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:

No matter how you frame it, the harms of AI-generated video outweigh any potential good. There’s simply no valid reason for it to exist.

Semantogen is the only name I'll ever use: devblogs.microsoft.com/semantic-ker...

Drasi turns 1! 🎉 We launched Drasi to make change-driven systems easier—and now we’re adding GQL support for continuous queries alongside openCypher. This means more flexibility and a future-proof path for graph-based apps. opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/10...

So today, I created my first TikTok. It involves me falling over on a skateboard as part of my midlife crisis. Please laugh and enjoy at my expense: vt.tiktok.com/ZSUeAJ5Tf/

In today's episode of my midlife crisis, I spent a bit of time getting over my fear of riding "fakie" (riding backwards). This was one of several attempts, but I managed to nail some down at a slow speed #Skateboarding #OldSkater

It's been a rough week, but I've managed to gain more confidence on the board and maintain somewhat high speeds. I watched some of this video today, and it gave me hope that even though I'm in my mid-30s trying to skate, I'm not too old for it: youtu.be/-ge2jY3OB4A?...

If you work as a Software Engineer, be honest. How many arguments have you had about branching strategies in your lifetime?

I'm grateful that the weather held this morning for me to stake to and from the gym, and that my body held so that I could do my 40 minutes of cardio.

Gangs of youths are organizing themselves and creating needless Javascript frameworks. I'm glad that action is being taken to stop it at the source 😂

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In today's episode of my midlife crisis, I managed to skate the jump box at my skatepark without bailing. It doesn't look too steep here, but it felt like it 😅

Getting into skateboarding finally had me using Reddit 😂 there's a community for old skaters (30+) and there's a bunch of great people encouraging others and giving good advice.

Here’s what we can do to let ABC and Disney know we’re sick of them kowtowing to the fascist Trump Administration.

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

Only Dutch beer can be described this way 😂

The first chapter of Systems Engineering for Agentic Applications just dropped This chapter covers 1⃣ AI foundations 2⃣ AI agents and agentic applications 3⃣ Code samples exploring AI APIs and simple agents systems-engineering-for-agentic-applications.resonatehq.io/chapters/cha...

It's Sunday and sunny outside! Go skate 😁

Not even close.

Managed 150kg for 4 reps for my deadlift and it felt EASY. The incremental increases each week are certainly helping the gains 💪 😂

The Right has long ridiculed the supposed bleeding heart Liberals across the aisle, with many Conservative preachers going so far as to declare empathy a sin even as Jesus’ entire life overflowed with it. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-right-...

Of course it would start raining as the day ends 😂

"AI work is just as good as human work" is a statement that *always* flows from the direction of power. Employers to workers, producers to consumers, but not the reverse. Because it's not a thing people actually believe, but an argument: slop is good enough for you; you are slop.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Proof of execution photo 2

Proof of execution photo.

It's not super intelligence; it's just sparkling brute forcing and pattern recognition 😂