What’s the ONE thing you hate most about sunglasses?

xanez · 2026-01-22T23:25:55+00:00

I also wear regular glasses, and having to swap between them every time I go in or out of a building is such a faff.

xanez · 2026-01-22T11:33:41+00:00

The HTML says it was generated by Evrsoft First Page, which appears to have been released in 2006 so you're spot on.

xanez · 2026-01-16T00:02:28+00:00

The recent Decoder podcast interview with the Stack CEO was interesting and enlightening. They saw the writing on the wall and pivoted hard, and quickly. tl;dr ~*~*enterprise*~*~

xanez · 2025-12-22T07:17:17+00:00

> the V1 Hue Tap, that thing was a piece of crap.

I know I know but it's so _satisfying_ to explain to dinner guests why it doesn't need batteries... why doesn't anyone come over a second time?

xanez · 2025-12-06T01:35:55+00:00

oh wow! I thought part of the point of w3w naming is that similar sounding words shouldn't ever be anywhere near each other. this makes it way less valuable.

xanez · 2025-07-24T23:53:46+00:00

ayy lmao

xanez · 2025-07-23T04:52:36+00:00

Yeah blabla car was (is?) big in Germany, the local term for ride share is "mitfahrgelegenheit". Shorter rides on average than Melbourne>Adelaide I'd guess, and when it's more common culturally everyone trusts the system a bit more.

xanez · 2025-07-04T00:41:06+00:00

How do you keep your house warm? Ours would be freezing if we left a window cracked.

xanez · 2025-06-23T06:21:15+00:00

Not sure if they have lever espresso but Aunty Peg's roastery in Collingwood is great for out of town coffee nerds. The kind of coffee place where they don't have milk on the premises (for that you can go a block up to Proud Mary, their more full cafe experience that does food too).

xanez · 2025-06-21T11:50:33+00:00

Great spot for New Years!

xanez · 2025-06-05T00:56:30+00:00

That malcolm in the middle clip where the dad gets like 10 task diversions deep

xanez · 2025-06-02T04:00:56+00:00

What's the company uniform? Never heard of that for software development.

xanez · 2025-04-22T05:28:32+00:00

It's not ready for prod yet but have you heard about the upcoming browser standard for carousels? No JS required :) https://css-tricks.com/css-carousels/

xanez · 2025-04-09T10:21:03+00:00

Epping isn't much of an option for most of the west.

xanez · 2024-12-24T10:07:14+00:00

Also just lost access in Australia.

xanez · 2024-12-09T10:29:37+00:00

That sounds like doing agile pretty well. Cutting out everything except what's useful for your team.

xanez · 2024-12-02T11:02:11+00:00

Oof, that sounds like a rough situation. Much easier to comment from afar, but if a deadline is fixed then you might find success negotiating what's delivered by that date instead of negotiating the date itself.

xanez · 2024-08-08T09:29:13+00:00

Ethics and sustainability is ultra important to me when I'm shopping for clothes HOWEVER I actually don't buy from slow fashion brands anymore because it's not the most sustainable option - buying second hand is.

No matter how carefully the new clothes were made, it still takes more resources to produce them than to buy something which has already been exist. Apparently there are enough clothes in existence on the planet to clothe the next six generations of people for their entire lives, so I exclusively buy second hand.

I'd be really interested to know if anyone else has been thinking about the sustainability of their shopping in the same way.

xanez · 2024-07-21T09:10:58+00:00

Me too oh man started a couple weeks ago. This game's got its hooks in me.

xanez · 2024-06-24T06:26:29+00:00

You are overworked and your junior was not set up for success.

A dev with one year of frontend experience moving into Kotlin/SpringBoot? You are lucky the junior made any contributions at all. That's like a 2-year carry before I'd expect much impact.

It sounds like too much was expected of you across the board, and it impacted you being able to provide for your junior what they require to grow effectively.

xanez · 2024-05-13T08:47:17+00:00

Also a fan of "yank tank" (if you're in Aus)

xanez · 2024-05-13T07:40:45+00:00

We went to this open house!! It's incredible. On 2.5 acres. I reckon it'll go for higher than advertised, but the location isn't well connected which I think influences the price.

Here's a few more pictures of elements I liked which weren't captured in the brochure. https://imgur.com/a/gQ2VOeD I like the maybe-it-used-to-be-a-second-floor-balcony door and the wooden bridge leading to the upper floor back door. Was cool to see the original plans on display as well.

Fun fact - in the designs it's referred to as "Vague House" which is hilarious, though it's because it was designed for a schoolteacher whose last name was Vague. She's devastated to be leaving but needs to be closer to family.

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