James Healy
yob.id.au
James Healy
@yob.id.au
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1. Nationalise Wordle.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Zohran Mamdani, “who campaigned on sweeping promises, can build a more positive legacy by focusing on tangible accomplishments,” the editorial board writes.
Opinion | Six Ways Zohran Mamdani Can Improve New York City
Mamdani, who campaigned on sweeping promises, can build a positive legacy by focusing on tangible accomplishments.
nyti.ms
November 5, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
October 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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"Parking is such sweet sorrow"
October 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars
Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.
October 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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“Older generation who grew up with The Simpsons”
October 2, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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OMG, partner was just googling snorkelling from Daintree and the Google's AI summary suggested snorkelling in the DAINTREE RIVER!!!

For the unacquainted, the Daintree is famous for salt water crocodile watching tours where you avoid the water at all costs.

Please never swim in a river in Nth QLD.
August 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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The perfect framing of a nonsense story does no....
July 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Thanks Google.
I googled "four corners abc paladin" to find out whether they'd ever covered it.
The AI literally made up an episode.
June 30, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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I think the European Union is a pretty good idea but every time I’m asked to accept cookies or adjust my cookie settings when I visit a new website I start to wonder whether Nigel Farage was right all along
June 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Congratulations to spacex on testing the fire, it definitely does a lot of fire
"That's not good."
June 19, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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status.salesforce.com/generalmessa...

This a doozy of a reason.

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Update 6: Posted Tue, 10 Jun 2025 11:27:51 UTC

The third-party provider disabled a single server, which did not yield a positive outcome. We are continuing our investigations with the provider.
June 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Think you might one day have $3m in your super & be affected by the super tax changes?

Ok, you are 18yo, you just got a job - it pays... $150k!
Give yourself a 3.7% annual pay rise.
Never take time off for study, kids or illness.

You will retire with $3,017,016

moneysmart.gov.au/how-super-wo...
May 23, 2025 at 3:18 AM
weirdly tactical blog post, but it was odd that I couldn't find this anywhere when I needed it: Querying AWS CUR v2.0 data using Athena yob.id.au/2025/05/17/a...
AWS Cost Usage Reports 2.0 in Athena · James Healy
yob.id.au
May 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Interested in driving renewable energy uptake? We have multiple mid+senior engineering roles open at Amber atm: mostly in product teams, but I have my eye out for a platform shaped engineer too. Located in AU and UK, typescript and serverless experience a nice-to-have

www.amber.com.au/amber-careers
May 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Amber Electric’s Myles Eftos on how home batteries can be money making machines. Plus, a post-election debrief and Australia’s new favourite battery
Solar Insiders Podcast: How to make the most out of home batteries
Amber Electric’s Myles Eftos on how home batteries can be money making machines. Plus, a post-election debrief and Australia’s new favourite battery.
reneweconomy.com.au
May 8, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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We’re now into the fourth week of the election campaign and Dutton still hasn’t visited one of the communities that will have a nuclear reactor under his scheme.

Today he was less than 2 hours away from one community but couldn’t be bothered to show up.
April 21, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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April 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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If you don’t know the details about Dutton’s flip flopping policies, vote No to Liberal National candidate in the federal election.
April 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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April 16, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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It’s one supply chain, Michael. How long could it take to recreate? 2-3 months?
April 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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called it lol
March 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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“Will pay any amount.”

Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
January 8, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Like 98% compute/bandwidth is bare metal.

The cloud is great for small projects (costs are low) and highly profitable projects (costs matter less).

But it fails projects that need to scale as efficiently as possible.

Moving Bluesky to bare metal reduced costs by 10-100x and saved many millions.
January 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM