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'm continuing my winning streak of publishing a blog post once every 5 months, and what better reason than to rant about something? I feel slightly conflicted about this one but at the same time I'm annoyed enough to write this... anyway, enjoy.
Email is an annoying domain of the internet. It features heavily on my list of things I don't want to be responsible for anymore, in addition to DNS, BGP…
I had a very brief moment of inspiration this weekend when a realisation occurred to me. It's nothing amazing, and it has probably already been mentioned many (dozens of, thousands of?) times before but I'll say it anyway. My fundamental approach to work has changed due to the "cloud", or rather, easily provisionable and destroyable virtual machines. This may be pretty obvious but it's worth…