Andrew Feeney

@andrewfeeney.au

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Software developer from Sydney Australia. PHP, Typescript, Javascript, Rust, Laravel, React, Vue, Serverless.

A promotional image with the cast for the 90s U.S. television series 'The Pretender'.
An open dropdown menu with two options shown. One is "Resend invitation". The other is "Rescind invitation".
A screenshot from the 26th May 2026 edition of Stephen Rees-Carter's Securing Laravel email newsletter. It reads: "Unlike other advancements and changes in our ecosystem, such as new frameworks, coding patterns, and dev tools, security is the one area we cannot ignore. If your application or accounts are vulnerable, then you're at risk, and given how fast everything is moving, it's probably a matter of 'when' rather than 'if'. So what do we do? How do we protect ourselves? Give up tech and take up pottery." The words "Give up tech and take up pottery" have a strikethrough applied.
A proposed pictogram warning of the dangers of buried nuclear waste for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Pictured is a four panel set of diagrams depicting a nuclear waste disposal site and a stick figure progressively digging deeper until the last panel where the radioactive material is exposed and the stick figure has fallen over, apparently dead. Taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages
A picture of the title page of Michele Hansen's outstanding book "Deploy Empathy", with a signed message to someone named Andrew.
A hand-drawn diagram depicting an open mouth on the left with a large battery and an arrow pointing from the battery to the mouth. On the right another open mouth contains five large batteries. The diagram is labelled “fig. 1 eating one battery, eating five batteries”.
The “they don’t know” meme. The text reads “They don’t know how many agents I have. I should check on my agents.” A roughly drawn black and white cartoon. A bald man wearing a party hat and holding a drink stands alone in the corner of a room where couples dance, looking sad and pensive with furrowed brow.
A screenshot from a weather app showing the forecasted temperature for the next day (10 Jan). The maximum is 42 degrees Celsius and the minimum is 24.
A screenshot of a tweet by Ellie Schnitt (@holy_schnitt) which reads “I like when men explain basic things to me because in my mind it's not mansplaining, it's more like when a toddler is really excited to tell you about dinosaurs and you're like that's right cutie! you're so smart!! only one of us is being condescending and it's me 9:19 AM • 05 Feb 22 • Twitter for iPhone” User “Shane Sea Mashweshwe” replies “If you have to announce it when you're condescending, you're doing it wrong.” To which user “Vagina Devil Magic” replies “That's a great observation, Shawn! Great job! ❤️”
Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom of Speech” painting. A plainly dressed man stands up and speaks at a public meeting while others, more smartly dressed watch and listen respectfully.
A poster for HBO’s “Carnivàle” which ran from 2003-2005 before it met its untimely demise.
A picture of a metal box in the garden outside a grand old window in a stately stone and brick building. The box has an orange light on top and a sign which reads “IfLlight Contact” on the left and “Flashing Security” on the right.
A cropped screenshot of a BlueSky account. It reads: @usedgov
A screenshot of a terminal screen. The screen reads "System information as of Thu Oct 16 11:23:48 UTC 2025 System load: 0.1 Temperature: -273.1 C "
A screenshot from the MDN docs for the <number> expression from the CSS language specification. It reads: Valid numbers 12 A raw <integer> is also a <number>. 4.01 Positive fraction -456.8 Negative fraction 0.0 Zero +0.0 Zero, with a leading + -0.0 Zero, with a leading - .60 Fractional number without a leading zero 10e3 Scientific notation -3.4e-2 Complicated scientific notation
A screenshot of the https://laravel.com/docs/12.x page should a "Page not found - nothing to see here" response in the browser.
The two buttons meme. In the top panel a white gloved hand hovers between two buttons, one labeled "Typing Very Long Master Password" and another labelled "Opening MacBook To Scan Finger-print". In the bottom panel a chisel-jawed man in a red spandex suit and white gloves holds a handkerchief to his forehead which is dripping with sweat.
A 40x25 pixel map of Bean Island in the Chippewa River, Wisconsin, with the text BEAN ISLAND overlaid.
A recursive combination of the Geordi and Drake pointing memes.
A still from 90s TV Sitcom Seinfeld showing character George Costanza smirking while talking. Underneath is a caption "Well, the jerk store called. They're running out of you!"
Roz from Monsters Inc says "Always watching" while lowering her glasses. The gif has been flipped upside down.
A pie chart of my feed: Jerry - 52.3% Replies to Jerry - 23.3% Jerry reposting "why so much Jerry?" - 11.6% Jerry reposting "Jerry no" - 5.8% swiftonsecurity - 3.5% Jerry subposts - 2.3% other - 1.2%
A screenshot of a captcha prompt inside the post form on Jerry's account. The captcha text next to the checkbox reads "Jerry no".
A screenshot of a cloudflare "Verify you are Jerry" captcha prompt.
A screenshot of Bean Island, in the Chippewa River near Eau Claire WI, taken in Apple Maps.
A bar graph titled "Cost and usage graph" above a table titled "Cost and usage breakdown". The graph has a single bar titled "May 2025" showing $424.88. The table has only one row titled "Total costs" $428.88. This is not very helpful.
A screenshot of the map view on from geocaching.com centred on Bean Island, an island in the Chippewa River near Eau Claire, MN, USA.
A screenshot of some monospaced and syntax highlighted PHP code taken from laracasts.com. The characters are rendered in a low-resolution pixelated monospaced font.
The words “meetings are bad” are displayed on a computer screen in a home office. Closer inspections reveals the word “Bad” has been scrubbed out from before the phrase in a poor quality image edit.
A screen shot of the dump text from Laravel Herd.
A picture of a walkway leading up to the summit of Mt. Kosciuszko, Australia's tallest mountain. The ground is covered in yellowish native grasses, with a few boulders strewn about and patchy snow in the distance. The sky is blue. The horizon is quite flat.
An SVG image of a penguin as drawn by DeekSeek LLM. It is pretty good. Identifiably a penguin, with a black head, eyes, beak, a black body with a white belly and yellow feet. The wings are correctly shaped but awkwardly orientated with the shoulder joints protruding outside the body and the wings angled inwards.
A screenshot from Google maps showing a single island named "Inaccessible Island" surrounded by water.
A photo of “Putricia”, one of Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens very rare and endangered corpse flowers in the dying stages of blooming, taken during the evening of the 24th January. A juvenile specimen is in the pot in the foreground and Putricia is in the centre of the background.
A screenshot of a warning alert notification from Bitbucket's website which reads "Bitbucket is experiencing a Wednesday, but we're on it. Check our status page for more details. - Learn more" A screenshot of a warning alert notification from Bitbucket's website which reads "Bitbucket is experiencing a Wednesday, but we're on it. Check our status page for more details. - Learn more"
A screenshot of some javascript code. The code is: <script> personA.how().you().doin('?'); personB.not().bad.you('?'); personA.great('!'); </script>
A screenshot of a text message I received. The message reads "Hey dad, letting you that this is my new #. Could you msg me back once you receive this"
White text on a black background. The text reads “Poorly explain what you do for a job.”
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A screenshot of the interior dashboard view of the 1990 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 driving along a track from the 1990s game Stunts by Broderbund Entertainment.
A picture of the 96-channel SSL 9000 J series mixing console in the control room of Abbey Road's Studio 3.
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A screen shot of an example "synergy" program. The program reads: innovate quarterly_projection 1000000000 innovate quarterly_profits -2000000000 innovate cash_balance 500000000 validate hypothesis: quarterly_profits exceeds quarterly_projection ship "stock buyback" pivot strategy: cash_balance right sized by quarterly_profits exceeds cash_balance ship "increase burn rate" exit strategy: ship "fail upwards"
The bottom two panels from the "Scooby Doo, Why Are You?" comic. In the left panel, Scooby Doo looks startled and confused. In the right panel Scooby Doo sits at a bar in front of a glass of whiskey smoking a cigarette, with bags under his eyes. He appears to be undergoing an existential crisis.
A screen shot of the menu from Commander Keen 5 - The Armageddon Machine
A population density graph of Australia in the style of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album cover. Basically there are 6 spikes for the state capitals, all mostly on the eastern side and the rest is more or less empty.
A screenshot of me running the laravel installer to setup a new Laravel application called "arrow". Visible is the question "Would you like to install a starter kit?". I have "Laravel Jetstream" selected.
A prototype of a text (ASCII) based flappy implementation in the terminal, built in PHP. An ASCII bird flaps over ASCII "pipes" of different heights which move across the screen from right to left.
An ASCII art flappy bird clone in progress. A bird flies over a pipe shaped object which appears on the right and moves to the left. Once the pipe has moved off the screen to the left it reappears on the right.
An ASCII art flappy bird jumps over an ASCII art pipe which is moving leftwards across the screen
A screenshot from how tall is showing a list of names of people who are “Shorter than you think”. I am on the list.
A screenshot from my Laracon Wrapped video. The screenshot contains a group selfie next to the stage featuring several people.
A photo of the front of an EB Games store in a shopping mall. The entire frontage of the store is plastered in bright red and white sale signs. It's a visual assault, a real punch in the eyes.
Black Friday meme showing a warrior shouting 'HOLD!' on Wednesday and Thursday for a product priced at $499.99. On Black Friday, the price is crossed out from $699.99 to the same $499.99, with the warrior now shouting 'NOW!!!'
A screenshot from an email about a Black Friday deal. The text reads "Our Black Friday deal is amost here - get Annual Premium for only $129!"
A screenshot of a Bluesky notification which reads "The Spirit Of Aaron Francis followed you back"
A screenshot of the ~/Developer directory icon and name in a Finder window in MacOS. The folder has a hammer icon.
A screenshot of a city in SimCity 2000