We all know what 'real dollars' are. Inflation is hitting every single one of us, including our doctors, nurses, techs, and office teams. We all know that if you 'cut just the back office and not the front line jobs' the net result is deeply eroded quality of care as docs and nurses pick it up.

NZ friends, there will be a doctor strike tomorrow and Wednesday unless a miracle happens today (narrator: there will be no miracle because this govt is incompetent). This is a union action. Do not assume because 'doctors are rich' that this doesn't bite or it 'isn't a real labour action'.

Better Wellington/independent Together not even managing to switch to the right Facebook account to claim they’re not the same organisation is some kind of performance art, right?

A friend reminded me about this tweet, and I wanted to share it with you folks. I should pick up this series.

PowerPoint is absolutely ruined by the ai nonsense. Unusable dogshit. Like it doesn’t help at all, just generates crap slides which then can’t be easily edited. How on earth did they release this?

The mask has slipped from Better Wellington www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/better-we...

Even if you don't vote for your council (pls do but), tick that box for the referendum. It is BINDING for three terms - so if it fails, no Māori ward for nearly a decade. And EVERYONE votes, not just Māori. Tāngata Tiriti step up, Pākehā mā, you need to vote.

Shares rose 40%?! That seems like a wild rise. Implies by the article is that oracle’s profits are coming more from cloud/data center stuff rather than their software, which is also wild - Amazon, Microsoft, and Oracle are all huge mainly from selling the cloud - I would not have thought

You can’t policy your way out of a propaganda problem!

I finally understand boomers avocado meme. "Boomers bought houses at a time when saving a couple of pounds per day taking a packed lunch to work would give you a house deposit in eight years. For a millennial this would take two centuries." martinrobbins.substack.com/p/waspinomic...

Thinking about the 'AI coding is like everyone has a team of junior engineers' thing. It's wrong, I think, unless your junior engineers are terrible and you are a terrible senior engineer. Yes, it means thinking more about design and less about typing, but

Oh that’s why the traffic was insane today. I was hum-ing and ha-ing over cycling or bus, absolutely made the right choice by taking the bike

`103 passed, 38 failed` - guess that refactoring wasn't as result-neutral as I thought

Rust Forge is this week! First ever rust conference in NZ, this time I get to stay at home and everyone else has ridiculously long flights. Can’t wait to see people here in Poneke, hit me up if you want any local knowledge 😀

So, who's planning to attend #rustforge? I didn't plan to attend because my employer wouldn't support it. But today I was laid off and I have, maybe, barely, enough time to plan the trip. Will I find any US-based or remote employment opportunities there?

Pulled lifeless from a commercial fishing net off the Otago coast, the adult female yellow-eyed penguin had drowned in a silent, unseen death. She was the last known breeding-age female Hoiho from the Sandfly Bay colony. #NZOverFishing

This what Israel has done to Gaza. Forbidden pics by a Washington Post photographer whose Jordanian air crew didn't pass on Israel's order to only photograph aid being dropped. City, suburbs, schools, people: bombed to rubble. People being starved in makeshift camps on road roundabouts. #Genocide

With the publication of these two reports, B'Tselem & Physicians for Human Rights Israel become the first two Israeli organizations to state it loud and clear, based on meticulous documentation and research: Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

this is what beit hanoun looked like (from arabi21.com/story/155862...)

In the US, UK, NZ, and a bunch of other countries it seems like all the mainstream politicians are getting more and more distant from their electorates in their politics, but we hold our nose and vote or not and things get worse. This doesn’t seem healthy but there doesn’t seem to be a solution

It’s kinda weird that street food is usually some of the best, cheapest, and most convenient food in every single country, but every single government seems to hate it. I guess because it looks untidy? And probably they don’t pay as much tax as a restaurant

Export tariffs

So, AI for coding users, how do you actually use the AI? I have found copilot occasionally useful, but the interfaces awful and end up not using it very much as a result. So I’ve never managed to get AI from the evaluation stage into part of my work flow

With eftpos as an established alternative to the big cards, this could easily be NZ, except that we don’t do innovation here, just rent seeking for big business

This! Lifting weights is like a miracle cure for so many body issues and it seems to be great for long term health too. You don’t need to go super hard, and it doesn’t take much time, give it a go!

I'm not saying this is wrong, but it is the kind of thing I think we should try out experimentally, rather than just theoretically

I have never been happier that somebody doesn’t like rust. Probably the biggest signal that we built a great technology and a great community. This image should be the front page of the rust website

My daughter was having similar issues understanding pronouns when she was 3. Now she is 4 1/2 and has no problems, but I understand that people develop at different speeds

New blog post: I am a Rust compiler engineer looking for a new job nnethercote.github.io/2025/07/18/l...

Dream job alert if you live in Cupertino

I have a huge amount of respect for Julia - she seemed one of the best execs at Microsoft and the best senior manager I’ve ever interacted with. This seems massively wrong headed, so I hope there’s more to it than reported or the internal tools must be much better than the public ones

Howdy all. I'm unfortunately not going to be with my employer for much longer due to team relocation. If anyone has any info on roles that would allow me to continue my Rust compiler work (in New York City), they'd be greatly appreciated.

9 years ago the NBA pulled the All-Star Game out of North Carolina because of their anti-trans Bathroom Law. The choice had massive public support and was applauded Less than a decade later and half the country has those laws, including Congress itself, and barely anyone blinks LESS THAN A DECADE

Being at Mozilla a decade ago was eye opening in terms of what a superpower remote work can be for an org. RTO seems like a massive foot-shooting for the sake of short term stock price wins

Hello World! Announcing the inaugural TokioConf. April 20-22, 2026, in Portland, OR. tokio.rs/blog/2025-06...

I'm excited to talk about the future of Rust/C++ interop @rustconf.com with Taylor Cramer!

🎤 #rustconf Session Announcement: Taylor Cramer, Tyler Mandry (@tylermandry.bsky.social) “Fine-Grained C++ Interop” → rustconf.com/schedule/#1479 #rustlang

🎤 #rustconf Session Announcement: Rain (@sunshowers.io) “Cancelling async Rust” → rustconf.com/schedule/#1477 #rustlang

Great topic, great speaker. Will be tuning in for this one

Look, I know it's international relations and realpolitik, etc. and there's no expectation of honesty or consistency or whatever, but "Iran has crossed red lines by daring to fire missiles at civilian population centres" the day after bombing civilian areas in Iran and after two years of the most

I (finally) finished a few more chapters for the Rust async book. They're still a little rough around the edges, but I'm pretty happy with them:

I wrote linebender.org/blog/a-plan-... and published it over the weekend. I'm excited about pushing Rust SIMD to be more usable, and open to feedback about the specifics of the proposal.

open source was not paying the bills excited to announce that I got a real job sponsor me so that I can quit: github.com/sponsors/orhun

Really unnerving how similar some of the images out of Los Angeles are to those of us who followed the Hong Kong protests. 📸 REUTERS/Barbara Davidson

Anyone having issues with iterm2 recently? Scrolling is broken and it's getting super-laggy (resolves with a restart, then getting bad very quickly, like a terrible GC issue or something)

Besides the environmental cost and the well-hidden mistakes and plagiarism issues, my big worry for AI is that it makes it too easy to generate lots of code. Eg to get 200% test coverage rather than 100% and make maintenance (the most expensive part of SWE) harder

Sinners manages to have the first non-cringe party scene in a movie since the 90s, while ticking off every cringey party scene trope there is, then creating some whole new ones. But somehow the sum is less cringy than its parts

lot of folks v invested in the idea that china is just a bunch of dorky peasants who we could snap our fingers and out-compete if only their labor weren't so darn cheap, rather than an engineering and industrial powerhouse with better vertical integration of manufacturing and tools in its own right

That’s a shame. Pocket is for me the best way to collect bookmarks. The browser UI for that is so bad. I guess I’ll go back to having hundreds of open tabs