Fowlie's blog

A place for web technology, unix and music.

15 August 2022 5 minute read 0 Comments

My first keyboard build

After my last blog post I gave up trying to find the perfect keymap layout. There are so many pitfalls when designing a layered keyboard keymap, and I just got tired of remapping keys all the time ...
25 February 2022 11 minute read 0 Comments

Down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole

I’m writing this to share my experience adapting to weird keyboards and layouts. A few years ago a colleague of mine introduced me to 60% keyboards ...
24 August 2018 3 minute read 0 Comments

Winning algorithm for tic tac toe using a 3x3 magic...

I’m not sure why I did this, but after reading about the 3x3 magic square I wanted to write a tic tac toe winning algorithm ...
28 November 2017 5 minute read 0 Comments

Jump to server and change user without passwords

At work we only get access to the application servers through a jumpserver ...
24 August 2017 8 minute read 0 Comments

Deploy a spring boot webapp on digitalocean

I was asked to create a website for a startup company that has created a fire extinguishing training simulator using HTC Vive ...
05 October 2015 3 minute read 0 Comments

Getting operation name from cxf interceptor

In my current project we are using CXF and its logging interceptors to automatically log every inboud and outbound call to a web service ...
12 September 2015 5 minute read 0 Comments

Gradle and xldeploy

Our company uses XLDeploy from XebiaLabs to deploy apps and configurations ...
29 September 2014 0 minute read 0 Comments

Creating this blog

I recently wrote a simple Gradle plugin and shared it on GitHub ...
28 September 2014 1 minute read 0 Comments

Writing a gradle plugin

A lot of the development teams in my company use Jenkins every day ...