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.
This is a small rant, and the title should already be very familiar to you, if you have paid for anything online in the last 15 or so years. Nothing (or very little) seems to have changed in that time, remarkably. We still seem to be affected by the same range of ridiculously trivial problems - all easily solvable with a tiny amount of Javascript, mind you - and not making any further progress in…
Disclaimer: I'm not what I would call a "hard-core" Chef user, but I'll explain in a moment why that is irrelevant.
I've been working on and off with Chef for almost a year and a half now; certainly not something I use every day or even every week but perhaps a handful of times per month something will come up that requires me to jump into Chef land and get some real work done. There are…