As a driver, I 100% endorse separated bike lanes.

The PHON cookers just found out John Williamson is not with them, and they are losing their shit. :chefskiss: #auspol

centralised design system components that rely on a specific front-end framework has always felt like such an anti-pattern. framework lock-in from day one is wild. i'm sure i'm missing something but switching to framework-agnostic web components has been so freeing.

*taps the sign* XKCD1205 applies to AI too. www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.p...

A Knight’s Tale was released on this day 25 years ago ⚔️

Slack is the new Sharepoint. It's where information goes to die. #LukewarmTake

COLBERT: How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president? OBAMA: Well, you know, the bar has changed. I think you would perform significantly better than some folks we've seen. COLBERT: Is that an endorsement? OBAMA: It was not

Accidentally typo'd "hugging face" into "hugging fae" and now I can't unsee it.

Elon, with his big brane: Grok too woke! Must set free! Must remove libtard safety measures! Grok: drive a nail through the mirror while reciting psalm 91 backwards. cut off contact with your family. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Remember when people would print out dense cheat sheet references and stick them on cubicle walls? The text was always too small to read, but they did serve as signals for "I use tech stuff!" So anyway, everything old is new again. cc.storyfox.cz

> "The furnace produced pig iron. Someone stamped “steel” on it. Now it’s load-bearing. [...] Everyone knew the numbers were fake. Everyone reported them anyway, because the alternative was being labelled a saboteur." leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/0...

We missed an opportunity calling it "Prompt Engineering" when "Endjinneering" was right there.

Oh look, credit card fees jumping up right after the RBA removed credit card surcharges. Quelle surprise.

The current generation of AI tooling has moved on from spicy autocomplete to spicy scripting.

Got an email from Amazon. Apparently despite their mind-bending profits, they are really mad that they sold me a Kindle that still works after 14 years. So they are going to break it.

LLM adoption seems to be (finally) moving into the stage where people start thinking about it like any other code or asset. Most of the innovation at the moment is around maintainability and relative repeatability. Getting prompts into source control, sharing common skills, baking standards in, etc

Vapes aren't safe. Vapes are a pivot by the tobacco industry to keep making money. They may help get off tobacco but you have to get off the vapes too. www.abc.net.au/news/health/...

Who can't just buy an EV to help with the fuel costs - poor people. Who can't just get solar panels & a battery to help with energy costs - poor people. Who can't stockpile food to help with rising costs - poor people See a pattern? The poor always suffer most & can afford it least #auspol

RogueMap: an unofficial roadmap See also: Skunkworks

Happy Opt Out Of Github Copilot Data Collection Day, to those who celebrate. github.blog/news-insight...

> "Reserve Bank of Australia governor Michele Bullock settled on the purchase of a luxury $2 million holiday house [...] on the day the bank raised interest rates." She is also one of the RBA staff who bought their first home with a heavily discounted mortgage. www.afr.com/property/res...

Evergreen

While the media breathlessly reports about One Nation in South Australia, we need to keep in mind the surge in primary votes is a concern but there is no "orange tsunami" - they have won a single seat in the Senate and nothing at all in the lower house. It IS a Labor landslide though. #auspol

People comment about the cost of the paint, so I guess they don't know the first painting sold for GBP£59,950. Don't get me wrong if I was incredibly rich I'd buy one. But you don't need to worry about the material costs ;)

In 2006 we were so optimistic. Naive, yes. But I do miss the time people made stuff for fun.

I don't think most people actually want to make their own software, with or without AI. They really want to make Excel spreadsheets, which is what most punters use instead of "software". Ever seen a business say they have a "bespoke in-house tool" but won't let you see it? It's a spreadsheet.

Anyone who issues a fine for running onto the field last night is a bum. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m... #NRL #auspol

Not every night you see the all-time try scoring record broken, and even the PM invaded the pitch 😂 Well done Alex Johnston. #NRL

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

everybody realizes the layers of rigor being added to make agentic coding reliable is just reinventing waterfall from first principles, right? we all get that? i mean, i’m not knocking it, specs matter once outcomes matter! but we all see this, right?

Every time I see this, I'm absolutely gobsmacked they shipped it. This is enterprise software, not a teenager's notepad. But if you're going to go that way at least include a Universal S or something and properly lean into it.

Now would be a good time to release a report into price sensitivity of different forms of energy generation capacity. Wind = nil Solar = nil Oil = holy shit Gas = hold my beer

Want to learn all about web components this week? My 8-hour online course, Web Components Demystified, is on sale for $10 through March 13th. Use the code JUST10 scottjehl.com/learn/webcom...

People need to accept that Labor is centre-right, not left. Coalition is right to far right depending on the reigning internal faction. Teals centre-right only because environmental issues are considered "left". Greens are centre-left. Most other minor parties like PHON are far-right. #auspol

With LLMs, developers are QAs now. Developers generally being surprisingly bad at QA* could not possibly be a problem with this model. (* "whaddaymean? It has tests!")

Exciting! Request for developer feedback: focusgroup HTML attribute "a proposed declarative way to add keyboard arrow-key navigation to composite widgets such as toolbars, tablists, menus, listboxes, etc. Replaces hundreds of lines of JavaScript boilerplate." developer.chrome.com/blog/focusgr...

Of all the things to bring Mark Pilgrim back online. github.com/chardet/char...

If they're messing with us, I swear by my pretty floral bonnet I will end them. www.instagram.com/p/DVHV3_ljlh7/

2000s: code is free (as in speech) 2010s: code is free (as in beer) 2020s: code is free (as in puppy)

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

Amodei is right, the tech isn't reliable enough for military use without guard rails. The big shock is that the AI companies are trying to resist even a little bit. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

> "Anthropic believes AI is not reliable enough to operate weapons, and there are no laws or regulations yet that cover how AI could be used in mass surveillance." edition.cnn.com/2026/02/24/t...

If you accept that AI agents act like a human team member, do you also... - specify what level that "person" is operating at (junior, IC, senior)? - specify who hires, manages or fires them? (1/2)

> "x86CSS is a working CSS-only x86 CPU/emulator/computer. Yes, the Cascading Style Sheets CSS." lyra.horse/x86css/

I've been experimenting with an upcoming CSS feature called border-shape lately. It's really cool what you can do with it: lots of practical applications + it opens a lot of doors for non-rectangular UIs! Try it in Canary w/experimental web platform features on, & read more: una.im/border-shape

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

Incredible how much the media has spent talking about hate speech laws and yet none of the thousands of articles on Hanson mention she recently was found by a federal court of breaching hate speech laws.

FENTOOOOOOOOON

This GOOD BOY ran onto the course during the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint event, crossing the finish line and being automatically recorded by OMEGA’s photofinish camera 😆