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 not sure I've mentioned it on this blog before, but almost three years ago I started a number of online courses around 3D modelling and game development. Way back in 2013 I had done a course on Coursera which introduced me to event loop-based game programming, although the programming difficult of the course was very low. Later on suggestion from a co-worker I looked into Löve2D and took the…
Perhaps a little late in the year to be conducting a personal retrospective on the years past, but I feel at this point I'm starting to wonder about the challenges ahead. The last two to three years I've distinctly changed my career direction from systems engineering, to "DevOps" (whatever that means anymore), to developer. Sure, I'm technically a Computer Scientist by tertiary education standards…
I'm currently at the Puppet Developer course at Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam. We drove up on Friday from Berlin (which should have taken 6 hours, but due to traffic jams and sanity stops it took almost 11 hours). We've now spent the weekend exploring Amsterdam, which is an amazing looking city. The canals are breathtaking, and despite the frenzied bicycles and scooters constantly whizzing past…