Adelaide on two rolls of film. I left the digital camera at home and instead took the silver tank, the Olympus OM-1 made in 1973. M and I took The Overland train from Melbourne to Adelaide. My last train trip was a few years ago, travelling between Wellington and Auckland on the Northern Explorer. …
A reference for readers familiar with the DORA metrics. This is a mixture of information from the DORA reports, external authors, and my own experience in applying the DORA metrics across a large technology organisation.
If you’re new to the DORA metrics then first read State of the DORA …
Our efforts, those of the ill-fortuned;
our efforts are the efforts of the Trojans.
We will make a bit of progress; we will start
to pick ourselves up a bit; and we’ll begin
to be intrepid, and to have some hope.
But something always comes up, and stops us cold.
In the trench in front of us …
In writing LParen, a Lisp interpreter, the single Nolan-esque mind-bending idea for me has been implementing code execution. I can write a function, which itself is just a data structure, and execute it in the interpreter as a general computation. Characters, symbols, and numbers which previously …
