Dave Hall 🌻

Is it just me or do a lot more @github.com API endpoints now require authentication? These days it feels like almost everything required auth. I’d check the history but the commit messages aren’t very informative and the UI refuses to render the diffs. github.com/github/rest-...

At this point getting groceries delivered is way more civilised. Supermarkets are running a mass experiment on how much bullshit customers will tolerate. They keep one upping each other and getting away with it because of the cosy duopoly.

Back in 2010 Coles removed the entrance gates to make their stores more welcoming. During COVID the gates returned. A few years ago Coles started locking customers in the store. Woolies followed suit. Maybe if they weren’t price gouging people wouldn’t nick so much stuff www.afr.com/companies/ho...

Woolworths shoppers concerned new anti-theft gates may trap them and hit their children At one store trialling the gates, a customer said ‘if you wanted to enter without hitting your child, you’d have to go in backwards’

Australian supermarkets are making record profits as they become increasingly customer hostile spaces. Aisles clogged with restocking cages. AI powered self checkouts that don’t know their arse from your elbow. Now Woolies want to change the entrance gates to this www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I use environment variable for each session. It’s annoying but it works.

Laid off Aussie workers chasing $40,000 payouts warned over 'embarrassing' trend A growing number of laid off Aussie workers are turning to AI tools to generate workplace claims and 'embarrassing themselves'.

Doomers: AI is going to make everyone unemployed

OpenAI: We’re a nett creator of jobs

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I learned about this at the 1Password booth at ReInvent. Such a cool feature. I keep forgetting to use it. Old methods die slowly :(

Nice! I’m using a micro desktop because I was being cheap. I’ll take your advice and add another aws account to my org. Care to share the code?

You make MCPs sound like Jira. Does that mean skills and CLIs are linear?

Oh god no! They can have Open AI. I hope Amazon buy Anthropic. It would be a better outcome.

Braddon!

Amazon Bedrock Leaves Builders Stuck in 1st Gear AWS's gap between promised and actual quotas is preventing customers from exploiting the full potential of Amazon Bedrock.

AWS’ failure to deliver advertised quotas for Amazon Bedrock is hurting smaller builders. In my latest post I channeled my inner @quinnypig.com You can check it out at www.proactiveops.io/archive/amaz...

Is there a link to an announcement? You can’t switch to t4g?

I’ve lived in Canberra for 6 years. I travel to Sydney every month or so. I did the train a few times. Last minute cancellations, late arrivals, lack of 5G and infrequent schedule mean I’d rather pay $300 each way to fly. The train at $100 isn’t worth it. I’d happily $300 return for a good train.

Twice in recent weeks I've had to work with Claude Code to script recovery of a project from ~/.claude/project after human e̶r̶r̶o̶r̶ stupidity. Both times I was able to recover it.

I feel better knowing even very smart people like @simonwillison.net have done this too. simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/19/...

A 440ml solo can, that’s just wrong.

This is why friends don’t let friends use Kiro. We use Claude Code instead.

On a more serious note, giving a coding agent write access to production is the engineering version of juggling chainsaws. Cool trick, but you don’t want it to go wrong.

It’s always better when someone else does the driving for you around there.

I’ve spent a lot of time in that area. I grew up not far from there. When my kids were little we’d do day trips across there and mountains further out. Lovely part of the world. Great wines too.

Yarra valley?

NFTs in 2026?! AusPost, once again on the bleeding edge of technology. In 2031 they’ll implement an LLM powered chatbot on their website to “improve” customer “service”.

I look forward to reading your review of Melania later today.

Welcome to Melbourne, the best city in Australia.

Silicon Valley considers them to be large scale focus groups.

Many of them are 4 letters, but there are some 3 letter agencies.

Pendulum - I Am Not YouTube video by randomenglish

It is sampled in this old track that I love. I never knew where it came from! Thanks for sharing the clip. youtu.be/_UpqkXwTO4w

Why does Meetup need to know why relationship status? I go to events to learn about tech, not pick up. | 👨‍💻Dave Hall | 15 comments Why does Meetup need to know why relationship status? I go to events to learn about tech, not pick up. | 15 comments on LinkedIn

Not a lot of love for meetup dot com in the replies when I posted this www.linkedin.com/posts/daveha...

The Bending Spoons acquisition was a bad sign. I wanted to bail when I was promoted for my relationship status last year. The constant upsells motivated me to make the switch for 2026.

There’s a few crypto bros things in Luna, but overall it is a way better platform for attendees and organisers.

It’s one of the downside of living in the capital. I give anyone driving a DC/DX plated car plenty of room.

Last week I had to give @lizthegrey.com the “light blue plate talk”. She stepped out in front of a diplomatic car in Civic 😬 She survived to tell the story.

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