I'm excited to announce that after completing over 800 days of Italian on Duolingo, I can barely order a coffee from a café.

Another beautiful morning in Sciliy

Mt Etna looks pretty good right now

If I don't gain 20kg in weight from this honeymoon, I have failed myself 😂

Undefeated antipasto

As soon as you touch down in Sciliy, grab yourself an arancina 😆

Takeaway beers and spritz in Italy

Pure happiness can be obtained with seafood pasta and Italian house wine

What's the pip boy mascot doing in Sciliy?

Just a basic LEGO Aston Martin DB5 in London the other day...

We've been up since 11pm, but the first sandwhich of the trip was worth the wait.

Another reminder that every Brexitier can go fuck themselves in the face

Wouldn't be the UK if there wasn't a mass of people drinking Stella at the airport at 3am 😂

Give yourself the gift of going to the airport at 3.30am.

Did I just put Oh My Posh in GitHub Copilot CLI? Yes. Am I making a video to show how you can do it too? Also yes. 💕 Shoutout to @scott.hanselman.com for his excellent gist: gist.github.com/shanselman/9...

Just chilling while the government collapses around us 😂

I'll be there! Really looking forward to speaking and visiting Denmark for the first time!

Rare sun appearance in London today!

New Tech Career for Life (Video) Podcast ! Show 5 features Ron Dunn who I've known a long time. Until his recent retirement he was a performance and cost specialist at Snowflake but he's had a long career, particularly in data, and with a long stint at Microsoft. blog.greglow.com/2026/05/12/t...

I'm doing The Push-Up Challenge again this year to raise funds for the for mental health in Australia! If you are willing and able, I'd appreciate any donations as I attempt to complete 3,307 push ups from June 3-26: www.thepushupchallenge.com.au/fundraisers/... #pushforbetter

We visited a very windy Stonehenge today 😂

Watching the last 10 minutes of that game at home. Mum and I are screaming at the TV, and Julia sitting in the corner wondering just what the hell kind of family she married into 😂😂😂😂

Even though I'm coding by hand less these days, I'm doing more systems design work as I'm working alongside a copilot, and building up/reinforcing the agent harness as I'm tackling complex solutions.

"Vibe-coding is in. Software Engineering is useless!" Wrong. The Expression Problem is why your AI-generated pattern-driven code is still broken. Its two solutions let AI reason over the structure of your problem — not guess at it. johnazariah.github.io/2026/05/08/the-craft-isnt-dead.html

I still can't believe there are folks out there who think going on a cruise ship is a good idea.... www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Whenever I do deep research in Claude and it writes "Great Insight" or "Great findings" I imagine this in my head

A computer cannot truly feel spite Therefore a computer cannot program

Absolute scenes at flinders station as a tram has broken down. Had to do a quick switch to the train to get to client site 😂😂

My author copies of the second edition of the SC-200 Exam Ref which I wrote with @yuridiogenes turned up this week. Can't believe I wrote the 1st version of this ~5 years ago stuck in lockdown in NZ! If you're using Sentinel and Defender you should read, up to date with the new unified portal etc.

After YEARS of trying, I finally got accepted into @ndcconferences.com Oslo this year! I'll be talking about applying OWASP Top 10 for agents to your agents! ndcoslo.com/agenda/apply...

Happy May 4th my fellow Aussie nerds!

Got an interesting phishing attack today: a link to a take home coding test for a job I hadn't applied for. It seemed innocent, pointing to a GitHub repo, but cloning and running the repo would definitely have done bad things. If you're expecting coding tests, check they're from the right company!

You know who and what I'm talking about

also lots of new in tech people who think all the safegaurds are bunk - have never accidently deleted the production database :D :D

this is another great use case for immutable/air gapped backups folks. In #Azure there's immutable backups as a feature or you can have backups in another subscription with PIM enabled for limited accounts.

New breach: Udemy had 1.4M email addresses leaked yesterday following an extortion attempt by ShinyHunters. Data included name, address, phone, employer info and instructor payout method. 56% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Udemy

If you're at @ndcconferences.com Sydney, come and join me in Room 1 where I'll be talking about building responsible AI agents! #NDCSydney

The one true answer to the curly brackets debate

"We're going to get weird in here"

NDC Sydney stickers are lit!

There are a lot of folks in town for NDC Sydney and AI Tour. Just saw a few of my old teammates in Azure CXP!

At the start of my software engineering career, I would use multiple screens to do my work. These days, all I need to do is split the terminal.

.NET has an out of band update today to fix CVE-2026-40372, an Elevation of Privilege, which, in some cases, could allow an attacker to forge authentication tickets, or decode authentication tickets or other protected data. github.com/dotnet/annou...

Flying into Sydney tomorrow to deliver two talks at #NDCSydney 2026 this week! On Thursday, I'll be talking about Platform Engineering in the age of Gen AI, and on Friday, I'll be talking about building responsible AI Agents. If you're in town and attending NDC Sydney, come and say hi!

ARTICUNO VS MOLTRES FTW!!!!!

You WERE wrong to question me, foolish Copilot! 😄😂

I'll be speaking at #GlobalAzure ANZ this Saturday on Applying the OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications to Your AI Agents! (9:30am AEST/11:30am NZT). See you there: globalazure.net/events/8df74...

New blog post! I've built a multi-agent system into my personal health platform: A conversational Q&A agent over my health data using the Microsoft Agent Framework, and a report generator using GitHub Copilot SDK, with Entra Agent ID handling auth: open.substack.com/pub/willveli...

Finally found a place that sells Heaps Normal through the draft! Lincoln Hotel on Cardigan street

Microsoft just launched a new open security and governance framework for AI agents. When I first heard about this project, I immediately saw how impactful it could be. Looking forward to hearing the community’s feedback. opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/04...