Chris Burgess
@chris
Ōtepoti, Aotearoa. Tech for good, for people, for orgs. Less tech, and slower too. Popping balls through hoops, open source, learning guitar, making prints, building with wood. Web:
Searching for open hours at a local art gallery. Google's suggested questions... Uncle, WTF?
Even if it was just stupid snails all the way to the far shore, they can fuck off with their miltech testing. Do not test it in Palestine. Do not test it in Aotearoa. Do not test it in the terra nullus you imagine to exist.
DevilSkin planting a flag on the far side of a second major cultural divide, per this image reported from their socials
really enamoured of Paperless-NGX especially now i've got a flow for scanning paper journals to PDF onto the second (just found the setting to let me scan > 10 pages per pdf) let's see if i get through more than a handful tho!
Fractured scaphoid at netball in April, bone hadn't unioned up, now I will get an operation. And be back in a cast for ages 😒 Plotting a path back onto the court for 2027.
RNZ new website (or a tidy up edit?) had pushed this story FROM 2020 to Google Discover / News / Showcase (that news screen on Android phones). Eek!
can't imagine this making people feel disappointed or enraged when they try the door
Oh no no no #caversham let's not Folks will not appreciate you for making the boarded up stores look like a lively grocer until they get closer
Odd / interesting thread to connect in the title there Newsroom? (It's not a review of the named book, it's a review of Keep Calm We Are Coming, a book about the SAS) https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/06/11/book-of-the-week-once-were-warriors/
beautiful - a leucistic kāhu kōrako - wow https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/photographer-rapt-have-sighted-hawk Photo: Peter Langlands/Wild Capture
admiring the state of some license reports for my silly website - two versions of ansi-regex, any-promise, argparse - three versions of ansi-style - it's all coming from github package management is impressive and wild
here, have some neighborhood telemetry reports Do you see the storage company thermometer from your place?
Ok but I really hope their rangefinder measures in metric cos there's a lot of wiggle room in that headline
opens local history book to find photo of steamers leaving shore to float away into the skies, better understand local interest in #steampunk
What marketing team thought "New ways to stay caught up in Activity" would sound anything but deranged? Our must-look-and-feel-busy world is just fucking stupid. The tyranny of notification dots. The appearance of productivity.
use mealie for this, it's great (mostly i just use it to make recipes legible but why not also for satire)
magnificent garden ornamentation https://www.haywards.co.nz/auctions/230/catalogue/0205
I have not seen double sliders like that before, can figure the concept (eg high/low filters) but not how that would work IRL. Is it made up AI stuff? Bandcamp!! https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/women-of-detroit-house-feature
In a tramping hut recently I picked up a copy of Trotsky's "My Life", and appreciated this from the introduction:
mucking about with imagemagick and tesseract. timg is handy! #pcm8 #abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890