James Healy

Javascript library maintainers, I'm begging you to stop bumping your major version https://yob.id.au/2026/09/01/major-version-bumps.html

I reckon I could probably manage that

Welcome @news.abc.net.au who just ditched their account over on the bad place, and have committed to Bsky.

This is one of the funniest versions of malicious compliance I've ever seen. The playing with the mic, the smiles to silence, the dead air, the comms check at the end. <chefs kiss>

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

This is an excellent reminder that no matter what happens with AI or data centers, we are going to need a *lot* more electricity in the future.

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

Trump’s forces have kidnapped Venezuelans in my neighborhood, so it’s not a big surprise they’d kidnap Venezuelans in Venezuela.

I'm seriously starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize.

earlier this year I switched pdf-reader from sorbet types to RBS using inline comments. I'm pretty happy with the result https://yob.id.au/2025/12/30/inline-rbs-comments.html

@itscatkins.bsky.social relevant to your interests?

1. Nationalise Wordle.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"Parking is such sweet sorrow"

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

“Older generation who grew up with The Simpsons”

OMG, partner was just googling snorkelling from Daintree and the Google's AI summary suggested snorkelling in the DAINTREE RIVER!!! For the unacquainted, the Daintree is famous for salt water crocodile watching tours where you avoid the water at all costs. Please never swim in a river in Nth QLD.

The perfect framing of a nonsense story does no....

Thanks Google. I googled "four corners abc paladin" to find out whether they'd ever covered it. The AI literally made up an episode.

I think the European Union is a pretty good idea but every time I’m asked to accept cookies or adjust my cookie settings when I visit a new website I start to wonder whether Nigel Farage was right all along

Congratulations to spacex on testing the fire, it definitely does a lot of fire

status.salesforce.com/generalmessa... This a doozy of a reason. ------- Update 6: Posted Tue, 10 Jun 2025 11:27:51 UTC The third-party provider disabled a single server, which did not yield a positive outcome. We are continuing our investigations with the provider.

Think you might one day have $3m in your super & be affected by the super tax changes? Ok, you are 18yo, you just got a job - it pays... $150k! Give yourself a 3.7% annual pay rise. Never take time off for study, kids or illness. You will retire with $3,017,016 moneysmart.gov.au/how-super-wo...

weirdly tactical blog post, but it was odd that I couldn't find this anywhere when I needed it: Querying AWS CUR v2.0 data using Athena yob.id.au/2025/05/17/a...

Interested in driving renewable energy uptake? We have multiple mid+senior engineering roles open at Amber atm: mostly in product teams, but I have my eye out for a platform shaped engineer too. Located in AU and UK, typescript and serverless experience a nice-to-have www.amber.com.au/amber-careers

Amber Electric’s Myles Eftos on how home batteries can be money making machines. Plus, a post-election debrief and Australia’s new favourite battery

We’re now into the fourth week of the election campaign and Dutton still hasn’t visited one of the communities that will have a nuclear reactor under his scheme. Today he was less than 2 hours away from one community but couldn’t be bothered to show up.

If you don’t know the details about Dutton’s flip flopping policies, vote No to Liberal National candidate in the federal election.

It’s one supply chain, Michael. How long could it take to recreate? 2-3 months?

“Will pay any amount.” Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.

Like 98% compute/bandwidth is bare metal. The cloud is great for small projects (costs are low) and highly profitable projects (costs matter less). But it fails projects that need to scale as efficiently as possible. Moving Bluesky to bare metal reduced costs by 10-100x and saved many millions.

We've been a @dropboxofficial.bsky.social family for 10+ years, but migrating to apple ecosystem now a serious possibility - primarily because their photo categorizing/surfacing is so much better. Dropbox has tried so many new products I don't need, but are they ignoring photos?