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.
Well, I almost made it two years between posts. Life, changing jobs, mental health, and the general state of the world will do that. I actually have a few blog posts I've got saved up for writing and it's a bit of a race between me penning them here or $work getting a technical blog site running (since invariably these kinds of posts always start from a $work problem).
Anyhoo, let's start with the…
Disclaimer: Most of this post was written in 2014, but it's been languishing in my drafts folder for a long time and I thought I'd push the publish button rather than waiting to perfect it. The original context was that I was attempting to perform integration testing on a client application that needed to handle a variety of different network behaviours - including TCP resets. I mulled over how…
I seem to recall first being introduced to MOSH after I saw a link to it in my RSS feed, and almost simultaneously in my work's developer mailing list (where people tend to post about new and interesting technologies). People were literally losing their shit over it (well, ok, not literally) and declaring they would never use anything but MOSH ever again. I may be dramatising somewhat.
It's…