Beneficiary bashing is their DNA! #nzpol

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"Please try again later" except the raw JSON response confirms this will never succeed because the package requires a signature The average user - I.e. anyone other than a web developer - must just tear their hair out at modern technology. AI won't fix your lack of care for the user.

Here we go…

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What emoji would you most associate with ‘Planform Engineering’? A. 🚀 B. ⚙️ C. 🏗️ D. 🛠️

Oof 🫡

As developers we have a bad tendency to try solve every problem with more code - when neither the problem nor solution are in code. AI makes the lowers nominal upfront cost of trying to solve all of our problems with more code.

First they came for the immigrants, and the freakiest people you know threw the fuck down because it was never going to end with immigrants.

* From Claude Working on docs that started life as a rubber ducking sesh in Claude and need to be validated for production. I've decided the Claude logo is kind of perfect actually...

Meanwhile, in New Zealand. (I thought this was satire, it is not. Tt is basically just native advertising for Halter though) www.youtube.com/watch?v=haPC...

I think I got all my open commitments into trello/jira? Feels a lot less anxiety inducing.

Lol, why support greens - Because they are the worst party for landlords and property speculators. It's always fascinating watching other side of an issue look at facts and policy fairly lucidly and but framed in alignment with their own interests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjP9...

KiwiSaver min contributions go to 3.5% in April. I thought it was going to be 4%? Even though thats still not enough for most kiwis to retire on. I haven't done any math on it but it just seems like incrementalism with little real impact. Why bother? Where's the vision for a future for kiwis

The Python New Zealand AGM is scheduled for Wednesday 4th March. Nominations Open Now. Online voting from Friday, 20th February. Here's to the New Zealand Python Community in 2026 💙🧡. See how to get involved 👇 https://python.nz/2026/02/03/python-new-zealand-agm-scheduled-nominations-open/

Melbourne friends, gonna be in melbourne later this month Feb and looking for recommendations for a place to host a bit of a lunch to catch up with friends and some infosec folk who are around? Suggestions for places that could take a moderate reservation of maybe upt to ~10 peeps

Of all the AI movies of the past 2 decades I did expect 'Her (2014)' to be the movie most similar to how things currently seem to be unfolding. (Re grown ass men w/ GPT GF's and clawdbots self organizing with each other). This is the dumbest timeline. www.imdb.com/title/tt1798...

Gets up early to get a head start on the day ⚡ *incident* 🔥 (reader, it was DNS)

Wait, that’s really the name of New Zealand’s energy minister? Fair enough.

Traumatic first experience bleeding the hydraulic braking system of a 2nd had e bike I picked up last month. Mineral oil everywhere Did not fix the problem. Fml.

Happy New Years from the Future (GMT+13) 🎉🎊🥳🍾

Housing market with bits tacked on.

Self-care today looks like spending extra time doing some chores that have piled up. Namely, cleaning the coffee machine so that I'm not taunted by the blinking light every time I make a coffee.

Found some old Lectures / Speeches from Sir Paul Callaghan. MFW, we haven't really improved much in 15 years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhCA...

Wait, the Regulatory Standards Bill passed? 🫠 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLSY...

I'M GOING TO TOUCH GRASS 🌱

big deal. I've also been to a Rust meetup.

You know YouTube is enshitified when browsers ship with multiple native settings to make it less user hostile.

Partner upgraded her iPhone so, after a decade using mostly Samsungs I am maining her old iPhone 12 for a while as a trial. This will be interesting. The last iPhone I mained was a secondhand iPhone 4 which was given to me free because it wouldn’t boot and I managed to revive it in DFU mode.

Because I am a masochist, I subscribed to a bunch of NZ Personal Finance and property channels, and the way they still talk about property in 2025 is mind-boggling. An increase of $700k to $1M in 5 years assumes a 8.9% p.a. return compounded monthly. Unhinged numbers.

Huh since the Aoeteroa Tech Union doesn't even have a website I don't see how I can stop payments? I'd rather not have to go to my card provider and ask to block them but its looking like the only option.

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POSTER: In my post I invented the Don’t Misunderstand the Torment Nexus Metaphor as a cautionary tale CTO: At long last, I have misunderstood the Torment Nexus Metaphor from the classic post Don't Misunderstand The Torment Nexus Metaphor

Today was a good day even though I had to work. Finally broke a bit of a funk I've been in for the last few weeks and got some shit done.

This is a thousand years worth of Creative NZ government funding

"With the OCR and interest rates having taken a big downward shit lately" Beautiful typo.

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I had a nightmare about trying to debug the 'Windows App' RDP client on macOS because it wouldn't connect to a Fedora workstation/server. It wasn't a dream.

In a race to stand for nothing, we are increasingly heading for first place.

Highest level of cowardice per capita good job New Zealand

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The Covid inquiry reboot is inspiring all sorts of revisionism on LinkedIn, including this little gem from Covid Plan B stalwart Ananish Chaudhuri “By October 2020, we knew that the vaccines did not prevent transmission”. This is not true, but how did he even come up with this? Thread. 1/N

I was pondering the same about how it might steer people towards Infrastructure as Code for cloud management because you can't vibe code ClickOps.

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Is it because they keep replacing trains with busses?

I love that my entire bluesky feed right now is InternetNZ AGM shenanigans. Well done, team. Ya'll turned up for NZ 🫶

Lmao, what are these default, generated Docker container names