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1: think really hard 2: nap 3: repeat ad nauseam n: treat nausea with friends, laughter, food n+1: cognition mid-laugh. 333ppm. @verbman@mastodon.nz

New Zealand
Joined March 2009
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Hey, #legaltech and #RulesAsCode friends! After two very productive years on Interchange to the Gov't of 🇨🇦, I am exploring new opportunities starting in the fall. If you know of possible employers, clients, or funders, let me know. #ComputationalLaw Please RT!
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July edition of CALC Newsletter now out (Commonwealth Assoc of Legislative Counsel) calc.ngo/sites/default/files… Includes info on - 🔸our work on parsing & marking up examples 🔸our talks at Europe CALC Conf in Cardiff 🔸@verbman's "love letter" to drafters hamish.dev/the-love-letter-c…
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🇬🇷 and 🇳🇱 will soon adopt the #OpenSource #RulesAsCode engine OpenFisca to deliver social benefits on the model of 🇫🇷 @MesAides, supported over the next 2 years by the brand new 🇪🇺 initiative #GovTech4All! Big thanks to our partners @_DINUM 🇫🇷 / @grnet_gr 🇬🇷 / @DigicampusNL 🇳🇱.
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Big questions that Aotearoa NZ should be asking right now. Heavy impacts abroad show us what our own future can be we don't take preventive action. Thanks for a great conversation last night with brilliant speakers @DrFrascatore & @brownecfm chaired by @chrisjensenj. #longCovid
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The project sits under The Digital Legal Systems Lab, which is a joint venture between Brainbox & Verb's Hamish Fraser (@verbman). It's a great case study of exciting things to come in the #LawAsCode space. We hope you can join us to hear more about it! techweek.co.nz/programme/vie…
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We're excited to debut a #LawAsCode project at @TechweekNZ next week! On Tuesday 16 May at 10am NZT, we'll be presenting a webinar about how we've supported NZ's water services regulator to enable API reporting of water quality data. (1/2) techweek.co.nz/programme/vie…
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We are honored to receive the #EdgeOfGovernment #innovation award from the #WorldGovernmentSummit 2023! Emissaries @matti_sg & @OliveOued receive this distinction on behalf of the entire @OpenFisca community and more broadly, for all those who work to make #RulesAsCode a reality.
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Last week we formally launched The Digital Legal Systems Lab, a new institution we've created with @verbman. It's a place for responsible #LegislationAsCode experimentation, and we're keen to collaborate with others on future projects. Read more: brainbox.institute/post/intr…
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Everything about this… thank you @verbman for this delightful and incredibly useful nerdyness ❤️
I built a code/legislation thing and then wrote a love letter about it and if you're nerdy and into #Legislation #CivicTech #RulesAsCode then you might enjoy it. Not normally active here nowadays but this is for the old crew XD. hamish.dev/a-love-letter-to-…
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Dear government, "I would love it very much if you would publish your legislation with granular referencing to incorporate in computer systems" hamish.dev/a-love-letter-to-… A great #rulesascode gift/prototype by @verbman
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Replying to @CovidSafeNZ
Absolutely. I don’t understand why there isn’t a team just dedicated to ventilation - communications, business and schools outreach, minimum standards policy ahead of winter. The fact that there isn’t a cross-ministry group urgently looking at mitigations like this is appalling.
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Twitter laid me off today. If you know of any open positions for project managers or senior software engineers, let me know. I was the PM in charge of telling boomers this was how they now submit letters to the editor.
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Covid is a highly infectious Level 3 Pathogen and spreads in the workplace. So it’s a workplace hazard. We already have legislation in place to force biz response. H & S Act 2015. Where is @WorkSafeNZ leadership & enforcement of mitigation measures for infectious disease?
Every time you catch COVID-19, your risk of other severe issues starts to rise. I ia wā ka pāngia koe e te KOWHEORI-19, ka piki haere te mōrearea ka pā mai ētahi atu mate kino.
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The Cistercian numerals are a forgotten number system, developed by the Cistercian monastic order in the early thirteenth century, much more compact than Arabic or Roman numerals: with a single character you could write any integer from 1 to 9999 [more: buff.ly/2LDj1Kg]
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I spoke with a team yesterday that is moving away from serverless in favor of managed k8s on aws it wasn't an easy decision for them and they went through a thorough review of their architecture the reasons they highlighted to me are:
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When people ask me what I mean about wanting mutual aid a lot more than I want more self-care, this is (part of) what I mean:
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Someone somewhere is writing the code that will run your public health informatics. We believe that "someone" should be a collaborative. Here's a 7-minute downloadable read about why and how files.publiccode.net/nextclo… #PublicCode #OpenSource #SoftwareRunningOurLives
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blessed day, never had such a good view of taranaki 🙏🏼
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The Accessibility for NZrs Bill: Transformational or missed opportunity? Online Panel: Mon 17 Oct 5:30-7pm. Register Zoom forms.gle/mqEgtZXkNCMUVvX1A Panelist Warren Forster: researcher, leader, innovator, barrister, director, author; personal injury, disability & dispute resolution
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A good friend of mine had a person on their team drop the production database this week. They are back up, but it was a scary 24 hours for them. Please quote tweet or reply to this thread with YOUR tales of #DroppingProduction so they know they aren't alone!
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