About

I post what interests me. This started off as a software engineering blog, but has taken an abrupt turn to photography and the arts.

Lake Gordon, Tasmania.

Lake Gordon, Tasmania.

Photography is my real joy. Like most, I started off with a point and shoot that I carried around on hikes. Living in the South Island of New Zealand tricked me into thinking I was a better photographer than I was. I've kept all of my early photographs on this blog though I don't recommend looking at them. I then saw the aurora and had to learn how my camera worked in order to capture it. Landscapes and night skies were my favourite until I moved to Melbourne where both are about as common as a day without protesters in the CBD. Over the last couple of years I've been shooting more film. I enjoy it as a medium; both the results I get in my pictures and how it makes me think as a photographer. I'm most proud of a few albums:

Nile

Nile

On the tech side I primarily write about Software Delivery – how we go about writing, testing, and ship software. Making our systems easy to change and easy to ship is more important than meeting the design or intent of what it was designed for. Software Delivery is made of up of computer systems and team practices. Across my work I’ve seen seen hundreds of real-world systems, and seen patterns emerge in the practice and tactics teams use to either delivery high quality code at a high velocity, through to code at a velocity. Delivery Driven Development captures my philosophy, and the DevOps tag lists posts on similar topics.

Time and place

Time and place

Get in touch by sending me an email: logan@isthisit.nz.