Aurynn Shaw

aurynn@cloudisland.nz

Your friendly neighbourhood Cloud Island administrator.Aotearoa New Zealand immigrant.Pōneke resident.Founder of <a href="https://eiara.nz" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://eiara.nz</a>. Does DevOps, culture, and tells you how security impacts everything you design.Yes, I'm that Aurynn: <a href="https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture/</a>Tech culture commentator.Your cutest cyberpunk trans pocket friend.Moth girl

Posts

Post #4454335
Finally managed to get this essay posted. Only 8 months late. On 10 years of Contempt Culture. https://blog.aurynn.com/2026/8/9-ten-years-of-contempt-culture
Post #4391370
@bri7@social.treehouse.systems though what gets lost is that WebKit is a KHTML fork, but otherwise yeah. I wish I’d gotten to try out that NeXT web editor. Hm. I should go find an emulator.
Post #4305028
Hey friends Can you recommend a simple tracker or something for doing some simple musical things? I have GarageBand but it’s a bit much, I need something simpler.
Post #4271706
“I’m not going to waste my time reading something someone couldn’t be bothered writing.” I like this on LLM slop.
Post #4232016
Ughhhhhh why is everything so harrrrrd
Post #4021127
Team Cherry's lead programmer (Hollow Knight and Silksong) has come out as trans! 🏳️‍⚧️ :blobhaj_transheart:
Post #3976355
Anyway it’s my birthday so please send congratulations or condolences and gifts, I will appreciate it all.
Post #3946872
Did you know that if you buy physical CDs and store them correctly then digital streaming can’t take them away? And also that you won’t end up with AI slop in your playlists?
Post #3899524
@fsvo@old.mermaid.town Oh. Boo.
Post #3899513
Plz recommend alternative macOS terminal emulators. I currently use iTerm2, because Terminal was bad back in the day. Is there something new that is more gooder? Faster? Better? Stronger?
Post #3898471
Ice cold take: Capitalism should not be involved in essential services like housing, medicine, food delivery, water delivery, or electrical delivery. Capitalism should also not be involved in social networks or internet search. If people rely on it, capitalism exists to fuck it up.
Post #3870210
Anyone using Fastly and are using CACHE_BUSTER_ENABLED? I'm wondering what you have as the API URL for that. #Mastoadmin
Post #3766637
I know the past tense of “wield” is “wielded”, by my brain is trying very hard to tell me it’s “woild” or something else like that.
Post #3617535
Wow the wind is hammering the building right now.
Post #3544492
Did you see that I wrote a new essay on finding paths to the future? I did! https://blog.aurynn.com/2026/7/02-dreams-light-the-path-to-our-future
Post #3544452
It has taken since May 13 when I finished "Every Word a Mountain" to get this ... essay? I guess? out of my head and into a form I could share. It's been hard to just shape these thoughts. I finally present: "Dreams Light the Path to our Future" https://blog.aurynn.com/2026/7/02-dreams-light-the-path-to-our-future
Post #3519430
Sony is closing the PS3 and Vita stores. And ending disc game production for PS5 and presumably PS6. Sigh.
Post #3484765
Running a DB cleanup job; performance might be a bit wobblier than usual.
Post #3440654
What is this tags.pub garbage and why should I not defederate it immediately
Post #3417685
Be safe out there, Wellington. It's a doozy.
Post #3205684
LLMs are the invasive species of the internet
Post #3095558
That’s some thunder huh
Post #3092988
I appreciate that you are all here And that together We can dunk on AI bros
Post #3057944
Sigh I don’t want to have to reinstall my computer, this is extremely tedious.
Post #2383263
You are all lovely!
Post #2212900
It's raining quite hard so I'm like, I should go outside and take photos. This would be a *very* bad idea.
Post #2093504
The idea of &quot;trust thermoclines&quot; was brought to my attention today, in the context of Unity deciding to destroy their customer base. it&#39;s really interesting! https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/sarahlethbridgelean/trust-thermoclines/
Post #1980146
And now to do the pricing updates.
Post #1883687
If it’s wrong to tell people who suffer catastrophic data loss from using AI agents that they deserved it I don’t want to be right.
Post #1856063
If your NZ company is hiring and will sponsor work visas please let me know so I can pass it on to the trans people in the US that need exit strategies *right now*.