Jamie Small
@jamiesmall.co.nz
Small-time publisher – Wordshop
Ōtautahi, Aotearoa New Zealand
Blogging about politics at https://cuppatea.nz
Tea reviews at https://cuppatea.nz/tea-reviews
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Jamie Small
@jamiesmall.co.nz
· Dec 30
Due to adulthood-related slow reading, I promise to never post about a book when it is still new and culturally relevant.
I don't want to seem like a shill, but I just want to share with the world that I'm really loving the new Affinity omni-app. It's making layout and design fun again in a way I really didn't expect. Just jumping persona to clearcut and mask an image then jump back to layout mode in seconds. V cool.
December 12, 2025 at 7:09 AM
I don't want to seem like a shill, but I just want to share with the world that I'm really loving the new Affinity omni-app. It's making layout and design fun again in a way I really didn't expect. Just jumping persona to clearcut and mask an image then jump back to layout mode in seconds. V cool.
Today, my kid's imaginary siblings' names are Yoshi, Ruckus and Banger. No notes 🤌
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Today, my kid's imaginary siblings' names are Yoshi, Ruckus and Banger. No notes 🤌
Just a cool website I'm using today and want to spread the love to thank the developer: tree.nathanfriend.com
You type in lines of text and it live-converts them into folder tree diagrams like this:
My computer/
├── c:/
│ ├── User1/
│ │ └── My documents
│ └── User2
└── d:/
└── Files
You type in lines of text and it live-converts them into folder tree diagrams like this:
My computer/
├── c:/
│ ├── User1/
│ │ └── My documents
│ └── User2
└── d:/
└── Files
tree.nathanfriend.com
An online tree-like utility for generating ASCII folder structure diagrams. Written in TypeScript and React.
tree.nathanfriend.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Just a cool website I'm using today and want to spread the love to thank the developer: tree.nathanfriend.com
You type in lines of text and it live-converts them into folder tree diagrams like this:
My computer/
├── c:/
│ ├── User1/
│ │ └── My documents
│ └── User2
└── d:/
└── Files
You type in lines of text and it live-converts them into folder tree diagrams like this:
My computer/
├── c:/
│ ├── User1/
│ │ └── My documents
│ └── User2
└── d:/
└── Files
I watched Mufasa on a plane a couple weeks ago and can't stop thinking about it. It makes me so mad. I expected it to be mid but did not expect it to be so actively bad. Aaaargh
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I watched Mufasa on a plane a couple weeks ago and can't stop thinking about it. It makes me so mad. I expected it to be mid but did not expect it to be so actively bad. Aaaargh
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after reading how all these rich folks write i think i understand why they believe everyone else needs a chatbot to write everything from emails and text message to novels
November 13, 2025 at 1:48 AM
after reading how all these rich folks write i think i understand why they believe everyone else needs a chatbot to write everything from emails and text message to novels
I think it's pretty clear what I was trying to achieve with this Google search. Thanks AI 🙄
Luckily Wikipedia came to the rescue with my copy-paste symbol
Luckily Wikipedia came to the rescue with my copy-paste symbol
November 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I think it's pretty clear what I was trying to achieve with this Google search. Thanks AI 🙄
Luckily Wikipedia came to the rescue with my copy-paste symbol
Luckily Wikipedia came to the rescue with my copy-paste symbol
I've recently set up a server in our house, and sunk so many hours into researching and testing free or open source software to replace the increasingly trashy and expensive corporate software I use. I'm also about to convert my Windows 10 workhorse to Linux. An incredibly rewarding experience!
There is growing interest in having control of your computing and your data. Many people have been posting their stories of moving off Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Amazon software platforms. This is a wide ranging discussion about the why and how of doing that.👇
#NZPOL #DigitalSovereignty
#NZPOL #DigitalSovereignty
Recorded Webinar: Sovereign computers, software and servers for home and office.
I was invited by my friend @Karaitiana Taiuru to do this webinar on sovereign computing. It is for a general audience who are interested in shifting away from multinational IT companies for their co...
te-ara-paerangi.community
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I've recently set up a server in our house, and sunk so many hours into researching and testing free or open source software to replace the increasingly trashy and expensive corporate software I use. I'm also about to convert my Windows 10 workhorse to Linux. An incredibly rewarding experience!
THIS IS HOW KOREANS TELL TIME!
The hours are in native Korean numbers and the minutes in Chinese-style numbers.
The hours are in native Korean numbers and the minutes in Chinese-style numbers.
![Comic. PERSON 1 with white hat: How tall are you? PERSON 2: 5ft 24cm [caption] When switching to metric, make the process easier by doing it in steps.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreifptvo6h6kdpf75j3i443ospzumiii7a3pblah2urjrawmyymh3ga@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
THIS IS HOW KOREANS TELL TIME!
The hours are in native Korean numbers and the minutes in Chinese-style numbers.
The hours are in native Korean numbers and the minutes in Chinese-style numbers.
Reposted by Jamie Small
Reposted by Jamie Small
My love language is making you watch a movie I’ve made part of my personality and then quietly seething at you as you gradually lose interest and begin to play on your phone more and more
November 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
My love language is making you watch a movie I’ve made part of my personality and then quietly seething at you as you gradually lose interest and begin to play on your phone more and more
The impending AI bubble pop does not mean AI will die. The .com bubble popped in 2000 but today internet is life. The housing bubble popped in '08 then they found new ways to screw us on housing. A bubble pop is just a redistribution of imaginary money that finds a way to hurt you and me.
November 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The impending AI bubble pop does not mean AI will die. The .com bubble popped in 2000 but today internet is life. The housing bubble popped in '08 then they found new ways to screw us on housing. A bubble pop is just a redistribution of imaginary money that finds a way to hurt you and me.
My toddler just saw a picture of a bunch of snakes all twisted up and said "hey it's a panic of snakes!"
November 1, 2025 at 6:29 AM
My toddler just saw a picture of a bunch of snakes all twisted up and said "hey it's a panic of snakes!"
Reposted by Jamie Small
If you thought the story of Frankenstein was intense, wait until you hear about the life of its author.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s personal life was fraught with death, life, and a summer of volcanic ash.
Buckle up. 🧵⬇️
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s personal life was fraught with death, life, and a summer of volcanic ash.
Buckle up. 🧵⬇️
November 1, 2025 at 3:10 AM
If you thought the story of Frankenstein was intense, wait until you hear about the life of its author.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s personal life was fraught with death, life, and a summer of volcanic ash.
Buckle up. 🧵⬇️
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s personal life was fraught with death, life, and a summer of volcanic ash.
Buckle up. 🧵⬇️
Wait... The new Book of Dust dropped? I am a) out of the loop and b) on my way to a bookshop
October 31, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Wait... The new Book of Dust dropped? I am a) out of the loop and b) on my way to a bookshop
Frankenstein myth busting #1: he is never called "Frankenstein's monster" or even "monster". Frankenstein refers to him as "fiend" a lot (incidentally Frankenstein's Fiends sounds like a battalion name from Starship Troopers)
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#frankenstein #halloween #booksky
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#frankenstein #halloween #booksky
October 31, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Frankenstein myth busting #1: he is never called "Frankenstein's monster" or even "monster". Frankenstein refers to him as "fiend" a lot (incidentally Frankenstein's Fiends sounds like a battalion name from Starship Troopers)
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#frankenstein #halloween #booksky
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#frankenstein #halloween #booksky
I'll wait to see if Canva erodes Affinity over time, but for now it is absolutely wild that they have made the full Affinity suite available for free. Incredible software for professional design, layout and photo editing.
October 31, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I'll wait to see if Canva erodes Affinity over time, but for now it is absolutely wild that they have made the full Affinity suite available for free. Incredible software for professional design, layout and photo editing.
I've noticed these low-budget computer animated shows always cut away when action happens. Presumably because it's too expensive to animate. Contrast this with looney Tunes etc where the whole beauty of the animation was drawing weird and bizarre action scenes you could never do with live action.
Netflix's 'Horton' is so vanilla, so shallow and un-weird. Dr Seuss is suing via rug-length old-timey scroll from beyond the grave.
October 30, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I've noticed these low-budget computer animated shows always cut away when action happens. Presumably because it's too expensive to animate. Contrast this with looney Tunes etc where the whole beauty of the animation was drawing weird and bizarre action scenes you could never do with live action.
Love a good garden path sentence.
Tell me more about these ducks
Tell me more about these ducks
Week in Review:
Opinion from the University of Auckland: We can't continue to treat climate adaptation as a fiscal liability – it needs to be transformative, writes Dr Sasha Maher.
Opinion from the University of Auckland: We can't continue to treat climate adaptation as a fiscal liability – it needs to be transformative, writes Dr Sasha Maher.
Property fetish ducks climate responsibility
newsroom.co.nz
October 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Love a good garden path sentence.
Tell me more about these ducks
Tell me more about these ducks
Spent today taking overexposed photos with my sunglasses on 🤦🏽
October 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Spent today taking overexposed photos with my sunglasses on 🤦🏽
Netflix's 'Horton' is so vanilla, so shallow and un-weird. Dr Seuss is suing via rug-length old-timey scroll from beyond the grave.
October 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Netflix's 'Horton' is so vanilla, so shallow and un-weird. Dr Seuss is suing via rug-length old-timey scroll from beyond the grave.
Since the dawn of time, parents have asked for "just a small glass of lemonade for the kid, please"
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October 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Since the dawn of time, parents have asked for "just a small glass of lemonade for the kid, please"
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Reposted by Jamie Small
“But the best way to stop data being hacked is not to collect it in the first place.”
news.sky.com/story/discor...
news.sky.com/story/discor...
Discord hack shows dangers of online age checks as internet policing hopes put to the test
As the drive for age verification grows, so does the pressure on online companies to keep users' data safe and, as the Discord hack shows, that cannot be guaranteed.
news.sky.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:03 AM
“But the best way to stop data being hacked is not to collect it in the first place.”
news.sky.com/story/discor...
news.sky.com/story/discor...
Reposted by Jamie Small
Vote! Vote in your local election! Post your vote by 5pm today! It matters. Hayden explains this more hilariously than I can: thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...
October 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Vote! Vote in your local election! Post your vote by 5pm today! It matters. Hayden explains this more hilariously than I can: thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...