Andrew Donnellan

in Wellington Thursday through Sunday for Kawaiicon, who's around

as someone who's got an autism + ADHD dx, I am astounded every time I see people say things like "autism/ADHD has nothing to do with <bad thing>" in response to some story about someone with said disorders who's done a crime, this is obviously not true in the general case!

Went to the dentist. Got asked what my long term goals for my dental care are. Am I supposed to have a strategic vision for my teeth

probably not

Wishing some of them were more willing to live a public-facing life

is there anyone in the free software/open source movement who's writing *actually good* thoughts on how current AI issues intersect with the philosophical underpinnings of free software/open source?

dear conference submitters: please do not give me so much slop

TIL the Australian parliament requires bills relating to superannuation to attach a statement of compatibility with superannuation rights

hmm maybe I should register the domain for the thing I might or might not do just in case

bring back passport stamps :'(

The sheer amount of news coverage over the ATO credit card drama is proof of the outsized role of modern gentry of small business owners in the political system (I say this as someone who has previously paid a tax bill with a credit card for pointsmaxxing purposes)

this story is... not particularly interesting, but anyway, Pangram concurs

anyone got recs for a good + cheap + highly-portable+lightweight laptop stand?

Incredibly disappointing for Shoebridge - who is one of the few Greens I've ever taken seriously on defence policy - to be abandoning Ukraine

Having to wait ~20 minutes for a connection at the bus stop I'm currently sitting at is just a really awkward timing - long enough to be painful, short enough that walking to the nearest cafe, getting a beverage and walking back just doesn't quite feel worth it

Very philosophical for a bus company

University police departments are a fascinating Americanism. How can each university (and I suppose every tiny city and town and village) have such a tiny force of its own and manage them to anywhere near the standards of modern policing?

awoke this morning with a Vision

Very nice to see the NCA improving the pedestrian accessibility of the Triangle!

I love Nix so much but why did they put a negative amount of effort into UX

I long for the good old days when the traditional distro model still worked

I resigned from Google today. I enjoyed my work and loved the people, but my GDM team was working on a new generation of chips to make AI much faster and cheaper, and I think AI is already progressing too fast, so I had to quit.

Robert O'Callahan, the New Zealand-based author of the rr debugger, has resigned from Google DeepMind: "It’s tempting to just turn a blind eye to the impact of my work, but that would not be a Jesus-following thing to do." robert.ocallahan.org/2026/09/good...

My entirely irrelevant Medicare hack hot take: while the feds work out their policy, the ACT Assembly should legislate for AI agent liability and in doing so incidentally protect all the federal systems physically in Canberra

The most annoying thing about imposter syndrome is that sometimes you're actually a bit of an imposter and you actually have weaknesses and you can't convince anyone of this because they just tell you it's imposter syndrome

if only I could motivate myself to do the last 20%. the annoying fiddly bits that stand in the way of the dopamine rush of actually finishing a project

so I can't say I'm an expert on sniper tactics in modern policing or combat operations, but my understanding was that snipers don't normally pre-announce the specific structure from which they'll be sniping

Can someone explain to me - why are Stop buttons on buses so fragile and unreliable?