Blog Posts
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AI. Finally, a Reason for My Homelab
For the past decade I’ve been running some form of a home lab. It started as a playground to experiment with various projects, and has provided a learning ground for testing and breaking projects. I’ve often spent more time fixing than building, but that’s part of the fun. Fast forward, 10 years, there are many awesome tutorials and videos from people doing useful things with their homelab. From Jeff Geerling awesome homelab guides, with practical tips on running a home server for media content, Christian Lempa, has a great overview of running home assistant and various VMs and Kubernetes servers...Read AI. Finally, a Reason for My Homelab -
Using a Raspberry Pi as a home network Bastion Host
I’ve been at Teleport for a bit now and unlike the previous developer companies I’ve worked at. Teleports Community Edition provides something useful for my home setup. In this post I’ll outline why I converted an old Raspberry Pi to be a home bastion, and how you can do the same. Preview Why setup a home bastion? Firstly, for the uninitiated a Bastion host is a special-purpose computer designed to provides access to a network and it’s been specifically designed to withstand attacks. A Bastion lives inside of a network vs a Jumphost and once setup it provides a central...Read Using a Raspberry Pi as a home network Bastion Host -
Gravitational
2019 is shaping up to be a busy year. After my last post, I had a few meetings and ended out meeting the Gravitational team to see what they’ve been up. I have been following the founders and the growth of Gravitational since they left Rackspace to start Gravitational in 2015. Gravitational helps companies securely deliver applications into any environment. Gravity provides a bubble of consistency for delivering applications. Teleport provides privileged access management for cloud-native infrastructure that doesn’t get in the way. More on that below. These products solve two problems I’ve encounters in the past. While running Airbrake,...Read Gravitational -
2019 Update
As always, it’s been a while since I’ve updated my blog. I want to say I’ll be doing this more often, but historical precedent says otherwise. I’ve been slowly making updates to the rest of the site. Pruning and cleaning up my portfolio to reflect the SaaS projects I’ve been working on the last 6 years. Due to many factors, I’ve been unable to keep the site up-to-date with public updates, but I’ve lots of fun stories I can tell 1-on-1. 👋 Leaving Solarwinds Cloud I left Solarwinds Cloud at the end of last year. I had a great time...Read 2019 Update -
Writing about a new product feature
I was recently asked by my friends at FilePicker to give some advice on how to write an archetypal blog post for new product features. This is a common question I get asked, so I’m going to outline best practices in 2015, and then use these to scope a blog post for FilePicker. Best Practices Blog Posts A blog post is a useful way to communicate a new product and feature release. Using a blog makes it easier for the whole team to quickly post and interact with customers. It allows for quick and iterative announcements that can be synced...Read Writing about a new product feature -
Goodbye TRIL.
For the last 2 and a half years, I have been working at TRIL. Last week I handed in my notice to join a small but highly ambitious Dublin based start-up. Leaving TRIL was a difficult decision, it was my first full-time employment out of University, and it has been an amazing opportunity to work with so many talented people. My blog has been very quiet for two years as so much of my work has been classed as IP sensitive. At TRIL I had the chance to work across all research strands, working with top researchers, professors and practitioners....Read Goodbye TRIL. -
24hr The Web | Team A | http://www.handinhand.ie/
For the last 24hrs I have been helping a team to build a website for CDS Helping Hands. As part of 24hr the web. . A big thanks to Stuart and Daragh for setting everything up and sorting us out with loads of sponsored food. Big shout-out to Joe Burger, IQContent, Bel & Bellucci and many more. We took this site http://www.cdshelpinghands.ie to this (all in 24hrs!) http://www.handinhand.ie/ My role was IA and UX and most of the work was done at the first half of the project, later on I helped to create images and helped upload images and...Read 24hr The Web | Team A | http://www.handinhand.ie/ -
5 top tips for Interaction Designers at a Start up weekend.
On the weekend of the 7th to 9th, I spend two days and an evening in an old renovated wheat storehouse that is the digital hub. The two days were part of the 54hr start up weekend, hosted by the NDRC 1. Come with your machine setup. I forget that I had previously installed Windows 7, and had not reinstalled Adobe Creative suite onto my laptop. Lucky the location at the NDRC the internet connection was great (2mb download!), so it didn’t take long to get the latest CS5 demo onto my laptop. I was presently surprised with the latest...Read 5 top tips for Interaction Designers at a Start up weekend. -
2009 Review.
Conferences. Presented at ERIC. Presented bettie at eComm. Hosted and Organised IxDA Session at iHCI. After hours activity. Organised and ran an Arudino Workshop. Organised DEFUSE: Design for Use. IxDA Dublin event with over 200 people. Winning Team of 24hr Design Challenge. 3rd in UCD Campus Company Development Program. Skills Acquired. A better understanding of grounded theory, and learnt a lot from our ethnography partners. Expanded use of video as data gathering and communication tool. More advanced hardware and software prototyping. AS3 knowledge has expanded 500%. Even writing classes, and visuals in code. Better understanding and visualization of users usage...Read 2009 Review. -
IxDA Dublin. One year on.
Recently my blog has been very quite, mostly because I can’t blog about the TRIL centre and secondly because I have been very busy doing the below. This post will show the growth of the IxDA community as we prepare for our one year anniversary. I moved to Ireland one year ago to start my first graduate job as an interaction designer. I had just graduated a product design degree at Middlesex university, and was luckily to get the a job at the TRIL centre. My degree had prepared me well, but as I was the only interaction designer I...Read IxDA Dublin. One year on.
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