JJ Halans

JJ Halans

@halans.com

Belgian Waffle Connoisseur. Photographer. Coder. Central Coast, Australia https://halans.com

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JJ Halans
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… inspiring tonight’s drinks, Coco Cosmo with this excellent Palm Valley coconut vodka, while listening/dancing to Underworld’s Beaucoup Fish on vinyl

JJ Halans
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Weird, Jane Campion’s The Piano (1993) is no longer available on Apple TV, doesn’t show up in search. I did buy it ages ago. Need to go to Library and right click and play there.

JJ Halans
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July EV news archive electricvehicle.life/news/2026/20...

electricvehicle.lifeJuly 2026A fuel-price crisis emerges as the dominant driver of Australian EV demand, with electric vehicles approaching a quarter of new car sales, purchases occurring roughly every 77 seconds, and used EV sales also hitting records. Charging infrastructure expansion is a major secondary theme, covering a major retailer's rollout of chargers across dozens of stores, an expanded pole-mounted charger network in Victoria, boosted Tesla Supercharger capacity, and Europe's charging network outpacing EV sales targets. China's growing dominance of the global EV industry recurs repeatedly, raising questions about vehicle safety standards, Australia becoming a dumping ground for unsellable models, and Chinese consumers adapting EVs for road-trip camping. Commercial and fleet electrification also features prominently, with a Queensland-built electric truck entering production, a large supermarket-linked truck rollout, and a new international airport running its ground support almost entirely on electric equipment. Policy debate continues around road user charges and updated home charging tax rates, while manufacturer news spans a more affordable electric van, refund commitments after a vehicle mix-up, and ongoing customer compensation issues at another brand.
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"here's what a blog post looks like, here's what an author looks like, here's what a publication looks like" — so all these different apps can describe their posts the same way. It started when three publishing apps — Leaflet, pckt.blog, and Offprint — teamed up

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... to build a shared format for things like blog posts, articles, and newsletters, on something called the AT Protocol (the same network that powers Bluesky).

JJ Halans
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July EV news archive electricvehicle.life/news/2026/20...

electricvehicle.lifeJuly 2026A fuel-price crisis emerges as the dominant driver of Australian EV demand, with electric vehicles approaching a quarter of new car sales, purchases occurring roughly every 77 seconds, and used EV sales also hitting records. Charging infrastructure expansion is a major secondary theme, covering a major retailer's rollout of chargers across dozens of stores, an expanded pole-mounted charger network in Victoria, boosted Tesla Supercharger capacity, and Europe's charging network outpacing EV sales targets. China's growing dominance of the global EV industry recurs repeatedly, raising questions about vehicle safety standards, Australia becoming a dumping ground for unsellable models, and Chinese consumers adapting EVs for road-trip camping. Commercial and fleet electrification also features prominently, with a Queensland-built electric truck entering production, a large supermarket-linked truck rollout, and a new international airport running its ground support almost entirely on electric equipment. Policy debate continues around road user charges and updated home charging tax rates, while manufacturer news spans a more affordable electric van, refund commitments after a vehicle mix-up, and ongoing customer compensation issues at another brand.
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What is standard.site? Right now, if you write a blog post on one app, and your friend writes one on a totally different app, the internet doesn't always know they're both "the same kind of thing." Standard.site is a shared rulebook that says:

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July EV news archive electricvehicle.life/news/2026/20...

electricvehicle.lifeJuly 2026A fuel-price crisis emerges as the dominant driver of Australian EV demand, with electric vehicles approaching a quarter of new car sales, purchases occurring roughly every 77 seconds, and used EV sales also hitting records. Charging infrastructure expansion is a major secondary theme, covering a major retailer's rollout of chargers across dozens of stores, an expanded pole-mounted charger network in Victoria, boosted Tesla Supercharger capacity, and Europe's charging network outpacing EV sales targets. China's growing dominance of the global EV industry recurs repeatedly, raising questions about vehicle safety standards, Australia becoming a dumping ground for unsellable models, and Chinese consumers adapting EVs for road-trip camping. Commercial and fleet electrification also features prominently, with a Queensland-built electric truck entering production, a large supermarket-linked truck rollout, and a new international airport running its ground support almost entirely on electric equipment. Policy debate continues around road user charges and updated home charging tax rates, while manufacturer news spans a more affordable electric van, refund commitments after a vehicle mix-up, and ongoing customer compensation issues at another brand.
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Enjoyed The Invite at the cinema today. Was fun. Reason #39 that people no longer go to the cinema: way too loud. Who decides on this volume (especially ads and previews)?

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Al adoption is high. Returns are low. And the talent pipeline is at risk. 1 Structured mentoring with Al: Design workflows that preserve learning moments. Use Al for scaffolding. 2 Al-assisted training standards: Establish programs for evaluating Al output and developing independent problem-solving

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3 Redefine role expectations: Juniors work alongside Al in new ways. Combine traditional skills with Al expertise. 4 Strengthen CD infrastructure: Automate pipeline tasks so developer time is freed for context-based learning. 2/2

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Now we are in the AI era. And the deferral has reached its limit. GenAI will not work in the long run without strict, fully enforced guardrails. Prompts are not enough. Coding guidelines in an AGENT.md are not enough. 2/3

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The paved road is not optional anymore. The robots need it. And so do your people. AI will scale whatever you have - including the mess. Build the road before you let the robots drive. 3/3 #slashnew26

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The Developer Experience platform and the AI Experience platform are the same platform. If you deferred building it for your people, you must now build it for your machines - and your people will benefit too #slashnew26

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The hard truth We should have built these platforms to support our people. We often didn't. We treated it as deferrable. We relied on the invisible effort of experienced engineers to absorb the friction of inconsistent environments. We told ourselves we'd get to it.