{"id":1462,"date":"2015-01-08T13:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T17:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2023-11-24T16:51:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T20:51:41","slug":"musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2015\/musings\/","title":{"rendered":"Musings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, 2014 seems to have zoomed by and I only manged to make 3 posts to this blog.\u00a0There was some (non spam) comment activity from folks who&#8217;d found articles I&#8217;d written that were useful to them &#8211; getting feedback is always nice!<\/p>\n<p>I was quite busy with\u00a0my work on JavaScript runtimes (specifically Node\/V8). You can check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/developerworks\/web\/nodesdk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IBM DeveloperWorks page<\/a> and grab the product of my team&#8217;s efforts. Folks that are keen to see code &#8211; should check my <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/andrewlow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GitHub account<\/a> and you&#8217;ll find ports of <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/andrewlow\/v8ppc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">V8 for PowerPC<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/andrewlow\/v8z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">s390\/zLinux<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Late in the year I switched roles at moved to the team that is delivering container runtimes on the IBM Bluemix cloud. We managed to rush something out the door for <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160314064215\/http:\/\/europe-2014.dockercon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DockerCon Europe<\/a>. It even made the IBM www front page:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">IBM Containers on the <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/LHPldyhUO0\">http:\/\/t.co\/LHPldyhUO0<\/a> home page <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/vO41VimB1R\">http:\/\/t.co\/vO41VimB1R<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ibm?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ibm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/docker?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#docker<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/Q0gQg6G0Oz\">pic.twitter.com\/Q0gQg6G0Oz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Roo (@andrew_low) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrew_low\/status\/540935078172708864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 5, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Still lots to do in this rapidly evolving\u00a0space, so it should be an interesting 2015 (which might keep me away from doing side projects).<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact I\u00a0didn&#8217;t manage to turn out very many posts here, I was tinkering away in my limited spare time. From the top of my head: I fixed an XBox360, did lots of 3D printing (including some 2 color prints); modified my Printrbot to be more reliable; replaced some capacitors in a failing DSL modem to fix it; charged a FitBit using\u00a0a hacked USB cable.. maybe I&#8217;ll try to post up a few of those as I do have notes (each of these posts takes a couple of hours usually).<\/p>\n<p>So there you go, I&#8217;ve managed to break the ice and start writing here again. I have some work related stuff that I&#8217;ll be posting up here soon and hope to document some of the tinkering projects I&#8217;ve\u00a0done (and have queued up) as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, 2014 seems to have zoomed by and I only manged to make 3 posts to this blog.\u00a0There was some (non spam) comment activity from folks who&#8217;d found articles I&#8217;d written that were useful to them &#8211; getting feedback is always nice! I was quite busy with\u00a0my work on JavaScript runtimes (specifically Node\/V8). You can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2015\/musings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Musings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soap-box"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}