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Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 18/4/2025

Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

Something interesting that happened to you
Something humourous that happened to you
Something frustrating that happened to you
A quick question
A request for recommendations
Pictures of your pet
A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)

So how’s it going?

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Out of curiosity, is it possible to see how many members there are subscribed here?
- Yip! The sidebar tells you the number of subscribers in a community. If you're using an app it might be shown somewhere else, but on the website it's in the sidebar and in Voyager it's shown when you choose the option to see the sidebar.
  The answer is about 1,800 subscribers to c/newzealand. 340 users active in the last month (you have to vote, comment, or post to be considered active. Looking doesn't count).
  
  481 local subscribers! But only like 10 people I see regularly posting.. 🙁
  
  Wow, thats a lot!
  
  Cheers, found it. Actually more than I expected!
  
  Ah, found it. Cheers! Actually more than I expected
Just started a new job this week.
Damn tech work has been a wild ride! From the hights of 2021 where if you could use a keyboard without looking then you could land a Senior Engineer role easy peasy. To 2025 where recruiters ask you to build a whole damn website then throw out your weeks worth of work because you used spaces instead of tabs in your code telling you "you wont integrate well with the team".
- Well it sounds like you dodged a bullet if the team uses tabs not spaces. Insanity!
  Congrats on the new job. Money for IT projects seems a bit hard to come by at the moment. Though interestingly I've seen recruitment fail to get any suitable candidates for higher level roles. I wouldn't like to be leaving uni looking for a first job right now, that's for sure.
  
  Tabs vs spaces is a little bit of an exaggeration. But it was a number of jobs where they dont tell you what it is they are looking for and you just are ment to glean it by reading tea leaves or some such.
  One that stands out was an interview with Octopus and they tell me "solve this problem" and i write legitimate code that solves all cases of the problem and fully unit tested and they send an email saying "sorry we were looking for code in a more functional programming style. We are not continuing with this application". I was mad... If they just told me that i would have written it like that.
An update, some of you might remember we had federation issues with Lemmy.world. For a long time now we have had a second server in Finland that Lemmy.world was pointed at, then that server would pass the activities in bulk to our Lemmy.nz server in NZ. This has worked for a long time to prevent a delay federating all the Lemmy.world content.
A recent version of Lemmy added a way to send activities in parallel. Lemmy.world has turned this on, and not long ago this morning have started sending the activities directly to the Lemmy.nz server again, bypassing the extra one.
Let me know if you see anything strange, but it does seem to be working from what I've seen monitoring it this morning.

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