Today I got informed that a uni-friend died Wednesday night. That really hits hard. I was at her wedding, drank with her after she divorced, so much of life with her there. I just never expected that to change, vale Jess my beautiful, beautiful friend.

Watching fallout season 2 hits differently when dystopia seems close

Me: hm this code is removing timezone details! `.tz_localize(None)` Me: Hmm this code is removing timezone details from customer provided files and comparing it to a UTC timestamp (which has now also had timezone removed) Me: Ahh those customer files are generally not in UTC 😓

I got this message from my brother > I found my new hell, spotlight! > > Installing a new curtain in bedroom. Back to spotlight for 3rd time today. Bastards every single thing the sell for is just one thing short This gif was my response

Moving away from USA controlled software is a good decision! I hope Australia is watching, realistically I expect a general migration to take 10 + Years. So better to start now www.tomshardware.com/software/win...

I've just seen how many episodes of 'Love is Blind' my partner has watched! Makes me feel better about watching the 'One Piece' cartoon.

Being serious! Backing down from genocidal threats is definitely the preferred option.

I'm looking at a PR where I've made nearly 30 comments. Which is a LOT, exhausting even. Why so many? timezone manipulation.

🤦 #devleadfail I noted down a bunch of options to speed up a hot code path and then went on holidays. My list included running some stuff in parallel. Which in my head is always last (note the in my head bit!) and parallel for me prioritises processes over thread management. This pr is scary

#Artemis II - Your favourite moon pic so far? Image 1 - This image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun Image 2 - The Vavilov Crater on the rim of the older & larger Hertzsprung basin Image 3 - A distant Earth sets in the background of the moon Image 4 - New Earthset image 🚀🌕🌒🌓🌑 📷’s NASA

Oh fuck I think I've made a mistake. Started watching One Piece cartoons after seeing the live action. 60 episodes in and I check how many episodes there are and its 1155!

Watching the NASA Livestream, it is amazing. This is the sort of forward looking frontier work that inspires humanity. Then I see the latest brain dump from the mad umpalumpa and honestly what a mess.

I'm getting some customers to upload daily timeseries data to an S3 bucket. Most of the time this works but for some customers... it never works. These customers are in general BIG companies How many ways can you fuck up uploading a file?

During most of my career I worked in dev teams with the awesome hyper-focus sometimes unable to work person. Today I'm trying to speed up our CI build and I want that person back... Because this is the shit they were made to shovel.

Gah I had GitHub spending limits turned on and a prod deployment failed because we hit the limit... How big is the spend limit $10.00... I only have myself to blame

Dynamic html forms are among the most complicated parts of a web app. 20 years doing this and sometimes I still get tripped up

No one arrived

In software development, given enough time on a project you will regret every decision you have made. Good choices increase the time delta. #devlife

Current feature being planned has a lot of business rules. The same person coming up with business rules: "My inclination is to keep things as simple as possible as we gather real project experience..." Simple solutions are the outcome of rigorous thought and disciplined decision making

Haskell. Haskell was right

NACC concludes that Kathryn Campbell didn't lie because she had no motive to They say she had no motive because she was already successful, & wouldn't risk lying for further career advancement. I love it when people with no understanding of greed or hubris run corruption investigations

The NACC's view here is even funnier when you consider it's about a bloke who secretly appointed himself to multiple roles and thought no-one would find out.

A colleague has jumped onto AI like its the best thing since sliced bread. Unfortunately this same person approaches work in a "can't be fucked" manner at the best of times. So it is force multiplying some really negative parts of the work dynamic.

Do people just sit at their computer with a book whilst they wait for an LLM to do a thing!

A huge dissonance in modern work is the mandate for speed! It's not that business is ignoring the time, quality and cost trade-off, the know it exists. They seem to have stopped listening. #devlife

Allowing Russian athletes to compete unflagged is bullshit. Sport is always political. Much respect for Vladyslav Heraskevych.

23+ years ago I studied Fourier transformations. I have absolutely forgotten everything about them and the maths associated. It brings me no joy that I now need this knowledge to identify oscillations in complex signals

Honestly the reporting on xAI is non-existent in Aus. Also stupid that talented people are getting fired.

I occasionally get panned at work for being cautious when estimating dev work. 1. Estimates are always wrong 2. Today I'm really getting smashed because some features are taking a few days longer. This is the sort of crap that will cause me to look for a new career #devlife

I worked at Lonely Plant for years. LP could have become an awesome version of Trip Advisor. Very hard to change an editorial publisher to be a digital company open to the masses. Anyway perhaps editorial travel books will have a comeback! edition.cnn.com/2026/01/28/t...

www.githubstatus.com Is this legit associated to github? I mean after a bunch of searching probably because status.github.com redirects to here... Honestly though when shits broken I don't want to be questioning if the status information is legit

Regarding X, Grok, child abuse material and revenge porn. Whoa that’s a lot, I hope I never get so jaded that this sentence seems normal. I sent the attached message to my Prime Minister and well his team completely ignored the substance.

Hoping to get time in the next few days to give this a shot.

I think it is great that #github labels support emoji's! It is a nice feature. What isn't nice is github actions still not supporting: - parallel steps - group emails notifications on build failure - GHA cache (it just doesn't work) Cheap gets this company a LONG way. I'm so close moving #devlife

Playing Terra Invicta and even on easy it - kicks my arse - and is a massive slog Honestly I have a personal skill issue with this game. In that I suck and the aliens always win

One week until the campaign demo! You will be able to try out the early game and expand through a solar system. Join us on January 30th (Friday of next week) to check out our Mech combat 4x empire builder! #indiegame #gamedev

I played this game a lot a kid. I'm most nostaglic about the mini-game used to create your character. That was fun.

When will Trump jump from tariffs to sanctions? Honestly the western world isn't ready for the chaos of Microsoft, Google et. being forced to switch off services. Gov clouds gone overnight. Nuclear but so is the shit going on right now

How does a human with the role of 'Product Manager' keep themselves motivated? Narrator: Jerome is carding up a feature that is complex and boring as fuck. He would almost prefer to give himself a Prince Albert #devlife

Everything is really scary and horrible, and on the utter flipside, we made these really adorable valentines. The dissonance of seeing horror, then posting "hey buy some cute valentines" is making me feel loopy. But also nice things persist despite terror? Ugh idk. Get 'em at SquidFacts.net

Just watched the new 'Red Sonja' and it was fun. Maybe 7 out of 10 if you are in the mood.

Hmm perhaps there is a chance that something happens regarding grok and the child sexual abuse material archive.md/2026.01.11-0...

I noticed auto-correct being off in Gmail. I wonder if they have the balls to turn it off in docs as well!

It truly disgusts me that Australian government agencies both state and federal are still using this site. Not to mention the fact that MPs and senators have a presence there.

Updating the mech cockpits with more detail. Below is the Armadillo light mech new/old cockpit views. Also a sneak peek at the new planet Belisarius, home planet of the (barely) edible fungus that feeds half the star cluster. #indiegamedev #gamedev

Tailwind CSS in financial troubles github.com/tailwindlabs... It will be annoying (for me) if they have to shutdown... Whatever your view on 'just use CSS' tailwind have made a big impact

The #localstack team have decided to drop the free community edition. I get that they need companies using them to move to the paid plans. I'm not against paying. Trouble is we commit to CI early and often. The cost to get enough `CI credits` is a lot. Like close to my annual AWS Bill #devlife

"When making changes to software, please self review the change from a users perspective and check that it makes sense." This has always sounded so easy to me! #First_PR_of_2026_is_going_great #devlife

The headline here! So misleading. He isn't loosing 66 million. He is paying taxes. Mostly to the USA government. And he is still walking away with 74 million...

Marketing guy gets security questions. Uses an LLM to generate a response and sends it back to the customer. CC'ing me as the security tzar. I read that document and blind rage ensues. TLDR security documentation should: - match reality - be precise - not verbose - reference source material