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• Post #4183628

  First day of a three-dayer in Wellington down. Now comes working out which nice food place near the hotel hasn't closed yet.

• Post #4055054

  Internal soundtrack of the now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STTu41809bY

• Post #3850014

  What do you mean there's no spelling mistakes in this redraft. I don't trust it.

• Post #3803858

  Missing other meetings because I'm still at work answering emails from a client who's still at work deadline time wheee

• Post #3781466

  Expect New Zealand in general to be in mourning for the next little while. https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/361005656/actor-sam-neill-has-died

• Post #3733634

  Wondering how different the country's politics around international cloud usage would be if we framed it as "importing" digital services. We usually only talk about digital services in trade terms when it's someone like Xero "exporting" to the world.

• Post #3667268

  The spirits of cog and chip were never meant to be yoked to the same plough.

• Post #3090131

  @aligorith@mastodon.nz I heard a crash on Yaldhurst, possibly too..?

• Post #1869620

  Trying to install Java plugin stuff for someone on MacOS who needs to work with a JNLP on a government website. Boy does that suck.

• Post #1869619

  Seems like the price of success is more meetings.

• Post #1869618

  @GossiTheDog If I wanted to "program" by babysitting a bunch of approximately-competent workers who can almost follow instructions if I give them very specific tasks but not too much all at once, I'd... well. Probably be running a Silicon Valley AI startup, I guess.

• Post #1869617

  Okay so which one of you is making inquiries about election results media feeds. 👀👀👀

• Post #1847894

  Anyone I know in NZ looking for an AppSec Engineer job? My work's got a role open.

• Post #1829101

  RE: https://mastodon.nz/@davemosk/116462766299478383 It's the utes of today that are the problem.

• Post #963498

  "Thank you, Captain Sarcasm." "That time I was _sure_ I was going to get Captain Obvious. Dangit." "See he’s been promoted a few times, it’s now Fleet Admiral Obvious." "I keep getting busted down to Midshipman for understatements."

• Post #797569

  I'm now experiencing the specific joy of "I had a knife but now I have a Good Knife", which is kind of like getting a new set of spectacles but for your kitchen instead of your face.

• Post #797567

  So, uh, I might be a solution architect now? I foresee a lot of document-reading in my near future, and a good amount of meeting-having in a little while. Hopefully this means I can effect more good at scale. We'll see.

• Post #797564

  For the #NZPol election watching crowd: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/590326/the-house-what-to-expect-when-you-re-expecting-an-election

• Post #797560

• Post #797556

  Creating janky memes in solidarity because my partner is currently stuck in