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Occasionally on my work laptop a black box pops up with the words "Windows Powershell", and I think "Yes, it probably does."
November 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Occasionally on my work laptop a black box pops up with the words "Windows Powershell", and I think "Yes, it probably does."
Just found out the british have a dish called "toad in the hole". These are not serious people.
October 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Just found out the british have a dish called "toad in the hole". These are not serious people.
Paloalto have somehow managed to choose the absolute worst date format out of all of them
September 15, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Paloalto have somehow managed to choose the absolute worst date format out of all of them
The GPT-5 models no longer support the Temperature parameter. That was a good way to control the determinism of the output - for some things you wanted the same response every time, for others you wanted more creativity.
I guess now you just have to trust the model to decide what is best 🧐
I guess now you just have to trust the model to decide what is best 🧐
August 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The GPT-5 models no longer support the Temperature parameter. That was a good way to control the determinism of the output - for some things you wanted the same response every time, for others you wanted more creativity.
I guess now you just have to trust the model to decide what is best 🧐
I guess now you just have to trust the model to decide what is best 🧐
Thought I was doing well to get this stripped screw out, turns out I just made it snap in half 🥲
August 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Thought I was doing well to get this stripped screw out, turns out I just made it snap in half 🥲
For ages I've wanted a simple tool to sync/back up my phone (mainly pictures) to my PC. Never found anything that fit the bill so I threw something together. Just plug in via USB, pick your dest folder, and it copies everything over, skipping previously copied files.
github.com/mdjx/Android...
github.com/mdjx/Android...
GitHub - mdjx/AndroidSync: A stupid simple Android to PC sync tool
A stupid simple Android to PC sync tool. Contribute to mdjx/AndroidSync development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
July 27, 2025 at 9:49 AM
For ages I've wanted a simple tool to sync/back up my phone (mainly pictures) to my PC. Never found anything that fit the bill so I threw something together. Just plug in via USB, pick your dest folder, and it copies everything over, skipping previously copied files.
github.com/mdjx/Android...
github.com/mdjx/Android...
Took me way to long to figure out that when Claude Desktop launches an MCP server will inject its own environment variables from the config, and the server won't have access to any system env. vars, unlike VSCode.
Had me scratching my head for a while, stuff worked in VSCode but not in Claude.
Had me scratching my head for a while, stuff worked in VSCode but not in Claude.
July 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Took me way to long to figure out that when Claude Desktop launches an MCP server will inject its own environment variables from the config, and the server won't have access to any system env. vars, unlike VSCode.
Had me scratching my head for a while, stuff worked in VSCode but not in Claude.
Had me scratching my head for a while, stuff worked in VSCode but not in Claude.
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A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it.
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July 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it.
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MS logging is now superpositioned until the log file is observed
July 11, 2025 at 8:43 AM
MS logging is now superpositioned until the log file is observed
Last Friday was my last day at my employer after some 18 years and several mergers / acquisitions along the way. It's definitely a bittersweet feeling, I'm going to miss my colleagues and our clients, some of which I've worked with for that entire timespan.
June 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Last Friday was my last day at my employer after some 18 years and several mergers / acquisitions along the way. It's definitely a bittersweet feeling, I'm going to miss my colleagues and our clients, some of which I've worked with for that entire timespan.
I hate that I just spent half an hour trying to work out how to access phone storage with C#, got absolutely nowhere, then asked Chat Gippity and it pointed me to a Nuget package that did exactly what I needed, with working sample code.
The machines are winning, they must be destroyed.
The machines are winning, they must be destroyed.
June 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I hate that I just spent half an hour trying to work out how to access phone storage with C#, got absolutely nowhere, then asked Chat Gippity and it pointed me to a Nuget package that did exactly what I needed, with working sample code.
The machines are winning, they must be destroyed.
The machines are winning, they must be destroyed.
TIL SendGrid no longer offer a free tier, only a 60 day trial before a min $20/month plan. Going to give Azure Communications Service a go, it's not free but for my volume it practically is. And the ability to do SMS from the same platform is cool.
Turns out ACS uses the same mail servers as M365
Turns out ACS uses the same mail servers as M365
April 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
TIL SendGrid no longer offer a free tier, only a 60 day trial before a min $20/month plan. Going to give Azure Communications Service a go, it's not free but for my volume it practically is. And the ability to do SMS from the same platform is cool.
Turns out ACS uses the same mail servers as M365
Turns out ACS uses the same mail servers as M365
Just tried Copilot in VS Code for the first time. Despite giving it the codebase for the context it immediately hallucinated a property a class didn't have, and assigned an enum value that didn't exist to another property.
I'm sure there's a learning curve to get the most out of it, but ughhh
I'm sure there's a learning curve to get the most out of it, but ughhh
April 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Just tried Copilot in VS Code for the first time. Despite giving it the codebase for the context it immediately hallucinated a property a class didn't have, and assigned an enum value that didn't exist to another property.
I'm sure there's a learning curve to get the most out of it, but ughhh
I'm sure there's a learning curve to get the most out of it, but ughhh
I use social media mostly to keep up with tech stuff, but geez, what's happening in the US is pretty frightening.
April 13, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I use social media mostly to keep up with tech stuff, but geez, what's happening in the US is pretty frightening.
Apparently 97% of Italians are called Giuseppe
April 12, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Apparently 97% of Italians are called Giuseppe
Sounds stupid in hindsight but I assumed when my boy started to walk he'd happily go wherever I went. Found out just how wrong that assumption was during a grocery trip, turns out he has very strong opinions about which way he wants to go, and he does not care one bit about our shopping list 😂
April 6, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Sounds stupid in hindsight but I assumed when my boy started to walk he'd happily go wherever I went. Found out just how wrong that assumption was during a grocery trip, turns out he has very strong opinions about which way he wants to go, and he does not care one bit about our shopping list 😂
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Been reading One Soldier's War, written by a young Russian soldier about his experience in the Chechen wars. Absolutely brutal read, makes you understand the phrase "war is hell" (as much a book can).
Living in Australia, hard not to reflect on how much we take peace and comfort for granted.
Living in Australia, hard not to reflect on how much we take peace and comfort for granted.
March 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Been reading One Soldier's War, written by a young Russian soldier about his experience in the Chechen wars. Absolutely brutal read, makes you understand the phrase "war is hell" (as much a book can).
Living in Australia, hard not to reflect on how much we take peace and comfort for granted.
Living in Australia, hard not to reflect on how much we take peace and comfort for granted.
TIL if you leave SSMS connected to your free Azure MSSQL instance it will consume the entire 100,000 vCore seconds in around 3 days, even if you don't execute a single query 🤦♂️
March 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
TIL if you leave SSMS connected to your free Azure MSSQL instance it will consume the entire 100,000 vCore seconds in around 3 days, even if you don't execute a single query 🤦♂️
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If you work with Entra, you'll want to bookmark and monitor this page 😎
Much of this is in Identity / Secure Score, but it's great to see security guidance cleanly laid out in one doc
You might think this is well known stuff, I assure you it is not :(
learn.microsoft.com/...
Much of this is in Identity / Secure Score, but it's great to see security guidance cleanly laid out in one doc
You might think this is well known stuff, I assure you it is not :(
learn.microsoft.com/...
March 2, 2025 at 12:46 AM
If you work with Entra, you'll want to bookmark and monitor this page 😎
Much of this is in Identity / Secure Score, but it's great to see security guidance cleanly laid out in one doc
You might think this is well known stuff, I assure you it is not :(
learn.microsoft.com/...
Much of this is in Identity / Secure Score, but it's great to see security guidance cleanly laid out in one doc
You might think this is well known stuff, I assure you it is not :(
learn.microsoft.com/...