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The company Torchbox (creators of Wagtail CMS) are an interesting example of an employee owned company. In their case it was a matter of the founders selling/moving most of their o…

This looks great. Will definitely try it out. I run a dev shop and have been thinking along these lines also.

I want to learn about quantum mechanics. 10 year old me is pretty bummed I haven't invented a teleporter yet and ChatGPT said this is a pretty good place to start :)

I run a software dev/ digital services company and my take on this is for her to consider retraining in a business analyst or change management role. - These require very complemen…

The right starting point is probably "what are their skills and interests" and based on that what is the simplest thing to segue into. Obviously this forum is mostly focused on dev…

Maybe someone should release a smart context which is a literal MLM/pyramid NFT where everybody in the upline gets a portion of the sale (rather than just the seller and the creato…

Fantastic toolset. I found the posts by Leyla Acaroglu [1] an excellent introduction to systems thinking and many of these concepts [1]: https://medium.com/disruptive-design/search…

It would be interesting to know whether the same issues would exist outsourcing to a country such as New Zealand with less of a language and cultural barrier or if it is still larg…

Sorry try https://www.hygen.io Didn't like the missing www

For low-code dev friendly in our React/ node environment I've been impressed with https://hygen.io for generating boilerplate entities, models, controllers etc. Extremely light wei…

This has been an interesting discussion but I am surprised at the high level of criticism towards the project. There seems to be two primary critiques of the project: 1. This shoul…

I recently came back from Padang, Sumatra, was really impacted by the level of pollution and did quite a bit of research. - It is too simplistic to just say it's all about educatio…

I have worked with Silverstripe before and as you mentioned about CraftCMS I find it flexible and lean compared to Wordpress - I feel like it is much easier to be close to the data…

http://gamesalad.com/ My son used this for his science fair project last year and I thought it was an excellent platform.

I signed my son up with Jux.com. It looks great out of the box on desktop and mobile and is pretty straight forward,

Yes but an amazingly common one. If I look at the NZ city I live in (pop ~80k) both Tertiary institutes, City Council, Regional Council, primary Health organization etc are all ver…

I set my son up on http://www.jux.com . Nice and easy

I went and lived for 2 years in France with my wife and 8yr old step daughter. Recently I also took my kids to Kathmandu for a couple of weeks and mixed working with holidaying - s…

Great links thanks. One thing I have been wondering is what text to speech synthesis would sound like with non 'human' voices. Most demo's are of course focussed on human voices e.…

I was thinking of getting a Rasberry-Pi or Arduino type board and playing with creating an open/ programmable soft toy ala Furby or Teddy Ruxpin. I can't be the first person to thi…

Not sure what the best way to research is. A couple of websites that might help: http://www.idealog.co.nz http://unlimited.co.nz/ Few other high profile companies: http://www.vendh…

There's definitely some awesome companies in NZ open to bringing quality developers from overseas. Check out http://www.xero.com/about/careers/ Note: I'm not associated with them i…

Have you looked at vend? (vendhq.com) interesting startup from NZ

What's the unique proposition with this? In NZ this is already very common with Universities, Dominos etc. Is it just a market that SendHub wants to contest in or does SendHub brin…