There Is No "Next Economy" If we ruin this one, well, then that was it

Just in time for likely worldwide shortages of copper and other essential materials that are hard to substitute 😬 thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/there-is-n...

Spending literally half my Sunday babysitting Apple devices that have turned to shit. 1.5 year old Apple Watch with 8h battery life. Messages on new-ish iPhone taking >10s to load. Every step in every Apple flow seems to fail by default. What on earth are they doing over there?

How do you code without looking at the screen? 🙈 I tried coding while running — phone in my pocket.

Then I wrote about the experiment: chillu.com/posts/2026/r.... Thanks to everyone at www.codecampwellington.nz for listening!

2026 developer life in a nutshell. At least I can still use my human agency to recycle funny memes

So Ghostty is supposed to be the hot shit. 2000 FPS terminal rendering. And ... it doesn't have a "find" feature. What am I missing?

The dev tooling AI churn is real: Cursor is old news already, with coding largely moving *outside* of IDEs. Loving the parallel coding workflows enabled by www.conductor.build (with voice based input via carelesswhisper.app)

Writing about Agentic Engineering Patterns I’ve started a new project to collect and document Agentic Engineering Patterns—coding practices and patterns to help get the best results out of this new era of coding agent development …

I've published the first two chapters of a new guide to Agentic Engineering Patterns - coding practices and patterns to help get the best results out of coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/23/...

Oh god electric ferries would absolutely break the public's collective brains right now after that procurement/planning shitshow. I'd pay tax dollars for it just to see the cognitive dissonance effects 😂

Once your codebase has >10k node modules, do you get a prize or something? #thisisfine

Can you even call youself a developer if you don't have at least a dozen worktrees on the go at any point in time?! 🔥

Socket Firewall (sfw) is a fantastic security baseline for NPM supply chain security. Until you realise that they recommend "npm install sfw"... which makes it vulnerable to supply chain attacks 😂 (yes, you can install manually but are on the hook for manual upgrades)

So tired of content creator hot takes in AI. Dude, have you considered that your use case (small team, content factory) is quite different from 99% of the knowledge worker industry?!

It'd be funny in the most tragic way if bots "planned" humanities downfall simply as a side effect of their training data, parroting Reddit to create mindless plots ... which then get mindlessly executed by an agent some idiot is running with access to critical infrastructure.

"something something rain, something can't cycle in snow"

The top 'article' thumbnail on the Stuff Politics homepage, titled: "Rebuilding the economy by “Fixing the basics and Building the future”" With a tag saying "Brand Content"

Headline and subheading for previous article: Rebuilding the economy by “Fixing the basics and Building the future” Advertisement by the NZ National Party. Funded by Parliamentary Service

The top 'article' thumbnail on the Stuff Politics homepage

what 'brand' you wonder? oh, just the NZ National Party

We are now past the point where corporate media commentary and embedded advertising are justifiable. This is going to get MUCH worse over 2026 unless there are consequences

All three statements are true at the same time—

Trolling idea: AI generated "Why I ditched <FrameworkA> for <FrameworkB>" posts, which link to "Why I ditched <FrameworkB> for <FrameworkA>" posts #inifiteloop #analysisparalysis

Man accused of swallowing Fabergé pendant pleads not guilty The alleged pendant-swallower has been remanded in custody and is expected to reappear in court in February.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

... ... ... ... OH! IT'S A GLOVED THUMB!!!!! <whew>

So much fun! Will be video material be released somewhere?

#nzpol NZTA put out a very redacted report on the proposed changes to SH1. It shows that the likely cost of the package will be borne by Wellingtonians, regardless of whether they use the roads. Wellington does need new infrastructure, and it needs a fair deal. A🧵
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Maybe don't keep announcing unaffordable trophy roads if you can't pay for them. Just a thought.

“It’s difficult to convince a national industry of something when their economy depends on not understanding it” (EVs have a tenth of the parts, and Germany is king in auto parts…)

Just heard the term “micro influencer” for the first time. Shoot me now

Stuff headline: NZ needs to have a 'mature conversation' about selling state assets, PM says

Luxon thinks we need a "mature conversation" about selling state assets... But I don't think he really means that, because a mature conversation would look at the history of failure and the shortsighted focus on profit ahead of public interest.

He wants a conversation where we agree with him.

Love the quick updates, thanks for being a great communicator

*reluctant like*

Ahaha, well done Kapiti! For WCC, having Ray Chung lose his seat would be the cherry on the urbanist pie here 🤞

Hope everyone learnt their stupid damn lesson from this:

1. taking money from the crazy toxic people will get you billboards everywhere, but also cover you in their stink

2. giving toxic money to people stupid enough to take it just gets you the worst candidates money can buy

this country is so funny: a series of welfare subsidies that end up in the hands of landlords and private childcare providers; a chronically unaffordable housing market; a publicly-owned electricity generation and retail racket; oligopolies in supermarket and telecommunication sectors lol

This shouldn't even need pointing out, but absolutely don't use coding agents without existing test coverage on anything with real world value. Some things don't change: Tests is how you move fast (on the long run)