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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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” »
So I’ve just installed the Noctua NH-D15 and I must admit I’m instantly impressed by both its size and cooling performance. It’s a rather beasty sized thing as you can see here and when the size of the case is on it quite literally touches it so visually it’s the elephant in the room, but audibly? … Read More “Noctua NH-D15 – yup, it really is “that good”” »
So I got a call around lunch today saying I won the prize at http://startreatment.co/star-access/ for a dinner reservation for Valentine’s today at a nice restaurant, I was a little taken back but very happy – it’s a free Valentine’s day meal for me and my husband, great! As with most of these competition’s I wasn’t expecting to … Read More “Won a @Heineken Valentine’s Dinner Reservation – ONLY a reservation” »
Over the last few days I’ve been working on interfaces to use across multiple programming languages to standardise how some things are done. This stemmed from a requirement to allow processing to be dealt with in any language from any other language. People do this all the time, it’s nothing new, but they generally stick … Read More “Standardising logging and parallelisation in multiple languages” »
I’m not sure what to think of this Lego® trailer for 50 Shades of Grey. I’ve found the whole 50 Shades Phenomenom to just fly by me and now even Lego® is in on it. I feel like this is missing some kind of humour that makes it Lego®. I’m all for Lego® to continue making parodies but this … Read More “50 Shades of (Lego®) Grey” »
Anthem Blue Cross-Blue Shield office in Denver. Andrew Williams (KMGH-TV) Well as far as hacks go, this is pretty amazing and if they are right and millions of customers have had their name, address, DoB, and social security numbers stolen, a lot of people could find themselves being impersonated over the coming months or even years. … Read More “Massive Anthem health insurance hack exposes millions of customers’ details” »
So today my 18 “bottles” (one was actually a can!) of pale ale arrived from HonestBrew that I talked about yesterday. They arrived in a segmented box with….Styrofoam packaging peanuts! So of course even though I was careful, the kitchen had a light showering of them all over the place as they generally just fly around … Read More “HonestBrew – It arrives!” »
During my recent stumblings I came across a a nice website that ships interesting ales to your door. It’s called HonestBrew. I did a quick Google and found a £10 discount for the first order too so I obviously had to place an order. The signup process was straight forward; you get asked a few … Read More “HonestBrew – Craft Ales to your door” »
Tolkien lore led a Texas boy to suspension after he brought his “one ring” to school. Kermit Elementary School officials called it a threat when the 9-year-old boy, Aiden Steward, in a playful act of make-believe, told a classmate he could make him disappear with a ring forged in fictional Middle Earth’s Mount Doom. “It … Read More “Texas boy suspended after bringing ‘ring of power’ to school – NY Daily News” »
