Stephen Quirke @squirke@toot.thoughtworks.com
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- https://blog.quirke.org
Mac Wrangler - MDM Monkey and member of the ThoughtWorks Identity Team in TechOps
Joined Jul 2018
Feeling like a real developer today... #stackoverflow had the solution... and it worked! Code deployed successfully and I'm a happy bunny :)🐰
Stephen Quirke
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Presented at my first remote meetup last week...
https://londonappleadmins.org.uk/2021/04/01/watch-the-video-1st-april-2021-remote-meetup/
I think I miss interacting with folks IRL - but a Zoom meetup feels like a reasonable substitute. And everyone needs more time on #Zoom
Stephen Quirke
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Twenty Years of Mac OS X
Mac OS X 10.0 was released March 24, 2001. Twenty years ago today.
The PowerBook, iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch are obviously big steps along the way from Apple as a 'beleagured,' minor computer maker with an uncertain future to the $2 trillion tera-corp they are today. It is easy to focus on the hardware. But Mac OS X was at least as important.
Back then, it was essential that Apple mo
https://scriptingosx.com/2021/03/twenty-years-of-mac-os-x/
Stephen Quirke
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New game:
Linux Battleships
Players SSH into each other's machines and take turns guessing process IDs to kill; last machine standing is the winner
Oh - and it's not like I've got an ARM Mac to test it on yet... but the app still runs on Intel :)
Well that's mildly exciting... Just built my first Universal Binary on #AzureDevOps - and it might even still work...
(Why Microsoft make setting up Cloud Agent choices so hard is beyond me though...)
Stephen Quirke
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make your password something innocuous like "yeah i'm ok with tuesday" so if you accidentally type it into a chat window, it's not immediately obvious as a pw
Just booked my virtual seat for #zoomtopia - the most 2020 conference possible...
I'm always impressed when the automation I built to deploy my blog posts to prod *actually* deploys my blog posts to prod... despite the fact that's the whole point of the automation being there! (and yes, I logged in to WATCH it build because I still can't believe it'll work) (new post about scooter fail here: https://blog.quirke.org/helix/carb/fail/2020/09/24/post.html )
Wet Sunday afternoon (and a sleeping toddler) means tinkering time... #raspberrypi #raspotify
https://blog.quirke.org/spotify/raspberrypi/tinkering/2020/08/16/post.html
#TIL a Gameboy Advance will run original Gameboy software... I’d never thought to try cos the cartridge size was so different... but Wikipedia said so, so I thought I’d try it. Why I have an old Advance and a Gameboy cart to hand is a bigger question about my life choices...
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(If you've not used it, the Pico-8 is an emulator for a console that never existed. It has a 128x128 resolution, 16 colours, and a strictly limited number of operations per frame to simulate a ~SNES-era CPU.)
Picking version names for your software doesn't need to stifle your creativity... https://github.com/sheagcraig/yo/releases
(The Hair of Whitesnake?)
So now my home IS my office... and I live on #Zoom calls... I can have a Zoom for Home, er, Office, er something...
https://zoom.us/docs/en-us/zoom-for-home.html
Stephen Quirke
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Bonkers (in the best possible way):
https://bigboxcollection.com/#CollectionOverview
Not just if you’re a video game fan—great site design, too.
Zoinks! Goodbye #bootcamp on #macOS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg9F1Qjv3iU&feature=youtu.be&t=3772
(although actually I'm fairly thrilled by this development to be honest...)
Trying to get #macOS #BigSur working in VMWare Fusion is all kinds of painful. And long winded. And annoying. And unreliable. At least so far. I can't wait for the new VMWare Tech preview... https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/06/23/vmware-fusion-announces-macos-big-sur-compatible-tech-preview
- blog?
- https://blog.quirke.org
Mac Wrangler - MDM Monkey and member of the ThoughtWorks Identity Team in TechOps
Joined Jul 2018
