In my time at a Big Tech Company I was the Technical Lead for an internal DevEx tool, Engineering Insights. Over two and a half years our team developed a data application that provided actionable software engineering metrics relating to software delivery, reliability, and security of the services that engineering teams developed and ran. We had a joke metric that wasn’t on the dashboard – Mean Time To Reorg (The real MTTR). During my tenure of five years at the company a large scale …

A collection of nightscapes shot on the Fuji GW690iii medium format camera with Kodak Vision 3 500T ECN-2 film.

I published a photo book that presents the landscape and environment of Hydra, Greece. In October 2023, I spent a week on the island. The photography gods were with me, and the photographs I took formed a cohesive narrative. I wrote about this earlier …

Introducing the 2024 autumn collection. The shot above was out at Melbourne’s favourite beach that isn’t really a beach – St Kilda. I’ve taken similar shots over the harbour over the last couple of years and they usually suffer from a muddy horizon. Those smoke/dust/fast food exhaust fumes emitted from Geelong …

Recommending a few books which touch on aspects of the Manhattan Project:

• The Last Man who Knew Everything: the life and times of Enrico Fermi - David Schwartz
• Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves - Robert S Norris
• The Maniac - Benjamin Labatut

The Last Man who Knew Everything is a historical and scientific biography of Enrico Fermi. We learn about Fermi, his work, and best of all we hear the story of the world’s first self-sustaining nuclear reaction under the University of …