Posts

2025

• Analog Photography Assistant - Beta Testing ~ photography apa

• Scanning Film Negatives [Melbourne XII] ~ melbourne street-photography film-photography monochrome

• Melbourne Photography XI ~ melbourne street-photography landscape-photography film-photography monochrome

• Maniototo Cartography ~ central-otago film-photography

• Hypernormalised Language ~ philosophy books

• Hawkdun Sunset ~ landscape-photography central-otago film-photography

• Maniototo Landscapes ~ landscape-photography central-otago film-photography

• St Bathans - 1877 ~ landscape-photography central-otago

• Hasselblad V Lenses on Sony Mirrorless Cameras ~ landscape-photography photography-meta central-otago

2024

• On Software Engineering; Conference Notes ~ tech software-engineering resilience-engineering

• Shot four years ago ~ landscape-photography central-otago

• Landscape and Character - Lawrence Durrell ~ lawrence-durrell

• Southern Mountains ~ film-photography landscape-photography travel-writing central-otago monochrome

• Southern Landscapes ~ film-photography landscape-photography travel-writing central-otago

• At the Speed of Relevance ~ tech complexity software-engineering resilience-engineering

• Mean Time To Reorg; Writing as Resilience ~ tech software-engineering resilience-engineering

• Melbourne Photography X - Night ~ melbourne film-photography landscape-photography

• €3.50 Red Wine by Glass ~ film-photography landscape-photography hellenic books

• Melbourne Photography IX - Autumn ~ melbourne street-photography film-photography monochrome

• Tangents of Trinity ~ books computation

• Measuring Service Failure, or why to not use CFR and MTTR ~ tech devops accelerate software-engineering

• Engineering Productivity, GenAI, Metrics, Toil ~ tech devops ai software-engineering aws

• Western Landscapes ~ film-photography landscape-photography

• Las Vegas ~ film-photography monochrome

2023

• Hydra ~ hellenic film-photography landscape-photography lawrence-durrell travel-writing

• Athens ~ hellenic film-photography landscape-photography

• Opinions on Software Delivery & Engineering Metrics ~ tech devops accelerate continuous-deployment software-engineering

• Once Upon a Time in Egypt ~ landscape-photography monochrome hellenic travel-writing

• The Satrapy - C. P. Cavafy ~ poems cavafy hellenic

• Melbourne Street Photography - VIII ~ melbourne street-photography film-photography monochrome

• A Simple Model for Technical Debt ~ tech software-engineering complexity

• Prompting GPT Models to Return JSON ~ tech software-engineering ai

• Keeper Rate ~ philosophy

• Melbourne Street Photography - VII ~ melbourne street-photography film-photography

• Gordon River Road ~ tasmania landscape-photography monochrome

• Building A ChatGPT-enhanced Python REPL ~ tech software-engineering ai

• Delivery Driven Development ~ tech devops accelerate continuous-deployment software-engineering

• Overland to Adelaide ~ film-photography adelaide travel-writing

• DORA Metrics Reference ~ tech devops accelerate continuous-deployment software-engineering

• Trojans - C. P. Cavafy ~ poems cavafy hellenic

• Code Execution: Eval, Apply ~ tech fsharp software-engineering computation lparen dotnet

• Professional Development Goals for 2023 ~ tech

• Dunstan Landscapes ~ central-otago landscape-photography monochrome

2022

• Wanaka Landscapes ~ central-otago wanaka landscape-photography monochrome

• Abstractions for Logic ~ tech fsharp software-engineering computation lparen dotnet

• Implementing General Computation ~ tech fsharp software-engineering computation lparen dotnet

• A Simple Computation Engine in F# ~ tech fsharp software-engineering computation lparen dotnet

• Deployment Frequency in Practice ~ tech devops accelerate continuous-deployment software-engineering

• George Seferis in Galini ~ poems george-seferis hellenic

• Brisbane Photography ~ brisbane landscape-photography

• 1968 NATO Software Engineering Conference ~ tech software-engineering

• Delivery Lead Time In Practice ~ tech devops accelerate continuous-deployment software-engineering

• Melbourne Street Photography - VI ~ melbourne street-photography film-photography

• Age of Blue Memory - Odysseus Elytis ~ poems odysseus-elytis hellenic

• Melbourne Street Photography - V ~ melbourne street-photography monochrome

• Multipliers - Notes ~ books software-engineering

• Luck Surface Area ~ philosophy complexity resilience-engineering

• Cargo Culting Software Engineering Practices ~ tech software-engineering

• Beaconsfield, Tasmania ~ tasmania travel-writing

• Cradle Mountain ~ tasmania landscape-photography

• Tasmanian Landscapes ~ tasmania landscape-photography monochrome

• Pandarus in The Iliad ~ poems philosophy hellenic books stories the-iliad

• Melbourne Street Photography - IV ~ melbourne street-photography

• IC Initiatives at Big Tech ~ tech software-engineering

• The Tree of Idleness - Lawrence Durrell ~ poems lawrence-durrell

• Melbourne Street Photography - III ~ melbourne street-photography

• Design from Zero ~ tech software-engineering resilience-engineering complexity philosophy

• Longitude: Visualise Git Respositories ~ tech software-engineering git

• The God Abandons Antony - C. P. Cavafy ~ poems cavafy hellenic

• Melbourne Landscape Photography ~ melbourne landscape-photography film-photography

• Systems Based on Numbers in F# ~ tech fsharp cellular-automata complexity software-engineering computation dotnet

• State of the DORA DevOps Metrics in 2022 ~ tech devops accelerate continuous-deployment software-engineering

• Buried Alive - Lawrence Durrell ~ poems lawrence-durrell

• Melbourne Street Photography - II ~ melbourne street-photography film-photography monochrome

2021

• Exploring the Terra Blockchain with Python ~ tech python terra defi software-engineering

• Melbourne Street Photography ~ melbourne street-photography film-photography

• An Extract From Monsieur by Lawrence Durrell ~ lawrence-durrell philosophy books

• Execute a Shell Process in F# ~ tech fsharp shell dotnet software-engineering

• Papers, Please ~ travel new-zealand australia writing

• Days of '41 - George Seferis ~ poems george-seferis hellenic

• Maniototo Landscapes ~ central-otago landscape-photography film-photography

• Te Anau ~ te-anau landscape-photography southland

• F# ASP.NET Core Dockerfile ~ tech fsharp docker software-engineering dotnet

• Lawrence Durrell - Further Reading ~ lawrence-durrell george-seferis hellenic

• The Return of the Exile - George Seferis ~ poems george-seferis hellenic

• Super Takumar 50mm f/1.4 Lens ~ lens super-takumar landscape-photography street-photography photography-meta

• Grokking Simplicity ~ tech books software-engineering complexity

• Lines Left Upon a Seat In a Yew Tree - Wordsworth ~ poems wordsworth

• Zero-cost Deployments ~ tech devops teamcity continuous-deployment trunk-based-development software-engineering

• Rob Roy Glacier ~ wanaka central-otago landscape-photography

• Lunar Eclipse ~ wanaka lunar-eclipse astro-photography

• DevOps Practices for Continuous Deployment ~ tech devops batect teamcity continuous-deployment software-engineering

• Web Analytics with Cloudfront and GoAccess ~ tech aws analytics goaccess cloudfront devops

• ANZAC Day Sunrise ~ wellington landscape-photography

• Building a Crossword in F# - Part II ~ tech fsharp fable feliz software-engineering dotnet

• Building a Crossword in F# - Part I ~ tech fsharp fable feliz software-engineering dotnet

• Moonrise Over Eastbourne ~ wellington landscape-photography astro-photography

• Micromegas (1752) - Voltaire ~ voltaire philosophy books stories

• Nicholas Chevalier Watercolours ~ nicholas-chevalier queenstown tekapo lindis pomahaka

• Twelve Mile Creek ~ queenstown central-otago travel-writing landscape-photography

2020

• Colossus of Rhodes - Lawrence Durrell ~ lawrence-durrell hellenic books stories

• Cellular Automata in F# ~ tech fsharp cellular-automata complexity software-engineering computation

• Scaffoldings: Plaka - Lawrence Durrell ~ poems lawrence-durrell hellenic

• Northern Explorer Train Journey ~ trains travel-writing landscape-photography

• Beginning Complexity - Resilience Engineering ~ tech software-engineering resilience-engineering complexity

• The Avignon Quintet ~ lawrence-durrell philosophy books

• Nature ~ nature philosophy books

• Ithaka - C. P. Cavafy ~ poems cavafy hellenic

• Software Engineering at Google ~ tech software-engineering books

• Ashburton Lakes ~ ashburton-lakes landscape-photography

• Post Covid Queenstown ~ queenstown central-otago travel-writing landscape-photography

• Hyde Rail Trail ~ central-otago landscape-photography

• Elastic Search with Plugins in Docker ~ tech elasticsearch docker

• Typescript II - Nominal and Structural Typing ~ tech typescript types software-engineering

• Product Delivery Learnings 2019 ~ tech product development devops software-engineering

2019

• St Bathans ~ central-otago landscape-photography

• Thinkpad T440s ~ tech laptop thinkpad

• Typescript I - Safe Fetch with Decoders ~ tech typescript software-engineering

• F# Web Application on AWS Lambda ~ tech fsharp linux dotnet aws dynamo software-engineering devops

• AWS Developer Associate Exam 2019 ~ tech aws cloud devops software-engineering

• Domain Modeling Made Functional ~ tech fsharp linux dotnet books software-engineering

• SQLite Database with Dapper and F# ~ tech fsharp linux dotnet sql

• Thoughts on Accelerate - Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations ~ tech books lean devops practices

• Moving my blog to AWS ~ tech aws

• Birds around Wellington ~ birds wellington wildlife-photography

2018

• Bannockburn ~ cromwell central-otago landscape-photography

• Bannockburn Astro Timelapse ~ cromwell central-otago landscape-photography astro-photography

• Tunnel Beach Star Trail ~ astro-photography dunedin

• Lunar Eclipse ~ lunar-eclipse astro-photography

• F# on .NET Core Ubuntu ~ tech fsharp linux dotnet

• Central Otago Autumn ~ central-otago landscape-photography

• Wanaka Trip ~ wanaka central-otago landscape-photography

• Roger Waters - Us and Them ~

2017

• Orionid Meteor Shower Over Tekapo ~ photos tekapo astro-photography timelapse meteor

• Tekapo Trip ~ landscape-photography astro-photography tekapo

• django-jfu Django 1.11 Compatibility ~ tech python django

• Brighton Full Moon ~ astro-photography dunedin brighton

• Soldiers Memorial Full Moon ~ astro-photography dunedin

• Highcliff Aurora ~ astro-photography aurora dunedin

• Brighton Aurora ~ astro-photography aurora brighton dunedin

• Flight to the Lights ~ astro-photography aurora

• Arthurs Pass ~ landscape-photography arthurs-pass

• Charming Creek ~ landscape-photography west-coast

2016

• Maungatua ~ landscape-photography dunedin

• Lake Marian ~ landscape-photography southland

• Doubtful Sound ~ landscape-photography southland doubtful-sound

• Mavora ~ landscape-photography southland mavora

2012

• Testing the Status of a SOCKS5 Proxy in Python ~ tech python