ASCII map of the Melbourne rail network
Blog: All the way from the pre-web internet, here's my 30+ year old ASCII map of the #Melbourne rail network (with a modern update!) danielbowen.com/2026...
about time I did a rebrand
if you didn't see it in today's sizzle - heads up that I am returning to writing it full time next week as @cameronwilson.bsky.social gets on the tools as a dedicated AI reporter for the ABC! good time to sign up for a free trial of the sizzle btw thesizzle.com.au
Taxpayers could fund up to $300 million in damages payments to three NSW wind farms if a major new electricity cable project is not completed on time.
www.afr.com/policy/energ...
hahaha been there, done that - good luck to them
shut up nerd and put the app on the phone
folks realising they're further down the pecking order in society than they thought they were
Banger story here on Apple by @jeremynadel8.bsky.social, after @404media.co revealed last week that the FBI extracted deleted Signal messages from an iPhone because they were saved in the device's push notifications database.
if you're good at writing documentation, please for the love of god come work with me so I don't have to do it - 4 days a week, full remote (Australians and I think NZ only) $100k/yr and a very chill team
assemblyfour.com/careers/docu...
I like the idea of folk software, but man, if this was posted on Mastodon it would be roasted to a crisp.
100 pages in and it is very boring. Nothing about Musk so far, up to when Agrawal became CEO. Maybe because I was writing about it in the sizzle so often it isn’t new or engaging to me.
very weird time to be a catholic right now and there have been some weird moments in catholicism over the years
Sydney is so much better at public transport than Melbourne, it’s not even close now
Nice, pretty usable!
how many tokens per second do you get out of the EdgeExpert with that model?
Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day
Tomb Raider with the 3dfx Glide API patch was pretty sweet though.
Bendigo Bank has signalled a new round of job cuts under two new technology partnerships that will grant the bank increased access to “AI talent”.
Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...
nah, but I’ve had so many root canals :(
I have regular dreams about my teeth falling out! I hate it
wrote a blog post trying to understand how local LLMs work so I can (in part 2) run a couple and squeeze as much performance out of them as possible on meager hardware
it's 1800 words, no pictures, very boring, i won't blame you if you dont read it
blog.decryption.net.au/posts/local_...
will absolutely be a hate read for me
makes the bus ride a bit more exciting
spontaneously or someone kicked it?
Whether you like or hate AI, it’s probably a good idea to do this survey so at least we get a feel for where people are at, people in general, especially Gen Z hate AI, but it seems like devs are the opposite, would love to see how true that is.
cheeky lunchtime library visit
New laptop stickered up! (thanks @othatsraspberry.com, @ismh86.net, @decryption.bsky.social and @jamzy.bsky.social for contributing to my sticker pile over the years)
Forget the pumpkin, check the kei truck
tropical fuck storm is great too if you like the drones