Remember: the question is not "Why does AWS and Azure have outages?" the question is "could you stand up an infrastructure as reliable as theirs by yourself and have fewer outages/year than they do?"

For most orgs, the answer is "no". Also, I'm tired of racking servers.

Apple makes boring hardware and shitty software. Macs are a cult.

In today's episode, Apple marketing tells the brainwashed that what Windows has had for over a decade - facial recognition login - doesn't matter for Macs, because they say so.

www.extremetech.com/computing/ma...

How big was the celebration after the Mariners won last night?

"Bottom line for Polanco: it’s visibly a real spike on the PNSN station at field level, but substantially smaller than the BeastQuake and far smaller than the Swift Quake — likely under M≈1.0."

chatgpt.com/share/68eb10...

Does #fsharp need file-based apps like C#?. Join us next Friday for a new session where Martin will showcase a prototype for "dotnet run app.fs"-like functionality.

More info: amplifyingfsharp.io/sessions/202...

Incredible details on better tuning for garbage collection in .NET 10.

maoni0.medium.com/preparing-fo...

I assume those "experts" are the ones who get paid to pick stocks and whose livelihoods are threatened.

arstechnica.com/information-...

lol

"Born from Ayn Rand paperbacks, pulp science fiction novels, and Austrian School daydreams, libertarianism never matured beyond a sophomore debate-club rant."

www.thenerdreich.com/libertariani...

`Flag shorthand -h has been deprecated, use --help`

If you create a CLI and do this, you're an asshole.

What's the thought process here? "Well, I know my users want help, so I'm going to make it more difficult for them to get it."

🤦🏻‍♂️

It's the latest Stephen Toub post!!!! 🤓

devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/perfo...

I use Bing for my searches (when I'm not using Copilot or ChatGPT), because it's an better search product, i.e. fewer, better, higher-quality results, with way less ads.

I just tried Google again for something. God, it's terrible. I can't imagine why you all still use it. And their AI is 🤮.

Cool new feature in Visual Studio: attach the Output logs to Copilot Chat to help you figure out WTF is happening. devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...

It's been super energizing working on the #aspire brand refresh + docs re-platforming. Here's a few sneak peeks! 🤓

✨ Fresh new docs UX
📖 Simplified nav and structure
🎨 Modern themes
🔍 Better discoverability
☑️ Asciinema terminal embeds

Built with 💜 at Microsoft — @aspire.dev

Tell me you're using Node.js without telling me you're using Node.js.

Ah... after every reinstallation of Windows comes the day when I can no longer avoid installing npm.

Sigh.

I feel about Node.js the same way I feel about Perl and PHP... you could, but why would you in 2025?

You know that thing where you start writing the GitHub issue for the problem you've been banging your head against for days, and just to make sure you don't look like an idiot you go over everything _one more time_ to make sure...

and then you see what you've been missing.

So that just happened.

Not feeling very liberated today.

I was a COBOL programmer.

First of all, this is going to fail miserably.

Second of all, if they actually pull it off, it will be a huge victory for AI coding and a great example of how the fed gov't could move faster.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Hello, Bluesky.

Here's to new beginnings.