2022-10-13: After seeing yet another “code because it’s your personality, not just for money” …

2022-10-04: I used to think Elric of Melniboné was unfilmable, but last night the ongoing mainstreaming of step …

2022-09-05: I guess I enjoyed Rings of Power, but…there’s definitely a Carrie Mathison feel to …

2022-08-23: Shorter Scott Morrison: “Now honestly what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for conspiracy to …

2022-08-23: House of the Dragon reminded me of everything I hated about Game of Thrones. And it sure …

2022-08-23: House of the Dragon reminded me of everything I hated about Game of Thrones. And it sure …

2022-08-21: I’m hoping in iOS 16 that Siri stops responding to chicken sizzling in the pan.

2022-08-16: Ok. So. A thing that amuses me to no end is I’m not really that interested in blogging, or …

2022-08-08: They lampshade it a little bit in the very first sentence, but perhaps don’t go far enough. I’ve …

2021-12-19: “How do you get any work done?” “That is my work. Meeting people is my work.” “Sounds like a shit …

2021-12-18: I hear a professional performative arsehole put on the makeup and the costume and got out there and …

2021-12-07: They’re talking about going to karaoke after the team Xmas party next week. I just hope they have …

2021-12-04: Dune continues to be dull trash, three hours of moody, undergraduate cod-philosophy starring Space …

2021-10-29: The Meta logo looks like the infinity symbol, only it’s gotten old and tired and …

2021-10-19: Maybe it’ll be different for a landscape display, but there’s a lot of fury and sarcasm out there …

2021-10-18: Oof, get some of that in ya, Teddie boy. twitter.com/fanniebay…

2021-10-06: Spoiler, but screw it… ‘Sandy says “Whatever!”’ is absolutely going …

2021-10-03: Whatever upgrade Apple pushed on my overnight, it bumped me to Safari 15. UI aside - its awful but I …

2021-09-25: Gosh, there’s some angry caping for a poor defenceless trillion dollar multinational over this …

2021-09-18: There’s a few writers I read just about everything I can find of theirs. Lech Blaine is one of them. …

2021-09-17: Google Calendar has added an Insights panel to my view, gleefully telling me how much of my week was …

2021-09-04: Why are we, in Australia, reacting to what Friedersdorf wrote? He is, and I cannot stress this …

2021-08-31: It’s not being locked down that is doing my head in. It’s that my neighbours are also locked down. …

2021-08-20: Only an android would think video calls needed fewer body language cues.

2021-08-06: Love to able to tell manager didn’t read my self-reflection as we start my review. Love to …

2021-07-25: I tried not to watch the Olympics, because fuck the IOC. But the gymnastics drew me in and what I …

2021-07-24: What is it with Boomers and their susceptibility to conspiracies? I blame all the lead they breathed …

2021-07-18: It’d be rad if Jamesons would take their ad off the air in Sydney. No, I’m not coming for a fucking …

2021-01-22: The Collected Bernie’s Mittens Meme Catalogue, Vol 3 twitter.com/SunSuzSun…

2021-01-21: I draw some faint hope from this idiotic statement. If we’re down to “it wasn’t great for the …

2021-01-21: How it began: ecc-poetry.tumblr.com/post/1533… How it ended: thehill.com/homenews/…

2021-01-19: I cannot tell a lie, I have also said in few daily standups “I will be working from early in …

2021-01-19: “Germans -> cool churches -> spooky books -> rockin music” As the commenter …

2021-01-14: Mark my words, in 4 years I will be celebrating my 0x10th wedding anniversary and @randomknits will …

2021-01-12: Michael McCormack is what you get when you wish on a monkey’s paw for more comment from the …

2021-01-11: It’d be awfully nice if the Prime Minister exercised some of his freedom of speech to say to …

2021-01-07: Anyway, I continued fooling with that interpreter. I didn’t decide to go without for loops, as …

2021-01-07: I wonder if the fools toying with importing political stylings from failed states into Australia, …

2021-01-05: Worked through Thorsten Ball’s Writing an Interpreter in Go last week, and now I’m …

2021-01-04: Finally finished Day 20 of Advent of Code after cheesing it the first time. That …

2020-12-31: Fuck off, 2020

2020-12-31: I don’t mind so much the neighbours having loud music at their parties. I don’t even kind that it’s …

2020-12-31: 2020 can keep my name out of its thin mouth.

2020-12-31: Imagine my disappointment. astronomy.com/news/2020…

2020-12-25: The others are asleep in post-xmas lunch torpor. 39 minutes till Advent of Code 2020 finishes. It is …

2020-12-23: I hadn’t seen it and now I can’t unsee it.

2020-12-17: me: Three dimension Game of Life….umm…ok. 15 minutes later me: 100+ people have …

2020-12-16: When your friends suggest “the cafe for negative people” as a place you might like to …

2020-12-10: I did a speaker intro at a virtual conference yesterday while being attacked by a fly, and it occurs …

2020-12-02: You had a problem with your infra and you decided to solve it with Kubernetes. Now you have 3 + φi …

2020-12-01: This will be A+ content. twitter.com/lizthegre…

2020-12-01: Startup advice: don’t hire that guy before talking to an employment lawyer about the legal …

2020-11-26: Wanted: A piece of art, based on the album cover most associated with Mariah Carey’s All I …

2020-11-25: Very pretty painter dude came around today to give me a quote on steeping the interiors, and now tWM …

2020-11-23: me, year 2000: “omg, this cube farm is a dystopian nightmare, I hate it.” me, year 2019: …

2020-11-18: “not here to fuck spiders.” The only review I needed of the M1 MacBooks. (via The Sizzle …

2020-11-15: More and more I find the season finales of Dollhouse very prescient. twitter.com/JodiDoeri…

2020-11-15: If anyone was keeping count of the ways in which D and I are different, she asked to not be judged …

2020-11-13: Oh Bundy….never change. Oh wait, you almost never do and only reluctantly and in half …

2020-11-12: I say the level of water is just more evidence of the ongoing failure of humanity to be able to …

2020-11-10: Everyone: We’ve got this great calendar which so many people in different nations use …

2020-11-10: The bubble tea place is within the eyeline of my regular coffee place and I feel like I have to hide …

2020-11-10: I see Malcolm Turnbull has a full on case of esprit de l’escalier, some five fucking years …

2020-11-08: There are many things that have happened in history that I really want t o know the full story …

2020-11-07: I certainly know some organisations that could stand to consider this sort of thing. …

2020-11-07: Ok, Wallabies. Be like Biden. #bledisloe

2020-11-07: Barring malign influence somehow making him the winner, my prediction is not only will he not need …

2020-11-06: Like a 3 day old balloon with a pinprick, deflating with one final fart at the system that’s …

2020-11-05: I only hope I have left is that the k-pop stans eventually defeat the Nazis and in a generation …

2020-11-05: FWIW, I do indeed say this and more to people who work with me. Recently one of them listened and …

2020-11-04: Set up a Postgres database in AWS RDS last month. Was expected to receive 1s of calls per day, so …

2020-10-31: “May the force be with you cocksuckers,” is not something I thought I would anticipate …

2020-10-30: I get that journalists and newsletter writers and public philosophers are always going to lean …

2020-10-26: Gig economy jobs are a free market web that catches people before the tax-payer funded safety net …

2020-08-08: Frustrated Frustrated. I’ve been working on my own micropub project for months now, as a rebuild of a minimally …

2018-12-01: When Harley says “ho ho ho” like this it is wise to confirm that she has not acquired a machine gun.

2018-10-30: The Labyrinth Index The Laundry books started as pastiches of spy thrillers and then went into urban fantasy. In a way …