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@smalls.online
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I do IT magic things with the cloud, servers, and stuff. Also do programming, primarily in C#/Rust, and scripting with PowerShell.

#WarDamnEagle #ECUAlumni #Sysadmin #Developer

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Hi. I was today years old when I found out there has been a USB-C charging port on the Magic Keyboard, for my 2018 iPad Pro, that I've had since it came out back in 2020.
A close-up of a hand holding a black Magic Keyboard accessory, focusing on its USB-C port, attached to a 2018 iPad Pro.
November 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Choosing December 25th is a choice. Most people will be nowhere near work.
This email from Microsoft Azure informs users that their Azure account will be migrated to a new billing platform on December 25, 2025, to improve the billing experience. The update will happen without disrupting services, and customers will see three key improvements based on feedback.
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Rewatched Scott the Woz's "The Dark Age of Nintendo" videos and... Oh... Oh no... That wasn't five years ago. There's no way it was five years ago. Right? RIGHT?!?!? 🫠
This screenshot shows a video from Scott The Woz titled "The Dark Age of Nintendo (Complete Series)" with 140K likes and 11.6 million views, uploaded on October 9, 2020, with a red arrow pointing to the upload date.
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Whoever at Microsoft thought it was a great idea to remove pinned apps in the sidebar from the new M365 web app into a tiny menu icon at the bottom that isn't sortable, you fucking suck. I had all of my usual pinned apps in the sidebar and had it sorted to my liking.
This image shows the sidebar of the M365 Copilot app with options like New Chat, Search, Library, Create, Teach, Frontier, Agents, Notebooks, and Chats. At the bottom, there's a profile section for Timothy Small indicating premium features are enabled, with a red arrow pointing to the four-square app menu icon next to the profile.
November 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Yeah. I guess an ouija is a hazard.
This image shows a block of white text on a dark background explaining how to extract a summary from hazard-related information, highlighting the word "OUIJA" in red as an example hazard listed under "POTENTIAL HAZARDS," and noting that only an overview paragraph summarizing near, short, and long-term hazards is needed for the forecast.
November 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Nice
The image shows a phone screen displaying that the battery is 69% charged with an estimated 9 minutes remaining to reach 80%, along with the time 2:45.
November 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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I guess that's one way to get off a cliff.
November 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Something interesting I've noticed with GPT-OSS 20B these last few months is that it will use a narrow space Unicode character (U+202F) instead of the usual space Unicode character (U+0020).

I'm guessing the narrow space reduces tokens?
A screenshot showing the text "10 June 2025" with narrow space Unicode characters, which is shown as "10 June 2025".
November 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Holy shit. I have been wanting to turn this off ever since they made it a thing years ago.
The image displays a list of new features for iOS 26.1, including a new Camera setting that allows users to turn on or off the Lock Screen swipe to open the Camera.
November 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Oh God.

#TheOuterWorlds2
November 4, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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October 31, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Of course it's Front Door. It's always Front Door.

https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status
The image is a screenshot of a Microsoft Azure Front Door connectivity issues notification. It details that customers and Microsoft services using Azure Front Door may be experiencing issues due to an inadvertent configuration change. The notification outlines steps being taken to resolve the problem, including blocking changes and rolling back the AFD configuration, and provides a link to resources for failover strategies. The message was last updated on October 29, 2025.
October 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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It works though. Now what is it for? Well... I'm dicking around with getting hourly/daily forecast data from the NWS... Through an MCP server... For my locally hosted LLM... To reduce the amount of tokens used...

Yeah. That's how fucking stupid it is. 🫠
This image displays a daily weather forecast processed with an LLM using data from the National Weather Service. The forecast includes a summary of expected conditions, temperatures, chances of precipitation, and wind speeds for the upcoming days, with specific details for Tonight, Wednesday, Wednesday Night, Thursday, and Thursday Night. The summary highlights a transition from wet to drier conditions, with highs climbing into the mid-60s and a generally pleasant, dry environment expected by the end of the week. A table at the bottom breaks down the forecast by period, showing conditions, temperature, precipitation odds, wind speed, and gusts.
October 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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It can't be that bad, right?

Look... I had to write a macro to unwrap potentially null values with similar types, but not always. Top it off with the fact that I wrote a macro to use inside another macro and did multi-nested pattern matching.
This image displays a snippet of code written in Rust featuring several macro rules for unwrapping quantitative values and handling different input formats with optional conversion functions and unit strings. The code includes multiple pattern-matching `match` statements that analyze inputs and conditionally apply transformations or return formatted strings, often involving rounding values or formatting them with specific strings for display purposes. The image shows a snippet of Rust code, likely from a project involving formatting and rounding quantitative values with unit strings, handling input value matching, and conditional formatting based on minimum, maximum, and conversion functions. The code uses pattern matching and type conversions to process numerical data in a structured way, displaying a focus on precise value handling and display formatting. This image displays a snippet of Rust code, with various variables and error handling mechanisms for extracting hourly forecast data. The code uses the Result and Option types to handle potential failures gracefully, converting quantitative values like temperature, wind speed, and precipitation probability into human-readable strings, while also including units conversion from Celsius to Fahrenheit and kilometers to miles. It includes conditional checks for valid input types like DateTime, and features a clear structure for parsing and validating weather data from a grid point hourly forecast period.
October 29, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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"What music have you listened to the most this year?"

Definitely something that is 100% not political. Nope. Just something completely unrelated to politics, anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, and whatnot.
This is a screenshot of a music listening tracker showing album scrobbling data for the period from January 1, 2025, to October 28, 2025, with 170 albums scrobbled during this time. The top-scrobbed album is "Clockworked" by Stray From the Path, which has 316 scrobble entries. The interface is set to display the "Albums" section in a dark theme with navigation tabs for Scrobbles, Artists, Albums, and Tracks at the top.
October 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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This got a good laugh out of me. lol
This is a screenshot of a Reddit thread with three posts on a dark background. The first post by MaleficentAnt8895 says Alabama is assembling an all-star roster of “dog water” elected officials, a slang term for mediocre or unimpressive people. The second post by bwolven asks if they’ve ever not been “dog water,” and the third post by wolfenstein734 replies that the person in question is “better than George Wallace.” Each post has a username, upvote count, and a small team logo or abbreviation, with the time since posting shown as “7h.”
October 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Don't fucking tell me what to do with my network, Google.
The image is a graphic from GFiber explaining how internet setup can limit Wi-Fi speeds. It features a person sitting on a bench in a stylized outdoor setting with text overlayed describing how split Wi-Fi networks can cause slow downs and dropped connections. The graphic includes the GFiber logo and the headline "Fix your Wi-Fi to get faster speeds."
October 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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I don't dislike the new Office app icons, but... Why remove the letters from the iOS icons?
The image shows a mobile device screen displaying the "Office" app folder. Within the folder are four app icons: Word with a blue icon, PowerPoint with a red icon, Excel with a green icon, and OneNote with a purple icon. The image shows colorful, abstract representations of Microsoft Office applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams, arranged on white, cube-shaped pedestals against a light grey background.
October 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Nice
The image shows a screenshot of a pull request on a software development platform. It displays information about a request to update a Rust crate named "regex" to version 1.12.1, labeled as issue number 69, with a highlighted "Pull requests" tab indicating one open request.
October 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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I'm 48 hours in and I just noticed this nice little touch. When it rains and you open the map, rain drops onto the map.

#GhostOfYotei
October 9, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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It's pretty easy to get some wallpaper worthy screenshots from this game.

#GhostOfYotei
A vibrant orange tree stands prominently in the foreground with a field of white flowers at its base. Behind the tree is a lush green forest and a rocky cliffside with a waterfall cascading down. The sky is partially visible, showcasing soft sunlight breaking through the clouds.
October 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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I've been struggling to find a use case for Nushell ever since I installed it last year. I love the idea behind it, but I can't rely on it as a default shell.

I think I've finally found one: Creating very simple "CLI tools" that I can run from other shells.
The image shows two terminal windows with dark green text on a black background displaying command-line output. The windows show information about the `brew-upgrader` command, including usage instructions, flags, and input/output types. System resource usage like CPU and memory are also displayed at the top of each prompt.
October 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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No no no... You've got the wrong idea YouTube. I'm just trying to get obliterated by watching and listening to the music video for an ass beater song.
The image shows a screenshot of the YouTube app displaying a crisis support page. In the search box it says "dying wish i don't belong anywhere". The page states "You're not alone" and provides the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline with options to call or chat. Above the text is a simple graphic of two purple hearts, and below is a disclaimer about the content potentially relating to suicide or self-harm.
October 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Damn

#GhostOfYotei
A lone figure stands on a snowy cliff overlooking a vast, snow-covered mountain range under a cloudy sky. A traditional Japanese torii gate is visible on the right side of the frame, adding a sense of serenity to the wintry landscape.
October 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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October 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM