Friday, May 8, 2026

I returned to AWS - and was reminded HARD why I left.

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I was one of the very first advocates for AWS back when it was brand new - SQS, S3, EC2 SimpleDB - it was a lot smaller back then. In fact I...
Sunday, December 19, 2021

This is my Mum's 80th birthday present.

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20 Dec 2021 andrew.stuart@supercoders.com.au It's a rotary phone from the 1970's. This is the sort of phone we had in the house wh...
Sunday, December 13, 2020

Here's how to recruit junior/graduate software developers ..... your team's future superstars!

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  Recruiting junior developers is NOT the same as recruiting senior developers - a different approach is required. Junior/graduate software ...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020

You should pay your first developer TWICE the market rate.

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 You've founded your company. You've got the investor cash. Now you need to start building that application that's going to make...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

What I could not undiscover about Unikernels.

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Unikernels  http://unikernel.org/  have been around for a while but remain a relatively unknown technology. The core idea of a Unikernel is ...
Monday, May 25, 2015

Why do G-rated movies need to frighten the heck out of children?

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My little boy has recently become old enough to enjoy going to the movies. What could be better than taking your kids to the movies on a Sat...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

For Linux, your core skill is navigating broken stuff, which is everything.

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In the Linux world, as others before have said, "everything is broken". If you are a developer or sysadmin doing anything of any...