My local gym has finally got an Evolt 360 scanner, so I was able to do a follow up scan (about 6 months after I did the first one). The left is today's scan, the right is the scan I did in July

Svitolina wins! 6-4 6-1

Wife: what kind of camera do you want for you studio? Me:

Third game. Elina Svitolina vs Cristina Bucsa

Second game. Elsa Jacqemot vs Martha Kostyuk

First game of the day. Arthur Fery vs Flavio Cobolli

First snack of the day. This cost $31! What a rip 😂😂

Spending the day at the Australian Open. Very hot and busy! How good 😊

Today's weigh-in. Down 0.5kg since last week, which is 1.1lb lost this week, and 7.05lbs lost this year. Average for this year is 3.5lbs. Slightly disappointed with this, but I didn't move around as much in terms of step count as I would have liked, and I've reached <100kg, which is a positive 🙂

Beyond excited to be presenting TWO sessions at one of my favorite tech conferences again this year @ndcconferences.com Sydney! ndcsydney.com/speakers/wil...

Nice to be in good company

Spent the day playing with storing agent chat history in Cosmos DB, rather than using the default in-memory storage, using the Microsoft Agent Framework. I've written a blog post on how you can implement custom ChatMessageStore objects to achieve this: www.willvelida.com/posts/ms-age...

One thing with experimental frameworks is that you can never fully trust the docs being able to provide the most up-to-date information. It's much better to look at GitHub to find out what the correct APIs are!

I prefer not to pay for LLM access when building agents, so leveraging GitHub-hosted models has been a great cost-effective solution. I managed to configure an agent using the MS Agent Framework and GitHub models, so I blogged about it: www.willvelida.com/posts/ms-age...

First weigh in this year. Down 2.7kg since Jan 1st. That's about 5.95lbs lost so far this year. I think that this is my body going into shock after cutting out fizzy drinks and beer.

Spent the day playing around with Azure SRE Agent Preview. There's some promising stuff in there, but the service is still in preview, so there's some gaps in functionality. Have feedback/questions? LMK www.willvelida.com/posts/azure-... #Azure #SRE #agents

Hello from Melbourne! Forecasted 41°C weather today (105.8°F) - We are literally cooked 🔥

Decided to make a blog post about some goals for the upcoming year. It's been 6 days without fizzy drinks or beer, so it's a good start: www.willvelida.com/posts/happy-...

Welcome back to work everyone 😅(credit to bottlecap creative)

It's a brand new year, and I have a bunch of goals I'd like to achieve this year. I'd like to see the other side of 95kg, I want to be able to ollie on my skateboard after 20 years, I want to be a better software engineer, do more impactful work, be a great husband, and generally be happier.

Parents are over for NYE, and we've decided to do a Dutch tradition and make oliebollen 😋

2025 was a year full of challenges and highlights. But one day stood out above them all

I have fallen to the Aramex/Fastway curse 😂 delivery person literally came to my address, took a picture of my door, and then said "couldn't deliver" Only options are to wait for them to redeliver (take another photo of my door) or go to their depot to pick it up, defeating the point of delivery 😅

Only a few more hours to make those commits kiddies! 🤣

In Australia, I've just had to add my birthday to access my account. I'm sure that most under 16s would be able to figure that one out if that's all you need to do.

So the social media ban for under 16s in Australia is almost here, and the news media is talking about the dopamine withdrawals like it's going to be a zero day event 🤣😂

Olivia Nuzzi wrote an entire story based on unnamed sources about Biden's decline, reinvigorating calls for him to leave the race -- and the whole time, she was working on RFK Jr.'s behalf, according to her ex-fiance. newrepublic.com/article/2035...

Renewed for 1 more year:

I got the Dapr Docs Contributor badge from @daprdev.bsky.social! www.holopin.io/userbadge/cm...

Lost my footing 😂

Go to turn Windows Features on or off Deselect Recall Restart your machine.

Any CFPs open for upcoming conferences in New Zealand? It's been far too long

Yesterday I had my first skateboarding lesson. I managed to ride fakie (going backwards) properly, do a 180 kickturn, drop-in, and pump the bowl (going back and forth). It's amazing how much progress you can make with a little help.

When you travel all the way to the other side of the world and its the same temperature 🫠

Newcastle is a nice little beach town.

Will blog about this soonish, but I've been playing around with an Azure Principal Architect custom GitHub Copilot Agent that examines a repository, provides recommendations on the codebase based on WAF principals, and then creates issues based on them: github.com/willvelida/b...

I'm finally one of the cool kids 😊 My session on Platform Engineering in the age of Generative AI has been voted in for @dddmelbourne.bsky.social! If you're attending, I'll see you there! www.dddmelbourne.com/agenda?sessi...

BREAKING: General Zod has just endorsed Cuomo

Yesterday at GitHub Universe we announced Custom Agents, and for the past few weeks we've been working to get custom agents from our partners. ➡️ Learn about Custom Agents: github.blog/changelog/20... ➡️ Explore those from our partners on awesome copilot: github.com/github/aweso...

Again, HugOps to those a little closer to home. Outages are rough.

Probably a good reminder to myself and others that if you have a public facing repo for demo purposes, having a contributing file and updated README does wonders.

A GitHub repo of mine that I use for AKS learning got some PRs which I suspect were raised in error, but I've added a contributing file clarifying that while I'm not accepting contributions today, you're free to fork your own and go nuts in your own repo: github.com/willvelida/m...

Did some tinkering around with the new Microsoft Agent Framework yesterday, exposing a basic joke agent as an MCP tool. Very nice! learn.microsoft.com/en-us/agent-...

HugOps to the AWS folks right now. Outages suck for everyone.

Having Melbourne Italian Festa down the road from where I live is handy! (Not so much for the waistline though 😅)

My week as a beer 😂

Using AI chatbots for interviewing job candidates is dystopian. I get that it's a more humanizing experience than actually talking to HR, but it's still dystopian. 😅

I check the dead bird app from time-to-time and this was not on my bingo card today. I can't even see who's followed me: