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.
As you may or may not be aware, I work at SoundCloud. I also write music from time to time, but outside of sharing on Facebook I don't tend to make any of it public. So far I've missed the opportunity to promote any of it, and I thought I'd test out our embedded player widgets so enjoy the following tracks :)
For a long time I've shunned stereotypes such as the hacker sitting in a dark basement listening to repetitive music with headphones on while they code into the early hours of the morning. My early hours of the morning are usually spent rocking the baby back to sleep and then trying to get back to sleep myself, and I don't live in a basement. Nor do I particularly enjoy listening to techno, trance…