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Oli Newsham
@scarylooking.dev
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Sweary #dotnet & #azure dev. Co-organiser of Dot Net North. Obsessed with rocks. Perpetual Lord of Misrule. 🏳️‍🌈

⚠️ All opinions are absolutely and irrevocably those of my employer. Especially the spicy ones.
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Alright, chill out air filter, I'll s-... jesuschrist how did you get a knife?!
An instructional diagram showing an air purifier with its front mesh filter panel being removed and replaced. The heading reads "Replacing Your Filter" and body text states "Follow instructions in the %@ manual to replace your filter. Press Done when you're finished." Black arrows indicate the removal direction of the filter panel from the white rectangular purifier unit
October 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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🎶 A contact lens trial!
🎶And the contact lens fits into the eye like a battery
🙀🙀
Two unchecked checkboxes one above the other on a form with text labels: "You are suitable for a contact lens trial" then below "A contact lens trial"
September 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Assuming this is the right foil 😅
August 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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I have perfected breakfast
A white bowl containing a yellow scrambled eggs topped with kimchi in the middle, brown rice, and sliced cucumber arranged on a wooden table.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
July 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Pikachu looking shocked
July 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Eufy have finally fixed the UI so The Dame Edna Everage Memorial Vacuum Cleaner can be displayed in its full glory 🎉
Robot vacuum cleaner interface showing a black circular vacuum robot. Title reads “The Dame Edna Everage Memorial Vacuum Cleaner” with green charging indicator.
June 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Bonk!
Two performers on stage at an outdoor concert venue with dramatic orange and yellow stage lighting creating a hazy, atmospheric effect. The performer on the left is kneeling and holds a metal keg aloft, while the performer on the right (wearing a clown mask) is jumping with a bat raised above their head, swinging it toward the keg. Both are silhouetted against the bright stage lights, wearing dark clothing. Audience members are visible in the foreground.​​
May 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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I think I might be the only person with two causes of death from @oracle.posters.rip? I'm not complaining at all. Both seem totally plausible.
Screenshot of an account labels dialog showing two unusual cause of death predictions: "Head Pigeons" and "Time Machine Accident (Future)," both described as "A manner of death, perhaps" with source "@oracle.posters.rip" and options to appeal each label.
May 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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😬
A dark-themed social media interface with a listing for "1. Pope Francis" with "46.4K posts • Politics" displayed underneath. There's a small profile picture area on the left side showing multiple avatars. On the right side of the interface is a red "Hot" button with a flame icon. The overall layout appears to be from a trending topics or popular accounts section of a social media platform.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
April 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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And The Nubbin prop is super cool!
A sleek black box with a silver square in the center displaying "NUBBIN™" logo and "TCKR SYSTEMS" underneath, placed on a beige carpet.
April 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Also, wondering if there is anything fun on the Personality Record we were all given…
A 3.5-inch floppy disk labeled with handwritten information for a clinical trial including name “Oli”, human condition type "A", product name "Nubbin", phase information referencing "Common People" and "USS Callister: Into Infinity", with trial room "Renoir".
April 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Got an invite to see two episodes from S7 of Black Mirror ahead of its release with @charliebrooker.bsky.social in London last night. Stunned silence and literal weeping after Common People. Applause after Into Infinity. You’re in for a wild ride!
A panel discussion with Connie Huq, Charlie Brooker, and Jessica Rhoades seated on stage beneath a large screen showing the cracked glass Black Mirror logo. The audience can be seen in silhouette.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
April 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Also, what the actual fuck? Both of these were in the first 3 tweets.
A screenshot of Twitter post. User "Rosh" commented "They don't understand that this is literally a win for women" in response to a tweet from user "moose" that states "Once they successfully make this robot that can give birth, it's over for you, ladies." The tweet includes an AI generated image of a robot with a transparent belly gestating a human baby, designed to look like a pregnancy. The post shows engagement metrics including 480K likes and 17M views.
April 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Things are going well on the bird site...
A screenshot of a Twitter interaction. Lord Sugar with a blue verification checkmark has replied "No" to a tweet from an account labeled "Elon Musk News". The parody account's tweet reads: "Would you switch your internet carrier to Starlink if it only cost $10 a month for unlimited data worldwide and get free X premium? Yes or No". Below the text is an image showing an AI generated Elon Musk holding what appears to be a small device, with satellite dishes visible in the background - his fingers are messed up
April 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Absolutely crushing those bone gains for #HotSkeletorSummer
Bone Mass tracker showing healthy status with a positive trend of +0.2%. Graph displays steady bone mass gains over the month.
March 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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New oven coming today. It has very modern "3D Hotair" instead of the plain old two-dimensional heat I've been using like a pleb.
March 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Their Privacy Statement explicitly says they will retain your data (including genome) for "legitimate and lawful business purposes" even if you delete your account. And I'm pretty sure the last DBA died in 2004.

www.23andme.com/legal/privac...
March 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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If you list the runtimes they still use the "old" format with the `:` but setting one using `az webapp config set` results in a broken Web App...
A PowerShell window showing the output of the "az webapp list-runtimes" command. The output displays a JSON-formatted list of available runtimes for Linux in Azure App Service including NODE:22-lts A section of the Azure Portal interface showing App Service configuration settings. At the top, there's a purple notification banner with a rocket icon stating "Custom Error pages requires a premium App Service Plan." Below that is a blue information bar about viewing and editing application settings. The interface shows navigation tabs for "General settings," "Path mappings," and "Error pages (preview)," with "General settings" being the active tab. Under this is a "Stack settings" section with a dropdown menu for selecting the stack, which appears as a dark dropdown field that hasn't been expanded yet.
February 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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The secret is to manually enter "NODE|20-lts" and not use the drop-down in Azure Dev Ops. Another fun side effect of this is that its impossible to set the Stack Version via the CLI, because it reads | as a pipe output...
A PowerShell window showing a command line error. The user attempted to run "az webapp config set" with parameters including "--resource-group" and "--name" (with the actual values redacted in orange), and specified "NODE|22-lts" for the "linux-fx-version" parameter. The error message states "'22-lts' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."
February 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Seems like the Stack Version format for Azure Web Apps changed recently. Azure DevOps is sending "NODE:20-lts" which results in the Web App being configured with... PHP 8.0.30 🎉
A terminal window showing log output from an Azure App Service on Linux. The log displays a timestamp for each line (February 24, 2025) followed by system messages. The ASCII art logo for "AZURE" is displayed at the top. The logs show PHP version 8.0.30 is installed, note that files in '/home' are not persisted, and show the system starting an OpenBSD Secure Shell server and running an "oryx create-script" command. Documentation links for Azure Web App on Linux and PHP quickstart are also visible.
February 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Tab completion suggestions in @jetbrains.com Rider are absolutely nuts. I have never in my life created a property called `TurtleBranch`. I'd say about 60% of the time I end up tabbing in nonsense and getting annoyed. Anyone know how I can turn this off?
A code snippet showing Rider's intellisense suggesting code completions. The variable _settings.TurtleBranch is being suggested alongside more conventional alternatives like "CloudflareTurnStyleSiteKey" and "CloudflareTurnSecretKey". The code appears to be replacing a placeholder "YOUR_TURNSTILE_SITE_KEY" in an HTML string.
February 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Also; extremely creepy behaviour. I'm rewatching Battlestar Galactica. Last night I got to the episode where the Bear McCreary version of All Along The Watchtower played and, oh lookie what's in Discover Weekly today...
A track listing from a music player showing "All Along the Watchtower" by Bear McCreary, with a small album artwork thumbnail on the left and an icon indicating it's a currently playing track.
February 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Anyway, here’s a goose I’m friends with, and probably their partner. Honk honk. 🪿
Two Canada geese foraging on a frost-covered grassy area beside a canal or waterway. There's a stone pathway in the foreground, and the background shows a brick wall with arches and a high-rise apartment building. The scene appears to be on a cold winter morning with bare trees visible.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
January 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Constellations named after mythical creatures and legendary heroes are great and all, but you've got to respect Triangulum's refreshing honesty and "yeah, that'll do" aesthetic.
A star chart showing the constellation Triangulum and surrounding constellations. The chart depicts a region of the night sky between right ascension 1h and 3h, and declination +20° to +40°. Triangulum is highlighted in white against a grey background, with its main stars α (alpha), β (beta), γ (gamma), δ (delta), and ε (epsilon) connected by green lines forming a triangle shape. Surrounding constellations include Perseus to the left, Andromeda above, Pisces to the right, and Aries below. The chart includes various stars of different magnitudes (shown by different dot sizes), and two red elliptical objects marked as M33. The chart includes a magnitude scale at the bottom and credits to IAU and Sky & Telescope.
December 20, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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I wanted to give it a go, but the Play Store is saying it's built for an older version of Android. A shame because it looks awesome, and I love HabitKit
Google Play Store page for Liftbear - Workout Log app showing its logo of a black bear with a barbell, and an error message stating the app isn't available due to Android version incompatibility.
December 12, 2024 at 1:46 AM