The well known A, B, C series paper sizes may seem arbitrary at first glance, but they are actually based on some simple basic principles which make it easy to calculate and understand. They are quite intuitive and easy to work with and are based on good mathematical foundations.

AWS recently announced the ability to use Docker images in your Lambda functions. Here I’ll go over a basic set of steps to get a simple example working.

When mapping tall buildings, it’s important to ensure that the drawn area matches the building’s footprint - where it intersects with the earth.

How to set up an Angular application. Secured with Auth0 logins and protected API requests. With the configuration loaded dynamically via a web request.

Sometimes you may need to run an app that you’re not comfortable with or don’t necessarily trust. Android comes with a feature that lets you run such apps in relative isolation, without compromising your security or privacy.

Grub Reboot Picker is a tray application that helps you reboot into other operating systems or kernels, UEFI, BIOS, or just reboot.

Steps that I take to install WSL with Ubuntu, and set up a dev environment to work with Docker, correct permissions and a few other tweaks, on Windows 10. I’ll show the commands to run with explanations.