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the areas of land where wellington has zoned for new suburbs are all owned by one family: the Callenders thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350202…

Thank you for bringing common sense to council Rebecca Matthews – it’s very clearly needed good grief.

Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 - which does it pick? (by @Leniolabs_)

If Wellington Council isn't sure if it wants a bigger airport, it probably shouldn’t own hundreds of millions of dollars worth of airport shares. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/29-04…

Every developer has something running on AWS they can't find to turn off right?

The primary way ChatGPT helps me with writing tasks is I ask it to produce a first draft, and it's so terrible that I go "jesus, I can do better than THAT" and throw it away and write the whole thing from scratch.

In Chlöe Swarbrick's State of the Planet speech today, the Green Party NZ Party co-leader criticised the coalition government for "knowingly increasing inequality: shredding fair pay agreements, cutting back benefit increases and handing 2.9 billion dollars to landlords."

I view everything I work on through that One Developer Framework lens. Not interested in tooling, approaches, or concepts that demand a team of thinly-sliced specialists to tick. One developer must be able to understand/use it all. From Hello World to IPO! Let's go, nerds 😀

Prevent macbook theft with this one simple trick!

The main reason we’re building Linear this way was that as we looked back our time in working in classic hypergrowth companies like Airbnb, Uber & Coinbase and realized: 1) the very best work was always created and created fast by very small teams 2) adding too many people too

If you have the time and money for a judicial review right now, a time when NZ is reopening oil and gas exploration, our natural environment is under severe threat and we have a dire housing crisis, why use it to oppose more space for inner city housing? thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350304…

Anyone who says ‘the ETS will fix transport emissions, we don’t need fuel economy standards or price incentives for EVs’ is simply ignoring reality. We don’t have time for this nonsense.

A classic case of someone who knows the cost of everything & the value of nothing - a conservation minister who thinks it may be cost effective to let #NZ endangered species become extinct. On that basis, we could lose #kakapo, #kiwi & countless other species unique to NZ.

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We literally decided to recreate our very own GFC. Great work everyone.

Why is Joel MacManus from the Spinoff the only Wellington journo doing any actual followup to bullshit quotes from business owners? thespinoff.co.nz/wellington/10-…

We put together a careful $270m 3-year plan for new regional public transport investments and last week the government decided to contribute zero dollars towards it. Instead they redirected NZTA funding away from public transport to roads. Many basic projects are now at risk. 1/

It has now been more than a year since Christopher Luxon has been interviewed by Q+A, including his entire tenure as PM. We hope he'll agree to be interviewed soon.

"I never thought they would cut MY cycleway," sobs councillor who constantly campaigns to cut cycleways.