Pretty remarkable that this is the first time in my life that a new part of the Melbourne train network has opened.

The chanting at every station is kind of heart warming.

Introducing to the world: Spud.

Some things to know about him:

• He's 11 weeks old, born the exact same day as Boots, 19th of September, this had to be some sort of special sign that Spud was meant for us
• We picked him up last Sunday
• He was bred at Glentarella Border Collies
• We're doing crate training which is going well so far
• He's mostly just sleeping and being very lazy right now
• He's a little bundle of joy

The sentiment within the ranks at Apple is that today’s news is almost too good to be true. People had given up hope that Dye would ever get squeezed out, and no one expected that he’d just up and leave on his own. (If you care about design, there’s nowhere to go but down after leaving Apple. What people overlooked is the obvious: Alan Dye doesn’t actually care about design.)

Putting Alan Dye in charge of user interface design was the one big mistake Jony Ive made as Apple’s Chief Design Officer.4 Dye had no background in user interface design — he came from a brand and print advertising background.

It’s rather extraordinary in today’s hyper-partisan world that there’s nearly universal agreement amongst actual practitioners of user-interface design that Alan Dye is a fraud who led the company deeply astray.

This is exciting news for design at Apple but damn Gruber did not mince words here.

This deal is nuts. I'm especially intrigued by how they deal with all the HBO content. That's a big important library. Amazon and Apple are likely pretty worried about their streaming services.

What a weekend of Australian sport. The Australian Open golf was a fantastic event; just such a disappointing ending with Cam Smith 3 putting to cost him a chance in a playoff. Guess he still has all that LIV money.

The Aussies are looking very strong in the Ashes with a 2-0 lead now. A whitewash in very much coming in to play. England will be ruing the missing chance they had in Perth when they had Australia on the ropes.

Like Hey this is a good example of how far you can go with Rails. Will be interesting to see what the interactivity story is like.

The fact a CEO of a big company like Shopify still makes stuff like this is wild.

Reviews seem solid but it's definitely not a perfect game. It's likely something a lot of people will enjoy but there will be some annoyances throughout the play through.

What a magical three months. Uluwatu lived up to its reputation for being an amazing place to surf, get fit and eat awesome food.

I honestly can't believe the 3 months is done. It feels like a dream. It feels weird being back in my own home in Melbourne.

Some general thoughts on Indonesia/Bali:

• The service quality is absolutely the best in the world, every restaurant or venue you go to the people are friendly, professional and make sure you have an amazing experience
• Finding a cheap/safe (from a food preparation perspective) Indonesian food venue is absolutely critical for the experience, we had an awesome place where we had lots of lunches and dinners for the month whilst we were in Balangan, but we lacked this kind of venue in Canggu
• The ocean water is like a bath, I don't think there's any better place in the world to truely lock in to surfing and really get better at it, it's just sad when it rains and there's lots of trash floating in the water
• The dogs, chickens and cows roaming free in Balangan were so cute, it's such a peaceful place compared to somewhere more built up like Canggu
• I love riding scooters, I've said it a few times on the blog but it just feels so nice to have wind blowing in your face as you travel around
• I've never seen a higher concentration of really fit people than what I saw at Bambu Fitness
• Groceries in Bali were incredibly expensive which we didn't really expect, we went to Bintang, Pepito and Nirmala and it was always super expensive to do a normal shop like we would in Melbourne, this really encouraged us to eat out more which worked out to be cheaper than actually cooking at home for the most part
• The weather can be absolutely perfect in November even though it's close to the rainy season
• The start time for work really did work well (7AM) as I had so much spare time in the afternoon to do things, even more time given that we didn't need to cook or do chores

When I pick a new Melbourne gym I might go with REVL. It seems like a solid option and good locations for me.

Another fantastic piece of Beatles content. It's not new but the remaster looks lovely. Was a great watch to pass time on the plane.

I've seen this pattern repeat itself countless times: teams build a SPA, struggle with initial load performance, then swing completely to SSR with progressive enhancement. They throw out the SPA architecture because they think it's fundamentally at odds with performance. But the real issue isn't the architecture—it's that we're not leveraging what the browser already gives us.

When you server-render HTML, the browser starts parsing it immediately. During that parse, it discovers resources it needs: stylesheets, scripts, images. The browser is already doing parallel loading—that's its default behavior. The problem is we're not telling it about our data dependencies early enough.

The fetch call in your JavaScript might complete instantly because the response is already cached. You get the benefits of SSR (fast HTML delivery, progressive enhancement) with the benefits of a SPA (fast client-side hydration).

Some really nice clear explanation of why using <link rel="preload"> is so useful.

Funny little "make fun of AI" site.

This has to go down as one of the weirdest Test matches of all time. I honestly don't know what to make of it going in to the Brisbane night test. England's bowlers are good but their batters are trash? Maybe? Australia are also really bad at batting apart from Travis Head?

Test, Odi, T20,IPL,Pressure match,ICC Finals...Travis Head is absolutely beast!!!

I've used Zed for around a month now as my sole text editor and I'm enjoying it.

I like its speed and simplicity. The team is actively rolling out updates and it's super simple to just setup and start coding.

There's two things I currently miss from VSCode (one of which I think is getting fixed soon):

• Pretty TypeScript Errors is one of the best extensions in the VSCode marketplace, I think this kind of TypeScript error view will soon be natively supported in Zed and it seems like it'll be in the next stable release
• Jest Runner is such a convenient way to run tests, I hate having to memorise the command line args for jest and prefer to have my tests run directly in my editor so I don't need to switch windows

Was awesome having my brother come visit us in Bali this week. We did a lot of surfing. Was really nice to feel a bit more confident on the board and be out there in some bigger waves. I still suck at surfing but its definitely lit a bit of a fire in me to have more of a crack at it when we get home.

My current problem is that I get too stiff with my upper body when I stand up on the board. I need to stay low and put more pressure on my front foot when I stand. That will help me wipe out less as I was often falling off the back.

My new favourite spot to surf in the world is Balangan Beach.

I already posted this a little while back but here are a couple more settings.

• Shift > Option > Command > 0 to open a new window with my personal profile, Shift > Option > Command > 1 to open a new window with my work profile
• I'm now using wBlock for ad blocking, it seems solid so far

Well this is a terrifying watch. I think we might be in trouble here.

Khawaja needs to go. Boland also had a mare.

Some of these goals were absolute worldies. Loved the Scottish commentary too.

There would have been a lot of hangovers the next morning.

Nintendo what have you done.

No one should ever say "BOOYAH!" in a Metroid game. Sigh. What the hell were they thinking?

Hearing the beautiful music interrupted by Marvel millennium yapping is insane. Nintendo really fumbled this one