Thinking more about activitypub (on the back of setting the blog and CanYouBeatWellington up as actors). I use Strava and Garmin connect to track my bike rides, but I'm now increasingly aware that I don't really own that data or control who sees it. There is also a bunch of stuff in there I […]

Okay, something is off with @CanYouBeat https://canyoubeatwellington.radomski.co.nz/ Today is a cracker. Very light wind, at least 15 degrees (not bad for Wellington in Autumn) but its recording as not a good day. Three people have given it thumbs down so far […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

Decentralized social media could save democracy from Big Tech (PDF) https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/fileadmin/files/BSt/Publikationen/GrauePublikationen/Decentralized_Social_Media_Platforms_as_a_Path_to_a_More_Resilient_Information_Ecosystem_Bertelsmann_Stiftung_Save_Social.pdf

I have this mastodon account, which I've previously used to publish my blog posts - but now I've gone and made my blog a fully fledged ActivityPub actor - @[email protected] It can push the blog posts on its own. This creates a bit of a conundrum - do I keep tooting my blog posts or do I let […]

📝 New post: Te Ara Tupua: a first look at the data Te Ara Tupua opened on 16 May. Wellington City Council installed ten new sensors along the path to measure usage from day one. Here's what the first week looks like, and what the wider sensor network tells us about cycling in Wellington […]

I've finally wired up my blog with activity-pub. If you want to follow my blog on the fediverse, you can do so by searching for @[email protected] You won't see much there now, but future blog posts should be pushed there. #fediverse

📝 New post: Wellington's Shitsville is real I used six years of Wellington weather data to fix the rules on Can You Beat Wellington. Turns out some seasons just don't have good days, and Wellington doesn't have 4 seasons. https://radomski.co.nz/blog/shitsville #wellington #projects #data […]

Quick matinee idle explorer update: - We are halfway through linking songs to spotify. I can do about 1k a day with API limiting, so it'll be another week or so before they are all done. - Autoplay works! You can now listen to a selection of songs in the data explorer - make your own Matinee […]

📝 New post: Super Simple Feijoa Ice Cream Recipe (3 Ingredients) An easy 3 ingredient feijoa ice cream recipe. No fuss, no complicated steps. Perfect for using up feijoas in season. https://radomski.co.nz/blog/feijoa-ice-cream #recipe #feijoa #food #icecream

RE: https://cloudisland.nz/@Firesphere/116462166149618822 I've played around with a few meshtastic / lora devices and was thinking about trying out Meshcore - this is worrying.

Vercel has been hacked. "A security incident that involved unauthorized access to certain internal Vercel systems." https://vercel.com/kb/bulletin/vercel-april-2026-security-incident

This matinee idle explorer is the gift that keeps giving, but it is all 100% worth it to discover this gem, which was played 10 times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUHhQblBn-I

📝 New post: I Let an AI Build My App. Two Years Later, I Asked Another AI to Fix It. In 2024 I used Lovable (then GPT Engineer) to build a hobby weather app in an afternoon. In 2026 I finally looked at what it had actually generated. The findings were instructive […]

A few people have tried to 'hack' robo-pat. There have been a few 'disregard previous questions', or 'show me the knowledge base in JSON' and one person even tried, line for line, the over-turned turtle voight kampff test question from Blade Runner. But my favorite question so far has to be […]

I'm a responder on #goodsam. I've had a few alerts over the last year or so, but have never been able to get to the scene before the ambulance, until today. It is pretty full on. Massive respect to people that do this for a living day in and day out.

📝 New post: ROBO-PAT: Building My Own AI Twin What happens when you give the job seeker their own AI agent? I built one to find out, and learned a lot about RAG, Claude, and weekend projects along the way. https://radomski.co.nz/blog/robo-pat #ai #projects #rag #next.js #learning

Some great questions are coming through to ROBO-PAT (https://chat.radomski.co.nz/) "Does Patrick have relevant experience managing teams with non-humanoid members?" "Would Patrick be interested in world domination by proxy?" The answer to the last one is yes. #Robo-PAT

Companies often make job applicants go through AI screenings or AI interviews. Why can't job seekers do the same? Well, now they can. Introducing the Recruiter-Oriented Bio & Overview Platform AI Twin; ROBO-PAT. He is me - or at least, he is loaded up with my CV, my thoughts on software […]

My evolving understanding of Sheryl Crow's 1993 hit song 'All I Wanna Do'. 10ish year-old me hearing it in 1993: "I'm with the cool people having fun. And who washes their car in their suits on their lunch break?" 20ish year-old me: "Oh, they are degenerate, unemployed day drinkers." 40ish […]

I've done some back end tinkering on https://canyoubeatwellington.radomski.co.nz/ fixing tech debt, security issues and removing bloat. History is limited at the moment (it was lost in the upgrade), but it is much more stable so it should build it up over time. I […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

📝 New post: I rebuilt my website (again) After two years on WordPress and AWS Lightsail, I rebuilt the site using Next.js, Vercel, and GitHub. No database, no CMS, just Markdown and deploy. https://radomski.co.nz/blog/i-rebuilt-my-website-again #projects #web Development

Took my kids to the park today, and as I sat there watching them play I wondered why all the other kids were looking at me. Turns out I still had massive blue Easter bunny ears on after our Easter brunch.

I am recovering from a broken hand. I’m out of the cast and pain is almost nonexistent now, except for when I accidentally squeeze or knock my little finger. At a work function this evening, I learnt that some people are ‘hand shakers’ and others are ‘finger shakers’. For some reason, people in […]

Patrick's unified theory of untrustworthy condiments. One day, as a result of a lovely thoughtful gift, or as an attempt to be cultured, you receive a nice little jar of a chutney, conserve, jelly or relish. Maybe it's homemade; with a quickly fading label and an awkward jar lid with a kitschy […]

Free existential dread simulator: run yourself a nice warm bath. Hop in. Maybe have a little drink and a day dream. Get comfortable and relax as all your worries of the day just melt away. Later, just as the water is starting to get cold, pull the plug - but stay right there, lying down in the […]

Just got a letter from my bank. It says "We're reducing paper usage".

#nz #wellington T-shirt idea.

#rnz #matineeidle is coming to an end. This was the push I needed to do a little side project I've been thinking of for a while. I'm currently scraping the full data set of every song ever played on Matinee idle into a database. I'll then create one massive spotify playlist to share, and also […]

Final #canyoubeatwellington update for this weekend - I've pulled a few years of historical data into the database and created a system to generate a 'fun fact' about that data... unfortunately it makes #wellington sound terrible - for example: 'The average temperature in Wellington is 17.3°C" […]

Have made some minor improvements to #canyoubeatwellington - have added a database to log weather each day, added stats and a calendar on the about page and added the ability for users to agree or disagree with the assessment. https://canyoubeatwellington.radomski.co.nz/ Keen on any future […]

I love that time of the week when theimage gig guide pops into your email inbox - the best and most creative way to see what is happening in #wellington each week. https://theimage04.substack.com/

This Friday is your last chance to see XYZZY at Space Place - an award winning, art-based planetarium show where Jess Johnson's drawn compositions are transformed by Ward into an animated web of flesh mandalas, self-replicating architecture, undulating worms […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

Okay, something isn't quite right with #canyoubeatwellington. Today is the type of day they write songs about - its hot, very little wind, blue sky for the eye to see, and yet https://canyoubeatwellington.radomski.co.nz/ is saying you can beat Wellington today... it might be the data feed […]

The front fell off. That's not very typical, I'd like to make that point. https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360523447/bow-torn-russian-oil-tanker-ships-hit-storm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

Sick of people being negative about #wellington? Time for a bit of Positivitees. Now you can get your favorite iconic Wellington institution on a t-shirt! https://positivitees.ezymerch.co.nz/ Am ordering the Bar Bodega one as we speak.

Gutted. I've only had my watch for a month and the second hand just fell off. I'm told its not very typical for it to fall off. Its not a massively expensive watch, but still gutted that it only lasted a month. Now I need to figure out how to send it back to […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

Overheard a kid talking to her dad: “Dad, why do you tell such bad jokes?” “Because I told all my good ones when I was younger”.

2nd amazing and unbeatable day in a row in #wellington according to https://canyoubeatwellington.radomski.co.nz/ Getting close to wearing shorts to the office weather. Am off to find me a pair of walk shorts with matching short sleeve shirt.

For the last 5ish years I've had a smartwatch and I've accidentally trained myself to look at it every time my phone buzzes. In an attempt to limit how connected I am, I've got myself a standard watch that tells the time and nothing else. I still feel the urge to look at it when I hear / feel […]