Cradle Mountain
May 13 2022 · tasmania landscape-photography
Crater Lake
Cradle Mountain
…Pandarus in The Iliad
The Iliad has many central heroes: Agamemnon, Menelaus, Nestor, Diomedes, Achilles, Priam, Hector, Paris, the list goes on. Then there are hundreds of named characters who get introduced in the Catalogue of the Ships or the Trojan Battle Order , and then meet a quick death at the hands of a central hero.
Pandarus is a character that falls between these two extremes. He’s a nobleman fighting on the side of Troy who we’re first introduced to in the Trojan Battle Order of Book II. …
Melbourne Street Photography - IV
April 17 2022 · melbourne street-photography
Interchange
Docklands
IC Initiatives at Big Tech
April 8 2022 · tech software-engineering
As an: engineer at a large tech company how might the engineering work I propose get implemented?
Individual Contributor (IC) Engineers are the experts of the systems they develop and operate. They often propose what I’m calling IC Initiatives: units of work that take typically one to four weeks to complete, generally focused on improving the technical quality of the system. Examples include upgrading major versions of languages and libraries, significant code refactoring to reduce …