Posts by 'Jesse Kershaw'

MKV to Chromecast

I bought a Chromecast so I could wirelessly stream video from my PC to my TV. I don't have a 4k TV and don't intend to buying one anytime soon, so the standard Chromecast seemed reasonable.

I hadn't done much research into the Chromecast and had assumed ...

Simple Victories

Around this time last year I saw a tweet from @anildash

The idea being, it's easy to remember the failures throughout the year and let the good things slip by.

Java GC Tuning

JVM Garbage Collection wasn't something I'd ever had to worry about. Until recently. GC is a target of many jokes but in my experience it had always worked "good enough". That is, I'd never had the need for a large heap and high throughput.

That changed when ...

Continuous Blogging Pt II

It's been a while since I moved my blog to Pelican + Github + Travis + S3. At the risk of only blogging about how I build this blog, I thought I'd do a follow up post to Continuos Blogging.

I'm going to give a lighting talk at the Auckland Continuous Delivery meetup on how I build the blog and there were a few improvements I wanted to get done before the talk. Here's what I did to improve the site's performance.