wade womersley – york based software engineer
Engineering notes from the sharp end
wade womersley – york based software engineer I write the way I work: direct, useful, and more interested in what holds up in production than what sounds clever on a slide.
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Well it looks like one of my biggest wishes is coming true – The Crystal Maze is coming back to the world! However it quite possibly will not be a TV series to enjoy for a few years – boo! What it might be though is a theme park-esque style location to go to – … Read More “The Crystal Maze is back! …. in some format” »
I recently overheard a discussion in the SEO world to do with IPs and the dangerous* world of link acquisition. The discussion was to do with clients who ask for things like “unique class C” as a requirement. Many moons ago, IP was almost certainly a factor in link acquisition, big bad Google did not … Read More “IP Uniqueness – An SEO Perspective” »
There’s not much to say about this other than you have to watch it because, ignoring Beyonce’s lips, it works near perfectly. Thank you internet for bringing two apparently unrelated things together perfectly. So here it is, Single Ladies featuring Duck Tales.
What can only be described as “the 80’s in a movie” is finally here, the epic named Kung Fury. Described as “a homage and a love letter to the 80’s from the director David Sandberg”, this fill was a Kickstarter that was bound to succeed. Paying tribute to everything that was crazy and awesome in the … Read More “Kickstarted 80’s epic short movie Kung Fury Has Arrived!” »
NVIDIA’s latest GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics card has been officially confirmed to launch on 2nd June at the Computex 2015 event. NVDIA seems to be holding a big event at the show to launch their competitive, high-performance, GM200 based graphics cards to GeForce users which will be shown off at the event and live streamed … Read More “NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti Officially Launching on 2nd June At Computex – Brings Competitive Graphics Performance To GeForce” »
In 1954, IBM released the IBM 704 – the “supercomputer” of its time. Since then computer power has stuck relatively close to Moore’s Law and we now have a 1-trillion fold increase in the computing power available to us (or at least to people with access to modern day super computers, the rest of … Read More “50 year 1-trillion fold increase in computing – keep on going!” »
It appears that Nvidia might launch the Geforce GTX 980 Ti even earlier as expected as we are now hearing plenty of new rumors regarding it, including most of the specifications.According to a fresh report coming from the Korean HWBattle website, spotted by Techpowerup.com, and despite earlier report, Nvidia Geforce GTX 980 Ti will … Read More “Nvidia Geforce GTX 980 Ti – possible details and performance leaked” »
Have you ever been playing a game and gone away from your PC only to come back and find your monitor switched off? No problem right? Just move your mouse and it’s all back to norm….oh what on earth is this the game is now running at a weird smaller than desktop resolution! If you’ve had … Read More “Does Windows screw up your monitor resolution when your monitor sleeps (notably when a game is open?)” »
I just got my certificate through from Coursera for completing the Heterogeneous Parallel Programming by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Coursera and I’m very happy! It was a fun (and free) course that covered primarily CUDA programming but towards the end went on to OpenCL. Fun course to do and really helped me rethink parallel … Read More “Heterogeneous Parallel Programming – Completed and Certified!” »
Recently I wanted to make toad-in-the-hole, however I live with someone who has a gluten intolerance so regular Yorkshire Pudding’s would be a a big mistake – even most sausages in the stores have wheat in them so there was a challenge there too. I found a relatively simple recipe that stated 100mg gluten free … Read More “Gluten Free Yorkshire Puddings that work” »
