Christian. Father. Developer. Principal Software Engineer at @theiconicau Previously @kayosports @freelancer. PhD in formal methods.

Sydney
Joined July 2009
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man its sunday and im feeling spiritual so i wrote an article about 1. this whole renaming ai to “super intelligence” and 2. anthropic trying to convince religious leaders that ai has a soul & moral standing this feels important lmk what you think tej.as/blog/super-intelligen…
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Wrote up some of my thoughts on what it means to be nice versus what it means to be kind. aaronfrancis.com/2025/you-ca…
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Andrew Boyton retweeted
Okay, I've taken the time to articulate all of my thoughts in a single space about the current pipeline proposal. I've also included as much information as I can about functional piping, and the two most popular pipelines. (It's opinionated, sorry) benlesh.com/posts/tc39-pipel…
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Why is this installer downloading Java, rather than using the version I have installed. What happened to package management?
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Our apologies for the fruit Ninja tweet sent earlier. One of our kids played the game on our iPhone and unknowingly tweeted their score.
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In case you were wondering, washing your hair in cold water is not fun. Remind me, why does a gas hot water system need electricity?
Anyone know any good electricians in the Eastern Suburbs (near Maroubra)? I’ve given up diagnosing and need an expert.
Running the whole house off one powerpoint. Only tripped it once in two days, so winning?
Back from the first sporting match where my team lost. Guess it had to happen eventually.
"Is it legal to use Hola? That's a grey area. Some people would argue that it's more legal than using BitTorrent." Stay classy @smh
A robot that makes gourmet burgers at fast food prices. This is cool engineering. singularityhub.com/2013/01/2…
Are serif fonts easier to read than sans serif fonts? asserttrue.blogspot.se/2013/…
Oracle installs adware by default with each of their (frequent) Java updates. This is not cool Oracle. zdnet.com/a-close-look-at-ho…
Just got asked by someone on campus if I was a first year student. First, tenth, pretty close, no?
Another good @thebriefing article. How our sinful individualism is leading us to treat children as commodities. matthiasmedia.com/briefing/2…
So the maximum temperature today is lower than the minimum temperature. How is this possible? (cc @shiftyjelly)
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Andrew Boyton retweeted
I talked to Adobe yesterday:
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Weird. A 20 year old girl that just doesn’t grow. Our bodies are incredibly complicated things. singularityhub.com/2013/01/1…
If we rented cars like we hire programmers. A fun little read. highscalability.com/blog/201…