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a blog. photography ~ programming ~ art ~ philosophy
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- 169 from 16 Jul 2017 to 22 Sep 2026
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2026 12
2025 18
- op Sydney
- Wintering on Lakes Te Anau and Manapouri
- Melbourne Photography XIII
- Seven Weeks with the Camera among the Glaciers of Mt Cook
- Melbourne Photography XII
- Analog Photography Assistant - 1.1.0
- Pine Smoke
- Writing Software with LLMs
- Analog Photography Assistant - 1.0.1
- Analog Photography Assistant - Beta Testing
- Scanning Film Negatives [Melbourne XII]
- Melbourne Photography XI
- Maniototo Cartography
- Hypernormalised Language
- Hawkdun Sunset
- Maniototo Landscapes
- St Bathans - 1877
- Hasselblad V Lenses on Sony Mirrorless Cameras
2024 15
- On Software Engineering; Conference Notes
- Shot four years ago
- Landscape and Character - Lawrence Durrell
- Southern Mountains
- Southern Landscapes
- At the Speed of Relevance
- Mean Time To Reorg; Writing as Resilience
- Melbourne Photography X - Night
- €3.50 Red Wine by Glass
- Melbourne Photography IX - Autumn
- Tangents of Trinity
- Measuring Service Failure, or why to not use CFR and MTTR
- Engineering Productivity, GenAI, Metrics, Toil
- Western Landscapes
- Las Vegas
2023 19
- Hydra
- Athens
- Opinions on Software Delivery & Engineering Metrics
- Once Upon a Time in Egypt
- The Satrapy - C. P. Cavafy
- Melbourne Street Photography - VIII
- A Simple Model for Technical Debt
- Prompting GPT Models to Return JSON
- Keeper Rate
- Melbourne Street Photography - VII
- Gordon River Road
- Building A ChatGPT-enhanced Python REPL
- Delivery Driven Development
- Overland to Adelaide
- DORA Metrics Reference
- Trojans - C. P. Cavafy
- Code Execution: Eval, Apply
- Professional Development Goals for 2023
- Dunstan Landscapes
2022 31
- Wanaka Landscapes
- Abstractions for Logic
- Implementing General Computation
- A Simple Computation Engine in F#
- Deployment Frequency in Practice
- George Seferis in Galini
- Brisbane Photography
- 1968 NATO Software Engineering Conference
- Delivery Lead Time In Practice
- Melbourne Street Photography - VI
- Age of Blue Memory - Odysseus Elytis
- Melbourne Street Photography - V
- Multipliers - Notes
- Luck Surface Area
- Cargo Culting Software Engineering Practices
- Beaconsfield, Tasmania
- Cradle Mountain
- Tasmanian Landscapes
- Pandarus in The Iliad
- Melbourne Street Photography - IV
- IC Initiatives at Big Tech
- The Tree of Idleness - Lawrence Durrell
- Melbourne Street Photography - III
- Design from Zero
- Longitude: Visualise Git Respositories
- The God Abandons Antony - C. P. Cavafy
- Melbourne Landscape Photography
- Systems Based on Numbers in F#
- State of the DORA DevOps Metrics in 2022
- Buried Alive - Lawrence Durrell
- Melbourne Street Photography - II
2021 26
- Exploring the Terra Blockchain with Python
- Melbourne Street Photography
- An Extract From Monsieur by Lawrence Durrell
- Execute a Shell Process in F#
- Papers, Please
- Days of '41 - George Seferis
- Maniototo Landscapes
- Te Anau
- F# ASP.NET Core Dockerfile
- Lawrence Durrell - Further Reading
- The Return of the Exile - George Seferis
- Super Takumar 50mm f/1.4 Lens
- Grokking Simplicity
- Lines Left Upon a Seat In a Yew Tree - Wordsworth
- Zero-cost Deployments
- Rob Roy Glacier
- Lunar Eclipse
- DevOps Practices for Continuous Deployment
- Web Analytics with Cloudfront and GoAccess
- ANZAC Day Sunrise
- Building a Crossword in F# - Part II
- Building a Crossword in F# - Part I
- Moonrise Over Eastbourne
- Micromegas (1752) - Voltaire
- Nicholas Chevalier Watercolours
- Twelve Mile Creek
2020 15
- Colossus of Rhodes - Lawrence Durrell
- Cellular Automata in F#
- Scaffoldings: Plaka - Lawrence Durrell
- Northern Explorer Train Journey
- Beginning Complexity - Resilience Engineering
- The Avignon Quintet
- Nature
- Ithaka - C. P. Cavafy
- Software Engineering at Google
- Ashburton Lakes
- Post Covid Queenstown
- Hyde Rail Trail
- Elastic Search with Plugins in Docker
- Typescript II - Nominal and Structural Typing
- Product Delivery Learnings 2019
2019 10
- St Bathans
- Thinkpad T440s
- Typescript I - Safe Fetch with Decoders
- F# Web Application on AWS Lambda
- AWS Developer Associate Exam 2019
- Domain Modeling Made Functional
- SQLite Database with Dapper and F#
- Thoughts on Accelerate - Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations
- Moving my blog to AWS
- Birds around Wellington