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As a West Australian this is so interesting to me, because gambling culture is extremely niche here - but WA law is that pokies are only allowed at the casino, nowhere else. And th…

"staff engineer"

We saw this coming (like most people) a while ago when Heroku started flaking without status updates, and moved part of our workload to Fly. We ended up moving off Fly as well (sig…

Nearly every transaction account in Australia now uses a debit card as the access card, usually Visa debit. Some people will have a credit card in addition to that.

As someone in this exact position, I swapped to CachyOS this week and have been extremely impressed. I've yet to come across a game that didn't function extremely well (I have not …

Watson was a marketing exercise designed to sell a bunch of disconnected text and image processing libraries pulled together by consulting services. It did not function as advertis…

I mean I understand that's the goal, but in this specific CVE it looks like the issue was introduced in Bitnami's own scripts sitting on top of everything, so a ideally-zero-CVE un…

Bitnami images have been problematic for a little while, especially given their core focus on security but still resulting in a CVE 9.4 in PgPool recently that ended up being used …

As someone who's currently experiencing significant and crippling gastroparesis due to GLP-1's, being reductive about the side effects is not particularly helpful.

On the other hand, if 20 hours of leetcode practice is all that stands between you and half a million dollars a year, isn't that a pretty good indicator that the interview process …

We're about to do this as well, but from resque. Got any tips to share?

We use Ubicloud for our GHA runners, because we have a very extensive test suite and need the extra parallelisation. Extremely easy to roll out from GHA, reduced our CI costs from …

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Dunno about you guys, but we're not charging doing payroll, management or regulatory compliance to our clients unless it's specifically requested/required by the client. You could …

I own a tech consulting company in Australia. What rules are you talking about? The only change that's come in recently that's affected us is the changes to fixed-term contracts, a…

Probably the most entertaining thing about the article (aside from the article itself) is seeing a comment section full of Americans who have precisely zero understanding of Austra…

Not sure if you think training LLMs is carbon neutral, but if so I have some news about the barrier reef that you're not going to be that pleased to hear

> Australians celebrate Christmas by going to the beach, and July 4th with sledding and patriotic snowball fights. It may surprise you to learn that Australians don't celebrate the…

Yeah, doing it in secrecy is a recipe for Bad Things. I worked at a startup that completely died because of it.

As someone that lives in Perth, our experience as a while through COVID was actually a net positive. Not to take away from anyone who lost loved ones, but Perth basically gained th…

This is true, yes.

Not OP, but as someone that's now rebuilt 4 serverless systems into monoliths (across 4 orgs) and achieved some pretty stunning results, serverless would be useful if all of these …

> You can define container cleanup policies within the registry, matching on age, tags, etc. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/packages/container_registry/ ... Yeah, I gotta say - th…

I remember a project when I was consulting that was floated, a few years ago. It was a blockchain-backed ledger for tracking fuel charges across a truck fleet - effectively, when t…