Happy International G&T Day!

Building Slop Detector with Spec-Driven Development (OpenSpec)

International Astronautical Congress at the ICC this week

Yezz, why I’ve been thinking about too, App Intents as MCP tools, would be an iOS superpower

Living Smart Festival 2025 One of Australia’s biggest sustainability gatherings at Lake Macquarie's Speers Point Park “Charged Up: Electrification” panel takeaways: electricvehicle.life/posts/living...

Apple Santa came early today

What’s your birth year IKEA catalog?

(AI generated) notes on yesterday’s Web Directions Engineering AI

Dave Berner opening Engineering AI “Co-Pilot, not auto-pilot”

age verification I saw Nirvana open Pukkelpop at 11am

Does Australia not get 5G on the new Apple Watches? Difference between AU tech specs (4G) and US ones (5G as advertised during presentation)

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains

Bought a Sound Burger (54% off atm at the Good Guys) My first vinyl purchase was an 1983 Australian 12” print of Blue Monday. Not quite the same as the original UK one (with the cut-outs) I left behind 19 years ago. But still pretty nice. Originally $5.

Glad to see war.com is innocent and funky. And I do remember this one youtu.be/BsrqKE1iqqo

In the city today at Cloudflare Immerse Sydney

Big boom sound here on the Central Coast, which didn’t sound like thunder

TIL Powell Peralta is still going (with what looks pretty much like a last century website)

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard join Spotify exodus over arms industry link

It’s been a long time since I last watched South Park. But this new episode is 🤌

What we do with subs? We turn them into tourist attractions, away from any water.

Things I miss from Belgium: Music festivals (and its music culture in general) "For Rock Werchter's 50th anniversary, the brothers were invited to do a special mashup set filled with material from the festival's illustrious lineups throughout the years"

At a time of fleeting memes and cultural platforms operated by multibillion-dollar companies, an old mode of creativity and community-building gets a second life. www.wired.com/story/zines-...

Can imagine Apple could have been spooked by this, and might have seen this happen with their personal, “intelligent” Siri (announced last year)

What the VP was made for… (haven’t tried it yet though) restroomarchive.jakewelch.design#/best-pizza-...

HBO’s Silicon Valley on vibe coding in 2019. I miss this show.

I feel seen

Got me a heat pump clothes dryer myself today. Heat pumps for all the things.

Imagine having the world's largest encyclopedia in the palm of your hand. We at Wiki Med are shipping about 100 Internet-in-a-Box a month. store.wikimedia.org/products/int...

I wrote this about misophonia ! Which sounds 🤪 but is 🤬😖😢🫨https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/30/misophonia-condition-disorder-noise-sound-triggers#comments

At Cloudflare - AI to the World event at The Ivy Sunroom

Where did the Microsoft store move to? Replaced by Labubu the Monster.

Power outage in Green Point, Central Coast

MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0 https://www.anildash.com//2025/05/20/mcp-web20-20/

Advertisement at the doctor’s office Spoil & fill removal Gravel & sand delivery Animal burial That should have been “livestock burial”, because my first thought was pets, which would be weird?

🎂 Today, May 17 in 1961, the European Computer Manufacturers Association, or ECMA came to being and would oversee many computer related standards INCLUDING what is called ECMAScript, a scripting standard for Javascript. ECMA would eventually become Ecma International. ecma-international.org/history/

Went ice skating yesterday. Been probably 35 years. It’s not just “like riding a bicycle”. Lasted 30 minutes, fell twice. Didn’t want to risk a third time.

Underworld’s Born Slippy, 30 years old this month

Happy Wild Koala Day! Think about the koalas when voting today #wildkoaladay www.wildkoaladay.com.au

Bit insane driving down from Gosford to the city. Warning sign “Shattered metal debris on motorway”. Passing 60-80 cars on the side of the road with flat tires, as well as 5+ multi-car collisions on the side of the road.

Nothing open today, except Harris Farms where I picked up this vodka cured, beetroot infused smoked salmon (on sale), which was seriously nice.

European alternatives for popular services

Slept through that: Sydney residents shaken awake by early morning earthquake in NSW Hunter Valley

Future Fatigue: How Hype has Replaced Hope in the 21st Century techpolicy.press/future-fatig...

Anemoia: the psychology behind feeling nostalgic for a time you’ve never known

Scientists Are Mapping the Boundaries of What Is Knowable and Unknowable

Justice touring Australia in December. Qudos Arena though.

My first vibe coding project, with Replit, which makes this so easy wcag-inspector.replit.app github.com/halans/Repli...

I have a ticket to Trentemøller at the Metro in Sydney tonight, if anyone’s interested. (thanks Covid)

🧵(1/5) NSW respiratory surveillance reports: Week ending 29 Mar 2025 🔸COVID positivity rate: 3.6% (-0.3%) 🔸Number of laboratories reporting COVID: 3 out of 4 🔹COVID: 1,092 (-15.6%) 🔹Influenza: 1,878 (-4.7%) 🔹RSV: 1,924 (+4.3%) Source: www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/c...