donal's blog

It's been 2-ish days since the clocks were turned back 1 hour and the sleep deprivation from having a young child wake an hour earlier than normal is starting to take it's toll. :_(

I run debian 9.4 (stretch) on my primary laptop right now (turns out every year can be " the year of the linux laptop"  if you just get stuck in!!). One thing that had been bugging me over a few months earlier this year was woeful WiFi performance while in the office. I eventually fixed it with the following script in  /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/02wlan_power !/bin/sh IF=$1 STATUS=$2 IFACES=$(iwconfig 2> /dev/null | grep "802.11" | awk '{print $1}') for iface in $IFACES; do     if [ "${IF}" = "${iface}" ] && [ "${STATUS}" = "up" ]; then         iwconfig ${iface} power off         logger "${iface}: turning off powersave mode to prevent constant reconnections"     fi done The second thing that had been bugging me was that this was happening even when I was at my desk (which has a cat5e connection to my docking station). Fortunately, I found a few minutes today to learn about ifme

This is the first day of the rest of my life… Yesterday, I finished up at Google after 12+ years of service. The past week has been full of emotions and I feel extremely grateful to have been able to work with such an amazing, diverse set of people for so long (even if we all seem to like hanging out in KL*). This is what I will remember: Take risks (no-one climbed Everest by staying at home) Think BIG Measure, Design, Implement, Monitor Look after your colleagues. They are amazing! And now we look forward… To Cork and whatever the next adventure will be! * We discovered on Thursday that many of us had spent time in Malaysia over the years. I blame our good friend Davide who was there for a period.

Back in July 2008, Facebook added the ability to take content you published elsewhere on the Internet and make it available to your friends on Facebook. I really liked this design and made use of it despite the flakiness of Facebook's implementation. Yesterday, Facebook informed users that they were killing this feature on 22 November 2011. Websites killing off features is nothing new but I'm disappointed for a number of reasons...

Just made some changes to the layout of my blog thanks to some new features provided by  Blogger... Main changes are: Cleaner layout for users New mobile-optimised layout Removal of stale links and broken content Really like the new features and the much improved tools for bloggers. The writing and editing environment is much better than what existed before.