Has a test century ever been scored under a full moon before?

First day of summer! *puts on shorts and t-shirt* *shivers all morning* *checks weather app* 'Feels like' 6 degrees at midday.

Just saw the TechnoViking leading the peloton at the #tdf !

LLM coding is making software creation accessible to a shit ton of people that otherwise would never make software — lots of underrepresented types of people/creators will start to make things we might not have seen otherwise thanks to a greater diversity of perspectives that is a very good thing

Big "I will contact attorney general" vibes here from someone who rage screenshot-block-posted me yesterday. 1. I use the GPU for work. 2. I run it locally on upcycled hardware (slower, but cheaper, more ethical and fun) 3. Inappropriate? huh? You posted it! More deets in the alt. #AI #databs

Him: Technically the piano is just a harp in a box. Me: You’ll find yourself in a box sooner rather than later.

It has been a bit dry in Victoria lately so not as many saffron milkcap mushrooms as past years, but the quality and form of those we found today were the best we’ve ever found.

Pruritanical (adj.) Usage: - He was so pruritanical that I broke out in a rash just listening to him.

DOGE code leak via a contractor using their personal github account. #banalityofevil

The Liberals are BACK!!! (circa 2009)

If you were in doubt that Australia and Canada are at two ends of the same wormhole: Two opposition party leaders lose their seats in each election a week apart. Conservative and NDP. Liberal and Greens. That’ll never happen again!

If you're feeling down, please remember the Viennetta ice cream video set to Darude's Sandstorm

TIL that Pink Floyd's Another Brick in The Wall part 2. is a disco track! Listen to the beat - it checks out...

David Pope in Canberra Times

Seems the data ecosystem in the Canadian election is pretty abysmal. In exploring riding results there is no: - comparison with votes from the last election - metric for percentage of (likely) votes counted It is basically impossible to get any context.

Feeling a little bit nervous watching the Canadian election with two seats flipping conservative early. Difficult to find an election tracker that shows the swing at a riding level though to get context.

A dataviz that absolutely nails how we’re no longer in 2-party preferred land (and haven’t been for quite a while). Next, how to capture the 3-body-problem chaos of preferences as every dot moves toward the centre... @caseybriggs.com

This is a good watch, and a reminder of the good things about #Melbourne... at least the CBD and inner areas and even many of the train suburbs. It's also a reminder for us locals to keep advocating for better planning and transport outcomes for more parts of our city (and regional cities).

My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more: www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

Do this AND put the libs last. ... or at least as low as you can amidst the other crazies.

The thing that finally, totally 🤯 about the tariff calculation is that it completely ignores the goods involved and only looks at the $. If I sell you my iphone for $1000, and you sell me your pencil for $1 that’s a couple of fair trades.

So a Data Quality issue leads to unintended consequences… All-time great example!

Calling this US administration ‘a bunch of muppets’ would be an insult to all muppets and the musty smell of stale sweat embedded in the materials they are made from and the bags they are stored in.

1 day, 1 hour, 5 minutes and 20 seconds. ❤️ #corybooker

A story well told. Love the gonzo style!

One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble. #WhiteLotus #Goggins

A look into why MCP is becoming the de-facto standard for AI tools and agents. 📈 On track to overtake OpenAPI adoption by July 🤝 Integrated by major players like Anthropic, GitHub, Cursor, and Goose 🧩 Solves the M×N integration problem w/ an elegant M+N solution www.latent.space/p/why-mcp-won

The hotel chain I’m staying at is under a cyber attack, and all guests are locked out of our rooms needing staff to open doors for us manually. Feels like the promised dystopian future of many small micro-bricked systems has arrived.

Added the following to my Windsurf global_rules.md context file: “If there is a choice between an async and a synchronous function, use the synchronous version.” Hopefully this will prevent any further outbreaks of async spreading through my codebase!

Extraordinarily detailed article here by @mliebreich.bsky.social - if you're interested at all in the energy impact of AI data center buildouts I recommend spending some time with this, I learned a ton from it

Bloke in a pink shirt explains why the RBA should cut rates

*Checks github branchname restrictions*

A mapmaker! Who does maps for Victoria!

It would seem that www.transparently.ai did some excellent work detecting dodgy financials on the ASX on a trial basis, yet ASIC didn't hire them...

This could be the cold-open flash-forward scene of the movie of our times. “The most immediate sign to the public would be the sudden failure of broadcast TV. Not long after, travelers and operators would notice that their GPS no longer worked…”

I like this new analogy for working with LLMs by @emollick.bsky.social "treat AI like an infinitely patient new coworker who forgets everything you tell them each new conversation, one that comes highly recommended but whose actual abilities are not that clear" www.oneusefulthing.org/p/getting-st...