Daniel Nitsikopoulos

Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game

https://www.micdrop.gg/

AI by Hand

https://www.byhand.ai/

The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/blade-runner-title-cards/

Joys

Some things that bring me joy: Autumn leaves. Spotting a cool bird. Live music. Seeing the stars. Related: and a full moon. Foreign public transit systems. Seeing other people light up. Being out in nature. Related: noticing the rhythms in nature and the world. Mornings 🌄. Making art / being creative, especially with someone else. The first warm mornings of spring. Watering the garden barefoot. A…

Week 100 — Just magic

A self-made short week this week :) A few quiet nights in and Stardew to start the week 👩‍🌾👨‍🌾. Clare has a farm going on the iPad and it has been really lovely to join in and help get all the community centre bundles 🥰. I have been playing my years-old save on the Switch and just finished the community centre, so safe to say I have been procrastinating pretty hard hah! On Thursday Clare and…

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Week 99 — New car who dis?

On Monday and Tuesday this week I was in Melbourne for 2 days of a week long in person workshop. It was so so nice to see work people in real life again! On Monday I caught up with a few folks from our Data Intelligence camp for dinner and a drink (some folks I had worked with before, and some new pals), and then Tuesday I had a quick drink and a snack with my team before rushing off to the…

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The birdbath was a little mirror this morning

Week 98 — Life changing tortellini and trees

On Wednesday Clare and I went out to see Silent Friend at the Palace Electric. But beforehand, we stopped off at the Ovolo Nishi for dinner. I’d been before, the food was pretty good — but I don’t remember it being this good. A plate of four butternut squash-filled tortellini landed on table. Each a delicious parcel of pumpkiny, buttery goodness. This dish alone is worth going out of your way for.…

What do babies think?

https://www.ted.com/embed/alison_gopnik_what_do_babies_think?language=en

Week 97 — Stardew, grandparents and hockey

An eventful week this week! Mum and Costa have been up in Canberra to visit from Melbourne this week. They spent both weekends hanging out with Sebby and Me, and then the rest of the week hanging out in my garden doing some tidying! Costa bought Sebby up a soccer ball and an AFL footy, and the boy is a natural at kicking around a soccer ball! He mainly just runs forward with the ball at his feet,…

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Canberra Brave inaugural Teddy Bear Toss 🧸🧸🧸

Week 96 — The one after camping

Last weekend Clare and I took the dogs and went camping up to Wee Jasper. You can read all about it here , but the TL;DR was that it was an incredibly relaxing and refreshing trip to be out under the starts, even just for 1 night. A++ would go again. I did bring a cold home, I think? I was feeling pretty tired and run-down when we got back home and then had a shocker of a cough the next day. But…

🌱 Do monocultures work?

I have been thinking about what to plant in my garden beds in spring — maybe some tomatoes, rocket, cucumbers, maybe some dill? Get a good salad going. I have two planters to take advantage of and the question of "do I only plant two things?" came to mind. Do I make each of my planters monocultural and see what happens. Observing my current beds, I have one with peas and spring onions — and some…

🏕️ Wee Jasper camping trip — June 2026

Over this weekend Clare and I took a short camping trip down to Micalong Creek — a place dear to her and full of memories of camping trips with her family. So first of all, it was an incredible privilege to share time at a place that means so much and holds some fond memories! We arrived early on Sunday evening after a short ~1.5hr drive out of Canberra. The roads up were pretty devoid of traffic…

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😍😍😍

Week 95 — Gone fishing

It's definitely winter now! The nights are getting so chilly, and the mornings have been foggy, gloomy and cool. There are still some trees thinking it's autumn, and that's fine by me! But it is harder to get up in the mornings, even if it is lighter earlier. The rain has made taking the dogs out less fun, so I have been waiting for the middle of the day to see if things improve. On the plus side,…

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Home birds 🐦

Week 94 — More long weekends please

A double header of long weekends this week before the drought (our next one is in December, who the heck planned these?!) I spent Monday getting stuck in to some cleaning that I haven't had the chance to do in a while! Getting crayon off walls continues to be a complete pain, but it's also a lovely reminder that the boy has a creative side 😂 so some of it can stay. The windows got a wash, and the…

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River sounds in Tidbinbilla

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😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️

Week 93 — Big week, huge!

Big week this week! So much fun stuff to tell about! - On Wednesday Clare and I went to trivia at Gang Gang, our small but mighty team ("cleverer togetherer") had a good first game tying for 8th or 10th or something like that 😂 Will totally take the middle of the pack! Though our total score was the same as the winning team's first round score! Totally have some catching up to do! On Thursday we…

Greek Alphabet Cards

https://labs.randomquark.com/alphabet_cards/

Week 92 — fully sick

This week felt like a bit of a write off during the middle! I had a bit of a cold last weekend, but on Tuesday I hit an absolute wall! Exhausted by work, I spent the night on the couch with a doona watching Channel 4 reruns on YouTube. Which, sounds like my kind of evening anyway, minus the feeling like a wet sponge! By Thursday, I was pretty much back to normal, though. It just felt like a very…

Week 91 — clear voices, big hearts, can't lose

Had Monday off this week for a refresh day! I didn't get up to much because I completely forgot it was on, and didn't organise anything that would need organising until it was too late. So did some house-work, and got in to Marathon for a bit. It's an interesting game! For some reason the UI feels really hard to decipher — which makes deciding which things to pick up on a run (or which things I…

Try the Easy-Looking Thing

It's a chilly Canberra evening at the senior citizen's club. Everyone's arranged in a grid, ready for an evening of line-dancing. Our instructor walks us through a dance step by step, in portions, then all at once to a beat — before we do it for real, to music. The group is open to any skill level, with beginner dances early in the night. When broken down, the steps are simple enough, and the…

Week 90 — Birdy!

Full length week last week, fun-size week this week! On Monday we have one of our quarterly refresh days at work. They’re exactly what they sound like, a day off each quarter that everyone gets, so no work is being generated for you while you’re out. Still doesn’t change the fact that there is a pile of work to do when we do get back, but it’s nice to have a day off! Last week was pretty quiet!…

Week 89 — back to it?

Feels like every time I post it’s a “short week”. I should totally go back through past posts and work out how many times I say that ;) We had Monday off this week in the ACT for ANZAC day, I spent it doing some house work, gardening, reading and catching up on all the AI news. I’ve also been finally getting around to doing some re-decorating. I picked up some lamps, rugs, and a throw from IKEA…

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How’s the light 😊

"Software Fundamentals Matter More Than Ever" — Matt Pocock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4F1gFy-hqg

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Peas coming up in droves!

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Some nice light and colour this morning ☺️🍂☀️

How to be anti-social

https://nate.leaflet.pub/3mk4xkaxobc2p

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Foggy mornings have started rolling in 😍

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South coast times

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Autumn is here 🍂

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Visited by a pair of Spotted Pardilotes this morning

Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST

https://ki-editor.org/

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Microgpt

http://karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/microgpt/

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Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code

https://github.com/tonyyont/peon-ping

Brief Architectures

It is a Sunday afternoon and I’m quickly doing the dishes while my son is briefly enthralled by his play kitchen. It’s a typical day in Canberra, the sky is clear, the birds are singing to their mates, and a paper wasp is building a nest up in the eaves of my house. This isn’t the first nest to be built there. Years ago, I saw a different family of wasps build their nest a few rafters over. That…

Show HN: Rails UI

https://railsui.com/

iCloud Photos Downloader

https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader

Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time

https://github.com/richhickson/claudecodeusage

Centrefall — a small PlayDate game

I had a shower thought of a fun PlayDate game idea the other day and have been spending the last few evenings getting the basics working. The idea is a legally distinct tetromino block stacker, but the base is. 4x4 platform that can be rotated with the PlayDate’s crank. So far, it’s pretty fun! There are some bugs that I think might be fun features (like blocks getting smeared across the board if…

Postgres CDC in ClickHouse, A year in review

https://clickhouse.com/blog/postgres-cdc-year-in-review-2025

LLM Year in Review

https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/year-in-review-2025/

Media I've enjoyed in 2025

Games ARC Raiders Split Fiction Blue Prince Hollow Knight: Silksong Death Stranding 2 Music Sleep Token — Even in Arcadia Starship Syncopation — Cory Wong Heavy Metal — Cameron Winter DON'T TAP THE GLASS — Tyler, The Creator GNX — Kendrick Lamar USB — Fred Again.. Live Sets Fred Again.. | Boiler Room Caribou, Floating Points & Fred Again.. | Drumless Mix King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — Live in…