Breccan McLeod-Lundy

@traskjd @ibdxqueenstown @washingtonpost They're the paper for a place that's currently polling 92% democrat. I'm not clear why everyone is suddenly surprised that media companies market to their target customers. This skit is nearly 40 years old and is still basically accurate youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoa…

@ibdxqueenstown @washingtonpost Now imagine if they’d actually endorsed Trump. This is a tantrum over not affirming beliefs.

Ppl cancelling their @washingtonpost subs then ordering Halloween supplies on Amazon lolz. Go the whole hog and go to an actual shop people. That will do more for the US economy

I know everyone is complaining about the wellington CBD. But out here in Island Bay we seem to have doubled the number of cafes and been steadily improving if anything. (Also people are staying home enough that it's now worth asking if people live nearby and just meeting here)

@David_Cormack At least they didn't try and sell them Crowdstrike. That's where the real money is.

Mum was buying a new mobile phone today, and it really shits me that the people who work in those big box retailers prey on boomers by trying to convince them they need to pay for fucking Norton.

I went on one of those(we were doing some work for the Vanuatu government at the time). I am apparently now officially a "C-list" business leader. I wonder if I can get a certificate.

@traskjd My partner has this problem with me too.

Thing folks knew when whisper was out a year ago. It shouldn’t need a hardware product release to have learned latency is the issue in AI right now, especially with voice.

@David_Cormack Pretty much everything by Ingmar Bergman. I finished watching my way through the IMDB top 250 during covid and came to hate him more and more each time one of his films came up on the list.

If a guilty pleasure is a film or artist that you really like, but think is a bit shit; do you have 'innocent shames'? Films or music you hate, that everyone seems to love? Mine is Amelie. Fuck whimsy.

@traskjd Every society should focus on improving education, healthcare, food, and economic opportunity. Focus on improving those in parallel. Most interventions have diminishing returns.

@Breccan Agreed. Similarly some that lean heavily into the branding have some real.. how should I say this? “Bored Ape Yacht Club vibes”.

Who are the e/acc accounts in New Zealand on here? Bonus points if aligned to the movement but cringe at the label.

The most kiwi thing in the world - almost certainly secure a spot in the semi-finals and the article everyone wants to read is the thing you did wrong.

@traskjd 4 years and lower the threshold(to encourage the big parties to split in half).

Now that we’re looking at a change of government to the Right in NZ, should we also increase term limits to 4 years?

@traskjd To me all the best open-source projects meet the following criteria: solves a problem where choices about whether something is better are relatively objective(i.e. databases) and the community that uses the tool is orders of magnitudes bigger than the minimum needed fund it.

Seems open source is one of two scenarios: 1. Anti capitalist. Want payment but don’t charge/can’t bring self to put a price on the code. Struggle to see how to make it sustainable, as any donation-based business does. Usually where “oh wow, thing that scratched my itch got popular” catches out a software developer. Feel for these folks at times, but if you want to make money please start a business. 2. Super capitalist. Bait & switch a model on a “community” that builds up the offering, lock it down once community has got it to product/market fit. Tell tail sign is usually VC funding for OSS. Likely over simplifying the framing here, just a take on how it seems to be split. What do you think? 🤔 P.S. good on you @PulumiCorp!

Just clicked on the X in the corner to try and close the menu. Didn't work.

Check out my latest article: Reflections on the Australian Clean Energy Summit 2023 linkedin.com/pulse/reflecti… via @LinkedIn

The start of a new era! Data for the NZSL Online Dictionary is now stored in NZSL Signbank. The original Signbank tool, developed for Auslan, now has many spinoffs - see github.com/Signbank . The NZSL Signbank was adapted for us by @ackama - thank you!

@JoshForde Age catching up with you eh. I hear psyllium husks are a cost effective and natural source.

Need to organise fibre for the new house and both aware how important it is but just feeling like it’s a lot of time consuming hassle

@traskjd Consolidated brands are easier to manage and the early days of tech were won by getting product to market as fast as possible with a label that engendered some level of trust. Nowadays in markets with a lot more competent competitors you need enough brands to match your segments.

Lying in bed last night pondering. Earlier in the software industry, we had multi-product companies (MSFT, GOOG, AMZN, etc) that all had products under their main brand. Today, seems they're favoring the conglomerate model (GitHub, LinkedIn, etc - not branded as Microsoft).

Great press takeup of our Australian growth announcement! Thanks to everyone who picked it up and we look forward to getting to work with new colleagues

I want a play by play of what @RobertIger does over the next 4 weeks far more than I want all these twitter discussions. There's so much nuance tied up in making Disney work.

@traskjd Is that what you tell your wife?

I remain convinced that the cost of adding team members, in knowledge worker roles, is much higher than just an exponential overhead factor. Long held this philosophy in many areas (code, business). Efficiency is sexy and empowering.

@juhasaarinen @JoshForde It's a plant(native to NZ and AU funnily enough). We were really looking for something that we could tie the digital ecosystem idea to that was a relatively open space for us to play brand wise(in comparison to Rabid bringing way too much flavour to the brand).

@JoshForde @Breccan I mean the name.

@Breccan @JoshForde So what does Ackama stand for then?