Welcome to whizzy.org, the personal website of Will Cooke (aka 8none1).

About Will Cooke

Will Cooke is a software engineer, engineering manager and Linux developer based in the United Kingdom. He works at Chainguard on the OS team, co-hosts the Late Night Linux podcast, and was previously Director of Ubuntu Desktop at Canonical.

This site collects articles about software development, Linux, Ubuntu, Home Assistant, solar energy, self-hosting and open source. Learn more about Will Cooke or read the recent posts below.

Acer Aspire One & Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04

I’m really happy with my new Aspire One. I was a bit late coming to the whole netbook party. In the last few months I’ve been looking at the various options and the Aspire One was still the best deal in my opinion. [Read More]
Categories: linux

Google announce Maps API version 3

In a post on the Google Geo Developers Blog, Mickey Kataria, Product Manager of something – Google Maps I’m guessing, announced Google Maps API version 3. It will move away from the G…. name space and to the google…… name space. [Read More]
Categories: Google Maps Javascript