I strongly feel we urgently need to shift away from blaming the government and hoping anything will change there. The only votes that have any meaningful impact right now are the dollars we spend.

This is a good read www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-e...

Just throwing this out there, if anyone is doing a podcast or something and wants to interview a crazy kiwi who reckons he can build a better world wide web, I'm very keen to chat about it with pretty much anyone.

In music I am focusing on memorizing the words to songs at the moment and it’s actually quite fun. Trying out variations memorization techniques, I want to try to memorize the 100 or so songs I can play within the next few months.

💯 “A general pattern for LLMs is that they look really good at things you are bad at. What that means is that if you find yourself thinking of its output as significantly better than yours in a particular domain, there's a high chance that you are not equipped to judge that quality effectively.”

National-led government sneaks through social welfare automation under urgency before a long weekend. #NzPol

"It’s going to be people with substance versus people with shallow knowledge. It’s going to be mastery versus faking it. It’s going to be people with good taste versus tacky. I trust you will put in the work necessary to be on the right side of those battles.”

New Zealand desperately needs to be doing this too, but unfortunately we are doing the opposite. 😡 www.wired.com/story/the-eu...

We have a number of game engines, but only one web engine, and this doesn't make any sense.

I feel so much better about the world now that the AI hate is finally coming out. Let it be free, let it flourish, sometimes hate can be love.

Just throwing this out there, if anyone is doing a podcast or something and wants to interview a crazy kiwi who reckons he can build a better world wide web, I'm very keen to chat about it with pretty much anyone.

We’re planting another 2000 natives next month too. In 20 years time I will live in a dense forest.

I’ve planted a dozen or more trees a year for the past few years, grown many from seed even. The rewards are immense, I am sitting under huge trees I planted over a decade ago now, and they just keep getting bigger 😊

Found some slaters today

This app has felt about 2 weeks away for around 4 months now 😅. But it should be about 2 weeks away.

It's come to my attention that credit is the root of all evil. If we made *nearly* all lending illegal, everything would level out and we could all do a whole lot less and have a whole lot more.

This is SO MUCH more amazing than I imagined.

This is where I am up to now with Waraki Music Player, working on the UI for setting everything up without editing text files or using servers or a command line. It's finding my 2 local test libraries in a fraction of a second by scanning the local network, all coming together rather nicely!

‘When the government replaces a New Zealand public servant with AI, what really happens is this: money that used to be paid to someone living in Wellington, Lower Hutt or Palmerston North gets paid instead to a tech giant in California or Seattle’ newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/21/b...

Last night I finished a play of Blowing in the Wind, really got into it, felt great. Just when I finished, I heard distant applause😱. Initially that felt nice, then I realized how far the sound must travel and how all of these practice sessions over the years would have been audible for miles 😬

I don’t enjoy the name “spicy autocorrect” because spicy is good. How about “shitcunt autocorrect” instead?

So if you're wondering why this philanthropy, why I am giving away my software, what truly motivates me, that's it. Frustration.

Basically after making a few multiplayer game engines, I realized they were harder to make than the software I use daily. That made me frustrated, because most of that software is broken and expensive. I decided the only way to remove that frustration was to start remaking it all properly. 🤷

Excellent point. Replacing public servants with AI is like importing your public service from the US. You spend less money into the domestic economy and shovel more NZ financial assets into offshore ownership.

This is an interesting essay on the dangers of knowledge loss and de-skilling in the era of AI coding, using the impact of the Ukraine crisis on missile manufacturing as an example of what lies ahead. The West Forgot How to Build. Now It's Forgetting Code techtrenches.dev/p/the-west-f...

A few years ago an old man gave me a motor mower for parts. Said he'd tried everything, new spark plug, new head gasket, can't get it working. Doesn't matter, I only want the carb, and take it off his hands. Before I scrap it, got curious, and started it first pull.

One notable thing I haven’t seen mentioned about all the vibe coded crap filling up the web is how inconsistent all of the visual design is. As a software user it is a disaster, but I kind of like how we‘re reverting to highly individualized geocities-esque madness

Maybe one problem with bluesky is that it is a guilty pleasure. We are kinda trying to avoid posting here or doom scrolling, so we only end up here when we are raging or feeling low. Most of the time I'm actually really happy, though you wouldn't know it from my posts.

First last week, now this! It’s finally fucking happening! Keep at it! Boo these fuckers off the stage!

Ads have always been terrible, but now with AI they are just grotesque. People’s faces are shifting, nothing visually makes sense anymore, it’s just painful. WTF is wrong with everyone, that this exists, honestly.

Funny because it’s true

Cool cool, I’m just gonna go ahead and assume they have a porn addiction www.businessinsider.com/coders-keep-...

As part of my shift away from consumerism, I've started buying clothes at op shops, got some great jeans that make my butt look superb. But the pockets are stupidly tiny. Sure enough, they are womens jeans! I am still wearing them though, found out they are worth $300. Why don't women get pockets?

Strong opinion: Instead of this, Finder should silently copy next to the existing directory as it does with existing files. if filePath == selectedDirPath, cp(filePath, filePath + " copy") else cp(filePath, selectedDirPath + "/" + fileName)

If you believe as I do, that LLMs will be widely hated then banned in time, then you can work towards a post-AI future. And when you start imagining and building that future, suddenly this moment feels full of opportunity.

I’m not sure if anyone remembers how Second Life showed us the consequences of unfettered capitalism? In the end, everything became a casino. You were be paid to sit in front of a gambling machine. notes.visaint.space/ai-coding-is...

All I’m saying is that anything worth doing is worth doing yourself from first principles.

If you believe as I do, that LLMs will be widely hated then banned in time, then you can work towards a post-AI future. And when you start imagining and building that future, suddenly this moment feels full of opportunity.

Holy shit what a massive consent violation from google here. 4 damn gigs of your disk space stolen for their "AI" model which you did not necessarily ask for to run on your device in the background. I mean jfc

Epic! The browser is now up and running on Ubuntu

I like it how there aren't really any mac/pc/linux/iOS/android platform wars anymore. We all have come to agree that everything is terrible.

Installed Ubuntu on a desktop for the first time in a few years. I don’t really choose operating systems, I just use them because that’s where the people that use my software will be. So I guess I think I am going to get some linux users? 😆 we’ll see

i do not like that AMD64 and ARM64 mean two different completely incompatible architectures. one of you guys has to pick a name that doesn't look exactly the same as the other guy's

Sounds serious arstechnica.com/security/202...

Our 12 yo got this maths homework last night and it destroyed everyone

⏰ Last chance to back PlanetSmith on Kickstarter. The campaign ends today! It's been an incredible journey and I'm so grateful to everyone who's made this possible. I can't belive we are over 1200% funded with over 1,000 Backers💙 👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/inc...

Installed pi-hole. It blocked some of the ads, which was great, I was excited. Then it blocked all my email. Then I attempted to whitelist my email for about an hour before uninstalling pi-hole.

I started writing down things I thought were important to remember on little notes, just one to start with, but I've been adding to them. Cheesy maybe, but it's genuinely very useful and grounding.

I find it hilarious that AI is all built around markdown files, when neither the human nor the LLM ever actually see the rendered markdown.

The world will never forget, and it won’t forgive either, until he is behind bars.