The planning cultures of Australia. A brief list.

NSW planning culture is ‘you must demonstrate compliance with each and every clause in a full report’ ‘unless you know the password [wink]’. Victorian planning culture is that you commission a consultant to make you a report, which gets assessed by another consultant, and QA is undertaken by a third consultant, which is the most efficient way, according to Jeff Kennett. Western Australians and South Australians lay the explosive charges first and challenge anyone to object in court. In the Territory there are no rules of any kind, and may God and the US Marine Corps have mercy on your soul. In Queensland it seems you fill out a form and nobody reads it. I don’t know how Canberrans do things but it probably involves lanyards and classifying people in hierarchy by a hex code.

Not for nothing, but your current laptop will likely last a bit longer if you're comfortable opening it up and repasting it.

That and a fan swap can take care of a ton of the issues with keeping older laptops alive.

Sometimes I think I'm not making much new art, but then publish two new zines in one day — one with 79 images in it!

I guess I'm more prolific than I perceive! 😅

https://helveticablanc.itch.io/

football fields per ton of TNT

lol I actually used the phrase “Let’s delight our customers not Deloitte them” earlier today

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/06/deloitte_ai_report_australia/

♫ I'm going all the way
Sooner or later gotta love somebody
I don't care how long it takes
Like a shot to the heart
I've got news for you
I may not look so smart
But I'm nobody's fool ♫
https://music.apple.com/us/song/nobodys-fool-theme-from-caddyshack-ii/1058079266
#music

When developing the original Macintosh Apple management started asking their engineers to fill out forms stating how many lines of (Assembly) code they contributed to the launch.

One Bill Atkinson had just completed a major refactor, so after a bit of deliberation he wrote down -2000. Shortly afterwords he was asked not to fill out these forms.

I doubt it'd go the same way today! Back then Apple needed someone as skilled at Computer Graphics as Atkinson, for the Mac to be affordable.

Dell 'tude
#meme #Dell #computer

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I love yt-dlp.

I especially love --cookies-from-browser

@vidak Yeah, OG Atari BASIC is weird about strings, & slow, but so full of useful graphics & sound & XIO file system tools. BASIC XL and then TurboBasicXL quickly replaced/added to it.

The only other OG BASIC I liked was TRS-80, esp. CoCo had even better tools. I only used ZX-81 BASIC back then, but Spectrum is nice and weird, too.

@vidak @akkartik you should check out lite! https://github.com/rxi/lite/

@vidak @akkartik It sounds like Obsidian to me

https://obsidian.md/

However, a tiny and extendable text editor sounds sick, especially if it has mobile support (looking at you, tic80). Obsidian's Android client is clunky and slow. Something that's small, agile, and extendable would be a great way to fill that niche.

Guard droids are introduced in the seventh of the Jam Levels. They have a set list actions that they follow every turn. Sometimes they shoot, sometimes they just patrol. Watch them on the first turn to see what they do. Contact with them is fatal. In this level, you need to avoid their path as you take the data card to the reader. With Soldier or Multibot you could shoot them, but that's probably a waste of time here. Get #TeamDroid from https://cyningstan.itch.io/team-droid #ibmpc #msdos #cga

Relesed a 256 byte intro for TIC-80 at @deadline_demoparty, called Neasden Ballet...

https://tic80.com/play?cart=4405

Pretty happy with this one. Made it entirel on the train down here, using the raycasting technique I've attempted on the last couple of @FieldFX Monday night jams but not quite managed to pull off until now.