Category: Video

Hi, I’m Adron & This is My Gear Setup

I sat down and made a short video of my systems setup and related gear. I’ve always enjoyed seeing other peoples’ setups so figured I’d join the mix and show you all what I work with. Happy to answer any questions too, cheers!

In addition to the video intro I’ve created some additional repositories and related things that I use frequently that may be useful.

Ubuntu Dev Setup Repository: This repo dev-setup-ubuntu has some installation scripts and related collateral that I use to get virtual machines built in an automated way. The focus of this is for setting up development boxes and not for setting up servers.

Video Stream Hacking AKA Twitch & Youtube Live Streaming: This repo is setup with notes and eventually I’ll likely add scripts and related collateral that I use during filming Twitch/Youtube Streams.

Full Gear List: If you’re interested in what makes this possible, at a more detailed level, this is the list to check out.

Thrashing Code Sessions Week 34 of 2018

In this session I talk through the issues I had previous session (but give context, so no need to re-review it) of the environment variable problems I was having. I detail how Jetbrains Rider deals with environment variables for the user session specifically versus how those are dealt with if you’re using something like Visual Studio Code and its built in terminal. After that I move on to doing some refactoring and moving toward some feature additions.

In this session my friend Jeremy joins to setup PXE boot, net install, Debian loads, configuration, Ansible, and a whole lot more to setup a network and cluster of machines for use. It’s long, but he covers a LOT of ground with plenty off tips and tricks to pick up. NOTE: the sound is rough in some places. Will try to fix that in post-production editing. No promises just yet though, just crank it to 11 in the meantime.

Chapter 2 in My Twitch Streaming

A while back I started down the path of getting a Twitch Channel started. At this point I’ve gotten a channel setup which I’ve dubbed Thrashing Code albeit it still just has “adronhall” all over it. I’ll get those details further refined as I work on it more.

Today I recorded a new Twitch stream about doing a twitch stream and created an edited video of all the pieces and cameras and angles. I could prospectively help people get started, it’s just my experiences so far and efforts to get everything connected right. The actual video stream recording is available, and I’ll leave it on the channel. However the video I edited will be available and I’ll post a link here.

Tomorrow will be my first official Twitch stream at 3pm PST. If you’re interested in watching check out my Twitch profile here follow and it’ll ping you when I go live. This first streaming session, or episode, or whatever you want to call it, will include a couple topics. I’ll be approaching these topics from that of someone just starting, so if you join help hold me to that! Don’t let me skip ahead or if you notice I left out something key please join and chat at me during the process. I want to make sure I’m covering all the bases as I step through toward achieving the key objectives. Which speaking of…

Tomorrow’s Mission Objectives

  1. Create a DataStax Enterprise Cassandra Cluster in Google Cloud Platform.
  2. Create a .NET project using the latest cross-platform magical bits that will have a library for abstracting the data source(s), a console interface for using the application, and of course a test project.
  3. Configure & connect to the distributed database cluster.

Mission Stretch Objectives

  1. Start a github repo to share the project with others.
  2. Setup some .github templates for feature request issues or related issues.
  3. Write up some Github Issue Feature requests and maybe even sdd some extra features to the CLI for…??? no idea ??? determine 2-3 during the Twitch stream.

If you’d like to follow along, here’s what I have installed. You’re welcome to a range of tooling to follow along with that is the same as what I’ve got here or a variance of other things. Feel free to bring up tooling if you’re curious about it via chat and I’ll answer questions where and when I can.

  • Ubuntu v18.04
  • .NET core v2.1
  • DataStax Enterprise v6

Getting Started with Twitch | Twitch Thrashing Code Stream

I’d been meaning to get started for some time. I even tweeted, just trying to get further insight into what and why people watch Twitch streams and of course why and who produces their own Twitch streams.

With that I set out to figure out how to get the right tooling setup for Twitch streaming on Linux and MacOS. Here’s what I managed to dig up.

First things first, and somewhat obviously, go create a Twitch account. The sign up link is up in the top right corner.

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Thugerdashery, Hacking, Designing, Thrashing, Hats, Hoodies, Beanies & Gats Yo!

I’m was hacking this Sunday after wrapping up a ton of work putting together the upcoming Docker screencast for Pluralsight, which I’m super stoked on it going live in the coming days. If you don’t have a subscription there you should go get one ASAP. However tonight, having wrapped that up I decided I’d work on some code for an upcoming project but then…

SQUIRREL! (Click for that scene)

https://twitter.com/caseyrosenthal/status/412367923378786304

…and then I got an idea to do a full stack implementation from Donnie…

https://twitter.com/dberkholz/status/412433361244663808

…so then I made it happen, enjoy.

http://vimeo.com/adronhall/thugerdashery

I did all of this instead, then wrote it down, made a video, threw together some stock images, edited the logo, some design, a theme, and some other elements all in about 35 minutes. Well, the site took 35 minutes, blogging it took way longer than that. But I needed a break from what I was doing, something to get myself out of the important code that I was working on so I could tackle it fresh again tomorrow. So with that I present to you, the Thugerdashery, the hat shop o’ thug life and a distraction of squirrely proportions. Enjoy…