Was feeling nostalgic for Neopets and the internet surprised me: 12/11 year old me wrote a tutorial on creating "Neopets blogs" (images with a positioned textarea), referenced in an Italian forum 🥺 RIP to my account
open.substack.com/pub/99d/p/th... Sincerely, a slop canon trying to be an SRE
There will only be four jobs
Slop Cannons, SREs, Hot People, and Adults
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2025 wasn't my best year but at least I used my audible credits (and then some). Solo Levelling was infuriating after volume 2-3 but I had to find out what happened. I really enjoyed The Stand and Dark Tower. I tried reading the first dark tower years ago and finally cracked into it. Worth.
Wicked part 2 with the fam in NZ, saw my dad getting emotional during For Good 🥺😭
After going to my first London conference that wasn't related to the big G, I can conclude from my sample of 1: NZ tech confs are such high calibre and I miss em 💔
@pepperraccoon.com I live under a rock now but did you design the kowhai border for kawaii on website? I'm obsessed
Pain driven development, laugh driven conf talk. My new hero @joehart.bsky.social #ReactAdvanced perfect end of day tone 👌🏼
Chat about how Gen Z expects minimal friction from their products, but also more willing to adopt/have enthusiasm for change with less friction. Also curious to hear more about Gen Z requiring more context/explanation/walkthrough (rel to instructions, explanation of decision making) #MakeWithNotion
I do miss the conference live tweeting vibes circa 2015 🥺 but having a grand irl time with the setup at Protein Studios London! #MakeWithNotion
TIL NZ yams are actually oca en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalis_... I appreciated the Reddit post about their superiority to Kumara too (I agree) www.reddit.com/r/newzealand...
Oxalis tuberosa - Wikipedia
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aanzpa.org/he-honore This banger in my head today. Probably because someone asked me what the NZ national anthem is, which my brain always short circuits in panic, then arrives on Maori first (tbh we always sung the maori first so checks out).
He Honore - AANZPA
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"options provided above" is just reading through help centre docs. Meta verified support seems pretty trash tier if agents can't flag or escalate cases in any way!!!!
Paid £11 to get Meta verified on Instagram or whatever to access their chat based support. I want to cry. All the support could do was walk me through their self-service account recovery options. Nothing extra. They can't escalate. The decision tree terminates.
