lover of Jesus, Linux, PowerPC, Canberra, housing, trains, unions | hater of RZ1 | fighting for a better city @greatercanberra.org.au https://andrew.donnellan.id.au | @ajdlinux | @ajd@ozlabs.househttps://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.auhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3mlnygbaxyk2tlooks like national e-bike standards are coming...12 May 2026 14:22 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnygbaxyk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3mln23gektc2xlove to be on the phone for 2.5 hours only to be told at the end that a ticket has been opened and I should expect this issue to actually get sorted... sometime this week12 May 2026 05:19 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mln23gektc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3mli7xjgeds26Federal payments for zoning reform let's goooo [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 May 2026 07:21 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mli7xjgeds26https://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3mli27lfvzk25it is deeply annoying that the lightbulbs section of my local Coles only sells non-dimmable LEDs for regular ceiling lights, the halogens are gone. not my fault my landlord still has dimmer switches installed10 May 2026 05:38 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mli27lfvzk25https://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3mlhtcyq74c2yLinux user life lessons [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 May 2026 03:35 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlhtcyq74c2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3mlht2335gs2hI have at long last DONE THE THING, and successfully expanded my /boot partition from 0.5GB to 2GB, the hard way [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 May 2026 03:30 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlht2335gs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3mlgmhhiwhk25made my first nixpkgs bug report + PR! https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/518420 [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 May 2026 15:59 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlgmhhiwhk25https://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3mlfvosszck2bthis has led me into by far the most cursed part of this yet, which amazingly is nothing to do with PXE, involving the Nix package manager, the libxcrypt password hashing library, and a build log that is 570MB long [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 May 2026 09:12 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlfvosszck2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3mlfcdh6htc2zthis wasn't quite true. now shaving a PXE yak [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 May 2026 03:26 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlfcdh6htc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3mldtdmqjsk2trecent ACT Machinery of Government changes have resulted in some surprising new directorates and agencies08 May 2026 13:25 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldtdmqjsk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3mldrr3l4ec2ktalking with a functional programming friend this evening and learned that apparently one of Australia's main employers of Haskell programmers is Bellroy, as in the wallet company, who maintain their e-commerce stack in-house and apparently write most of it in Haskell. wat08 May 2026 12:56 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldrr3l4ec2khttps://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3ml45g4eufc2sUpdate: we're at 87 minutes late. Can we hit 90 by the time I reach Canberra? [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 12:04 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml45g4eufc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3ml43geqnf22sReally appreciating how my train was 73 minutes late leaving Central. Luckily, over the course of the trip so far, we've made up... -8 minutes, and we're now 81 minutes late05 May 2026 11:28 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml43geqnf22shttps://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3mkyau5zork2hIn Sydney this afternoon/tomorrow, lmk if I should say hi03 May 2026 22:55 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkyau5zork2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3mkpnl7dzqk2lThe ACT Legislative Assembly's committee inquiry into the Missing Middle reforms (chaired by @joclaygreens.bsky.social + Caitlin Tough, Peter Cain, Fiona Carrick) has reported back today I'm overall happy with the result - don't agree with every rec, but it looks like this is actually happening https://greatercanberra.org/blog/media-release-assembly-backs-missing-middle-reform30 Apr 2026 12:48 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpnl7dzqk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3mkoxltludk2jthere's a bunch of things in this report I'm not 100% behind, but: [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Apr 2026 06:15 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkoxltludk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3mkog2budkc2uthe Legislative Assembly's report into Draft Plan Amendment 04, Missing Middle Housing Reforms - an amendment which came out of years of @greatercanberra.org.au campaigning - should be dropping any moment now, and I'm rather interested to see what it says...30 Apr 2026 01:01 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkog2budkc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3mkkstbclxc2jPenny Wong, minister for our one (1) foreign affair28 Apr 2026 14:39 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkkstbclxc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3mkkg4yw6ik2btalkie-1930 is left-YIMBY I guess?28 Apr 2026 10:52 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkkg4yw6ik2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3mker5l7f722wnow sufficiently far back up the yak shaving stack that I can go ahead and work on the original problem [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Apr 2026 04:53 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mker5l7f722whttps://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3mkehzcnzc22wonce again realising that it's kind of sad that LLMs mean I no longer have any need to handwrite short little python scripts to do little tasks, but also the LLM can write them both faster and, critically, significantly better26 Apr 2026 02:09 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkehzcnzc22whttps://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3mkeacujk2s26cleaning up my home directory to free up some disk space. thank you past me for creating "~/stuff", which contains nothing other than a failed attempt at getting Windows NT 4 for little-endian MIPS to run in an emulator25 Apr 2026 23:52 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkeacujk2s26https://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3mk7nrlja522rone of these days, I'm going to sleep at normal hours. one of these days24 Apr 2026 04:09 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk7nrlja522rhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3mk7nnf5kc22rRaising colonial-era and 20th-century heritage objections to developments by an Aboriginal Land Council is... not the greatest of looks for the Inner West Sydney NIMBYs https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/inside-the-fight-to-turn-this-hard-won-sydney-land-into-housing-20260413-p5znim.html24 Apr 2026 04:07 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk7nnf5kc22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3mjwvpljkhs2sbe the big global change, if you can be, but also go and write that email to the council and be the small local change (hmm, now that I own a bike again, gotta start complaining...) [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Apr 2026 16:37 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjwvpljkhs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3mjwsywhkb22xthe cheapest non-fiction book you can currently buy at Booktopia is Anna Bligh's memoirs for $6, hardcover20 Apr 2026 15:49 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjwsywhkb22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3mjqws273fc2eit turns out I really do feel better when I send the draft minutes out for review straight after the meeting rather than waiting until immediately before the next meeting18 Apr 2026 07:41 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjqws273fc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/andrew.donnellan.id.au/post/3mjpzzgv5fs2xtfw you're shaving the TLS certificate automation yak in order to address the fact that your /boot partition is no longer large enough to properly hold two kernels+initrds17 Apr 2026 23:06 +0000at://did:plc:2eeiesnlhfkmioi23lehpya4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjpzzgv5fs2x