Already tired of seeing AI written summaries in pull requests descriptions. Just feels so non-personal and bloated. I would (almost) rather see "fix stuff" than to see a no-context summary of the diffs with endless file and line references.

Ever wanted to do a @biceplang.bsky.social What-If Deployment without Write permissions? 💪 Now you finally can! Using the newly released ValidationLevel deployment option you can e.g. more securely run a what-if to validate change from a PR: #azure #biceplang github.com/matsest/bice...

On the left, the lie. On the right, reality.

1 year ago ~to the day~

Just released an update to my demo repo for @github.com hosted runners with #Azure Private Networking to now support explicit outbound access using a NAT Gateway (default outbound access will be retired September 30th 2025). #githubactions #biceplang #powershell

Everyone so excited about MCP as the latest AI awesome sauce Me: looks like an API gateway @monkchips.com: SOAP for AI tools cool cool Time to answer all the same questions again

This is an particularly ugly example of a GitHub Actions supply-chain attack. All tags updated to point to malicious version. Commit introduced via false renovate commit. www.stepsecurity.io/blog/harden-... More info in repo issue: github.com/tj-actions/c...

Want to try out Azure Private Networking for GitHub-hosted Runners? With the use of @biceplang.bsky.social, @github.com APIs and some PowerShell I made a end-to-end deployment of both the required Azure and GitHub configurations. Up and running in less than 1 minute! ⚡ github.com/matsest/gh-r...

come on dude we’re running out of cards

Oh boy, working in "serious IT" sounds like a miserable place to be 🤦

Oh no they've invented a much cheaper Bluetooth radio before any of us figured out how to make a product as useful as AirPods with our expensive Bluetooth radios

...and there's the end credits. Still holds up as a fantastic game, even in 2025.

As I'm sharing some of the skepticism on current state of AI, this was a positive take to read. Invest in core skills. Build transferable knowledge. Both soft skills, and a solid understanding of fundamentals within your field will make you resilient to current fads. css-tricks.com/the-importan...

A quite good summary of PowerShell. I think it's underrated as a powerful cross-platform, high-lvl scripting language w/lots of advanced features under the hood. But many devs and engineers shy away from it. Maybe due to the (outdated) Windows-only association. Others maybe due to things like this

A #powershell thing that's confused me several times (and I was reminded of today)... What do you think the output of this script will be? And why? Is it as expected? 😉 (PowerShell 7.4, code is in alt-text) @jdhitsolutions.com @mrpowershell.bsky.social @steviecoaster.dev #pwsh

Happy New Year! The greatest gift of last year came just a few days before Christmas, and I'm grateful I got the chance to have a total of 3 weeks of time off to take care of our little one and spend time with the family. Now reading myself for getting back to work again 😴

Would be nice if every day of #adventofcode was a Sunday / day off. Let's see how many days of self-torment I have in me this December 🫠

Working on a #Powershell replacement for the `grep` command, to quickly search files. Trying to get same behavior and argument support with just native commands 🥷 (Stuck on a Windows-machine without WSL support for a project..)

It's baffling that the software many of us use for The Boring Stuff every day sucks at basic things that would have been so easy in the real world. It took YEARS before the feature of registering in-person/virtual attendance for a meeting finally came (and it's still kind of new so few use it)..

Enjoying some childhood nostalgia today, by starting a new save file of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on my Nintendo Switch 🎮 25+ years since it was first released and still a great game!

Sad to see such a great community site deteriorate. Any good alternatives out there?

Just sold a ticket using Ticketmaster Resale: They will sell your ticket for you (below listing price), add yet another service fee for the new buyer and then give you money after 17(!) days. Excellent idea - subpar execution.

Today a co-worker failed to upload a pdf to a government file upload because to file name was in all-caps, including the file extension (.PDF). Everything worked with a simple rename to.pdf.. 🤦 Devs, if you build a file upload service, don't validate on the file extension only! ☝️

Freedom to tinker with my own setup to do under-the-hood stuff as well as user-facing stuff to my own liking. Freedom to fix it If something doesn't work. If something works poorly I can improve or even replace it - no lock-in. Freedom to re-purpose hardware to run it. Freedom.

Spent some off time today trying to set up a music rig on my Linux machine using Guitarix (virtual amp) and Ardour (DAW). Both OSS and actively maintained. Everything actually run's quite well out of the box (on Pop OS!), and my Scarlett Solo worked without any driver hassle. Will it last?

Ever dealt with service tags in Azure networking? Want to quickly find out if an IP belongs to a tag, or inspect/search across service tags? Found this excellent website which also has an API: azservicetags.azurewebsites.net Source on GitHub: github.com/jelledruyts/...

@github.com -hosted runners with Azure private networking hits the sweet spot when it comes to bridging the gap between a managed service (from GitHub) and self-hosting infrastructure in Azure. Just missing the last few pieces (APIs) to get this fully automated end-to-end. github.com/matsest/gh-r...

Not really onboard the AI hype-train, but let's try something.. Tested NotebookLM on one of my posts regarding GitHub Actions for Azure with OpenID Connect. It's fairly technical and contains lot's of code samples. Blog (w/embedded audio): www.mxe.no/posts/securi...

New to Bluesky and looking for tech folks to follow? I've compiled a list of tech-related starter packs into a Github Gist. gist.github.com/stevendborre...

*Entering the blue sky* Hope to see less ads, spam, extremism, and bots than on the birdsite - and more of the good posts and great people, both familiar and new 👋