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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 23h

Nicola’s ferries won’t arrive until 2029, if ever. IREX would’ve been sailing by now and cost less that just one of National’s new RONs, that they now also can’t build. You only have a few weeks left to enrol. If you aren’t enrolled, your vote is like Nicola’s ferries. non-existent. #nzpol

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Claude Opus 5.5 might just be enough to make me a believer.

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think we’ve reached saturation of podcasts with nebulous descriptions like “food, health, life and everything in between”.

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Colin From Accounts” was such a good show and I’m glad they only made three series. And who knew Slice of Heaven was a big song in Australia?

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@kevinpowell.co regarding your comment about factory workers in the “no one is enjoying this” video, I highly recommend reading Sarah O’Connor’s book “We Are Not Machines”.

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you like chocolate mousse… Take a tub of Kalo Vanilla Bean yoghurt and whisk in three tablespoons of cocoa powder. You can thank me later.

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

$144 to fill up my car. Trump can get in the sea.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Two piles of crap straight to the bin

A photo of a full dog poo bag and a National Party brochure sitting on top of a wheelie bin

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I used Apple Pay exclusively on our Australia trip and not once did I see a scrawny, handwritten surcharge label on the eftpos machines.

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

TIL he had a band. I thought his whole shtick was doing everything with a looping pedals.

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

All your fancy AI tooling, and plans, and squads are no match for an under-resourced team. I just spend more time just waiting for someone else now.

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Got a new battery installed in my iPhone 13 Pro this week. Feels like a new phone. People rag on Apple but their phones have longevity. This is a 5 year old phone and it will probably last another 2-3 years before it loses OS updates (it will still get security updates beyond that).

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AL Rodriguez (not that one) @programmeral.com · 12/09/2026

Every programming podcast I hear these days has the same "My agent couldn't do this thing, but I did this thing so it could figure out how to do the work for me" segment, and it's just so boring. At least the comedy ones don't have anything like that yet.

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“We have inflight wifi!” The wifi:

Screenshot of how Air NZ inflight wifi appears on iOS complete with warnings about how it’s insecure and doesn’t support encrypted DNS.

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If Elon could get a computer to solve ALL chess possibilities, what would be the point?

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

WTF Hyundai. This pointy boy right in the knee/shin zone.

Photo of the inside dashboard of a modern Hyundai i30 which shows a prominent pointy outcrop directly where you put your knee when getting in.

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Aussie bachelors’ handbags are on another level!

Photo of a precooked roast pork WITH crackling for sale at Woolworths in Australia

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Thoughts on Australia so far: Traffic is more than I’m used to. Shop and service staff are friendlier than NZ

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

First time in Brisbane. It’s hot.

Photo of Coral Sea looking north from Sandgate?

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htmx.org / CEO of Java Pants @htmx.org · 29/08/2026

happy to announce htmx 4 has been released: four.htmx.org/announcement... major changes: * explicit attribute inheritance by default * event names standardized * history not stored locally by default major features: * idiomorph in core * <hx-partial> tag for flexible content swapping Enjoy!

four.htmx.org

htmx 4.0.0 has been released!

Release announcement, 2026-08-28.

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Richard Campbell @richcampbell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

So a cultural... shift?

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

More like Postpone Malone, amirite?

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“At first what they were telling people is that it was for Kindles, but I just didn't believe that… Then I saw it was for AI.” If you have to lie to your employees about their job, you’re definitely doing some shady shit. news.slashdot.org/story/26/08/...

news.slashdot.org

Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books For AI Training - Slashdot

Last week, 404 Media published a story that revealed an Amazon warehouse where the company scans and destroys thousands of books for AI training data. Today, the publication has released an interview ...

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Abbey Perini @abbeyperini.dev · 24/08/2026

Don't know who needs to hear this today, but React isn't the only front-end web development tool.

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Mince has climbed to $24/KG. That’s going to have knock-on effects for Dolmio sales. And catering-size lasagnes for sports tournaments.

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Jimmy Bogard @jimmybogard.com · 19/08/2026

Frequent context switching is such a drain, and here's why: Oh wait one of my AI agents is done, just a sec Hold up another one needs input OK back to the first one Ah nuts this needs more thought. But let me kick off another task first. What were we talking about again?

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If you haven’t watched Shrinking on Apple TV, you’re missing out. Harrison Ford is awesome.

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Happier times… Can’t find “Our Mate” anywhere now.

A photo of a kitchen cupboard stocked with three jars of “Our Mate” English marmite.

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Sitting through another presentation on using AI at work… I’m really sad what AI has done to software engineers.

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Sound the @htmx.org klaxon! “… is not a JSON API with a client-side dashboard painted over the top. The Stylo.Bot dashboard is Razor SSR first: meaningful counters, charts, tables, links and navigation before JavaScript runs. HTMX, SignalR and Alpine then enhance that page rather than replace it.”

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

We scored an original, 1983, NZ edition Trivial Pursuit an Manny’s in Waitangirua.

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A Dodge RAM. Average height wife for scale.

Photo of a ridiculously high front end Dodge RAM next to my wife for scale.

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

In my experience, the only thing AI has done for software engineering is to create backlogs of work for other humans. For internal apps where PR and QA can be minimal, it feels faster. But as when you have regulatory or ISO boxes to tick, it’s no better than before. We’re running to stand still.

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

“Full support” should not take three and half hours.

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David Slack @davidslack.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Like when a horse breaks its leg at the races

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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 11/08/2026

“Is the point of life merely to stockpile accomplishments? If that is what Silicon Valley believes, no wonder all the billionaires seem so unhappy all the time! They have traded experience for accomplishment, and cheated themselves out of their own lives in the process.”

theverge.com

Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live

An AI future of sleek, streamlined, and totally empty relationships.

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I have zero use for an Orchid, but if Matt Berry and Jemaine Clement are advertising it, I still want one. youtu.be/hbO1z13WP8o?...

youtu.be

"How to Orchid" by Telepathic Instruments

YouTube video by Telepathic Instruments

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Ian Cooper @icooper.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

WTF? We would rather desecrate a Bronze Age burial site than a movie filming location. I have no words for how dumb we have become…

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Apropos the seemingly unstoppable fungus of AI in software engineering. gruhn.me/blog/2026-08...

gruhn.me

Don't be a meat proxy

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This sucks ass. When I start my car I want to be able to put my foot on the pedal and drive off. I dont want to watch an ad. A distracting ad. Right in the middle of my console. Again. This sucks ass.

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Robodobdob @robodobdob.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I’ve been using the free radio from Apple Music lately. I’ve stumbled on Kink radio out of The Netherlands and the music mix is right up my street. I’ve not listened to Spotify for days. And, who knows, I might learn a bit of Dutch along the way 🙂

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