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Learnings from a new manager

June 26, 2023 / / 0 Comments

It’s been ~12 months since I started managing an engineering team, and I’ve learned so much from them. Here are 9 things I wished my previous managers did (or didn’t do).

No scheduled 1-on-1’s

Make it clear that you don’t have to wait until a recurring touchpoint to bring up issues. Always be available for chats; enabling them is your primary job. Also, translates to: don’t be so busy it deters people from reaching out. Having them think, “He’s probably not busy; I can give him a call,” is a good thing.

Goals

Please don’t ask them to translate company … Read more

Switching Tracks – Saying Goodbye to VMware

May 24, 2022 / / 8 Comments

After almost 6 years with VMware (1 month short!), it’s with a bittersweet feeling that I’m saying goodbye to my extended family this week. It’s been said before and I’ll say it again: the connections and friends I made at VMware, will last a lifetime.

VMware

I was first drawn to VMware by NSX. When I joined, it was fairly new in the market and I’ve been lucky enough to see it being commoditized while helping organizations adopt and architect NSX into their networks. I’ve had the pleasure of working as a Solutions Engineer in the NSBU for about 3 … Read more

Introducing the Stream Deck Plugin for Zoom

June 17, 2020 /

UPDATE: The Zoom plugin has been succeeded by MuteDeck. More buttons, and support for Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, and Webex. 

After getting a Stream Deck earlier this year, I built a way to control my Zoom meetings with it. For one, this sent keyboard shortcuts directly to the Zoom client to toggle mute and video and had the ability to leave a meeting with the press of a (physical) button. There was a drawback: the SD buttons didn’t synchronize with the Zoom client, meaning the button could show a muted icon, while the meeting was not muted. After doing … Read more

A better Zoom experience with a Stream Deck

March 13, 2020 /

UPDATE: The Zoom plugin has been succeeded by MuteDeck. More buttons, and support for Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, and Webex. 

Since moving to a global and work-from-home role, about a year ago, I’ve been using Zoom a lot. I spend around 4-5 hours a day in sessions. While I always try to give my full attention to the conversation, there are times that I’ll be multi-tasking: taking notes, re-reading an email thread on the subject, reaching out to other colleagues on the subject, etc. Plus, it always bothered me to be staring at a person for a few … Read more

My 2019 in books

December 30, 2019 / / 0 Comments

I like to read, and I learn better using books. This is why I always go through as many books as I can in a year. Goodreads keeps track for me, and in 2019, the tally was 43. Every year, I do an internal review of these books, but certain people convinced me just to post this. Here are my top picks!

Growth

I know, such a generic title. Basically, these are non-fiction books that I’ve used to extract learnings from and use in daily work or personal life.

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Building a cheap alternative for CrashPlan for Home

October 23, 2017 / / 0 Comments

I use CrashPlan Home for all my off-site backups of my client devices. It’s a pretty neat and usable backup client which works on Mac OS, Linux and Windows. From the client you can restore individual files and it runs as a service for continuous backups. It’s a set and forget application, which is nice.

Bye Bye CrashPlan for Home

Recently, Code42 announced they’d be shutting down CrashPlan for Home to focus on their business customers. Meaning every consumer has to transfer their backups to another solution. I had the family plan, which allows you to backup multiple computers (I … Read more

Qt QNetworkAccessManager causing latency spikes on wifi

June 17, 2017 / / 4 Comments

I don’t post a lot from my other life, the programming personality, most of my posts come from my adventures in virtualization. I have a bit more fun writing about virtualization than I do writing about programming, plus the number of coding blogs out there is enormous. But I’ve been troubleshooting an extremely hard to pin down issue with one of my applications (WhatPulse), where there would be a latency spike every 10 seconds (or less), only when primarily connected on wifi on Mac OS 10.12 (lower versions don’t seem affected). I’ve been pulling my hair on this … Read more

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