Ian Cleary 📡🛰

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Ian Cleary

I am a RF/Microwave Engineer who specializes in satellite systems, cross functional communication, and software engineering best practices.

Some of my projects

This is a portfolio of options I am exploring, learning, and sharing here with you.

Ubuntu Desktop Configuration

I practice the Infrastructure as Code philosophy on my desktop configuration, using Makefiles and Ansible. My work is released here iancleary/ansible-desktop.
Python Package Quickstart

Speed up your python package generation using my python package template cookiecutter gh:iancleary/pypackage.
RF Systems Design Server

FastRF combines interests in Radio Frequency (RF) Microwave Engineering, Python Development, Web Servers, and Databases.
Dockerfiles

I am comfortable the Jupyter interactive computing environment. My personal-notebook is open source and on DockerHub, via docker pull iancleary/notebook .

From my blog

This is a place for me to write and explore ideas, tools, process, etc.

Enabling Multitouch Gestures in Elementary OS 5.1 Hera

Elementary OS is a Linux Distribution with a design vision and mission that I believe in. I'm proud to support them and am excited for their Elementary OS 6 release and their AppCenter for Everyone campaign. Here's my write up on how I configured my Dell XPS 15's trackpad to use multitouch gestures, while runnign Elementary OS 5.1 Hera!

Ian Cleary

Thursday, September 17, 2020 · 5 min read

Test and Publish a Python Package to PyPi using Poetry and GitHub Actions

I created a python package template using Cookiecutter to showcase two GitHub actions workflow files I've seen and used successfully. The goal is to have automated testing and publishing of a Python package to PyPi (using GitHub actions).

Ian Cleary

Saturday, August 29, 2020 · 4 min read

Automating your desktop with Ansible

When I learned about infrastructure as code concept, I thought it would be a fun learning experience to try it on my Ubuntu desktop. Here is my story of the ways I found to help configure and maintain my desktop configuration.

Ian Cleary

Saturday, May 2, 2020 · 7 min read

An introduction to CI/CD with Travis CI and Python

My first blog post on continuous integration between GitHub and Travis-CI. Uses python package testing as an example.

Ian Cleary

Sunday, December 8, 2019 · 11 min read