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Ben Buchanan

@200ok.bsky.social
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I make some bits of the web Elsewhere: 200ok.blog mastodon.social/@200ok www.instagram.com/200ok Melbourne, Australia (recently ex Sydney). he/him

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rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com · 29/09/2026
After careful consideration and a look at where the industry is spending it's funding we've decided to pivot #FFConf in a "new" direction. I present to you: ffconf.ai Please share with bots and humans alike.
ffconf.ai
FFConf.ai
The web conference, now with 100% less you. Agent-first, human-optional, ice cream not included in the Enterprise tier.
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you've always voted Labor, but you're tired of the "managed decline" (great term), put Green first and preference Labor. You can never waste your vote in Australia, and you certainly CAN send a message you want positive change. #SoAnywayVoteGreen #auspol
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Good lord, people are still pushing the NFT grift to artists. I am genuinely baffled who is still buying monkey pictures, for this to remain a viable scam.
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A mere 16 years between episodes! CHAP HOP HISTORY II (ECCENTRIC BOOGALOO) by Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAkl...
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CHAP HOP HISTORY II (ECCENTRIC BOOGALOO) by Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer
YouTube video by Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons
Pumpkin hoop
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cut to the SNL writers room. Someone is insisting they can land a punchline around Super­cali­fragilistic­expiali­docious Intelligence.
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
auDA's changes will hugely damage trust in the .au namespace, cause a heap of unnecessary cost, and spam the Australian Business Registrar with unnecessary registrations. These changes should at least be grandfathered for existing domains. c.org/k5tH4vyKKD
c.org
Sign the Petition
Stop auDA’s Policy Changes: Protect Australian Domains & Small Businesses
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blair @blairaf.com · 19/02/2026
New stickers
Sheet of stickers that say "AI is made of people"
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
LLM markdown prompts are getting more structured over time. It's like a programming language might have been better than markdown. Crazy thought I know.
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
MCP is genuinely recreating all the problems of the early web. It's amazing. - clients not following or fully implementing standards (eg. elicitation) - injecting apps into clients (think: Java Applets, Flash, iframes)
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This Slack Channel Could Have Been A Single Thread In Fact An Email Would Have Done To Be Honest Even An Email Is Overcooking It A Bit
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Seem slike Bluesky is already being lost to the spammers. Every post gets a bot reply now. The rot's running fast.
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yeah, so much better to vote for a party that just does it openly from the start..? #SoAnywayVoteGreen
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Little from column A, little from column B.
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is.
Screenshot for a Defector podcast episode with the headline "Consider the Emotional Lives of Scallops" only the accompanying photo is a white gormless stubbled red-headed UK singer of recent notoriety giving a flat smile to the camera while wearing a washed out peach top as beige as he is against a flat background. So, actually, probably a scallop anyway.
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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
AI vendors failing to adopt basic standards like MCP elicitation is dark comedy to anyone who worked on the early web. Yeah let's have another shitty version of the browser wars, everyone benefited from that! We didn't waste vast amounts of human effort or money or user goodwill or anything.
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
High school curricula should include basic philosophy and semiotics. People generally think it's silly to study such artsy-fartsy things, but those are the same people who can't decode the media storm they live in; and they think LLMs "know" things. They are desperately unprepared for modern life.
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Charles Miller @carl.fish · 05/09/2026
Worth keeping in mind the degree this is straight up vice-signalling. All this money is going to fund a custom configuration of Arch Linux with a single intended customer: www.reddit.com/r/linux/comm...
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Ghost_x_Knight's comment on "Why does everyone hate omarchy so much?"
Explore this conversation and more from the linux community
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
ROU Mash The Sparkle Button #CultureShipNames
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
#SoAnywayVoteGreen
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
There's a breed of Car Guy (usually Murrican) that goes insane if EVs are mentioned, ranting about the way ICE cars will get banned. First off, never/not happening in your lifetime, you can keep your classic it's just going to be expensive and inconvenient (which it already is).
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Generic AI copywriting is shit in the same ways as generic AI image generation. All the details are off; and the hyperactive, trying-too-hard style is grating.
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Ashley @ashleysays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Chefs kiss
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Do you need to know the fucking time? You need a fucking town cryer then, you complete fucking bollard. bsky.app/profile/prof...
bsky.app
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
People, apparently: I want something that tastes like coffee, sugar and a well used ashtray. Boss coffee: you're not going to believe this
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I forgot I created a test user with the full name "Eric the Díáçřĩțîćàḻ" and preferred name "Eric óf Ünnëcëssäry Ümläüts \m/" I did have a real reason, but yes I am also somewhat easily amused.
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Word salad from the Oxley Moron, who doesn't understand the ABC has platformed her for thirty years. All media should boycott her bullshit pressers, but they won't. #auspol
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Adrian Edmondson @adrianedmondson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Bill Oddie, what a lovely bloke. He wrote us a letter when we started making The Young Ones, wishing us the very best, and warning us against interference from higher up. He didn’t know anyone in the cast personally. It just came out of the blue. Lovely thing to do.
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We've lost another Goodie 😞 Vale Bill Oddie. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
theguardian.com
Bill Oddie, naturalist and broadcaster, dies aged 85
Coming to fame in The Goodies, Oddie was later known for his wildlife expertise and presented BBC Springwatch
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
So apparently in a real emergency, I'm screwed because the government can't send a text message in 2026.
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It needs to be taken more seriously (by authorities) that someone openly and literally threatens murder in the comments of every post about cycling. It's not rational behaviour.
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Orgs that want to do an AI transformation need to remember that all tech transformation is 99% change management (ie. People Stuff), and 1% tech (if you are really lucky, it's 90/10). Most orgs fuck up tech transformations by treating them as tech challenges, and AI isn't magically different.
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Aussies, today's a great day to tell your local member (and others, check the cc list) that you would like the gambling ads to stop entirely. www.stopgamblingads.com.au #BanGamblingAds #StopGamblingAds #auspol
stopgamblingads.com.au
Stop Gambling Ads
Australians lose around $31.5 billion a year to the gambling industry - the highest losses per person of any country in the world. Tell your MP to support a gambling ad ban.
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Tom Red @tomredmemes.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Australians will pause at 11am tomorrow to observe a minute’s silence, in order to reflect on the hardships endured by rich men who sabotaged their careers on purpose in order to generate maximum media coverage and victimhood status.
theshovel.com.au
Australians To Observe Minute’s Silence To Commemorate Victims of White Middle-Age Male Privilege — The Shovel
“It will be similar to an ANZAC day service, but instead of commemorating people who lost their lives defending their country, it will honour rich entertainment industry figures who have to pay a litt...
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Karl Stefanovic didn't get fired, he resigned with extra steps. Those extra steps are a marketing campaign for his podcast (ermagerd cerncelled by the werrk lerrft) . All 100% planned and predictable, it's the right wing playbook.
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Thou art rich in tokens, but bereft of soul. #ModernInsults
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
CHUNKaCHUNKaCHUNKa dear mechanical keyboard users CHUNKaCHUNKaCHUNKa we love your mojo CHUNKaCHUNKaCHUNKaCHUNKaCHUNKaCHUNKa but it is CHUNKaCHUNKaCHUNKa all we can hear CHUNKaCHUNKaCHUNKa in your CHUNKaCHUNKaCHUNKa recording
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
GSV Goose Was Not Valued #CultureShipNames
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Tell me your package was vibe coded in Claude without telling me your package was vibe coded in Claude, bleeding obvious design edition: nubjs.com That claude-clone design is rapidly becoming the new Default Bootstrap Theme Website.
nubjs.com
Nub — an all-in-one toolkit for Node.js
Nub is a TypeScript-first toolkit for Node.js: run TypeScript files on stock Node, a faster npm run, a pnpm-compatible package manager, and a built-in Node version manager. No lock-in.
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
We should not be complacent. Hanson is a horrible excuse for a human, but Dutton had trouble convincing people he was human at all. He creeps people the fuck out. People still treat Hanson as somehow comical, forgetting what a vicious piece of shit she really is. #auspol
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Pauline Hanson will never be anything more than a scared angry xenophobic fuckwit. She has enough cunning to grift the public purse, but not enough talent to improve the country. She may gain more power but she will never be worthy of it. #auspol
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Kerrie B @wheels002.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Vegemite to release new Bland White edition for One Nation supporters #auspol
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Some Americans are delusional in astonishingly weird ways.
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Jira's routing has really been fucked up. Used to be a clear URL scheme, now a bunch of logical URLs return 404, while the real URLs are long, ugly and hard to remember. Old URLs that worked for 20 years don't forward to the new equivalent. Really shitty UX.
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Ben Buchanan @200ok.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
If LLMs really are the future of coding, as so many say, we urgently need options NOT controlled by a nation as turbulent as America. www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m... Nobody outside the US can rely on access, not even notional 'allies' (AUKUS fuktus).
anthropic.com
Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US government has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A good heaven would include all your animal companions *and* every good building and cool local venue or restaurant that met its end during your lifetime.
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