Hamish

Hamish

@polemic.nz

Avondalian code-wrangler-wrangler • maps / data / product • 63D3 ADE1 5625 3865 • Engineering Manager • Opiskellen suomea • Ex @polemic on the bird app

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Hamish
@polemic.nz

Most organisations today could extract more business value from their GIS by moving the entire stack to a single S3 bucket of raw files, a text file describing the contents, and their favourite AI coding agent. Come at me.

Hamish
@polemic.nz

Wild watching the SailGP crash between NZ and France, and the follow-up that is focused on the number of boats & racing format rather than the physical safety of the machines. Coutts suggesting that sailors "know the risk" and it's like F1.

Hamish
@polemic.nz

Well F1 got safe by getting incredibly serious about building survival cells, along with a range of other devices. If you want to be like F1, figure how to make crashes survivable! </rant>

Hamish
@polemic.nz

Coutts minimizing double compound leg fractures with "nobody was really seriously injured" and they should "perhaps respond in a better way in future" but "there is an element of danger and the athletes know it" is just.. red flags all over the place.

Hamish
@polemic.nz

> ..roll out in three phases: stabilising critical systems, modernising platforms, and enabling innovative healthcare models.. seems reasonable > ..a collaboration between Health New Zealand and global experts in AI and process engineering.. Ah ok expensive disaster.

greg@greg.nz

I'm sorry, you just halved the size of Te Whatu Ora's IT department, and NOW phase 1 is stabilising critical systems? and the claim that any part of this organisation could deliver one project every month is also deeply entertaining comedy, and utter drivel. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

stuff.co.nzOverhaul aims to introduce a single electronic medical records systemOur health system is being held back by outdated, disconnected technology,” says Health Minister Simeon Brown.
Hamish
@polemic.nz

Oddly enough NZ has a thriving medical tech industry. but no one is an MP long enough to get fired for a multi-decade long Salesforce/IBM/whatever debacle.

Hamish
@polemic.nz

Here we gooooo #gischat

FOSS4G 2025 Auckland@foss4g.org

Mōrena, Good morning ☀️ Day 1! FOSS4G 2025 is finally here! We are full of smiles to welcome you to this year's global conference and to Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, NZ. Look out for our signs when you arrive at Auckland University of Technology. #osgeo #foss4g

Hamish
@polemic.nz

Just one of the many cool side events happening at FOSS4G next week. #gischat

FOSS4G 2025 Auckland@foss4g.org

Monday night, Movie night 📽️ Free screening of documentary, "I am the River, The River is Me" Ned Tapa, Whanganui River guardian & Māori community leader, will join us Mon 17 Nov, 6pm, AUT  https://2025.foss4g.org/program/movie-screening https://iamtheriver.org #documentary #foss4g

Hamish
@polemic.nz

50 workshops over 2 days, 4 keynotes and 250 talks over 3 days, gala dinner, b2b networking event, icebreaker event, geochicas night, women in spatial breakfast, movie screening, Rangitoto volcano day trip, 2 days of community events including 5 code springs, EO lab hackathon and HOTOSM mapping!

Hamish
@polemic.nz

Choose your fighter: medical efficacy study [in mice]; safety standard [based on 1950s white male]; sociological research outcome [using AI agents in place of humans]

Hamish
@polemic.nz

Also proud to be providing childcare & travel grant assistance. If you're in New Zealand and you just want to network, the Business 2 Business event is on $NZ 25 and open to everyone. Come along for an afternoon and find out what the OSGeo community is all about.

Hamish
@polemic.nz

Workshops are only $NZ 50 and similarly available, the best value 3-hour training by industry experts you'll ever get.

Hamish
@polemic.nz

It's only a constitutional crisis if one or more branches actually dissented. No, the USA has a constitutional conspiracy.

Cristian Farias@cristianfarias.com

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Hamish
@polemic.nz

Earth Sciences NZ, our new center of excellence for environmental science in New Zealand, uses this image as their logo / hero image on their website. It's.. wrong. Wrong in a 6-fingered AI generated human way. Not an auspicious start to the agency's future. #gischat

Hamish
@polemic.nz

And for my kiwi tech friends - this might be the most impactful software conference you could attend this year. FOSS4G is a global gathering of developers and users of foundational technology behind so much software we use daily. You're guaranteed to learn something new & meet interesting people.

Hamish
@polemic.nz

Oh hai

FOSS4G 2025 Auckland@foss4g.org

Intro: Committee Members 😎 Events Lead, Hamish Campbell! - software eng mgr - 15+ yrs - urban intelligence - resilient communities + changing environment - committed open source contributer - chair FOSS4G Oceania Cttee NZ 2023 Connect: https://bsky.app/profile/polemic.nz #committee #foss4g

Hamish
@polemic.nz

Never not a deeply interesting, insightful and relevant discord.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social

It's true that progressives valorize "ugliness." But I think this person doesn't interrogate this position enough and thus lands at the wrong conclusion. Let me give you my perspective on ugliness. 🧵

Hamish
@polemic.nz

Logo trends are interesting. Forget the omni-app rainbow, or tech blue-on-white, AI is all about the stark monochrome.

Hamish
@polemic.nz

Newmarket has never quite figured out what it's for - and maybe the mall is bad for street retailers - but I don't recall them thriving during the rebuild. The mall was and remains the biggest draw to the strip.

Aaron Hawkins@ahawkins.bsky.social

Rare to see a story about business turnover grounded in evidence (the effect on Main Street retailers of giant shopping malls) www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606...

stuff.co.nzIs Westfield's mega mall killing this Auckland shopping destination?With 48 empty shops in the nearby streets, the Auckland suburb has struggled to cope with the demand of the Westfield mall.
Hamish
@polemic.nz

Wondered if there was a Māori name for Rosebank Peninsula. Got Google's confidently incorrect (and confusingly plausible) answer.