Nice way to start the weekend.

Even though I've made this joke myself I actually really hate the "all developers have to be engineering managers now with agents" No, they all need to be tech leads, not ems. Unless you're having to deal with the agents' interpersonal issues and the PM distracting them and getting them promoted and

And… subscribed. If you're using Bluesky on a iPad you really should give it a go.

“Labour needs to be clear…” Who’s labour? The silent ones in the corner not saying shit about literally anything?

This LOOKS like what a decent chunk of NZ want labour to do. They could just copy it.

FINALLY a workable iPad BS app. More than workable. But the others have been… just ok. Just.

“[T]he more important thing is that we have a home on the open web that we control, and whatever anti-creator changes Substack is forced to make in the future to live up to its valuation we won’t be affected by.” - @caseynewton.bsky.social on leaving Substack for the open social web

Visual: DA eating some ice cream. Doin’ some bombs. Churrr

Sir David Attenborough has a soft spot for #kakapo. We named a kākāpō after him (Attenborough the bird is now ten years old, living on Te Kākahu) and he kindly narrated a short video for us about them, which you can see here: youtu.be/5eZVjQowNvw?.... #attenborough #conservation

There were other good ones on that show, but nothing came close.

I do rather like the Linear folks and their product.

If you are having a hard day just remember there are dogs

On the plus side, 2028-2031 waiheke wine vintages should be off the hook (like 2013-2016 were)

This is going to be a horrible, shameful election campaign.

Morning Banger to go with the "it wasn't actually a security alert just a very naughty boy (or girl)" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpre...

First half is absolutely what we hit. Not sure (yet) about their solution but I’m glad someone is looking at it https://maggieappleton.com/zero-alignment

Doing a mini-thread again -- Elon Musk is on the stand, and likely will be for a large portion of the day

Be interesting to see how this goes. As a user the taxis suck - little availability and insanely expensive. As a driver I’m told it also sucks - one run to mudbrick and thats it until the next ferry. Everyone loses. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/...

A wholesome story for nerds: On Saturday, I was signing books at a local bookstore for Independent Bookstore Day. The store had a signing-palooza with new authors every hour; toward the end of my hour, a woman came up and asked what my book was about. "Dictionaries," I said, and she lit up. 1/n

Nice afternoon snorkel spot.

what's great is that this is directly falsifiable by looking at any of the many maps tracking existing and planned data centers, but I do think it's notable that this post got over 200 reposts and tons of replies, mostly in agreement, from what appear to be left-liberal large accounts

Not unhappy that I took this weekend off. Might be some “wild swimming” (aka swimming for the non Brit’s) being I got the latest season of Jules and Greg www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

😎 m.youtube.com/watch?v=5-g8...

Lovely day for a cruise ship…. … to clog the harbour up and make all the ferries 20-30mins late.

Duckling doggo stampede! #ducklings #spudlet

and... a Butter Chicken Tsunami sounds, if a bit messy, quite tasty actually, thanks. and now I want a curry for lunch.

Do we have a new Chris yet? I've been in meetings for the past 2 hours...

Friday outdoor pizza

renewable conspiracies https://thedevilspanties.com/archives/17011 We still have RSS! https://thedevilspanties.com/feed

Nice swell at Palm Beach

Staycation. Swim in 2m waves at Palm. And excellent pizza and a weka at the Waiheke Distillery. (With my friends vegan cheese on one!)

Interstellar really is a brilliant piece of cinema. “One Nolan hour is 3 normal hours” - @letterboxd.social review

Two things. TACO, including CO on his own agreements. and Israel. They had a ceasefire on Gaza, and, well, just kept blowing shit up and killing people. So... great, but lets see after 2 weeks...

I was told about the Mythos release, but have no personal experience to add. Two points from brief: 1) It is not built for IT software security, it is just a good enough model that it is good at that too 2) This is the first, not last, model to raise security risks red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-...

Anthropic says it's only releasing its new model to cyber-defenders because it has already found zero-day exploits in every major operating system www.anthropic.com/glasswing

high noon at the OH SHIT corral

Leafed

And this is why teams and zoom stay in chrome. Never install the desktop version ever. MSFT esp. random looking legit URLs … https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/3/supply-chain-social-engineering/

That Droneeaters album is an instabuy. thanks @georgepenney.bsky.social

“I was lost away from home in a bizarre territory where people made plans that didn’t make sense with the aplomb of a drunk LLM.” isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-micros...

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

I was a guest on @lennysan's podcast! We talked about agentic engineering and all sorts of other LLM-related topics for 1h39m(!), plus a little bit about kākāpō parrots - here's my selection of highlights from our conversation simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/2/l...

Home Solar xkcd.com/3226/

turn off your alarms, dickheads

THIS!!!

And yet the last 4 words threw me right into the ending of Drag Race…

so we just need another TACO? Which is booked for 2pm NZT tomorrow by the looks of it

This is Molly. She was finally found a week after her human fell down a 180-foot waterfall while hiking together in New Zealand. Her human was badly injured and rescued by helicopter, but Molly was missing. A week later, Molly was found at the base of the waterfall and reunited with her human. 14/10