{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Tony Meyer","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/tonyandrewmeyer","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"690","username":"tonyandrewmeyer","bio":"Dev, product, dad - passionate about security, education, and the environment. He/him.","pronouns":"he/him","is_following":false,"is_you":false,"following_count":6,"discover_count":0},"author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fimages%2Fblank_avatar.png"},"items":[{"id":"92401787","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/help\">@help</a> paste is still missing in 3.7.1, although it is there in a reply, just not when writing a new post. Undo and redo as well.</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/tonyandrewmeyer/92401787","date_published":"2026-06-18T02:10:50+00:00","author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tonyandrewmeyer"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-18 02:10","date_timestamp":1781748650,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"92250581","content_html":"<blockquote>\n<p>Is it any wonder that software has always been such a fiercely collectivist endeavor, exquisitely sensitive to relationship dynamics and manners and questions of fairness and emotional valence? It’s exactly what you’d expect when part of your brain lives in other people’s brains, and your collective interdependence is sky high.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>This <a href=\"https://charity.wtf/2026/06/15/ai-demands-more-engineering-discipline-not-less-xpost/\">follow-up post about AI</a> is worth reading in general, but the above quote is just delightful.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/06/16/is-it-any-wonder-that.html","date_published":"2026-06-15T23:03:30+00:00","author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tonyandrewmeyer"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-15 23:03","date_timestamp":1781564610,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92249314","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://micro.blog/help\">@help</a> where did the copy &amp; paste buttons go? And why does pasting only work half the time now? Do you test on iPadOS?</p>\n","url":"https://micro.blog/tonyandrewmeyer/92249314","date_published":"2026-06-15T22:36:55+00:00","author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tonyandrewmeyer"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-15 22:36","date_timestamp":1781563015,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"91881135","content_html":"<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/06/06/the-demon-of-the-gaps/\">Microservice architectures aren’t there for scaling the software itself, they’re there for scaling the software organization.</a></p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>A good take that you don’t see often enough. Still not a fan in general, at least the way it’s often done :).</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/06/10/microservice-architectures-arent-there-for.html","date_published":"2026-06-10T06:30:31+00:00","author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tonyandrewmeyer"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-10 06:30","date_timestamp":1781073031,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91503869","content_html":"<p>I love this <a href=\"https://mariozechner.at/posts/2026-05-30-shitty-robot/\">little robot building story</a>. I wish I did more of this.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/06/04/i-love-this-little-robot.html","date_published":"2026-06-04T02:20:05+00:00","author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tonyandrewmeyer"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-04 02:20","date_timestamp":1780539605,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91501910","content_html":"<p>Interesting post on <a href=\"https://blog.sentry.io/two-years-without-cookies-on-the-site/\">marketing at Sentry two years after dropping cookies</a>. I have a known positive bias towards Sentry, but I wish more companies experimented like this.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/06/04/interesting-post-on-marketing-at.html","date_published":"2026-06-04T00:55:23+00:00","author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tonyandrewmeyer"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-04 00:55","date_timestamp":1780534523,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91302414","content_html":"<p>The links are annoyingly to Spotify (but all of these are on Apple Music) and some of the answers are clearly political (unsurprising given the people) but this is a pretty decent set of <a href=\"https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/31-05-2026/from-herbs-to-head-like-a-hole-mps-on-their-favourite-local-albums\">NZ music to listen to</a>, even though NZMM is now over for 2026.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/06/01/the-links-are-annoyingly-to.html","date_published":"2026-06-01T04:36:42+00:00","author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tonyandrewmeyer"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-01 04:36","date_timestamp":1780288602,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91289121","content_html":"<p>Very approachable and understandable (and well presented) explanation of <a href=\"https://samwho.dev/reservoir-sampling/\">reservoir sampling</a>.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/06/01/very-approachable-and-understandable-and.html","date_published":"2026-05-31T21:58:33+00:00","author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tonyandrewmeyer"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-31 21:58","date_timestamp":1780264713,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91240582","content_html":"<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https://nooneshappy.com/article/the-ai-bubble/\">What the field requires, by their own account, is research — not half a trillion dollars in concrete and copper. The buildout is an answer to a question the technology has not yet resolved, built at a scale that forecloses the possibility of changing course when the research points somewhere else.</a></p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Also good points how the blurry way people talk about LLMs and the things that wrapping an LLM in a harness of software engineering knowledge and tooling confuses things.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/05/31/what-the-field-requires-by.html","date_published":"2026-05-31T00:34:21+00:00","author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tonyandrewmeyer"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-31 00:34","date_timestamp":1780187661,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91238410","content_html":"<p>Interesting read on <a href=\"https://www.viktorcessan.com/the-economics-of-software-teams/\">the economics of software teams</a>. I find it odd that this isn’t talked about more. Not only in terms of deliverability and work choices, but the financial cost of meetings and other “ceremonies”. Back in my PM days, I would try to tie roadmap choices to financial outcomes like this.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/05/31/interesting-read-on-the-economics.html","date_published":"2026-05-30T23:29:10+00:00","author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tonyandrewmeyer"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-30 23:29","date_timestamp":1780183750,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91237152","content_html":"<blockquote>\n<p>Previous general-purpose technologies diffused across decades, which gave workforces time to retrain, to relocate, and to move children into different trades than their parents. The steam engine, electrification, and the personal computer each took a working generation or more to reshape the labor market, and the adjustment, however brutal, happened on a human timescale. The current automation of cognitive work is compressing that timeline toward a handful of years. The compression is more striking because the measured payoff has not arrived. Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Jan Hatzius said that AI...</p>\n</blockquote> <a href=\"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/05/31/120126.html\">tonyandrewmeyer.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/05/31/120126.html","date_published":"2026-05-30T23:01:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tonyandrewmeyer"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-30 23:01","date_timestamp":1780182086,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91235944","content_html":"<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https://nolanlawson.com/2026/05/25/using-ai-to-write-better-code-more-slowly/\">But the thing is, LLMs are very flexible. And you can use them just as effectively to write high-quality code more slowly.</a></p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Solid advice worth reading, if you’re not rabidly anti-LLM.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/05/31/but-the-thing-is-llms.html","date_published":"2026-05-30T22:34:27+00:00","author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tonyandrewmeyer"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-30 22:34","date_timestamp":1780180467,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91199983","content_html":"<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/22/dependency-pruning.html\">Lately my first response to a Dependabot CVE alert, and a fair few of the routine version bumps, has been to check whether I still need the dependency at all before looking at what changed in it.</a></p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Solid advice.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/05/30/lately-my-first-response-to.html","date_published":"2026-05-30T08:57:29+00:00","author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tonyandrewmeyer"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-30 08:57","date_timestamp":1780131449,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91133540","content_html":"<p>I have no idea why another would want to <a href=\"https://unsung.aresluna.org/the-surprising-richness-of-garageband\">do this with a phone</a> but it is amazing that you can. Imagine doing this in front of someone even 25 years ago.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/05/29/i-have-no-idea-why.html","date_published":"2026-05-29T09:15:06+00:00","author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tonyandrewmeyer"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-29 09:15","date_timestamp":1780046106,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90821360","content_html":"<p>This is an amazingly well put together <a href=\"https://samwho.dev/turing-machines/\">explanation of Turing machines</a>.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/05/25/this-is-an-amazingly-well.html","date_published":"2026-05-24T12:55:43+00:00","author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tonyandrewmeyer"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-24 12:55","date_timestamp":1779627343,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"90819546","content_html":"<p>A nice <a href=\"https://marcgg.com/blog/2024/11/20/standup/\">way to run daily standup meetings</a>. I would like ours to move closer to this, although it’s not super far off. The only bit not feasible is holding them just before lunch, since people are in multiple time zones, so not everyone is lunching simultaneously.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/05/25/a-nice-way-to-run.html","date_published":"2026-05-24T12:05:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tonyandrewmeyer"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-24 12:05","date_timestamp":1779624300,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89896064","content_html":"<p><em><a href=\"https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-impossible-things-we-have-to-believe/\">The impossible things we have to believe</a></em>. Depressing, but true.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/05/11/the-impossible-things-we-have.html","date_published":"2026-05-10T19:26:14+00:00","author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tonyandrewmeyer"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-10 19:26","date_timestamp":1778441174,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89895931","content_html":"<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https://matduggan.com/the-intolerable-hypocrisy-of-cyberlibertarianism/\">You would leave your house and then just disappear. This is presented as kind of romantic now, as if we were just free spirits on the wind and could stop and really watch a sunset. In practice it was mostly an annoying game of attempting to guess where people were. You’d call their job, they had left. You’d call their house, they weren’t home yet. Presumably they were in transit but you actually had no idea.</a></p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>A positive start to the improvements the internet has brought, before diving into how it all went terribly wrong.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/05/11/you-would-leave-your-house.html","date_published":"2026-05-10T19:22:34+00:00","author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tonyandrewmeyer"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-10 19:22","date_timestamp":1778440954,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89895685","content_html":"<p><em><a href=\"https://terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet\">The Boring Internet</a></em>, a love letter to protocols.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/05/11/the-boring-internet-a-love.html","date_published":"2026-05-10T19:14:02+00:00","author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tonyandrewmeyer"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-10 19:14","date_timestamp":1778440442,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89895179","content_html":"<blockquote>\n<p>The number an npm or PyPI API gives you is dominated by CI runners reinstalling the world on every push, with mirror traffic, bot scans, and the occasional human mixed in. It is not a count of users, or of installations, or of anything that maps cleanly to “how many people are affected if this breaks”.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>and</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>CVE count is routinely used as a security signal and measures the opposite of what people assume.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>and</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Commit cadence and “last activity” penalise software that is finished.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>and</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>a project that had eighty contributors in 2012 and has one exhausted person today shows a reassuring headcount, and...</p>\n</blockquote> <a href=\"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/05/11/the-number-an-npm-or.html\">tonyandrewmeyer.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/05/11/the-number-an-npm-or.html","date_published":"2026-05-10T19:00:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tonyandrewmeyer"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-10 19:00","date_timestamp":1778439600,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89495230","content_html":"<p>I’ve only been to about a third of the locations in <a href=\"https://thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/01-05-2026/the-movie-cinemas-of-auckland-ranked-and-reviewed\">this ranking of Auckland movie theatres</a> and some of those visits were quite some time ago. However, I generally agree with the ones I am familiar with (sorry Hoyts Hibiscus Coast, you are that bad, and I was there a few weeks back). Although:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>I would put...</li>\n</ul> <a href=\"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/05/03/ive-only-been-to-about.html\">tonyandrewmeyer.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/05/03/ive-only-been-to-about.html","date_published":"2026-05-03T08:52:35+00:00","author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tonyandrewmeyer"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-03 08:52","date_timestamp":1777798355,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89302131","content_html":"<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https://simme.dev/posts/the-end-of-just-ask-sarah/\">The ADR is where intent debt gets paid down.</a></p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Good arguments for ADRs being more critical with agentic workflows, but not relying on “Sarah” was always worth doing. I’ve been Sarah, and left, leaving a gap despite my best intentions.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/04/30/the-adr-is-where-intent.html","date_published":"2026-04-30T09:46:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tonyandrewmeyer"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-30 09:46","date_timestamp":1777542414,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89282607","content_html":"<p>A <a href=\"https://thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/23-04-2026/the-egot-of-new-zealand-music-could-marlon-williams-become-our-newest-stag\">STAG</a> is absolutely not a New Zealand EGOT. The point of the EGOT is you’re award-winning across multiple genre. A STAG means you’re award-winning across music.</p>\n<p>A real NZ EGOT would be something like a <a href=\"https://www.nzscreenawards.co.nz\">NZ Screen Award</a> in both TV and film categories, an <a href=\"https://aotearoamusicawards.co.nz\">Aotearoa Music Award</a>, and I guess a regional theatre...</p> <a href=\"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/04/30/a-stag-is-absolutely-not.html\">tonyandrewmeyer.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/04/30/a-stag-is-absolutely-not.html","date_published":"2026-04-30T00:31:01+00:00","author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tonyandrewmeyer"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-30 00:31","date_timestamp":1777509061,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"88498719","content_html":"<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https://eversole.dev/blog/we-automated-everything/\">None of this is new. The complexity, the configuration bloat, the broken incentives, all of it predates AI by years. What AI did was pour gasoline on it.</a></p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>And:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Great engineering is not deployments. It’s not monitoring, not dashboards. It’s understanding. Knowing how the pieces connect, who owns what, how changes spread, and where risk has quietly been building for months until it suddenly matters.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Posing interesting questions.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/04/18/none-of-this-is-new.html","date_published":"2026-04-18T06:08:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tonyandrewmeyer"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-18 06:08","date_timestamp":1776492534,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"88498178","content_html":"<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/11/the-center-has-a-bias/\">You do not get an informed view by trying something for 15 minutes, getting annoyed once, and returning to your previous tools. You also do not get it by admiring demos, listening to podcasts or discussing on social media. You have to use it enough to get past both the first disappointment and the honeymoon phase. Seemingly with AI tools, true understanding is not a matter of hours but weeks of investment.</a></p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Very true in the AI context of the article, but also for other places, for example reviews of things the reviewer has used for hours or a day.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/04/18/you-do-not-get-an.html","date_published":"2026-04-18T05:53:37+00:00","author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tonyandrewmeyer"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-18 05:53","date_timestamp":1776491617,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"88497141","content_html":"<p><a href=\"https://maggieappleton.com/zero-alignment/\">“ACE”</a>, a project at GitHub Next, looks really interesting. I think a lot of this would be really nice even without the AI element. It’s funny how so much of the best software engineering tooling is really old (mature?) tooling, with splashes of newness here and there.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/04/18/ace-a-project-at-github.html","date_published":"2026-04-18T05:16:57+00:00","author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tonyandrewmeyer"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-18 05:16","date_timestamp":1776489417,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"88398933","content_html":"<blockquote>\n<p>And I’ll be honest: if I could set aside the ethical, legal, economic, and environmental issues with generative AI, it’d be pretty damn cool, too. Large language models give us a quantum leap in natural language processing, proofreading, transcription, translation, and summarization. Yes, I know all the ways in which LLMs are “bad” at all those things, but in comparison to the previous state of the art in machine-powered proofing, transcription, translation, and summarization, it’s just no contest. … But of course, you can’t set aside the ethical, legal, economic, and environmental issues with...</p>\n</blockquote> <a href=\"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/04/17/and-ill-be-honest-if.html\">tonyandrewmeyer.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.blog/2026/04/17/and-ill-be-honest-if.html","date_published":"2026-04-16T20:55:19+00:00","author":{"name":"Tony Meyer","url":"https://tonyandrewmeyer.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F929fba6f82f04811b09c16df239bbb21%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tonyandrewmeyer"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-04-16 20:55","date_timestamp":1776372919,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}}]}