This is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):

I blogged about an interesting problem and two interesting solutions implementing program memory in the KCL interepreter: www.ncameron.org/blog/kcl-par...

I blogged about an interesting problem and two interesting solutions implementing program memory in the KCL interepreter: www.ncameron.org/blog/kcl-par...

I’m so angry about the state of NZ media. Stuff is useless and increasingly biased, all the papers are crap, everything is corporate, even RNZ are looking pathetic

Man I wonder why coders, famed for enjoying writing code but hating reading code, aren't taking to the tool that turns them into dedicated code readers for the hallucination machine

I’m glad Collins is resigning. She is a bad person and having her in politics is bad. I hope she has a brief and unpleasant retirement

103 days into the "ceasefire." Hours after Netanyahu joined Trump's "Board of Peace." Israeli forces just killed 3 more journalists. They were on assignment to film a camp in Gaza, to document the plight of Palestinians displaced by Israeli bombs. Instead, Israel killed them.

Kerala has such a good vibe, just feels so much less tense than North India (tourist opinion, obvs)

At the Kochi Kapital Kafe, and that does not make a great acronym

One thing that seems very obvious about ai but isn’t discussed much is that it is going to cost a lot more in the near future. These companies need to make incredible money from this, and much like streaming and uber, we’re at the investor-subsidised, loss leader stage

So nice to be back in India 😀

Back in Hong Kong, but just a few hours in the airport this time ☹️

Deadlifts the day before a 25 hour flight was a mistake

The last family in the Palestinian village of Yanoun left their home last week, joining a growing list of communities that have been erased from existence through the establishment of Israeli "shepherding outposts" in their place. mondoweiss.net/2026/01/this... #Palestine #Israel

this does help

This is obviously correct, but it’s also correct about ai-generated code and I’m amazed that so many engineers are happy with it (including the author, judging by previous posts)

What do y'all do when waiting for AI to think? It's an order of magnitude worse than waiting for the compiler for me. I don't want to context switch because it's not that long (usually) but twiddling my thumbs is killing me. Plus it is unpredictable. It really puts me off using AI for larger tasks

This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025

Happy new year! Hopefully 2026 will be better than that shit show of 2025

Auto-save is all well and good, but apps need to provide a way to undo that works between runs. Making a speculative change and exiting should not have commit semantics! Looking at you, Preview

Funnily enough though where I’ve always felt the sense of devastation worst in the UK is in former seaside resorts.

All this time I was worried that the problem with software was that it was so difficult to write maintainable, bug-free code which satisfactorily addressed user requirements, but it turns out I just needed to loosen up a little

Any effort you put in—that is more than your business can process—is hindering your process. Firing off 20 emails when your team can only process 5–has just introduced 15 distractions to the 5 that matter.

The hero who disarmed one of the gunmen in Bondi has been identified as Ahmed al Ahmed, 43 year old fruit shop owner. He was injured and is currently undergoing surgery www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-paci...

Lonely Planet guide books have got so much worse. They're basically travel brochures now. Useless.

If you’re looking for a lift- and for policy that doesn’t hide bare minimum ideas behind the rhetoric of progress - take a look at the Greens platform. For me, a timely reminder that we don’t move forward by lowering our expectations, but by affirming that hard things can and should be done.👇

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

This is true and I don’t mean to pick on this post in particular, and there is a documented bias among doctors (even female ones) to believe women less than men, but also, I think people in the online bubble don’t appreciate how far from the average they are in terms of having a reasonable

"can you ship code" as the only form of credentialism is weak as hell and will not protect all the things people think it's going to protect

I’d never be so rude as to say it, but this was basically the underlying theme at the parenting course I attended

too many people want to have kids but don't want to parent

if you need some help understanding or explaining why this is terrible, start here: newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/id-p...

Every app should have a refresh button and a back button

Following Eurovision’s decision to allow Israel’s participation, Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has withdrawn from the contest. The announcement split the screen between Israel’s performance and scenes of bombardment and starving children in Gaza. #Spain #eurovision #genocide

For Yanks that want to learn more about Indian politics under Modi: www.npr.org/2024/06/02/1...

“Sarah Champion, chair of the Commons international development select committee, said: “Members received a private briefing on Sudan, at which one of the academics stated: ‘Our low estimate is 60,000 people have been killed there in the last three weeks.’”

Chef’s kiss

While I'm thinking about leadership, I'd love it if leadership people wrote a bit more about class and cultural factors. The blog post notes that 'self-authorising' is conditioned out of us, but that is a lot more true for working class and poor folk than the rich (for kids and adults)

This is a good blog post, though not particularly novel or unique. I think it’s a weird but notable shift that managers want management to be called leadership nowadays when it’s actually a tiny proportion actually doing leadership

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

Been thinking about this since it was shared with me yesterday, especially about how oppressively most organizations pressure managers (even senior ones) to stay in that persona rather than actually leading www.leadingsapiens.com/ics-managers...

My sad thought for the day is that open source was a mistake and (via AI) is going to be primarily responsible for the destruction of software engineering as a profession, or at the least devaluing it to the level of a technician.

And some more local #nzpol thoughts: I’m so worried about the next electoral term - I think labour will win and will follow labour in the uk and the dems and a bunch of the euro centre left in turning into a centre right party who will do more damage, lose the moment to turn things around, and gift

Honestly, the second terrace tunnel makes sense - it’s a main commuter route into the city, it’s a big congestion point, having 3 lanes is ridiculous, and once past the tunnel, cars quickly disperse into the city. The second mt vic tunnel though is a total waste of money and the associated

I think there's two ways to think about AI for software dev: the AI as a tool which helps me write code, and AI is writing the code for me (of which vibe coding is the extreme case). I think the two are radically different in terms of the experience and quality of code produced, but often when

If you are in Japan and would like to work with Rust and Cyber security, there are several positions on my team. jobs.cybereason.com/details/?gh_...

🎉 Unison 1.0 has landed! After years of engineering, design, and community collaboration, we’re excited to announce this milestone! Spread the word!

Oh, God, this is one of those "where do I even start" things, because Roblox is, like, *fractally* fucked. They are terrible at content moderation. A lot of the games are rated incorrectly, so kids can encounter graphic content (sex or violence) out of nowhere --

This is very good. Clear, calm, factual, and devastating for proponents of bans on puberty blockers for trans youth. theconversation.com/puberty-bloc...

I knew I was going to be disappointed y Andrew little, but this is so ridiculously stupid. Nobody wants this. Chung has minimal support from voters. It’s unnecessary, signals all the wrong things, and is materially bad for the council since Chung will clearly be bad in this role