I've watched two episodes of season 3 so far and I love it.

Quoting from this ABC article about the new season:

But which makes the better pet? And what should you think about if you've got a country dog in the city?

In collie breeder Mick Hudson's opinion, collies are "more trainable", whereas kelpies bring a greater "natural ability".

"Farmer gets him a kelpie, takes him into the paddock and he learns the job himself," he told ABC iview's Muster Dogs: Collies and Kelpies.

"At the end of the day, they're both Australian-bred dogs and both breeds will do the job.

Love all these boys. Cheers for a fantastic weekend!

Metal Gear solid is the most cinematic game I've ever played. It truely feels like a movie which is also a game. The story and cut scenes are done so well and the character development (whilst cheesy at times) is superb. It's like reading a good book that you can't put down. You can't wait to see what happens to certain characters. Some other thoughts:

• The game had fantastic bosses, they all had interesting back stories and had a unique attribute to them
• I particularly enjoyed the Sniper Wolf boss battles
• The Psycho Mantis boss was so weird, I don't think I've ever had a gaming experience like it before where switching controllers is the strategy
• Many of the puzzles are Zelda like, there's a bunch of blowing holes/crawling under walls to progress
• The music is unique and done fantastically well, it's very orchestral and changes tone based on the action
• I have no idea how some of these bosses keep surviving, Liquid Snake died like 5 times throughout the whole story, he just kept coming back
• The FOXDIE plot line was really cool, using Solid Snake to infect others without him even knowing
• The graphics are very limited but they have a certain charm to them, similar to Ocarina of Time even primitive 3D graphics don't matter if the game is good
• The sneaking and stealth based mechanics are well done, it's genuinely quite tricky to progress through certain stealth sections without being caught because you need to also collect all the items in the area
• There's a nice variety of weapons, for bosses there's lots of usage of the Stinger (missile launcher) which I enjoyed, shooting the soldiers with the FAMAS is kind of annoying, not having first person COD style aiming kind of sucks
• Let's just say there are some very 90s aspects of this game in the dialog

The AI news really is captivating right now. The Gemini model looks great but what really stands out is the API pricing. It crushes the competition on an input/output basis.

This is a cool coffee table book. Low key excellent gift idea.

ChatGPT is a fantastic way to discover new music.

Here are some example queries of mine from earlier this week:

whats some great albums by artists similar to early daft punk albums

what are johhny cash's best albums

with the output here and here.

Reviewing the output I was able to "discover" an old favourite in the self titled Justice album as well as At San Quentin (Live).

This brings back a lot of memories of working with create-react-app at Coder Academy.

There are so many better solutions now. Glad to see it being sunset.

This is always a topic I find interesting.

The takeaway here: better-auth seems really nice.

We're stuck on auth0 at work.

iPhone, developer relations and world impact down. Not good.

The developer relations category is particularly rough:

The vibes are bad out there, folks. This is the lowest score this category has received since the very first year of the survey. Apple’s aggressive responses to regulatory pressure, particularly in the EU, were widely criticized as hostile, manipulative, and profit-driven rather than user- or developer-focused. The rollout of third-party app stores and alternative payment options was seen as an exercise in “malicious compliance” designed to discourage participation rather than actually foster openness. Additionally, Vision Pro’s weak app ecosystem highlighted the declining trust developers have in Apple’s new platforms.