RowanH

We're getting taken to the cleaners in NZ!! I think it's $50 for a westpac chopper ride...

They've done something with the printer system in Tahoe. Brother removed support for native drivers on certain label printers on Tahoe (!!!) when you go searching you find other printer issues.

Like, why. Why would you need to change the printer system? It works.. has worked for a very long time, there's no reasonable need to change it.

Yes. Queens English countries it's the phrase used (New Zealand - that's what we use).

I don't know. Certainly the frequency and severity is just eye opening. We had 2 1 in 50's with 1 in 100 in 3 weeks (!!!).

I know you guys have also had it bad over there.

I expect the insurance companies will start removing flood cover soon. Which then becomes a bit of a shit show with mortgages. Or will raise the premiums so high that they're effectively uninsurable.

Chunks of NZ are becoming very expensive to uninsurable, and extreme impact weather events are getting more frequent.

It would be fair say a good portion of the population don't understand the maths of a weather event just how astronomically expensive a sudden flood is.

In our small town in the last 5 years, we've had 2-3 different "1 in 100 year" floods within 30km of each other (highly localised dramatic flooding and slips). To the point "1 in 100 year" is now a standing joke.

In New Zealand we have an absolutely shit employment law process where the company has to 'propose' a restructure (in a formal fashion). Then 'consult' with employees for feedback. Then 'consider' the feedback. And then 99% of the time it's all just the same and people get made redundant.

It is absolutely brutal as it invites the chance of hope during the downsizing - and implies staff will be able to provide alternative suggestions. Which is quite plainly bananas.

It's enshrined in law and if you don't follow the process as an employer you can get taken to task by the governing body around it.

It's just far easier, and less harmful emotionally, to rip the band aid and provide a good package.

To be fair EV's can have some very high initial torque delivery, and are heavy = tyre shredding beasts.

I know I know, people aren't supposed to be taking off from every light at full chat, but, given the capability some people can't help themselves.

> Something about the side hustle continues to lure people into thinking it’s a way out, until they burn themselves out and sabotage their day job while doing it.

Sample size of 1

- Side hustle #1 funded my toy habit for a long time and gave me the confidence "I can build & support something from start to finish".

- Got to C Level working for 'the man' (aka the board). But regardless of level you're never in control of your destiny, especially with the eventuality of PE. For some that's okay, for others that's not...

- Which lead to Side Hustle #2. Left my day job 3 years ago....

Now have some of the best in our wee niche using our product, a number of team members, gradually growing it in bootstrapped fashion.

No investors, no funding rounds, no chasing growth targets. As "pure" as it can get - adding features, capturing more market, getting positive word of mouth, picking up new countries, finding new edge cases, adding new package upgrades. I think we're around 40% of new clients are referrals/word of mouth.....

In the first 6 months of turning billing on you're going "what the heck am I doing...." now I'm "oh I wouldn't give this up..." immensely rewarding bringing other new people into the business, and seeing that flow through to the finished product for our clients.

At least in NZ, side hustles are the genesis of a lot of tech companies.

Oooo thank you for mentioning that. Looks quite feature rich !

How does Anrok charge? is it based on a per filing basis or %age of rev? If %age can you share broadly speaking what it costs?

Fascinating. I'm wondering how the app manages to control notification behaviour & gatekeeps other apps. Obviously the APIs to do it must be there, just surprised Apple (of all ...) let's a 3rd party app do that..

Neat idea

Echoing this, loved the product feature callout diagram. Immediately 'view source' to figure out how it was done.

In New Zealand we're very much natural disaster prone. I run a SaaS working out of home - we wired the house for generator backup and have a starlink unit that sits in a box exactly for this reason, even if the proverbial hits the fan for a week I can still keep on top of the business.

Every couple of months the geny gets sparked up and everything tested. For a very small investment it's very comforting to know we've always got power/internet, regardless of what happens.

After this I imagine there will be an option "do you want updates immediately, or updates when released - n, or n+2, n+6, n+24, n+48 hrs?"

Given the choice I bet there's going to be surprisingly large number of orgs go "we'll take n+24hrs thanks"

That's a high bar - in my experience (New Zealand) 1/3 of candidates can't even write any form of code to retrieve a random element from an array. 1/3 have to be nudged along and asked some leading questions, and 1/3 are "what the heck are you asking me that for, I can do that in my sleep, that better not be indicative of the quality of coders... "

There is just so much misrepresentation out there it's insane.