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There’s been some genuinely good news floating around this week, and given how relentlessly grim the news cycle has been, I want to actually sit with it for a moment before the cynicism kicks in. AEMO — the Australian Energy Market Operator — has released data showing that power prices dropped 12 per cent in the first quarter of 2026, driven by record levels of wind, solar, and the rapid expansion of grid-scale …

Someone shared a page from an IBM training manual from 1979 recently, and it’s been rattling around in my head ever since. The gist of it was simple: computers can process information, but a human being must always be accountable for the decisions made from that information. Seems reasonable, right? Almost obvious, even. And yet here we are, 46 years later, and that principle feels more like a quaint relic than …

There’s a post doing the rounds that stopped me mid-scroll this week. Someone shared how a ten-minute conversation with an AI chatbot gave them more closure on their divorce than four years of therapy. And the responses ranged from genuinely moving to deeply cynical, with a lot of interesting territory in between. My first instinct was the sceptical one — it just told you what you wanted to hear. That’s a …

There’s a particular kind of frustration that comes from watching the same political movie over and over again. You know the plot, you know the ending, and yet somehow you find yourself sitting there hoping this time it’ll be different. That’s pretty much how I feel every time the resource tax debate bubbles back to the surface in this country. It’s been doing the rounds again lately, and …

Stumbled across an interesting thread online recently that got me thinking about something I take completely for granted living in Melbourne — the ability to just pop out and grab whatever I need from a health food shop without much fuss. Someone was asking for recommendations on where to buy health food staples online — buckwheat, LSA, nuts, seeds, dried berries, that sort of thing. They live remotely, only make it …

There’s a before-and-after bathroom cleaning post doing the rounds online at the moment, and honestly, it’s the kind of thing that makes you stop scrolling and just stare for a moment. Not because it’s particularly scandalous or political, but because it quietly touches on something a lot more human than it first appears. The transformation itself is genuinely impressive. Whoever did the cleaning …

There’s a video doing the rounds of a mob of kids on e-bikes and electric dirt bikes blocking Wurundjeri Way at Docklands on Anzac Day. If you haven’t seen it, imagine a swarm of unregistered two-wheelers filling a major road, some pulling wheelies, most wearing balaclavas, and essentially doing whatever they please with zero regard for anyone else around them. The comments online have been… …

Been down a rabbit hole this week reading through discussions about a US bill called the Surveillance Accountability Act (H.R. 8470), which would require government agencies to obtain a warrant before accessing people’s digital data. And honestly, even though this is American legislation, it’s got me thinking hard about where we all stand on digital privacy — including here in Australia. Let’s start …

There’s a comment that’s been rattling around in my head since I stumbled across a discussion thread about tech companies and their slow-motion moral collapse. Someone wrote: “We wanted the Gene Roddenberry and we got the Ridley Scott.” It’s such a perfect summary that it almost physically hurt to read. I’ve been in the IT industry long enough to remember when working in tech felt …

There’s something deeply satisfying about watching a piece of “dead” hardware get a second life. I’ve been following a thread online this week about someone who turned their broken Steam Deck — the LCD screen had given up the ghost — into a fully functional NAS running Debian 12, and honestly, it’s the kind of project that makes me grin like an idiot. The setup is genuinely clever. …