Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
I've been doing a lot more programming in Go recently, mostly because it has awesome concurrency primitives but also because it is generally a pretty amazing language. Unlike other languages which have threads, fibres or event-driven frameworks to achieve good concurrency, Go manages to avoid all of these but still remain readable. You can also reason about its behaviour very effectively due to…
If you've been following my excessively techy posts you will be aware that my personal notebook computer has been on the verge of utter failure for some time now. It has come to the point where I can no longer tolerate holding a finger in the "magic" spot to keep the screen alive long enough to update my Facebook status or other meaningless activities, and standing up in front of the TV with the…