https://ampretia.co.uk/tags/development/Recent content in Development on Ampretia:DevHugoen-gbWed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ampretia.co.uk/post/the-friction-feature/Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ampretia.co.uk/post/the-friction-feature/Why the inbuilt tax of traditional software development wasn&rsquo;t a bug — and what happens when AI removes it entirely.https://ampretia.co.uk/oldposts/2019-07-19-getting-setup-for-development-centos/Fri, 19 Jul 2019 08:17:23 +0000https://ampretia.co.uk/oldposts/2019-07-19-getting-setup-for-development-centos/<p>At work we&rsquo;ll often do &lsquo;<a href="http://proterra.me.uk/nx01/programming/2017/06/28/tell-me-and-i-forget-teach-me-and-i-may-remember-involve-me-and-i-learn/" title="group testing' sessions or 'internal hackathons'">group testing&rsquo; sessions or &lsquo;internal hackathons&rsquo;</a>. What struck me about the last one was that setting up your development environment can surprisingly tricky, especailly if it&rsquo;s for a style of development or langage you don&rsquo;t generally use.</p> <blockquote> <p>TL;DR: <a href="https://gist.github.com/mbwhite/0cc46aba41569551a214827f89895eeb">gist of commands</a></p> </blockquote> <h1 id="what-are-we-developing-for">What are we developing for?</h1> <p>The setup we are going for here, is a Node.js and Java environment using VSCode - with a view to using the IBM Blockchain Platform extension for writing applications and smart contracts for Hyperledger Fabric</p>