Boost software development productivity by 50x, so was the message on the expo floor at AWS re:Invent. Hundreds of vendors, from startup to enterprise, had booths at the expo marketing their developer tooling, platforms, and consulting services. GenAI has been in full swing for a couple of years now, and with the recent trends of organisational efficiency, the two have married up. Most booths touted how recent GenAI features they’ve added improves the productivity of software developers. …

The day trip to Death Valley landed me at Badwater Basin in the early afternoon. The winter sun was low and a slight haze removed the hardness of the sun. Recent storms flooded the typically dry salt flats which resulted in great reflections and an interesting foreground. The vastness of the sky lead me to think of painter …

Las Vegas, baby. I was visiting for a work conference so I brought a couple of film cameras along with me. I wanted to shoot gonzo-style – black and white film, high contrast, shooting from the hip, and capturing impromptu scenes within casinos and along the strip. I needed to be able to shoot quickly within the smog filled casinos. For …

My recent travels around Egypt and Greece were inspired by Lawrence Durrell’s writing. He was a self-proclaimed islomaniac, someone that the “mere knowledge that they are on an island, a little world surrounded by the sea, fills them with an indescribable intoxication”. Durrell was a poet, novelist, and travel writer, and …