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Today marks my 7 year anniversary at CircleCI. Those of you who are familiar with startups know what a rarity this is. Over my career many of my colleagues tend to last 2-4 years at a company before moving on. While I’m not planning on leaving just yet, there’s been something on my mind. A project I’ve been wanting to build for years to sum up my experience at CircleCI.

As my 7 year anniversary approached, I figured today would be a great day to kick off this project and serve as a forcing function. Let’s talk about Continuous.Academy.

Let’s get straight to the “how” and stick around if you want to know the “why”.

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brew tap homebrew/cask-versions
brew install --cask temurin8

Now here’s some information on why this works and what it does.

Unfortunately I am deprecating two projects of mine, both of which have many users. The good news is that I have chosen great alternate solutions for each.

Happy New Year!

Last year was a down year for me. I wasn’t as active on social media as I have been in the past and I barely blogged at all. I’m going to be changing that for 2023. As we begin this new year, I wanted to quickly share what my plans are going forward.

One of the most recurring issues I see on the CircleCI Discuss forum are people playing around with SSH keys in order to get them to work with external servers. There are different ways to handle this. Here’s my favorite method to do it.

In continuing with my series of CircleCI desktop wallpapers (after over a year!), here’s another one.

Since my last one, CircleCI has raised a series F round of funding and we hit 10 years old. I myself am getting closer to my 6-year mark at the company and felt very reflective. Like Pac-Man, CircleCI started in a very different time. A pretty impressive journey but we’re just getting started.

You’ll find the preview in this post but you can download the full resolution 4K/16:9 version (for normal screens) and a 4K/16:10 version (for Macbook-like screens) from the links below.

I tried installing the Android “sdkmanager” on Ubuntu and I ran into several problems. A lot of the instructions I found online tell you to use Android Studio instead, which I don’t want to do, or provided instructions that simply didn’t work for me. Here’s how I installed the Android Command Line tool, sdkmanager on Ubuntu 20.04.