Maggie Appleton back at it with refreshingly sane and thought-provoking takes on an insane project. Great stuff as usual

Ayy Yenlik on Colors! I found her through Instagram a few months ago, sooo good. Turns out Khazak rap goes hard 🇰🇿🔥

Made my first Bluesky bot! ☺️ @searchenginerss.bsky.social Still a few kinks to work out, but the bones are there

Hell yeah Search Engine talking about open social media let's goooooo

📊 #MapsWithoutNZ (coloured in)

All I want for Christmas is the ability to add new Slack reacts in the app

Oh damn Wikipedia Wrapped

Shout out @spellspellspell.bsky.social for soothing my homesickness this year 😂

Lmao écouter les vieilles chansons français a me âgé un peu 😂

Just saw that Nate Watson added the NZ local body election 2025 data to his STV visualiser - pretty sweeet nw.nz/viz/nz-local... #dataviz

Holy heck The Beths on Jimmy Kimmel! Let's gooo ❤️‍🔥

Absolutely terrifying news

Et voilá ! Mon nouveau "nom de domaine" : ✨🇳🇿 pjpscriv.co.nz 🇳🇿✨

Oop new ambition unlocked 👀 - switch to a .nz domain and make it onto this list blue.mackuba.eu/directory/nz

Oof man RIP D'Angelo. A real icon 🌌

tired: it's always DNS inspired: ICANN feel it coming in the air tonight

Also +1000 you can do it @bsky.app I believe 😤🙏

Let's goooooooooooooooo

Aw man RIP Fortune Favours, they had a good quiz ❤️‍🩹

Me: Man I really want to sink my teeth into some bigger projects Also me: spends the entire weekend on a minor version bump for a ~100 user chrome extension

Just had my first open-source-PR-gets-merged-after-being-open-for-nearly-a-year experience - pretty stoked!

this gap in my resume? that's where the light gets in 😌

Connections' American accent supremacy getting out of hand 😤

mattress startup CEO testifying to congress: ya'll are sleeping on the real existential risk posed by next gen mattress tech. so comfortable owners won't get out of bed to eat. naysayers haven't even tried the latest mattresses on sale now in our showrooms. researchers at my mattress safety institut

Devastated to report I read the docs and learned everything I needed to

Hell yeah this is coooool

Aaaaand an NZ version too because why not 📊: observablehq.com/@pjpscriv/nz... I could only find data going back to 1962, so you don't get to see the fully baby boom. Still cool though.

I just released my edit of "In Praise of 'Normal' Engineers": why the best engineering orgs in the world are the ones where ✨normal engineers✨ can consistently move fast, ship code, fix shit, help their users, and move the business forward...a little more, every day. charity.wtf/2025/06/19/i...

Nice

Hell yeah North of North is a banger, having a bit of CA-NZ crossover made it even better ❤️‍🔥

Got round to migrating two @glitch.com projects (RIP) The frontend-only one was easy, just popped on GitHub pages: pjpscriv.com/cyber-canada The one with a backend was a bit harder, but Cloud Run did the trick - and made it easy to give it a nice subdomain: emoji.pjpscriv.com ✨

@raz.lol I'd be keen to help out with bookmarksky! Flicked you a DM ☺️

📊 Recent little Observable play - creating an org chart viz using a force directed tree that is zoomable, pannable, collapsable and has a tooltip observablehq.com/@pjpscriv/or... Not displaying any interesting data atm, but certainly fun to play with!

This is a sound perspective on the impact of AI on software development.

In case anyone is wondering, it turns out the Last of Us season 1 Bill & Frank episode is perfectly capable of making you weep uncontrollably when watching it a 2nd time too

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thank god for tiny desk

HOH 👀 (I should probably read more into what this means practically, but it seems like a Pretty Good Thing)

Inside you there are two wolves. One is active, the other one is on hot standby and becomes active if the first one fails or is taken down for maintenance. Add more wolves as necessary for increased redundancy load balancing. A quorum badger can be added for environments with multiple active wolves.

Let's goooo 🔥 I'm pretty sure tab groups was the reason I switched to Chrome a few years ago. This might be enough to bring me back 👀

New Beths!!!

Et avec ça, j'ai terminé les niveau débutants! 🎉 Ensuite, le niveau plus grand de Babbel : "Intermédiaire I" 💪

I think weekly about how I want every podcast to have a transcript, so I can share sections without people having to get their headphones out. It seems like a straightforward use for AI too, audio-to-text has been pretty good for a while now. Obv scale is the main issue, doing it for all podcasts

"And for everything that has changed over the past two years, two things have stayed the same: 1. Companies still need human developers to build their products. 2. AI Evangelists are still claiming that, any day now, companies won’t need human developers to build their products."

Completely agree with this point: “Clever engineers write clever code. Exceptional engineers write simple code.” Back in when people wanted “ninjas”, I said I wanted to be/wanted to work with gardeners. Ninjas come in and leave a bloody mess in the morning. Gardeners patiently cultivate.

‘How about 2025 – no defeatism?’ ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

New Bon Iver good

Niveau suivant terminé !

Every now and then Connections is just no good Connections Puzzle #651 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟪🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟪🟪 🟪🟨🟨🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟪🟩