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New blog post for you enjoyment: goonan.io/weird-al/
Weird Al
I said last post that I wasn't going to talk about AI, but Nik Suresh made a guest appearance on Ed Zitron's feed and, as expected, really touched a nerve for me. Oh, and here's a block list for AI w...
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October 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
A new, and log overdue blog post: goonan.io/ticketek-doe...
Ticketek does not work with Firefox and other end of the world scenarios
Ticketek does not work with Firefox. What the actual fuck. 2 hours waiting on line to get a ticket to the footy only to be prevented from checking. I tried Safari, same deal. Isn't there some sort of ...
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September 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
My latest blogpost is up: goonan.io/portland/
Portland
It's been a minute. Let's close some tabs. AI bots are the scourge of the internet that threatens to destroy the open nature of the internet itself, as if there weren't enough forces conspiring to do...
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July 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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April 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Another blog post for you all: goonan.io/adventures-i...
Adventures in Digital Sovereignty
Andrew Bednarz has started on his journey to Digital Sovereignty and I'm paying close attention. There are a lot of services he mentions there which cut deep - companies I've long had a great deal of ...
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April 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Hello friends, I did another blog post: goonan.io/golden-pains/
Golden Pains
I went to Golden Plains over the March long weekend. It's more or less the only festival I get my aching old bones to any more but it was a particularly special one. Kneecap were awesome, and it reall...
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March 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Another blog post for you: goonan.io/u/
Use Firefox
David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) seems to enjoying being highly opinionated in a way that divides an audience. The examples are numerous. I'll pick his decision to drop Typescript support for Turbo to i...
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March 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Another blog post for you goonan.io/tech-talks-p...
Tech Talks, Privacy Backdoors and DEI
I attended DDD Melbourne last weekend which was well worth the very reasonable price of entry. It has a pretty unique vibe for these sorts of conferences and there was certainly plenty of energy and h...
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March 2, 2025 at 6:44 AM
New blog post: goonan.io/progressive-...
Progressive Enhancement
I can't unsee HTMX. I'm so over React and I'm not the only one. Websites should use progressive enhancement to only add JavaScript interactivity when required. Websites should work with JavaScript dis...
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February 8, 2025 at 4:16 AM
My latest blog post: goonan.io/html-rules/
HTML Rules!
So I thought I'd try "Siri Intelligence". Started by asking it the result of the last Tottenham game which it managed. Good it's vaguely up to date. Then I asked a follow up question which it couldn't...
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January 16, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Friends I have my first blog post of the year for you. As usual, a bunch of links to the things that have caught my eye of late. goonan.io/new-year-new...
New year, new me
Nah, not really. Still miles behind and lots of tabs open to tell you about. Fittingly 'Enshittification' has been dubbed Word of the Year in Australia by the Macquarie Dictionary. I've been a big fa...
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January 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Latest blog post about PyCon AU: goonan.io/ask-rational...
Ask rationally difficult questions
I attended PyCon AU a bit over a week ago. The title of this post is from Linda McIver's (from the Australian Data Science Education Institute) fantastic keynote about the important of understanding d...
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December 4, 2024 at 10:18 AM
Latest blog post is up: goonan.io/the-voice-of...
The Voice of God
It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that mi...
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November 11, 2024 at 9:30 AM