Brisbane Photography
September 3 2022 · brisbane landscape-photography
A few snaps from a weekend in Brisbane.
1968 NATO Software Engineering Conference
August 29 2022 · tech software-engineering
In 1968 a group of computer scientists gathered in Garmisch, Germany for what became known as the NATO Software Engineering Conference. The conference was themed around the apparent software crisis: the world is becoming more reliant on software, yet software systems are getting larger, miss …
Delivery Lead Time In Practice
Delivery Lead Time (DLT) is a software delivery metric popularised in the book Accelerate (2018). It measures the time it takes to ship changes for a given code base. I work on an Engineering Insights system at a BigTech company. Delivery Lead Time is one of the metrics we measure and provide for …
Age of Blue Memory - Odysseus Elytis
Olive groves and vineyards as far as to the sea
Red fishing boats farther still to memory
Golden cricket husks of August in a midday sleep
With shells or seaweed. And that boat’s hull
Newly built, green, that in the water’s peaceful embrace still reads:
The Lord Will Provide
Like leaves …