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.
Hi everyone, and welcome back to my exceedingly sparse tales of technology adventures! Strap in for an excessively long introduction to this one, it's boring and tedious as hell.
I'll skim over the introduction to the introduction, but like many of you, I've had a gradually growing collection of digital images. Starting in roughly 2001 when my family had a Kodak DC120 1MP Digital Camera (yes, one…
Feature flags, flippers, toggles, selective rollouts and various other terms have been used to describe systems that allow you to deploy code without necessarily forcing it on all of your users. I won't describe it here as it has already been covered in depth by a variety of companies and people, notably (and not necessarily in date order) Flickr, Github, Forrst, Martin Fowler and many others. The…