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Ash Kyd. Hello, and welcome to my personal web page.

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Blog 2 months ago
Meet the drag queens conquering country Queensland
In one of the nation's most conservative regions, a group of drag queens are taking country pubs by storm.
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Blog 2 months ago
We can finally measure the damage each new coal, gas or oil project will do to people and nature
For decades, we couldn't trace the link between new fossil fuel projects and their damage to people and planet. But now we can.
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Blog 2 months ago
The rise of Dom Dolla: what the DJ's record-breaking stadium show for 60,000 fans tells us about music today
Dom Dolla's enormous show in Melbourne's Marvel Stadium set a new record for a solo EDM artist in Australia, and proves how the genre is dominating
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Blog 2 months ago
The Enduring Appeal of a Fictional Murder-Town - Reactor
Why is a sleepy hamlet full of dead bodies so soothing sometimes?
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Blog 2 months ago
Microsoft exec called AI scraping the "largest theft of labor in human history"
Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI "doom loop" killing news orgs.
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Blog 2 months ago
'A map is never neutral': meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias
Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display
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Blog 2 months ago
A Digital Fly Brain Has Taken Over the Internet
How to make a fly play Doom, Minecraft, Beat Saber, parallel park, trade bitcoin, cut doner kebab, and more.
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Blog 4 months ago
The web is dead, what's next?
Continue reading this post for free, courtesy of Ash Kyd lol. I tried to open a new bank account the other day. I got through the text message verification, then it popped up a note telling my my browser isn't supported. I closed the tab and gave up. I mi
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Blog 5 months ago
htmx Code is Cheap(er)
In this essay, Carson Gross argues that as AI makes code cheap to produce, understanding code becomes the expensive and scarce resource. He warns of the complexity that LLM code can generate and proposes the subtractive, constraining engineer as the disci
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Blog 6 months ago
Ten mice in your bedroom: Visualising the scale of the mouse plague
A mouse plague is invading farms and homes in southern and Western Australia. But what does that really look like?
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