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Cake day: September 11th, 2025

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  • Cats are remarkably capable predators, and cat owners are remarkably irresponsible.

    Letting your cat be an “outside” cat is bad enough for the environment. Not spaying/neutering said “outside cat” is how we get feral cats everywhere.

    That said, I dont love the vague “eradicate feral cats” language. Would greatly prefer a broad spectrum spay/neuter/tag program to naturally reduce their population.

    Predator-free NZ was always destined to ruffle some feathers though.


  • Technical debt aside of course the development process looks like that - what’s the alternative? Infinite feature growth? No one benefits from that.

    As an example, I’ve got signal on my phone- it started with texting features, added images, calls, video calling, but at some point there’s a limit on the number of useful ways to communicate.

    I don’t need it to be another social network.

    I don’t need it to tell me my horoscope, order a pizza, or organize my photos.

    I don’t need it to track my health, play games, read my work emails, or drive my car.

    It doesn’t need to integrate with VR, or AI, or whatever 2-letter buzz acronym comes up next week.

    It’s a secure messaging platform, I need it to send messages. Sure, there’s always a cat and mouse game of encryption to keep ahead of, but infinite feature growth? It’s not practical or necessary. Things can exist to do one thing reliably and well.