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Andrew

@andrewdotcom.bsky.social
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I struggle with this what do I do question. I’ve done quite a lot. Mainly with hardware and software. Not that I have much to show for it. These days, Agritechnology, data, ml and ai.

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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My Dad has his feet up for a couple of weeks following a trip to the hospital so I sent him a copy of @doctorow.pluralistic.net’s Reverse Centaur book to pass the time.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Algorithms have been manipulating the human genomics for at least 20 years through dating sites. Gen Z is heavily machine edited.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anyone who has to clean the gunk out of the bottom of a robot vacuum tray or empty the dirty water tank knows we are already slaves to our machines.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wouldn't be nice if the RBA decided that it would boost everyone's morale and surprise us with no interest rate rise tomorrow?
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I fear this isn’t going the way the labour government hoped it would. Despite ABC’s best efforts, the dialogue has been much less about AI alignment and much more about the shite engineering of Australian online services. Which it has to be said, is a surprise to nobody.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I mean, what must their post-it note wall look like? “Well here I can see a cluster of ideas around mass bank fraud - now put your sticky dot on your favourite idea”.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I can’t help think that there’s never a dull day going to work in the Kremlin.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We’ll all be bored to death sitting on some kind of advisory group long before we’re turned into paper clips, bicycles or pelicans by AI. It’s just going to be advisory groups all the way down.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Perhaps getting to well formatted, style sheets with a considered cascade does need AGI?
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’m confident AI tooling for web dev will get better but until then reading the code is going to be painful.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’m dating myself here but building for the web with AI brings back many of the frustrations I had with Dreamweaver?
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Is wanting one of these mats that go on your car dashboard finally proving that I’m no longer cool (or perhaps never was).
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And scene.
quote from 1984 where the party is always right.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sitting in the car with any Apple device on a nice day in Australia usually means it overheats long before you have to worry about the battery running out.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I don’t normally have issues with new iOS releases but so far with iOS 27 I can’t swipe between screens in spring board, the audio controls don’t show up in a playing podcast, swiping down doesn’t do anything, CarPlay freezes in my car and a few other niggles.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I found out that Tim, a sculptor/artist that I met at my local cafe died this week. We chatted every day and from his stories and the photos he showed me, he had lived a full, eclectic life. I’ll miss our conversations. A reminder that life, no matter how full, is short.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I hurt my back slipping my foot into my croc the other day. If it wasn’t so sore and pathetic it would be funny.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I nearly couldn’t send a parcel internationally from the post office today because I didn’t know the recipients email address. I used a version of mine in the end. Stupid. I won’t go into how expensive it was to send or how unhelpful staff were.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
P.s. it’s lovely to have a chat with someone again post twitter, I often wonder if anyone reads this stuff.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I agree. I don’t lament the good old days of programming, This epoch we’re entering is incredible, I wish I was 20 years younger, but I do find the overt greed gross. I have yet to get my thoughts well articulated but I would strongly disagree that so far it’s been a net win for inclusion.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
He has vibes of Coppola’s Dracula to me. I think it’s the haircut.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Many of my recent conversations with friends echo this sentiment.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Finally, after 5 years of being in business my company nearly has a website. Don’t get excited though, I’m pretty sure I won’t like it by Monday.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
While Facebook hold back Muse from Australia, Grokbot search dept hoovers up their users. 🤷
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Out of all the tunes people play out loud on their phones on the train, I have to say can you feel the love tonight from the lion king was unexpected.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Cafe sofas are like swimming pools you enjoy them but try very hard not to think about what’s in them.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We might as well give china access to the other half?
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I got some Bluetooth swim headphones. Everytime my head dips beneath the water it sort of unsurprisingly but still annoyingly cuts out. It’s turned my swim into a guess the song between strokes session. Fortunately I can also put MP3’s directly on it.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is true. Also service availability has gone down hill too. Many tokens and dropped responses. You still have to pay for the tokens you did use/get even if the response is truncated.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Who’s excited about the Silo season 3 finale today? I was wary of the memory loss plot and drift from the books but it’s been outstanding. Hat off to @hughhowey.com and the production team what an amazing achievement.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In other happy news it’s the 4th day of spring here in Australia and we’re already at 31°C.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Individually, all these execs think they’re super smart thinking of ways to raise prices while still reporting record profits to investors. Collectively they’re screwed as us poor sooks are all out of money.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
There is nothing immune to enshittification. We are just frogs sitting in the pot on the stove.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
With interest rates, energy prices. Groceries. Utilities etc costs all increasing exponentially. You know what’s not even remotely on my priority list? An Apple smart home device.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I’m very much in this boat with you. I am very good at making other people money, mostly for free.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Good grief. Who? I may as well just go get my slippers.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
There’s a lot going on at the moment that feels like we’re going through a transition of generations, an epoch shift maybe. It’s quite unsettling for a generation x’er like me.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We got a new car recently and the screen in it is so bright that at night it makes it hard to see the road. It also absolutely shat itself so badly when it thought I was speeding past a camera in a school zone (I wasn’t) that it nearly *caused* a crash.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
One thing that continues to catch me out is how slow and error prone the openrouter API can be for large scale data processing. Especially using structured outputs. Hopefully some stripe money will make this better.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
@tailscale.com continue to impress. I thought this article was an exemplar of how to open source something but still be commercial. tailscale.com/blog/tailcat
tailscale.com
Tailcat: An open-source CLI for Tailscale’s WireGuard®, NAT traversal, and DERP
Tailcat connects clients and servers using Tailscale’s WireGuard®, NAT traversal, and DERP data plane, with no Tailscale control plane or accounts.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I was explaining to someone today that the reason I prefer my writing over LLM edited versions of my writing is because it is crappy, and wrong, and lazy in places. Just like me.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Do you remember how DeepSeek wiped 2/3 of the value off NVIDIA stock in an afternoon? I wonder if an NVIDIA owned huggingface would have allowed that?
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I got some bluetooth/mp3 swimming headphones - first use today. Quite excited. 🏊‍♂️
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I think it’s safe to say the wildcard round was a success for the AFL. Two really fun games to watch. Probably more so because Port weren’t in them.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Silo, even three seasons in, is outstanding. Can’t wait to see how this season wraps up.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It’s random, but we used to walk past her grave on a shortcut to the pub when I was at uni.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I think it says a lot about the way my mind works but what I read initially was “no testicle”. It took a few try’s to see “notes control”. Eitherway looks useful and I will give it a try.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The run up may be a pain for parents but I really love seeing all the book week outfits.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Humanity is not really something that has ever come top of mind in the fleeting moments I've considered the characteristics of big consultancies.
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Andrew @andrewdotcom.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I also don't see how this is good news. www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-ta...
businessinsider.com
Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billion
Nvidia has held talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billion as the chip giant expands its AI dealmaking.
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