A post from the archive 📫: Curiosity unbounded https://www.poppastring.com/blog/curiosity-unbounded #musings

New blog post - Automatically Signing a Windows EXE with Azure Trusted Signing, dotnet sign, and GitHub Actions www.hanselman.com/blog/automat...

Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.

A post from the archive 📫: The return of WinDbg https://www.poppastring.com/blog/the-return-of-windbg #debugging #diagnostics

Look, too many lists exclude sweet potatoe from their top 5 pies, and I have to seriously reconsider who I follow on this app.

AFTER FIVE YEARS OF BEGGING... #microsoft FINALLY listened to me and added a Property in #visualstudio2026 to stop auto-inserting scrollbars in embedded forms (no more double scrollbars!) 👍 #programming

VisualStudio2026のAIに20年前に作ったおバカコードを改修させたらなんとなくかっこ良くなった(^_^;

OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8

#games #gamedev #VisualStudio #Microsoft I converted all my projects from vs2022 to vs2026. Result?... All good!🤪

PowerShell Pro Tools (for Visual Studio) works fine with VS2026.

OK, I will not be tricked into another fruitless late night search. If I want to see the lights I am just gonna book that trip to Alaska.

Today we celebrated 100 million free school meals provided to children in London’s state primary schools 🎉

Pesky Verge ethics policy strikes again in this killer @andyjayhawk.bsky.social piece looking into car YouTube’s obsession with Chinese EVs and the company organizing the access and junkets. Comments from DeMuro, TFL, OmarDrives, and more -> www.theverge.com/transportati...

As a sketch idea this would have been too ludicrous even at SNL

As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.

Visual Studio is going evergreen: - Feature updates every month, not every quarter. - A new annual version each year, released in November alongside the .NET release. devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...

I am just glad that we are going to be able to look back at this moment and see how many people were just talking out the side of their necks. 🤷🏾‍♀️

A starter pack If you're looking to follow folks from Microsoft's Core AI Developer Division. go.bsky.app/JuyrK9N

Raspberry Berret

A post from the archive 📫: The gift of time https://www.poppastring.com/blog/the-gift-of-time #musings

LIVE IN EACH SEASON AS IT PASSES BREATHE THE AIR DRINK THE DRINK AND RESIGN YOURSELF TO THE INFLUENCE OF THE EARTH. #columbusmetroparks

My favorite piece of content today.

Open Sourcing Zork I, II, and III Code www.thurrott.com/classic-tech...

#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #TeacherSky #EducatorSky #BlackInSTEM #WomenInST #BlackWomenSTEM Please don’t pick a major for the money.!💰

Closed my comic box last night after having one for over 30 years. It's a sort of bittersweet feeling.

Why study history? Because the field has never been more exciting! #education

A post from the archive 📫: Debug & Analyze Dump Files in Visual Studio https://www.poppastring.com/blog/debug-analyze-dump-files-in-visual-studio #visualstudio #debugging #diagnostics

I am finding it is helpful to add as many file references as possible in the #GitHub #Copilot prompts in #VisualStudio

I follow more of these people than is probably healthy given that I haven't worked there for a while... :)

Introducing MSVC AddressSanitizer for ARM64 targets #visualstudio devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/intr...

"The case that turned the justices into art critics" Andy Warhol would Warhol-ize Goldsmith’s photo and produce an image of Prince as a music icon. Decades later, these two contrasting portraits of Prince would wind up at the Supreme Court... www.scotusblog.com/2025/11/the-...

Where are the photographers? Skydivers? Astronomers? This is for all of yall. What an incredible project/result

I cannot speak for today but this was how English History was taught in UK schools in the 80s/90s: - Romans - Anglo-Saxons & Vikings - Normans & Medieval feudalism - Tudors & Stuarts - Georgians (Industrial Rev, *nothing else* 👀) - Victorians (abolition 🤔) - World War 1 & 2

A beautiful autumn day in Columbus Metro Parks #quarrytrail

Vibe coding using my voice (as typing hurts) a new Windows feature using Copilot CLI (at the command line only) www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMbH...

Working on samples for aspire 13 github.com/davidfowl/as... #aspire @aspire.dev

Wales beat Liechtenstein ahead of Tuesday's clash with second-placed North Macedonia. Belgium play Liechtenstein.

A post from the archive 📫: What is a photograph? https://www.poppastring.com/blog/what-is-a-photograph #artificialintelligence #musings

Senegal lose for the first time since September 2023, as Carlo Ancelotti's Brazil beat them 2-0 at the Emirates. Goals were scored by Chelsea's Estevao and Manchester United's Casemiro.

every new AI application amounts to coming up with a smart sounding way to prey and profit from the most vulnerable and gullable

I Bringing Fluent Design to Mobile: My Reimagining of Windows Phone UI and Live Tiles (Windows Astra Concept) [I cannot get enough of these Windows Phone concepts that would never have helped 🤷🏾‍♀️] www.reddit.com/r/windowspho...

Hey, racers…. I know you aren’t working when you could be cheering your marble??

Just learned a bunch about MCP servers and how to use them locally both for dev tasks and internal company functionality on today's devBetter.com coaching call. There's some cool stuff in the Docker MCP toolkit and it's pretty easy to spin up your own MCP server with the #dotnet new templates.

Warning: Copilot and AI look slick, but don’t trust everything they spit out. They’re Junior Programmers — smart, but lacking real-world experience and best practices. Someday that’ll change, but for now you still need your own brain and judgment. #dotnetconf #Copilot #dotnet

Visual Studio 2022 Aspire users: *UPDATE to the latest version of Aspire* You're missing out on so much! Latest Aspire supports .NET 8/9/10! Run this in a terminal: dotnet new install Aspire.ProjectTemplates --force Open NuGet Package Manager & update all Aspire.* packages to version 13. Enjoy!

Just published 🚀: An AI-orchestrated espionage campaign https://www.poppastring.com/blog/an-aiorchestrated-espionage-campaign #musings #artificialintelligence

And look what just arrived from #dotnetconf ! Thanks! 🙏

Bonkers coincidence… Such a rare last name too. Huh.

The city of #Detroit launched the emergency resource in response to the disruption in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, impacting some 1.4 million Michiganders.