🌶️ Ronny

The bonkers growth shown in the recent GitHub outage postmortems only strengthen the position that decentralisation + federation is the future of code hosting and CI/CD.

What would you use instead of YAML for configuring CI/CD pipelines / workflows?

Me: nothing Melbourne: absolutely nothing God: Hope you like water lol

If we're going to apply road tax to EVs because they don't pay fuel excise, then it's only fair if we also apply pollution tax to non-EVs by increasing fuel excise.

What the fuck, Garuda? And of course there's no way to unsubscribe.

One of the most diabolical Apple UI designs. This is from the built-in Stocks app. Surely the icon should indicate the action of pressing the button, not the state of something?

Don't be fooled by the short term "savings". Taxpayers are essentially giving $6 billion to their fossil fuel donors. A waste of money that would be better spent fixing real problems. theconversation.com/peter-dutton...

Google resorting to dark pattern sales tactics is low. Shame on you, Google. I hope the conversion rate is really low on this and whoever's responsible learns a lesson (hah!).

When I become rich, I won't tell anyone, but there will be signs.

WTF, why is this $175?!

The “fin” in fintech refers to the fins of the loan sharks.

How to artificially inflate the number of users as a subsidiary business 💩

Great talk by @adamhjk.me! I learned a lot, and the lessons are the ones that make me reflect, even when I don’t do open source business (yet?).

Absolute disgrace.

Australia’s education system is unbalanced. It disproportionately favours those who are already advantaged. It gives public money and tax concessions to private schools that go to private beneficiaries. 🔽 📰 @australia.theguardian.com @caitlinecassidy.bsky.social

Thankfully Australia has a big defense budget to defend Australia from these threats.

AI can be incredibly helpful, but it's not replacing many jobs soon.

Thanks, @neuraldsp.bsky.social! Legends!

Subscribing as soon as it comes out. The team absolutely deserves the support. “The company plans to launch a paid subscription model by the end of this year, which will include features such as customizable aesthetics, avatar frames, and more video uploads or high-resolution images.”

Ever wondered why some websites/apps/companies do things that they claim is "for security reasons", unable/unwilling to elaborate further, such as limiting password length, disabling pasting password, requiring a password change every X months, etc?

Man, this Mac mini is fast! browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/8769319

Come on, blue!! 💪

Happy Diwali 🪔

AI products trying to replace workers feels like lazy thinking. Wouldn't it make more sense to replace the high paid execs first if saving money is the goal?

People complaining about the location of the charging port of the Magic Mouse are going to lose their minds when they found out about how to charge the Apple Watch.

Mate.

Getting paid to use electricity. How good is this, hey.

Really looking forward to Ghostty. I'm very happy with WezTerm at the moment, but I'm keen to see if Ghostty is different and could offer a better experience.

In software engineering, we often conflate simplicity with brevity and convenience. Sometimes the simpler thing is more verbose and less convenient, and often by making it shorter it hides away complexity that has to be done anyway, and ends up biting us in the ass eventually.

Always a delight to discover this kind of music, an intersection of several different genres, a bit harder to classify, yet very enjoyable.

So happy to find this amazing crossover today

A few PostgreSQL gotchas that are both new and not obvious to me.

Best 20 minutes I spent online this year.

Eid Mubarak, friends! Wishing you peace, love, laughter, and lots of good food wherever you are in the world!

Why can’t we space out new power outlets more? It’s not like we’re running out of room.

I put together a timeline of the xz attack, dating back to 2021. Corrections or additions welcome here on Bluesky. research.swtch.com/xz-timeline

I thought coffee prices in Australia were already expensive. Apparently not expensive enough!