News article is blaming climate change for flooding in Dubai but fun fact, they genuinely use cloud seeding to induce rain. It has gone wrong before.

My app sends users a notification if their server is running out of disk space (less than 512MB), but in this case the server is their Exchange server, so the email bounces back to me with [Insufficient system resources (UsedDiskSpace)].

I could be persuaded drive.com.au/reviews/we-dri…

Fastest car ever sold in Australia apparently (800+ kW, about 1072hp). Realistically though I don't drive fast at all so it would be wasted on me!

The fact that you can't access an Azure Backup (linux) using WSL seems like a pretty big deal. WSL kernel lacks iSCSI which the restore scripts use.

I can almost hear the tape loading #ZXSpectrum

Every OS comes with a text editor but people do still pay for text editors.

If you make something that saves time, has better features or is easier, and it applies to a large enough audience then it's potentially a revenue stream for life, if you can tell people about it.

Oof, my Application Insights telemetry now costs more than my server hosting on Azure. Maybe time to self host some Open Telemetry based solution.

HTTP validation tip: If you have been filtering incoming port 80 IP ranges for HTTP validation on your server, don't!

Let's Encrypt have switched on more global validation perspectives and filtering will likely result in failed secondary validation: community.letsencrypt.org/t/lets-encrypt…

US April fools posts just don't work in Australia, we're well into the next day!

Irony in a browser UI. Padding costs money!

I put together a collection of my top business memes. Brace yourself - these babies are loaded with some seriously hard-hitting truths! 🧵

Is $150K for a junior dev normal in the US? That's like 229K AUD or £118K GBP

That's way more than I ever got paid in 20+ years of software development, but I've no idea what's normal in different countries.

20 years ago:
Australia's renewables share of electricity generation: 2.6%

10 years ago:
13% renewables

Last 12 months:
39% renewable share, 82% solar + wind

3-fold increase per decade
If trend continues, 100% renewable NEM electricity generation by end of 2030

Is there a cross platform self container docker image runner/runtime? I'm thinking something lightweight that can be redistributed. For example to redistribute a python tool with just enough environment to run itself.

Wow, didn't know Tesla was offering white-label versions of superchargers. Wonder which app you have to use?

In current AI, is there a term for a 'thinker' i.e. not just something that answers questions when prompted, but just sits and ponders (any) topics independently? I assumed this was AGI but I'm not sure.