Making the switch from Engineer to AI Engineer
I’ve recently made the switch from being classed as an “Engineer” to an “AI Engineer”. A lot of things are the same and a lot of things are different. Basically there are a lot...
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One of my favourite uses of AI is making small tools to help me with my day to day work. I’d never have the time to whip these tools up before be now they...
Read articleManaging Humans
One of the most important and rewarding things you can do in life is manage another human at work. You have the ability to make a massively positive impact on people. The impact isn’t...
Read articleSaaSE - Social as a Side Effect
Last year I attempted to build in public - doing this alongside my full-time work and family commitments was tiring and in the end I couldn’t be arsed. It was annoying. Everything I was...
Read articleDocumentation As A Habit
I have made an automated system that produces content as a side-effect of my documenting procedures and processes. I’ve always wanted to share my writing but found it difficult to find time around my...
Read articleUsing async Node.js with Bubble to create simple mini projects
I love the idea of using no-code tools to make mini-apps for your team (and other teams). I knocked together a quick video manifest parser using Bubble and Node.js. A developer could do this...
Read articleForced remote - a tech leads guide to making the transition from the office to WFH
Over the course of the last month a lot of teams have gone from working in the office to working remotely. Teams have had to adapt quickly to the new situation and it’s nuances....
Read articleHow to use PUT or DELETE with a roUrlTransfer object in Brightscript
In any other languages using alternatives to POST and GET is a fairly simple operation. In Brightscript however using PUT and DELETE operations isn’t particularly well documented in the SDK docs. To add PUT...
Read articleExiting out of a Brightscript SceneGraph application
To exit a a SceneGraph application you have to complete executions of your main method. A nice easy way to do this is to observe a field on your scene and then fire a...
Read articleHow to calculate how much texture memory an image will use on a Roku box
Ever found your Roku app running sluggish or even crashing? If you’re building an image heavy application you may be bumping up against your texture memory limits. Since Roku introduced SceneGraph there have been...
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