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Chrissy LeMaire
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Dual Microsoft MVP, Inaugural GitHub Star, creator of dbatools, author http://dbatools.io/book and AI for Everyday IT from Manning Publications.

Creator of @mutesky.app 🏳️‍🌈

Totally into AI, SQL Server and PowerShell.

📍 Very North of France
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Hell yeah, got a couple more prompts to go but love the results.
Screenshot of a webpage from RealCajunRecipes.com showing the “Most Popular” section. It’s split into “Most Rated” and “Most Viewed” lists of Cajun recipes, each with titles in bold orange or red followed by average star ratings, nearly all being perfect 5 out of 5. Recipes include “Seafood Cornbread Dressing,” “Crock-Pot Jambalaya – Pastalaya,” and “Giff’s Taco Soup.” Despite the rich content, the design is visually plain and text-heavy with minimal styling or hierarchy, which contributes to a bland, outdated look that contrasts with the strong cultural flavor implied by the recipes. Screenshot of a redesigned “Most Popular Recipes” page from RealCajunRecipes.com with a polished and elegant layout. The header includes a centered star icon, bold serif title, and tagline “Our community’s most loved Cajun classics,” with a badge below reading “Tested by Louisiana families since 2002.” Below that, a section titled “Highest Rated” features three recipes in clean white cards with rounded corners, numbered badges, and gold star ratings: “Seafood Cornbread Dressing,” “Corn Macque Choux IV,” and “Crock-Pot Jambalaya – Pastalaya,” all rated 5.0. The design emphasizes heritage and warmth through typography, color, and layout.
November 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Vibing hard with @anthropic.com
Screenshot of a Visual Studio Code tab titled “recipes/most-popular/ looks like shit please use best practices to make it elegant and worthy.” The tab displays a comment with the same blunt message, followed by a more polished bullet point from a Markdown file: “I'll analyze the current most-popular page and redesign it using best practices to make it elegant and worthy of the site's heritage aesthetic.” The contrast humorously highlights the raw frustration of the original note versus the cleaned-up professionalism of the final write-up.
November 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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This did give me an idea tho! Perhaps we can have rotating holiday themes, like our cookbooks. And make the cookbooks the center pieces. Look how cute!
Cover image for *The Real Cajun Thanksgiving Cookbook* featuring a saturated, cartoonish color palette dominated by burnt orange, deep reds, and golden yellows. A bright red turkey with exaggerated facial features and a black pilgrim hat pops against the flat orange background, while the title sits in a pale yellow banner with red text. The RealCajunRecipes.com logo in green and red adds to the bold, clashing hues. The overall color scheme feels loud and visually chaotic, contributing to a playful but unrefined aesthetic. Cover image for *The Real Cajun Christmas Cookbook* featuring a bold, saturated color scheme centered on mint green, fire engine red, and white. A cartoon crawfish dressed as Santa holds a green gift with a red bow, grinning widely against a flat green background with white snowflakes. The title sits in a light mint banner with red and green text, echoing the traditional holiday palette but applied with high contrast and little subtlety. The overall effect is festive yet garish, with clashing tones that prioritize cheer over visual harmony. Cover image for *The Real Cajun Mardi Gras & Lent Cookbook* with an extremely bold and saturated color palette dominated by bright purple, yellow, green, and red. A cartoon crawfish wears a jester hat and Mardi Gras beads while holding a king cake with glowing flair, set against a flat purple background and framed by layers of more purple. The title appears in a pink and yellow box with clashing fonts. The overall aesthetic is intentionally loud and chaotic, matching the Mardi Gras theme but pushing the palette to garish extremes that overwhelm the eye. Cover image for *The Real Cajun Ice Cream Cookbook* with a pastel, dessert-themed color scheme that softens the usual bold branding. A smiling cartoon crawfish in a chef’s hat and neckerchief holds a swirled ice cream cone, surrounded by floating images of cane syrup cans, donuts, sprinkles, and sugar cubes. The background is light cream, giving the scene a playful, almost vintage feel. While still cartoonish, the colors are lighter and more cohesive than previous covers, with warm reds and yellows dominating instead of clashing. It leans more whimsical than garish, but still retains a kitschy, nostalgic charm.
November 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Oh this is horrifying. The one with fresh context + read md. I discarded all the changes and now I'm trying with the old full-context window, so we can compare!

Now I didn't say "Best practices UI/UX" this time around. I usually do to get me the designs I love, like dbatools.io and mutesky.app.
Screenshot of the RealCajunRecipes.com homepage with an outdated and cluttered design: a cartoon turkey in a pilgrim hat serves as the site mascot, clashing with the bold red header and beige background. The layout feels visually overloaded, with dense navigation menus, inconsistent fonts, and an awkward mix of emojis, icons, and colors. Despite the nostalgic tagline “la cuisine de maw-maw,” the overall aesthetic looks dated and unpolished—evoking early-2000s web design more than modern culinary appeal.
November 15, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Ha! Cuuuuuute 🧓
nstructional screenshot guiding the next step in a website migration, telling the user to copy 2,269 exported markdown files to the Hugo content directory and run the server to preview the new site. It ends with bold text: “Ready to make Maw-Maw proud!” followed by chili pepper and crawfish emojis, echoing the site's Cajun theme and tagline “la cuisine de maw-maw!” as a playful nod to cultural pride and successful completion.
November 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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So I've exported all of our recipes and I'm redoing the website in Hugo. And I'm going to do AI SEO galore.

(As an aside, omg, I logged into my VPS, installed claude and had it do all of my exporting! I didn't have to relearn WP CLI. I didn't have to figure out the sql schema or how even to login.)
Terminal screenshot showing a migration report labeled "2. User Accounts & Authentication Data ❌" and "3. Individual User Ratings/Reviews ❌." It states that 52,595 registered users were *not* exported, including usernames, emails, profiles, social login data, and user roles, meaning accounts can't be migrated to the new Hugo site. For ratings, only aggregate rating arrays (e.g., [5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5]) were exported, allowing average ratings to be calculated, but data on who submitted each rating and when was not included. The red ❌ marks indicate missing or failed data migration elements.
November 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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There's so much pressure — after using a ton of context to discuss the new design of RealCajunRecipes.com

Knowing the context is full of our vibrant design discussion, do I open a new session or not? Knowing that the design is variable and I'll be staring at it for the next X years..
Early-2000s website with a down-home, folksy feel titled “Real Cajun Recipes,” decorated in playful fonts and clip-art icons like gumbo pots and crawfish; invites users to “Make Maw-Maw Proud!” by submitting Cajun recipes, currently boasting 849 in the archive; newest recipe is “New Orleans Muffuletta”; sidebar categories include “Breads & Rolls” and “Cakes & Candy”; homespun charm reinforced by phrases like “la cuisine dee maw-maw,” hand-drawn arrows, and a “Random Tip” urging folks to store eggs in the fridge, not the door, where it's warmer; overall tone is warm, welcoming, and deeply rooted in Cajun family tradition. Screenshot of the homepage for RealCajunRecipes.com, a Cajun recipe website featuring a cartoon crawfish stirring a pot in the logo and the tagline “la cuisine de maw-maw!” in handwritten script. The green navigation bar includes links to recipe categories like “Popular,” “Classics,” and “New.” A featured recipe titled “Beignets – A French Doughnut” is highlighted as a top recipe of the day, showing powdered sugar–covered beignets and a 5-star rating. Another top-rated dish, “Seafood Cornbread Dressing,” appears in a small preview with a photo and a “Most Rated” ribbon.
November 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Even better? Vendors are always updating the CLIs and aitools makes it super easy to keep up even though they all have different install/update methods. Works on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Terminal screenshot showing a PowerShell command `Update-AITool` run from the `/mnt/c/github` directory, outputting a table of AI tools with columns for Name, OldVersion, Version, and Path. All tools listed—Gemini, Cursor, Ollama, ClaudeCode, GitHubCopilot, Codex, and Aider—have identical OldVersion and Version values, indicating no updates were applied. The display uses bright cyan for tool names and paths, and bright yellow for headers and version numbers, emphasizing the clean, aesthetic layout of a developer productivity script.
November 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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It's INSANE! These CLIs will download images for you so you can stop using external hosting. They'll look up people's Bluesky accounts to replace the Twtr links. Update command names. Put lil notes that give context about how dated the information is. Rewrite old tables. Here's some diffs + aitools.
Screenshot of a Git diff tool showing changes to a Markdown file named `new-defaults-for-sql-server-connections-encryption-trust-certificate.md`. The added lines are highlighted in green and include a 2025 update about dbatools 2.0, a Microsoft documentation link, and a new image tag pointing to `/images/sql-ads-encryption-warning.png` with alt text describing it as a “dbatools warning about encryption and trusting certificate.” The removed lines, highlighted in red, include an old image tag referencing a GitHub user content URL and a paragraph explaining a default SSMS setting. Screenshot of GitHub Desktop showing a Markdown file named `2008s-to-do-list.md` with significant changes. The original HTML table containing a personal and professional to-do list with items like "Master PowerShell," "Read 3 tech books," and "Setup Linux authentication" has been removed (highlighted in red). A new Markdown-formatted list (in green) replaces it, organized under "**At work**" and "**Home Office**" sections, with tasks such as "Implement WSUS 3.0," "Migrate every SQL 7.0 database to SQL Server 2005," and "Attend Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008," emphasizing IT projects and certifications. Alt text: PowerShell terminal window displaying markdown-style notes about a documentation update, emphasizing historical accuracy. Sections include “Code Examples,” noting no XML conversion or splatting was needed, “Technical Accuracy Notes,” explaining retention of outdated FTP links for context, and “Issues I Couldn’t Fully Fix,” mentioning a dead FTP URL from HP and limitations of Wayback Machine archives. At the bottom, metadata shows a successful process with a start time of 9:48:44 PM and end time of 9:51:35 PM on 11/2/2025, with a duration of 2 minutes and 50 seconds. A stylized purple-haired avatar appears in the corner.
November 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Daaaamn, even ChatGPT can't believe Claude is so awesome. My Alt Text Generator called it a fake chat.

But also, "lazy sysadmin" joke is so overplayed that even AI repeats it 😩 I will always accurately describe us as efficient.
chatgpt can't believe its eyes and my alt text generator called it a meme
October 30, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Last night's Azure outage caused a bloodbath testing for all of our @dbatools.io testing on @github.com. Claude took care of restarting them all, no problem 😊
PowerShell terminal screenshot showing a real-time interaction between a user and an AI assistant named Claude. The user reports that Microsoft DNS went down globally around the same time they submitted several pull requests, which failed in GitHub Actions. They ask Claude to find and restart any failed GitHub Actions from the past 2 hours. Claude executes a Bash command using `gh run list` piped through `jq` to filter and list failed runs, displaying 8 failures across main and dev branches with timestamps. It confirms the failures coincide with the DNS outage and begins restarting them, demonstrating automated incident response using AI and CLI tooling.
October 30, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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The Hot Stepper
Cute ass cat hot stepping
October 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Had someone say that ChatGPT can produce good code with the right prompt. But... I can get exceptional code using Claude with prompts like "Thanks but get yourself together on the front page book section. That shit rendered so poorly."
Screenshot of the dbatools website homepage promoting a PowerShell toolkit designed for SQL Server professionals, with large text emphasizing automation of administration, migrations, and disaster recovery; a mock PowerShell command window at the bottom shows a sample script: “Start-DbaMigration @params” followed by progress text simulating database migration.
October 26, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Claude Code on the web is 👌
Screenshot of Claude Code's interface during a session titled "Refactor Progress Bar in PowerShell Script," showing a to-do list for updating and analyzing PowerShell scripts. Tasks include moving progress bar logic, refactoring command counting, testing, and committing changes. It shows files being read with line counts (425 and 864 lines), and a status labeled "Actioning..." at the bottom, indicating active processing.
October 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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lol, wife says "your vibe in vibe coding is 'rage'"
Screenshot of a developer chat interface showing a message that reads: "beesh, they all need an init. perhaps its called login or something similar. i think aider is the only one that just needs to test for an API key." Below the message, the interface shows it’s processing 6,938 tokens in 154 seconds, implying a heavy backend operation, while the tone of the message reflects mild exasperation with various tools requiring initialization routines except for one.
October 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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One of my favorite things to use AI for is repo storytelling. Claude Code is SO good at using gh, git and its own tools to understand changes to @dbatools.io's repo and tell a story. Here, I asked it to detail @sqldbawithbeard.bsky.social's Pester contributions for my upcoming session at @psconf.eu
A console with the writing: **SQLDBAWithABeard's Pester Contributions – Deep Dive:** **The Foundation: November 23, 2016 – A Historic Day** SQLDBAWithABeard made 83 commits in a single day (November 23, 2016), fundamentally transforming dbatools' quality standards. This was just 6 months after June Blender added the first test file. **1. CI/CD Infrastructure Setup** Created the complete testing infrastructure: * tests/appveyor.pester.ps1 – A sophisticated test runner that: * Supports multiple PowerShell versions (v2+) * Serializes XML results for AppVeyor consumption * Uploads test results to AppVeyor's test page via API * Aggregates results from multiple PowerShell version test runs * Fails builds on test failures with detailed failure summaries * AppVeyor CI Integration – Set up continuous integration that: * Runs tests on native PS version and PS 3.0 * Installs Pester and PSScriptAnalyzer automatically * Collects and uploads test results * Added skip commit support for readme updates A console that says: **2. Test-Driven Documentation Standards** Created tests/dbatools.Tests.ps1 – A comprehensive module manifest test that validates: * Module name, root module, GUID, version * Author and company information * PowerShell version requirements * Required assemblies * Critically: All exported functions match actual function files This test ensured the module manifest stayed in sync with actual functions. **3. The Great Documentation Cleanup (Nov 23, 2016)** After establishing the test infrastructure, he discovered widespread documentation gaps. His response: 83 commits in one day adding parameter help to pass tests across the entire codebase: * Added help for Force, WhatIf, Confirm parameters (ShouldProcess support) * Added SqlCredential, Detailed, OutputFile, Collection parameter help * Fixed function headers to match Pester requirements
October 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Hahah here’s a bonus of him looking cool, just for you.
Cool looking cat, chillin with the city scape in the background
October 8, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Nope! That is kitty. Potato is white and always looks silly.
Silly looking white rag doll sitting on a chair, looking into the camera
October 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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My wife's fb was disabled but somehow got resurrected by someone else. Anyway, while I wait for her GDPR request to delete her whole account, I went through her photos and found this super sweet picture of me and Kitty.
A woman reclines on a couch under a blanket, looking down and away with a soft smile, while a fluffy ragdoll cat sits upright beside her, staring at her with wide, intense eyes and one paw gently placed on her arm, creating an affectionate yet hilariously clingy moment that feels like the cat is begging for attention or silently saying, “Don’t stop looking at me.”
October 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Life was so easy when I had Claude Code 20x 🥲 Alas, my plan has ended and I'm already out of 5x tokens.
Screenshot of the Claude AI interface in dark mode with a banner reading “Your plan ends in 0 days – Resubscribe” above a large, friendly greeting in stylized serif font saying “Hey there, honey” next to a small red flower icon, humorously contrasting the warm tone with the looming account expiration notice.
August 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Me, using GPT-5 after my Claude Max 20x subscription expired
Comparisons are easily done Once you've had a taste of perfection Like an apple hanging from a tree I picked the ripest one I still got the seed You said move on, where do I go? I guess second best is all I will know
August 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Aw, not yet on #GitHub Models.
Alt Text (for screen readers): The image displays a screenshot from the Azure OpenAI Service interface, showing a list of available AI models sorted by "Recently added." The list includes various versions of OpenAI models such as o4-mini, o3, GPT-4.1-mini, GPT-4.1-nano, GPT-4.1, and GPT-4o-mini, along with Text Embedding 3 models (small and large). Each entry includes a brief description highlighting improvements in quality, safety, coding, instruction following, and long-context handling. Notably, there is no mention of GPT-5, indicating that GPT-5 is not yet available on the platform.
August 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Oh yeah! #OpenAI GPT-5 on #Azure Foundry AI! I've got a few thousand credits to burn. Let's see how well this thang codes.
Screenshot of the Azure AI Foundry interface showing the "Model catalog" section. A search for "gpt-5" displays a list of GPT models including gpt-5, gpt-5-chat, gpt-4o, and others. Sidebar navigation includes tools for chat, audio, images, and fine-tuning. Top bar shows links to Docs, resources, and user settings.
August 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Can you share some of that update? Oh wait! BRB
Your screenshot shows that your system is **up to date** as of the last check at **4:33 PM**, but there is a **preview update available**: > **2025-07 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 11 Version 24H2 (KB5062660)** > **Build: 26100.4770** > You can install it by clicking **Download & install**. This is a **preview build**, so it may contain early fixes or features not yet considered fully stable. Only install it if you want to test new updates early or need a specific fix it includes. If you want to avoid preview builds, you can skip this update and wait for the full release.
August 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Recently upgraded to Windows 11 24h2 and every Window opens non-maximized AND forgets its position. If anyone on the #Windows team can fix this, please do.

At least give us a registry key or preferably a GUI choice to fix it. Since Windows 95, I've loved all Maximized, all the time.
A retro Windows 95 desktop shows a highlighted icon labeled “The Internet” with a pixelated globe and magnifying glass, implying that this single shortcut represents the entire internet; the humor lies in the oversimplified and naive early-‘90s understanding of what the internet was.
August 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM