I'm at QAGOMA where there's an excellent special exhibition by artist Olafur Eliasson but of special Fedi interest is the "Cars in rivers series". #IfItsFloodedFloorIt
Adam Kent
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Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help.
Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney.
Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics.
Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics.
Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
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Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
aus.social
Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
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Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
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Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
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Apr 14, 2026
@Kels_316 It may well be that the best use case for LLMs is comedy.
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Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
aus.social
Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
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Apr 12, 2026
@MattHatton send an unsolicited deck pic
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Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
aus.social
Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
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Apr 12, 2026
@Kels_316 My Mr 13 recently discovered the "Knots 3D" mobile app in the family library, now "rope" is on my shopping list. Parenting win, I think?
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Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
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Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
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Apr 11, 2026
Update, 10 second conversation, clearly defective, agreed to full refund straight away. It's nice when the system works!
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Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
aus.social
Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
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Apr 11, 2026
About to go assert my rights to return faulty product under Australian Consumer Law.
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Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
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Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
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Apr 10, 2026
"Do I get an ANZAC day holiday on the Monday in 2026" — the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,
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Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
aus.social
Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
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Apr 10, 2026
Pitchfork, please 😑
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Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
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Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
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Apr 09, 2026
@liamvhogan Workin' outside, getting exercise, makin' bucks.
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Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
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Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
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Apr 09, 2026
OK fine I'll just buy some seed potatoes, sheesh.
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Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
aus.social
Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
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Apr 09, 2026
Been thinking a lot about the bag of potatoes from the shops that says "not for planting". Well, maybe I just will. What are you going to do to stop me? I could become quite the potato farmer.
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Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
aus.social
Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
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Apr 09, 2026
Haha first BRS now this, quite a week https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-09/act-bruce-lehrmann-appeal-rejected-by-high-court/106546878
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Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
aus.social
Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
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Mar 24, 2026
Ruin a music genre by removing a letter: Hip Op
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Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
aus.social
Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
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Mar 19, 2026
@allrite @liamvhogan I wonder if Claude can solve the spice scarcity issues, just like it'll definitely solve climate change for us.
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Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
aus.social
Adam Kent
@akent@aus.social
Software engineer, trying to be less cranky but if the techbros could stop being so cringe that'd help. Living on unceeded Gadigal land / Glorious Inner West Sydney. Current work is in energy market software, data and analysis. Pretty keen on that whole energy transition! Previous work has been embedded software / consumer electronics. Dad to two kids. Likes a good bushwalk, motorbikes, cooking, tinkering with electronics. Full-time remote WFH crazy cat gentleman.
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Mar 19, 2026
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