Al Sutton @alsutton@mastodon.social
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Joined Aug 2018
Asking employees to get authorisation to work from home more than 14 days a year after the last years experience seems like a company not adapting.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/31/google-speeds-partial-office-reopening-and-puts-limits-on-remote-work.html
If you're interested in #Android Automotive then here's something I've been working on for the folk at Snapp Mobile; An #AOSP Build of the #AndroidAutomotive OS which uses OSMDroid maps.
Little tip for folk working on “estimated date” code; Add a check to see if the current estimated date has already passed. If it has you should provide a customer services contact number. (This screenshot is from Topps Tiles in the UK)
It’s great to see a company not interpreting an interview process being called “hard” as meaning they have a high bar for candidates. 👏 https://medium.com/attest-r-and-d/making-our-frontend-hiring-process-more-inclusive-d0b9b8ca8c6
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We're excited to announce the official release of GNOME 40! After countless hours of work from the GNOME community, this release brings many exciting updates!
See the release highlights at https://forty.gnome.org/
Or view all the details in our release notes: https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/40.0/
Anyone know the folk working on the mapping app #OSMDroid? I'd like to help them move from Gradle 2.14.1 to 6.8.3, but it's a bit of a big jump which meant a number of related tweaks had to be made, so I'd like them to know I'm totally open to suggestions. https://github.com/osmdroid/osmdroid/pull/1705
A month after handing my laptop back to Twitter I decided the benefit to my life was worth buying one; so here’s a sub-£500 eBay purchase and a couple of upgrades which will give me something close to my favourite company provided laptop; My Google Lenovo X1 Carbon.
Following on from my post about how to spec a big AOSP build machine, here's a post explaining how you can avoid needing to buy lots of machines like that if you're supporting a project with lots of developers and a big build; https://www.alsutton.blog/post/big-build-farm-on-a-budget/
I've been fortunate enough to have had conversations with some of the most knowledgeable build tool folk around in recent years, so I thought I'd write up the R's I've learned to look for in a good build.
After well over a decade of building the #AOSP at home, and building #Android firmware for a number of devices, I thought it was time to write up a few tips from things I've learnt about what makes a good AOSP firmware build machine. https://www.alsutton.blog/post/2021-aosp-build-machine/
I spent more time than I'd care to admit looking at SSDs to put in a build machine over the weekend. It was a bit of a learning experience, so here's some of what I found out... https://www.alsutton.blog/post/ssd-technologies/
This has been a good week. If everything goes well, in a few months, this may become non-redacted 😁
TIL; #Docker on Windows will create a file for your container volume, that's not a sparse file which shrinks when data is deleted, so I've now lost ~240GB of SSD storage to a mostly empty file :S
If you were wondering what I was doing with Docker recently to prompt yesterdays post; Here's a couple of dockerfiles which create environments where you can build the #AOSP on a currently supported LTS version of #Ubuntu or #Debian. #androiddev https://github.com/alsutton/aosp-build-docker-images
Dilbert on remote working... 😂 https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-03-03?creator=Dilbert_Daily
I know there's a few folk out there using Docker for CI and other things, so I've written up some things I do to speed up my dockerfile development. #Docker
https://www.alsutton.blog/post/docker-image-development-environment/
This seems like a death spiral; Google cancels products because sales don’t meet expectations, and then fewer folk buy the next product/service due to fears around its long term existence.
https://www.xda-developers.com/google-stadia-failed-to-meet-expectations/
Here's the details of how I used S3 and some DNS tweaks to serve my libraries to build tools like Gradle. If you're considering hosting your own libraries to avoid a repeat of the jCenter shutdown scramble it might come in useful.
https://www.alsutton.blog/post/maven-artifacts-on-aws/
I've written a little thing which allows you to spread your JUnit/Robolectric tests out over multiple machines to run them in parallel. The only thing is the JUnit4/Robolectric integration feels clumsy and puts some work on users. Anyone have any thoughts?
- Al Sutton
- Al Sutton
- Al Sutton
- Al Sutton
Joined Aug 2018
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