Yeah lawns are an extremely weird concept in Australia that have become normalised somehow. Like oh yes, let’s just waste all this water, time, and energy growing an entire mat of weeds we don’t actually want. Then you have to use all this energy and tools to cut it back down every week or two. It’s crazy to me 😂. Also lawns are extremely unforgiving. They turn brown, patchy, thorn-ridden, and ugly easily, and don’t really provide much to the wildlife.

I always keep it simple because I have fatigue issues. Weed mat, a nice mulch top layer (very cheap from the gov), lots of compost for a few months to prepare the soil (the dirt around here is completely awful), a basic sprinkler irrigation backup if it refuses to rain for weeks, then just plant things which would naturally survive and look after themselves. Usually natives, but some native plants are too fragile. Usually flowering plants because I love flowers, and so do insects and birds.

Recently I went for Acacia Limelight, lavender, the tiny bush bottlebrush (forget the name), and some cute little grasses that make stunning blue flowers. The acacias drop millions of tiny thin leaves which gives a beautiful autumn floor look year-round. I like the subdued brown/purple/green profile with a bit of bright colours here and there. We had a lot of bird and pollinator activity too, which really brought it to life.

There’s still a lot of setup for an ecosystem. Choosing the right mulch (heat and ph leeching), irrigation, shading, and knowing your local soil is very important. It’s just front loaded because once you set it up, it’s kind of set and forget. Also nowadays many people don’t live in freestanding houses that they own, so they don’t even have access to a plot of dirt to mess around with

What do you mean?

There’s a few variables that affect the happiness of plant. Most of them are to do with the dirt, not the plant itself. Think of it like you’re nurturing the soil, and the plant will either thrive or die on it’s own depending on if the soil is within it’s ideal ranges. You can fuck up 1 or maybe 2 of these, but any more and it will just die. There’s websites that list the ideal ranges for every plant

• Soil acidity. Ph meter is good for this. Over time the soil may change ph
• Soil Nutrients (phosphorus, nitrogen, etc). You can also get measurement tools for this. Over time the soil will lose nutrition
• Soil composition: clay vs sandy (water retention vs drainage). This usually doesn’t change
• Soil moisture (Watering frequency). This one is your direct responsibility and easiest lever. Be mindful of rainfall if outdoors
• Soil temperature. Usually directly related to:
• Sunlight (intensity and also duration). Positioning matters here. Also most plants usually benefit from a 20% to 60% shade depending on how harsh your sun is. There’s a reason why grass grows better under the trampoline, the plants are usually cooking

Most criticism tends to be useless, unfair, emotional venting or social posturing; with the intention to manipulate or denigrate. Finding someone who gives good, targeted, and neutral criticism is extremely rare. Mostly you end up having to guess and extrapolate someone’s true, actionable feedback from their criticism, while filtering out criticism that was never applicable in the first place

This happened at one of my old workplaces before A.I., with just humans. We had no standards and junior devs were given free reign to do whatever they want.

I still remember the horror when I realised my coworker copy pasted the entire 200,000 LOC (lines of code) Invoicing page to make specialised Quotation, Payment, Report Payment, and Bulk Payment page. Then they slowly made dozens of small changes and tweaks to it with no documentation. Instead of adapting and extending the existing page, we ended up with literally 5x 200k+ LOC modules.

Good God, it took 2 months to untangle and consolidate that mess, and we were still discovering bugs 6 months later. Now imagine that, but A.I. does it at scale.

sudo wudo
delete the root-o

The London underground would never be constructed today. It would cost like 40 bajillion dollarydoos

I think there was a Satisfactory mod where every conditional check only worked 99% of the time, just to make things spicy

You still might. Typescript is just a fancy linter, it doesn’t actually stop anything from happening. If a backend API changes to give you an array, you will get an array, and it will be a disaster

Up to $20 million cover for legal claims involving accidents at the insured property that cause death, bodily injury or damage to someone else’s property.

So yes, but only if it happens at your house. If you do the clothes hanger flood thing at someone else’s house they won’t cover you

Sounds like a good idea. In Australia we have something like that specifically for cars/driving but it would be cool as a general thing

Efficiency vs ecology

Easiest vs ideal

I was introduced to it on a specific project where 3rd party integrations were unreliable. We could save and share specific requests and responses, and compare them over time. We built up a sizable library of what is expected output from each API.

It enabled us to be like: “hey dickheads you broke your API again.” Essentially doing unit testing on their behalf. Technically not our job, but our customers didn’t care whether it was our fault or 3rd party’s fault. I was expected to fix problems, even if it wasn’t my problem.

At some point Postman got really weird and confusing. You had to make an account, and it synced all your stuff to the cloud (offline only was no longer an option), and various other enshittification behaviours. At that time we switched to another tool, but I don’t remember the name.

It just stands for “malicious software”. So yeah, pretty much 99% of commercial* software qualifies as both malware and spyware now

Anonymous in that there’s a thin veneer of professionalism wherin they pretend they don’t know who submitted each survey response and talk around it as if you don’t both know that you both know what’s really going on

/dev/sda yet another reason Linux is bett’a

Nowadays most normies see an actual exception and panic like it’s a horror movie and the computer has gained sentience. Management tells programmers to hide the error message, making it harder for literally everybody

Personally, I think it’s kind of an online toxicity thing. Everyone is always shitting on everyone else in the most aggressive way possible, so people get defensive out of habit. You also cannot shit on other people if you think there is even a possibility of being wrong, it requires utmost confidence; so it promotes a close-minded ideology. You can’t reflect while shitting on people, only in the toilet

Trying to dunk on someone and getting Uno-reverse counter-dunked is like the epitome of online shame and embarrassment. So just never be wrong and determinedly double-down-dog dunk dubious drama