Voted and donated to #BirdOfTheYear with the help of mini me. Great to see that he recognized many of the bird species. www.birdoftheyear.org.nz

Ticketmaster doing something that benefits them and screws fans? Never would have believed that. Can we get an EO to remove their monopoly since that is how laws work now? arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

There goes the First Amendment.

It’s almost 2026 and NEON, who holds the license to HBO content in New Zealand, doesn’t support 4K video.

If you see this, QTP with a video game that transports you back to your childhood!

Palantir is the cyberpunk version of the Illuminati? 😅

C’mon Apple. Inject some creativity into watch faces.

We could be improving society, instead we are using tech in the most exploitive and cringy way.

Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.

Can I please pay $500 for a shit free version of Windows?

I've said it before, I'll say it again. I dislike that Salesforce doesn't have a no/low cost read-only license. It drives unnecessary enterprise architecture.

iPhone 11 Pro, iOS 26, and my podcast vocals all sound fuzzy. Doesn't seem to matter if I use PocketCasts or Castro. Deezer sounds fine for music. Am I the only one?

Engineering Folks -- Help me recall! There was a software engineering blog a while back called Protocol or something of the sort. It was a beautifully designed site, with good editorial and production value. It was shut down because they couldn't monetise it well. Do you recall the name of it?

Curious that we're not getting the eSIM only option for iPhones in NZ given the major carriers all support eSIM. support.apple.com/en-nz/101569...

Wasn’t hiring a CEO as Prime Minister supposed to result in growing country revenue? Instead we get cost cutting CEO who will likely find a way to pay himself a big bonus. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Also these kinds of situations are exactly why my unofficial motto is “never trust a chatbot.” (And why I share content like this.)

Good to see that Microsoft product groups haven’t cornered the market on awkward naming. Did DOGE come up with this mouthful of a name for Space Force? arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

The Debaters on CBC is the true cross country check up.

Fascinating glimpse inside women blazing trails in tech in the 60s. Remote work too! This obit is for Stephanie “Steve” Shirley. pca.st/episode/a160...

Anthropic gets the deal of the century. I'm guessing Disney wouldn't settle for such a small amount.

Curious tech specs decisions of Unifi in the Doorbell G6 lineup. Why not just have both as 8MP 30fps? Is the part cost that different? G6 Entry - 5MP/30fps, better FOV G6 Pro Entry - 12MP/20fps or 8MP/30fps, worse FOV techspecs.ui.com/unifi/door-a... techspecs.ui.com/unifi/door-a...

Nice to be in a country that hasn't given up on vaccinations.

Is Apple really planning to ship this keyboard visual layout?! iPadOS 26 Public Beta 6.

Radio DJs aren't dead; they've simply transitioned to YouTube. I'm enjoying these mix sets, but I wish music streaming platforms like Deezer and Spotify would allow people to monetize their DJ skills. I'm burning data on video I never watch since I redirect the audio to my Sonos speakers.

Xbox Kinect finds a new life as a bag scanner.

Real vibe coding.

Stumbled upon the youngest’s interest in history as we listened to Dan Snow’s episode on Hiroshima during a car ride. The story telling and delivery really pulled him in. pca.st/episode/f3c2...

This will make me sound old, but social media apps for kids are creating a big variable in self worth. At my kid’s cheerleading competition I am watching in the low double digits on Snap, WhatsApp, and other platforms blitzing through posts in the infinite scroll.

Finding coffee in Wellington CBD on a Sunday morning before 9am is a real mission.

Is the US media always this weak? The questioning was soft balls, no probing, it was a fluff piece at best.

The Onion needs a reusable headline for politicians like: ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Senator Who Can Enact Laws and Vote to Prevent This

Taco festival? Yes please!

Guessing the head of this is a former private insurance company person.

a person offering teens free advice on how to take their own life: a monster, immediate jail for life at best a person who owns a company that makes money off giving teens advice on how to take their own life: a genius, this will save civilization, we must give you all the money

Apple Watch Ultra 2.1 www.macrumors.com/guide/apple-...

Sounds like every politician needs to include civics foundations training in their onboarding. Or maybe it should become part of the qualification process. Imagine choosing a heart surgeon that doesn’t actually know how the heart works.

Can't recommend the print edition of The Onion enough...

15 minutes in and @dropout.tv Game Changer Season 7 finale is phenomenal. Wow. Top shelf comedy.

On the bright side there is enough people left in place to identify and report something new. www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

Meetup is getting overrun with job ad spam. Unrelated to the groups as well. 💩

Well, shit…

We are building Platform Hub to carry the excitement of platform engineering on Day 1 into sustainable platform teams on Day 100 and beyond. This is our next step towards Continuous Delivery at scale, built with love by all of us at @octopus.com. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DJ0...

It would be nice to see Tourism Canada pay for this to go further. www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/topic...

My sub buns didn’t get bigger on second rise. I think putting a tea towel over top might have been a bad idea.

Can an Executive Corporate Vice Principal Staff Distinguished Product Manager at Microsoft, please change the account URLs to be more distinguishable? myaccount (.) microsoft (.) com - Azure AD Account account (.) microsoft (.) com - Personal Microsoft Account

Now that we have AI, can we get smell-o-vision? This braised beef is smelling delicious!

Reading the discourse I wonder if we would have the same level of thirst for AI if it was called “advanced pattern matching”. Like how autopilot is could have been called driving assistant as you can’t hands off based on the accident reported. Naming things is hard though.

World Central Kitchen @wck.org has an A+ rating with Charity Watch - 96% of donations spent on programs vs overheads. I hate that we need to check stuff but, yeah. If you have any dollars to spare - they will use them to feed folk around the world. If not, please consider sharing their work ❤️

That’s one way to water down the heist re-enactment excitement.

I’m surprised that the US is willing to accept a mediocre 100/20 speed target. You would think 1G symmetrical would be in the best interest of economic development. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...