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Ricky Sullivan Himself

@rickysullivan.com.au
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Developer. Dad. Drongo.

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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 08/10/2026
The governing principle: Every requirement must be firm, every interface inviting, every boundary respected, and every release thoroughly tested. Because a good specification should leave absolutely nothing to the imagination — except the bits that make it interesting.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 08/10/2026
SASS — Salacious Automated Specification System Serious engineering. Questionable intentions.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 01/09/2026
Or a tarp
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 25/08/2026
MATE, MY WHOLE LIFE IS A FLIPPING “WRINKLE”
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 19/08/2026
How about a new metric for reviewing PR reviews. DILLIGAF score = actionable signal ÷ total review noise Riff with me.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 17/08/2026
I'm hosting a n8n New Zealand Community Meetup! ​Thursday 24th September, 2026 ​6:00 PM - 8:00 PM ​AWS Office, Level 13 PwC Tower, 15 Customs Street West, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010 There will be snacks, drinks, and n8n swag (subject to availability). 👉 RSVP: luma.com/n8n-cfdk
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n8n Meetup Auckland · Luma
Join the local n8n community This is a relaxed, in-person n8n community meetup. The goal is simple: bring together builders, developers, operators, and…
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 23/07/2026
I never thought working in AI would be like this. I know this isn’t always the case. Yes I know API pricing is a thing, but for majority of mainstream frontier services, if you told me 5 years ago I’d have laughed at the idea of having to wait just to be able to continue working.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 21/07/2026
Naw. It’s been deleted!
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 15/07/2026
That’s a very long hold out.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 15/07/2026
Triggered. Was a Sencha Touch (by force) dev. 🤮
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/07/2026
Sam Neill, the versatile New Zealand screen actor who appeared in more than 150 productions over a five-decade career, and who was perhaps best known for his star turn as Dr. Alan Grant in the “Jurassic Park” series, died on Monday in Sydney, Australia. He was 78.
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Sam Neill, New Zealand Screen Actor and Leading Man, Dies at 78
He appeared in more than 150 productions over a five-decade career but was perhaps best known for his star turn in the “Jurassic Park” series.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 13/07/2026
Just putting it out there. Sam Neill, national treasure, national holiday. It should be Sir Sam Day.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 26/06/2026
Loved this read. It sums up what we’ve been trying to promote at work. Prying the docs out of the dinosaurs’ cold, dead Microsoft-moisturised hands into a brain system used by humans and AI alike.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 24/06/2026
Codex has a new "Pet" feature 🐈 Sometimes I wish I had my chonk with me at work, so I had Codex build out my pet cat, Pickles. developers.openai.com/codex/app/se... #codex #openai #chonk #pet
Codex interface with "Hatch Pet" task showing cat reference photos and a rendered plush-style orange tabby illustration.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 19/06/2026
A gold sticker, it has.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 18/06/2026
SHANE JONES IS A VERY VERY VERY UPSTANDING GUY. PSYCH.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 02/06/2026
AI-generated specs have a dangerous failure mode: they look right. The fix isn’t a longer prompt. It’s better discovery. Full post: blog.rickysullivan.com.au/dont-become-...
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Don't become VSF because you scud-ran VFR into IMC.
A Feature Definition Document is a preflight briefing for AI-built specs
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 21/03/2026
Hosting my first ever n8n meetup in New Zealand 🇳🇿🎉 May 19 · Hamilton · 6–8 PM Live demos. Real talk. Zero slide decks longer than your attention span. All levels of automation welcome. Spots are limited: luma.com/kzx2or1j #n8n #automation #hamilton #newzealand
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n8n New Zealand Community Meetup · Luma
Join the local n8n community This is a relaxed, in-person n8n community meetup. The goal is simple: bring together builders, developers, operators, and…
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 19/02/2026
In 1997, a fictional Australian solicitor argued a constitutional case with the words "It's the vibe of it." He lost. But he was right. The Dennis Denuto Metric applies that same instinct to AI-assisted development. blog.rickysullivan.com.au/the-dennis-d...
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It's the Vibe of it
The Dennis Denuto Metric is a structured vibe check for AI-built features — named after a fictional Aussie solicitor who couldn't argue law but could feel injustice.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 07/01/2026
My name is Otto and I like to Risotto
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 05/01/2026
Hey, could you please pass the…
An Island Dressing bandage with hand written Thousand prefixing the title.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 14/12/2025
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 09/12/2025
SUPERTHINK ULTRA HARD
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 09/12/2025
Spotify Wrapped. But for your prompt history.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 04/12/2025
“It’s the kids, they ruined my algorithm”
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 01/11/2025
Absolutely right since 1983.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 01/11/2025
It me, after a few jars!
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 18/10/2025
Heckers, Canterbury.
A very expensive bag.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 08/10/2025
Just leaving this here. web.archive.org/web/20130113...
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News Corporation
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 29/09/2025
It lacks a lot of my personality and knowledge about me. But that’s something that can be progressively tuned. I just need to think about boundaries.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 29/09/2025
First as a joke. But then I thought why not. So after extracting 5 years worth of Slack messages and running a deep analysis of how I interact with my team. I was able to build a persona that replicates me.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 29/09/2025
I’ve been seconded to a new role at work. Since the team were worried about my move, I suggested that I could replace myself with Ricky Bot.
Me. As a bot.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 17/09/2025
My second custom GPT. Dug and Daisey are two loveable gardeners always eager to help with gardening questions. Designed to assist with purchases through www.qpseedlings.com.au chatgpt.com/g/g-68ca6245...
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ChatGPT - Dug and Daisey
A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 17/09/2025
You might just be holding it _wrong_.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 14/09/2025
How’s your Sunday?
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 11/09/2025
Got you bro.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 11/09/2025
posthog.com/pricing
Physical box packing for PostHog 3000
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 17/08/2025
“It’s hard to know which will hurt National most. Being seen as aligning itself with the bigots, or making itself a laughing stock.” thespinoff.co.nz/atea/15-08-2...
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Pulling a learn-to-read book with six kupu Māori is another educational assault
Restricting te reo Māori for tamariki learning to read further alienates Māori in the education system – and that has enormous consequences.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 14/08/2025
ashtom.github.io/developers-r....
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Developers, Reinvented – Thomas Dohmke
What started as fear of AI replacing developers is switching to pragmatically embracing the ambitious reality of AI and viewing it as a growth opportunity. As we build the tools of tomorrow, we can us...
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 06/07/2025
Maybe “going viral” over “flooding” would have been a better choice of words.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 04/07/2025
As a bonus, I’ve been using MSW/Data to scaffold out model entities and using a custom cache persistence utility, store stuff in local(or sesssion)Storage.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 04/07/2025
This why as a front-end dev, I build out what I feel should be the API shape using MSW. As a bonus, dev work isn’t held up by missing back-ends and we can all reason about the shape of the API.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 03/07/2025
www.john-rush.com/posts/ai-202... “That’s where my factory sits today: good enough to ship code while I refill my coffee, not yet good enough to bump me off the payroll.”
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Building a Personal AI Factory (July 2025 snapshot)
Multiple parallel Claude-Code sessions power a self-improving AI factory where agents write, review, and refine code.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 02/07/2025
Microsoft’s Copilot integration is a stealing pile of shit. It’s so very complex having to add a Custom Connection, build a swagger definition. Jump through all the hoops. It feels like the opposite of what MCP set out to achieve.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 01/07/2025
Also company: we're going to need some sort of plan outlining your objective, how you intend to achieve that, how that aligns with the current goals and the value this will add for our customers/product.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 01/07/2025
Company: I see you’re using ChatGPT for work. Submit a ticket for access to our Enterprise version of ChatGPT so that our sensitive data is not put out there in the public arena and we will approve.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 29/06/2025
Every day beer. #homebrew #beee
A clear wine bottle being used for a homebrew pale ale.
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 27/06/2025
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/art....
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Artificial Intelligence Cannot
Experience a heart attack while working in the herb garden. Wonder what its middle school bully is doing now. Show up to court in a white linen sui...
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Ricky Sullivan Himself @rickysullivan.com.au · 27/06/2025
Righto. So I got my Hono MCP server running on @cloudflare.social Workers with KV store for sessions. Time to add auth and then get this thing thumping out some on brand content. Prompts will include email templates, social media posts. Tools include content guidelines for brand tone. Where to next?
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