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-...

“I’ll be eating shit off the biggest spoon you’ve ever seen. Nobody’s seen someone eat like this. It’s amazing. People are saying I can’t believe he ate so much shit. You just watch. I’ll be eating so much shit.”

TIO complaints had 8 week delays about 6 months ago. Now it’s 11 weeks for a human to look at it. No wonder telcos DGAF anymore.

Building LEGO is like working on a car. There’s always a few bits left over at the end. Just put them in a container in case you need them one day.

AFL Grand Final entertainment has come a long way since Meatloaf’s 2011 “performance” youtu.be/4oLD1PQWZRU

Is it just me or does it sound like Cloudflare new business model is running the toll booths of the internet? blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-2...

In Canberra the labour market is so tight data centre operators are employing kangaroos to protect their facilities at night.

For all the racists protesting immigration across the country today, if you don’t like it, leave!

I hopped on the bus. It was packed with high school kids. One of them in a priority (elderly/disabled/pregnant/etc) seats got up and offered me his seat. I’m not that old! I declined but the kid didn’t sit back down. For the next few stops he kept looking at me awkwardly. #getOffMyLawn

Not something to brag about AWS.

Today will be a busy day for @simonwillison.net. I look forward to reading all of his analysis after I get some sleep.

Dear AWS, now please do the same for EventBridge and Step Functions.

Covid killed customer service

This video confirms that Ferðamálastofa should sponsor @olafurw.com as a tourism ambassador. He sells Iceland like no one else can. www.youtube.com/shorts/5aeE5...