In my first few weeks at my new employer, my code contributions have added 218 lines of code, deleted 2,663. Only one of my PRs has resulted in a net increase in the size of their codebases (by two lines).

I need to pick up the pace if I'm going to reach the ultimate goal of deleting ALL of the code within my lifetime. (That's the ultimate aim, right?)

#note #firstup #job #work #programming #github #sourceControl #employment

Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/08/01/26999/

I spent most of a day getting my new development environment set up, because I kept hitting issues that nobody at my new employer had experienced before. A "perfect storm" of coincidences that conspired together to completely wreck my chance of a simple setup.

The factors?
- Apple's M4 processors remove the SVE architecture and its instruction set, which was present in the M1 through M3
- The Colima dockerisation tool still reports to arm64 containers that SVE is available
- Java < 24 will, by default, use SVE for some functions if it's told that it's available
- Opensearch 2.x will not run on Java > 23

If ANY ONE of those statements were not true, I wouldn't have had any trouble. But the combination of all four of them meant that I was getting proper segfault-death crashes.

I blame Apple. Who removes instructions from a processor within the same family‽ (I'm sure that in reality there's probably some important reason for it that's beyond my ken, but still!)

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Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/07/16/m4-colima-sve-headaches/

Off to my first day at Firstup. Gotta have an induction: get my ID badge, learn where the toilets are, how to refill the coffee machine, and all that jazz.

Except, of course, none of those steps will be part of my induction. Because, yet again, I've taken a remote-first position. I'm 100% sold that, for me, remote/distributed work helps me bring my most-productive self. It might not be for everybody, but it's great for me.

And now: I'm going to find out where the water cooler is. No, wait... some other thing!

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Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2025/07/14/firstup-day-1/

"[Shane] Jones said his plan was to marginalise 'the gatekeepers hiding behind the Wildlife Act, the people trying to turn DOC into some sort of preservationist state and deny New Zealand as a livelihood'."

#FirstUp, 2025

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/540529/stewardship-land-as-important-to-preserve-as-doc-land-forest-and-bird

Oh believe me Shame, we'll be lying in front of the bulldozers if it comes to that, not hiding behind them. You don't seem to understand how environmental law protects you and your ecocidal bankrollers from us, not the other way around.

#conservation

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