Ahmad BilalUsing Multipass with cloud-initI upgraded my MacBook Pro to macOS Big Sur last week. Even though most of the applications worked fine, I encountered a few compatibility…Nov 24, 2020Nov 24, 2020
Ahmad BilalBilal’s Home Office/Studio TourWith all this COVID-19 social isolation in progress, I thought it might be a good time to share my home office/studio setup. For full…Apr 26, 20202Apr 26, 20202
Ahmad BilalJourney of a Line of Code on GitLast weekend I was going through Git internals, and did a little exercise to better understand what happens behind the scenes when a line…Mar 31, 2020Mar 31, 2020
Ahmad BilalSetting up a Headless Raspberry Pi 3I picked up a Raspberry Pi 3 a while back, but didn’t get a chance to play with it much. I wanted to set it up as a headless device…May 19, 2019May 19, 2019
Ahmad BilalStellarium Display Scaling on HiDPI/4K/UHD Ubuntu/LinuxStellarium is an awesome cross-platform desktop astronomy software. However, this is not a review of Stellarium and its awesomeness, but a…Nov 20, 2018Nov 20, 2018
Ahmad BilalThe Perfect Mobile Workstation?This is an interesting time for laptop power users, since there are some compelling options out there for those who want to get some…Oct 29, 20182Oct 29, 20182
Ahmad Bilal10 Product Management Lessons Learnt from Issues with Google PhotosI have used Google Photos since the service was released. It was perhaps the first useful product of its kind for casual smartphone…Jul 21, 2018Jul 21, 2018
Ahmad BilalUsing C# Managed Libraries in ScilabBack when I was working in a clean tech startup, our Power Systems Integration team was investigating modeling and simulation tools, which…Jul 19, 2018Jul 19, 2018
Ahmad BilalFixing DNS Issues in Ubuntu 18.04 LTSShort post today, on fixing DNS issues in the latest Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I upgraded my ThinkPad from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and started hitting…May 20, 20188May 20, 20188
Ahmad BilalLife with the iPad Pro 10.5This morning, when I had to write a rather lengthy email to my feature team regarding investigations on a new feature idea, instead of…Aug 26, 2017Aug 26, 2017
