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sminn.ee
Techie, dad, Wellingtonian. Building with AI, trying to do so thoughtfully. Loves nuanced discussion of complex topics, and toilet humour. Founded Silverstripe in a past life, now CTO for tellfrankie.com and askastro.ai
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8 year old daughter was shocked that many adults don’t know the difference between accuracy and precision. Raisin’ her right! 😉

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

The Excel of Graphs (not charts!) would be amazing

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

2025 interview coding challenges should take the form of “an LLM suggested this change to our repository to implement the feature. Figure out what wrong with it and finish it off.” Against your actual repo. a correct complete answer isn’t necessary but closely observe the work done

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The Git Flow branching strategy is as archaic and misguided as the use of a Change Approval Board. Both are rooted in the idea of releases to production as something dangerous that is best managed by putting up more stage gates before a release, and in turn making them less frequent. This is wrong

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

New Zealanders: submissions for the Regulatory Standards Bill close tomorrow at 1pm. If you haven’t already made yourself heard on this, now’s the time! This one is much more likely to get through without strong public opposition. www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it Grok infinity plus one everything-proof) to take a human brain and correct its unsightly lumps, making it smooth and perfect. Smooth brains are the future. And mine is the smoothest.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

My small joy of the day was discovering that the iPhone Lock Screen can be set to have a randomly picked photo of my wife and/or daughter that changes every hour. Such a smile generator!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment