Side of the stage, twilight scene at the ub40 concert in Wellington
UB40 at Waitangi Park
Side of the stage, twilight scene at the ub40 concert in Wellington
UB40 at Waitangi Park
Big news! Newtown is slowly changing www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
Some New Yearβs Resolution ideas courtesy of Richard Scarry β
Best wishes to you and yours for a peaceful and loving 2026.
Be kind to yourself this year!
βOh crumbs on a stickβ π
A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026
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A beautiful story of kindness and love for Christmas day.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Happy 30th Birthday JavaScript!
Happy 30th Birthday JavaScript!
On December 4, 1995, Netscape Communications Corporation and Sun Microsystems, announced JavaScript, an open, cross-platform object scripting language for the creation and customization of applications on the Internet.
#WebDesignHistory
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
the Coldplay song Yellow is about cooking with turmeric
What a fuck wit - Nelson hospital have been pleading with him for budget/resources for a year. Also the same guy who ordered Auckland City Hospital to do minimum work resulting its infrastructure/backup plans failing in emergencies. This guy would not last a day in a real work environment. #nzpol
A yard display of famous movie serial killers around a table THOSE TEENAGERS DESERVED IT CHANGE OUR MINDS
A story in the parts
A story in three parts
Nobody ray chung tonight
One good thing about the local elections is finally getting a definitive list of how racist all the different bits of New Zealand are.
The best wild beers in New Zealand come from a shed in the back blocks of Hamilton thespinoff.co.nz/kai/11-10-20...
Are you the type of dev who just copies and pastes hex codes?
If so, I've written an article over at @piccalil.li just for you!
I take a look at some of the new CSS colour features that are most useful for those who don't really care about colours.
piccalil.li/blog/a-pragm...
quick while the government is shut down letβs all switch to metric
Same. He was always a smiley familiar face on lambton. His memorial plaque is a nice touch
AI Overview: "Dental realism"refers to the philosophical debate about whether teeth exist independently of human perception, a concept rooted in metaphysical realism. While realism asserts an objective reality for teeth, idealist philosophies contend that teeth's existence is tied to our consciousness and perception. Philosophers use this idea, for example, to discuss the ethics of tooth extraction, examining whether a procedure impacts a real entity or merely a subjective experience.
When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions
βFree art lessons for mayoral candidatesβ is a campaign we can get behind.
engadget article screenshot: ...skipped ahead by several steps and continued glitching. The chef told Zuckerberg that the "WiFi might be messed up" in the venue. Bosworth said, however, that it was not the case. Apparently, when the chef said "Hey Meta, start Live AI," it fired up every single Meta Ray-Ban's Live AI in the building. And since the event was all about the company's smart glasses, there were a lot of them in the venue at the time. The company had also routed Live AI's traffic to its dev server to isolate it, but it ended up routing the Live AI traffic of everyone's glasses in the building to its server. "We DDoS'd ourselves, basically," he said. He continued that it didn't happen at rehearsal, because there weren't as many people wearing the glasses when they tested it out.
outstanding
www.engadget.com/wearables/me...
Iβm Not a Robot, a game about solving CAPTCHAs, is out now!
good luck :)
> neal.fun/not-a-robot/
More very useful info.
Google (www.google.com) is a pure search engine - no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter. Nothing but a fast-loading search site. Reward them with a visit
I miss these daysβ¦
Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?
Itβs not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself [β¦]
[Original post on hachyderm.io]
UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost
www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m...
"AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex"
Youβre Loading Fonts Wrong (and Itβs Crippling Your Performance): https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/youre-loading-fonts-wrong/
whoever did this, I would be absolutely thrilled to buy you a drink. seriously - dm or find me, I'm the only Cyd Harrell on the internet. I'm good for an excellent beverage & a civic tech rage session. americabydesign.fail
The Beths did a What's In My Bag! I love the way Liz and Jonathan are so earnest, like they have to answer every question as if it's the last time it will ever be asked of them. Also appreciated the shout-out to "New Zealand's first band", Split Enz. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-btv...
This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent
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