Sometimes LinkedIn ads are so bad they’re good. The AI generated image marker is perfectly placed for a mining company.

How can you tell it is school holidays in Canberra?

Someone think of the car! If DXC paid proper wages they may not be able to afford to put their logo on Ferrari’s F1 cars.

The Seven Apostles

Taco Tuesday has become every day of the week.

Hey vibe coders over at LinkedIn, I see you 👀

While reading the world news today, I kept thinking of this image.

Is it just me or do a lot more @github.com API endpoints now require authentication? These days it feels like almost everything required auth. I’d check the history but the commit messages aren’t very informative and the UI refuses to render the diffs. github.com/github/rest-...

Australian supermarkets are making record profits as they become increasingly customer hostile spaces. Aisles clogged with restocking cages. AI powered self checkouts that don’t know their arse from your elbow. Now Woolies want to change the entrance gates to this www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Doomers: AI is going to make everyone unemployed OpenAI: We’re a nett creator of jobs au.finance.yahoo.com/news/laid-of...

AWS’ failure to deliver advertised quotas for Amazon Bedrock is hurting smaller builders. In my latest post I channeled my inner @quinnypig.com You can check it out at www.proactiveops.io/archive/amaz...

Twice in recent weeks I've had to work with Claude Code to script recovery of a project from ~/.claude/project after human e̶r̶r̶o̶r̶ stupidity. Both times I was able to recover it. I feel better knowing even very smart people like @simonwillison.net have done this too. simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/19/...

This is why friends don’t let friends use Kiro. We use Claude Code instead. On a more serious note, giving a coding agent write access to production is the engineering version of juggling chainsaws. Cool trick, but you don’t want it to go wrong.

NFTs in 2026?! AusPost, once again on the bleeding edge of technology. In 2031 they’ll implement an LLM powered chatbot on their website to “improve” customer “service”.

I’ve shipped more in the last 6 weeks than the last 2 years. Yes, the bots write a lot of the code for me now. I’m also hacking on stuff every day. Client stuff, product stuff, crazy ideas. I’m loving building and shipping. It all builds its own momentum. 1/4

That thing where someone from a 3 letter agency keeps checking out your LinkedIn profile 🤔

I spent yesterday trying to write an agent to find authoritative urls for some specs. It was buggy and expensive. Today I had a session with Claude. It suggested I get it to do it for me. 20mins later I have the data I needed. Less water and electricity consumed than running my own scraper bot.

This reminds me of the bros who thought "let's watch a movie on the highway while Tesla Autopilot takes care of the driving".

So annoying when sport interrupts a good ad break.

Well know what maintenance mode really means.

Myer has so many ways to pay online these days. I'm a little disappointed there isn't no option to pay in body parts. A new electrical appliance, left kidney it is. New winter wardrobe, I suppose that will be my right arm. This could really help with the cost of living crisis. Come on Myer, do it!

15 years ago I has no idea I was days away from spending my evenings performance tuning Al Jazeera’s blog server. The site was the one of the few places to get reliable information from on the ground in English. The blog server was a skunkworks beta project. It blew up during the Arab spring. 1/6

Main topic in my social media feeds today: * Bluesky: Minneapolis * LinkedIn: ClawdBot

Ah! The good old days

You know things are bad when you find yourself agreeing with Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Why `curl | bash` when you can `curl | calude`?! What could possibly go wrong? www.mintlify.com/blog/install...

Off to the pub status.claude.com

On 9 January 2026 mine and my family's lives changed forever. I tell the full story in this video: youtu.be/mNEPSWcOheY If you want to support my family as well as our local community, consider sharing this post, or donating here: www.gofundme.com/f/we-lost-al...

Sendle never was a rival to Australia Post. Not even close. Sendle was a tech layer on top of Aramex and Couriers Please, both smaller, poor quality services. Australia post delivered over 2 *billion* parcels in FY24. Sendle handled 65 million in 13 years. That’s not a rival, it’s a rounding error.

Drink the rich!

I’m using a LLM to create test support ticket data. I told the bot to use Australian English spelling. Around two thirds of the tickets I’ve spot checked start with “G’day”. I’m waiting for it to raise a request for me to chuck another shrimp on the barbie.

Standing in the queue at KMart customer service desk to collect an order. A mother and daughter are returning a tonne of Christmas decorations. Once done, they take over half of it back so they can rebuy it at clearance prices 🤯

The rest of the world: Everything in Australia wants to kill you! Australians: nah mate, you watch too much YouTube! Eastern Brown Snake:

Some hornet’s nests are made for kicking. 🥾

I’m drafting an email to my US based clients advising them that my consulting rate will increase 5% in 2026. I’ll embed this clip in the email.

Want to avoid engaging with your family on Christmas Day? A rep from Lucid Charts is happy to do a sales call.

The RSPCA needs to update their messaging this Christmas.

The growing expectation to tip in Australia is bullshit. It’s part of a trend of nickel and dimeing customers. Price your menu properly. Don’t add day of week surcharges. Don’t charge me extra for paying by card. Pay your staff properly.

“Python is the second best language for everything” youtube.com/shorts/0lWiv...

Follow Piastri, who follows Verstappen.

I was cleaning up some old files. I found this gem. I created it back in June 2021 when Big Mail kept promising that a release was just around the corner. I looked them up. 3.5 years later, they're still promising.

It’s pretty easy to pick the social media teams copying and pasting their tweets here. Can you spot the issue in this one?

I’m not a millionaire tech bro, so I could be completely wrong on this, but hear me out. Sending your lawyers after your community doesn’t feel like a winning strategy. www.404media.co/automattic-a...

Tired of manually converting Python projects from "requirements.txt" to modern "pyproject.toml" to use with "uv"? I built a tool that does it in one command. dev.to/danilop/mode... #Python #DevTools #DevEx #OpenSource #UV

This was Mount Gambier’s Banksy moment, but the council can’t see it.

Australia Post, maybe try sending it to Fyshwick next.

I hear engineers complaining about Kubernetes being a tangled mess of YAML files. I don’t know what they mean. I just experienced the pure joy that is using terraform to deploy Apache Airflow with a helm chart where I overwrote the default auth class with inline python in a heredoc block. #devops

DNS Normal Scapegoat

A few years ago Qantas completely screwed me. I bought fuckqantas.com and redirected it to social media search results of people expressing their frustration. I feel like now is a good time to do something more with it. What do you suggest?

Want to learn about the AWS RDS Data API? Check out my Deep Dive at www.proactiveops.io/archive/aws-...