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 a long-time fan of simple UNIX tools that do one thing well and nothing else. At previous employers I've even taken great delight in asking interview questions in which the best answer would be a simple awk one-liner rather than a complicated multi-line catastrophe involving cat, grep, sed and perhaps even other tools. Poor interview techniques aside, awk is really useful, and if you have…