There's a reason why, even as a person who understands the freedom of being armed, prefers to live and feels safer in Australia. The statistics don't lie. Let's not forget these when something tragic like this happens.

You are 10.1x more likely to die in a mass shooting in the USA than you are in Australia. I encourage you to scroll through just one year of events in the US:

The US had a higher mass shooting per capita ratio in 2023 alone than the entire 21st century of shootings in Australia. US 2023: 774 shootings Aus 2000-2025: 64 shootings

Since 2018, the US has had 4352 mass shootings. Around 1.5 per day. Since the same year, Australia has had 7. Adjusting for population, the US has 49.8x the amount of mass shootings than Australia.

Saddening to see the shooting in Bondi, but it's also disheartening to see some of the discourse around it. I'm a dual US/AUS citizen with a rifle licensed to my name. Gun laws work, and keep people more safe. Stats:

crit my dev loop - anything i could be doing to improve here?

And here are the updates I've been making:

I'm now working on the financials page. Moderators should be rewarded, so I'm allocating 10% of payouts on a community to mods. Creating a community, especially a large one, isn't easy work, and I want everything on https://t.co/uHVc5G6Bb8 to feel sustainable.

To support the banners though, I needed a way for users to upload them. I made this banner cropper in vanilla js + an encoding pipeline with ffmpeg for them on the backend.

My mate Sam suggested I make the communities feel more personalized with banners, so I updated them to have this full bleed effect. I also switched to using a demographic I think would actually use this feature - sorry twitter, you're getting more post-figma unhinged content.

Here's a progression of how the communities feature for https://t.co/uHVc5G6Bb8 has evolved as I've been working on it. At first, it was just a simple dropdown, that let you change to a community that hosted its own posts and tags.

I've always liked how discord approaches their communities. Fully separate servers that users "own". I'm taking inspo from that for nonio's communities feature.

A user posted this a while back: https://t.co/j4Hi5RBjKT It's been my focus recently - how can I support diverse communities that self-moderate?

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It’s been weird the last couple of days not being at @figma, but it’s been delightful having a chance to work on https://t.co/uHVc5G6Bb8 again. Here are some reflections, and some updates.

Last day here @figma after nearly 5 years. It's a surreal feeling. In my first interview, I said I wanted to ship props, variables, and slots. We got there in the end with the help of some of the most incredible people I've worked with in my career. TY for everything FIG <3

While both of these will reduce privacy, they'll achieve one of two objectives: Either those making these policies will realize the law they wrote is impossible to achieve, or it will at least provide an even playing field for startups vs incumbents if they succeed.

Want to deem whether content is allowed or not? Fine, provide an API that allows content to be scanned and return a bool. Want to age-gate content? Fine, provide an identity service.

With CJEU and the Australian social media ban for teens both in the news this week, we see two additional rulings that will just result in IP blocks being banned rather than compliance. Govs that mandate compliance should be required to provide the mechanism for compliance.

3. I'm more picky and opinionated in frontend. I might just be getting nerdsniped in the problems I'm facing, and I may very well be approaching frontend in a way that isn't following a critical path.