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New comment by sevenseacat in "The Australian Government to Require SMS/MMS Sender ID Registraion"

sevenseacat — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:34:05 +0000

I've gotten like five notifications from Telstra about this today. They really want me to know that things might change! Like I don't already get a few spam calls and messages every day

New comment by sevenseacat in "The Australian Government to Require SMS/MMS Sender ID Registraion"

sevenseacat — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:32:59 +0000

Goddammit, it's iOS 26 only. That sounds super useful!

New comment by sevenseacat in "Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end"

sevenseacat — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:38:35 +0000

that'd be awesome

New comment by sevenseacat in "Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end"

sevenseacat — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:37:47 +0000

I had to read the post about five times and still didn't see the link to the actual examples - I actually had to view source to see the URL.

I like the idea - all of the designs are pretty meh though. If I had to pick one, I'd pick the HIG one (apart from that cursed glass effect on scroll) and then probably the Win11 one.

New comment by sevenseacat in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

sevenseacat — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:42:38 +0000

oh god I'm not the only one!

New comment by sevenseacat in "Three of our worst VC stories"

sevenseacat — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:39:57 +0000

In 2015, working at a software consultancy. Led a small project, delivered it, client was happy, moved onto the next project, thought nothing more of it.

At the company Christmas party that year (which had clients invited, for reasons I do not know) - that client merrily said to my face "boy, I thought the project was going to fail with a woman in charge, but you sure proved me wrong!"

Apparently I had murder written all over my face, and coworkers who overheard were impressed I didn't deck him.

New comment by sevenseacat in "How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry"

sevenseacat — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:55:38 +0000

what on earth, there's no "hate" for short men?

New comment by sevenseacat in "I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis"

sevenseacat — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:49:36 +0000

I went to see an eye specialist recently for vision problems, and that was the first thing she did - sent me for an MRI of my brain. First time in a wub-wub-wub machine, that was an experience!

(It took two months for my MRI appointment, but hey at least it was free, thanks Australia?)

New comment by sevenseacat in "Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code"

sevenseacat — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:48:09 +0000

You would review their code, and give them the feedback. They would learn from that, and not make the mistake again (or not make it after receiving the same feedback again).

New comment by sevenseacat in "Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue"

sevenseacat — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:31:30 +0000

Continue? Y/N ── SCORE: 2,343 Security-Conscious Engineer

Caught 8/8 threats "Not a single secret leaked"

→ llmgame.scalex.dev

New comment by sevenseacat in "The worst job interview I ever had"

sevenseacat — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:13:53 +0000

A bit culty, if I never hear talk about hatting and going on post again I'll be quite happy. So many practices and stuff that I didn't realize were Scientology-related until I looked them up later

New comment by sevenseacat in "The worst job interview I ever had"

sevenseacat — Wed, 27 May 2026 07:26:30 +0000

Heh, I once interviewed at a place that asked me to sit the Oxford Capacity Analysis test as part of the process. (The Scientology personality test, for those unaware.)

I politely declined, which seemed to confuse the interviewer, but he moved right along. I still got the job lol

New comment by sevenseacat in "Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu"

sevenseacat — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:54:20 +0000

Every time I've tried to use jujutsu, or even read about jujutsu, it's totally broken my brain.

I'm not a git expert by any means I don't think, but there's 15 years of muscle memory there, and a few years of subversion before that...

New comment by sevenseacat in "The Eternal Sloptember"

sevenseacat — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:19:09 +0000

I would throw it away for everyone in an instant if it was possible.

New comment by sevenseacat in "The Eternal Sloptember"

sevenseacat — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:11:10 +0000

and Steve Yegge is currently just burning mountains of money with Gas Town or whatever came after that

New comment by sevenseacat in "The Eternal Sloptember"

sevenseacat — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:02:05 +0000

I've used that as well, it's like starting with a legacy app every time.

New comment by sevenseacat in "The Eternal Sloptember"

sevenseacat — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:00:59 +0000

How many more languages have you learnt, and how much time have you spent keeping yourself sharp? 99% of your work time, right?

New comment by sevenseacat in "The Eternal Sloptember"

sevenseacat — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:00:06 +0000

https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/ai-assisted-engineers-ar...

New comment by sevenseacat in "Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son"

sevenseacat — Sat, 23 May 2026 09:00:54 +0000

What a lovely story, what a lucky family to have found each other!

New comment by sevenseacat in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

sevenseacat — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:08:53 +0000

And don't the Japanese railways make all their money from the real estate around their lines, or some such?