nov 2017 18:10:59 +0000

Networking with Docker can be tricky especially with regard to DNS and domain names.

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”

Wed, 28 Jun 2017 10:54:44 +0000

In order to properly develop software you need to also use the software your build.

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

https://gist.github.com/azu/31530916cbce0fd2fc1f4d8f6cf0fae1

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