If we don’t know what the best way to write JavaScript code is, how do we write it ourselves? The guiding principle that JavaScript seems to have is that there should be a diversity of ideas and approaches, lets look at the basics. cogent.co/blog/really-go…

72% of Melbourne's tourism spend comes from overseas and interstate visitors (compared to 69% for Sydney). This is going to be challenging to replace during recovery from a pandemic. Listening to @felicia_mariani from VTIC via City of Melbourne

"If I want to use more energy today maybe my neightbour says - fine I'll use a little bit less -, and maybe I'll use a little bit less for them tomorrow" - Adam Bumpus⚡️ from RedGridGPT on treating energy as local mutual credit via City of Melbourne

"People are never just citizens, never just users of technology, and never just consumers ... we need to understand them as people who live complex lives." - @pinkydigital on an ethics and people first approach to tech in City of Melbourne

"Smart city tech makes things worse, without inventive, capable, responsible, engaged and participative governance, design, and shared ownership." - Dan Hill

Australia - like many English-speaking countries - is full of lovely people who somehow manage to keep electing far-right, genocidal, climate-denying governments of surpassing administrative incompetence. 1/

Just had some great customer service from the folks at render.com, can't recommend it enough for Elixir apps at least, and they do a bunch of other sorts.

Everyone is talking about Blockbuster today! We have teamed up and if you buy any new VCR at Brashs you’ll get a free overnight rental every week for a year at Blockbuster! Rush into Brashs as there’s never been a better time to stay at home!

My friend starts her first software engineering job today, after learning to program in prison. Here's how she got the job, and how you can help more people like her get jobs after getting out: First, let's be clear that my friend served 13 years for a serious, violent crime.

The folks at Cogent (where I work) want to hear from product managers, developers, designers & tech leaders on how their digital product team *actually* works together. Have your say in the 2020 Australia & NZ Product Teams Survey cogent.co/survey-2020/

The plan? We name your landscaping company after a fancy hotel to trick the President of the United States into holding a press conference outside of your business.

We've spent quite a lot of time talking to a huge range of digital businesses in Australia and Aotearoa / New Zealand. The report is finally out and there are a lot of interesting insights in there about what is working well. Very proud to be associated with this.

I don't want to give this person's disgraceful, bigoted views any oxygen. But when others insist on rewarding them with this country's highest honour – I think it's worth saying again: Grand Slam wins don't give you some right to spew hatred and create division. Nothing does.

Hey friends who are product managers, developers, designers, founders & tech leaders of Aus & NZ. It'd be awesome if you could take a few minutes to have your say on what makes a great digital product team: cogent.co/2021-product-t…

Navin is kicking off a great blog post series on how we can do better at DORA metrics here: cogent.co/blog/how-do-we…

It’s 3:41am, Parliament has been sitting for 18 hours straight, we’re still debating the PM’s hate bill, but apparently we’ve run out of time this term to establish a corruption commission.

I wrote a thing about how I write HTML and CSS. notahat.com/2022/07/writin…