Someone once said that if David Bowie would die, the world would fall apart. Quite prescient and pretty much spot on, I would venture to say, 10 years after the fact.

#Unity moves fast and break things, in this case my #MRTK3 demo on #Apple #VisionPro on slightly higher versions - as happens often. I spent some (okay, a bit too much) time on trying to find out why, and came up with a solution making the app run again localjoost.github.io/MRTK3-apps-o...

About last night... participating in a citizen science project sometimes tells you things you'd rather not know #fireworks #pollution #particlematter

Good luck to anyone working on the #ER / #SEH (Spoedeisende Eerste Hulp), the #firebrigade or the #police in the Netherlands tonight. I fear it's going to be the mother of all #NewYearsEve. I also hope from here on things will be better.

@richcampbell.bsky.social ref Aussie whisky: met a guy from Sullivan's Cove at a whisky tasting here in Amersfoort ages ago. Organized by well-known liquor shop here. Was hooked immediately. He shipped cask strength for a very reasonable price, like in the €80 per 0.7l range if I recall correctly

Using UIKit made creating buttons in Lens Studio so much easier compared to using plain Spectacles Interaction Kit... but we lost a few things, like fine grained behavior control, and sound effects. I show you how to bring those to UIKit buttons. localjoost.github.io/Controlling-...

If you are at #UnitedXR next week - I will not be there, but my friend @jbmcculloch.bsky.social and his colleagues *will* be there, *with* Snap #Spectacles. If you have not tried them out yet, this is your chance and you should really take that chance

Dear #FedEx, your chat bot is so stupid and limited that I think it is a net negative to your value as a courier

The latest version of Visual Studio brings instant startup, improved debugging and diagnostics, and deeper GitHub Copilot integration. #VS2026 enhances productivity across every stage of development with modern UI updates and tighter .NET and Azure connections. Learn more: msft.it/63321tTtbH#VS2026

@richcampbell.bsky.social maybe your crack shot aunts life can be filmed as "crocodile Dundee's NZ niece" 😂. I LOL'd at the boar story

Having a car with voice control and kids in the rear with that particular sense of teenage humour must be a recipe for insanity if not disaster 😂

RIP Jane #Goodall. Science lost a great mind, humanity - and its close relatives - a great and kind person.

Boom! Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here! The world’s most popular IDE just got an upgrade. Read this post by the one and only @madskristensen.net I can already tell you it compiles and edits Mixed Reality app *just fine* ;) devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...

Annoying behavior by Dutch charities: calling me on the phone, profusely thanking me for supporting, then starting a long story... I stop them after 30 seconds saying "can we skip forward to the part where you start begging for more money?" I hate those scripted call centres

Y'all I should order one? 🤣

Snap Inc employees seem to be almost exclusively using Mac, so using Windows for Spectacles development requires you to know a few not-so-obvious things, particularly when it comes to deploying apps using USB cables. This is how to get it working, quirks and all localjoost.github.io/Deploying-on...

One of those days... and it isn't even Monday

And here's me complaining about the neighborhood cats invading my garden... this is next level

For HoloATC for Snap Inc. #Spectacles, I made a component to select a location specifically on the floor. I spun that off into a reusable component and described how to use it - and for the more technically inclined, how it works. localjoost.github.io/A-Lens-Studi...

OMG Randall Munroe, never change,. This one made me lol and even showed it to my non-nerd wife, and she laughed too. www.xkcd.com/3121/

For fun, I decided to enter my HoloATC for Snap Inc. Spectacles app into their 4th 'Community challenge' some time ago. Didn't expect much from it, as there's lot of competition from highly talented young people. Kind of forgot about it, too. Until yesterday evening:

Slightly diminish a band: Rammpebble

Today I replaced my 10+ year old single router by a mesh network. I really wonder how 'normal' people are to overcome the hurdles I had to overcome. OTOH, normal people probably don't have 30 network devices, 18 Zigbee devices and 6 custom devices in their house, a pi-hole amongst them.

#MRTK3 and #Unity is going places - proving you can even run C# on an #Apple #VisionPro. This blog details how you can move an existing MRTK3 XR solution to run on the AVP. localjoost.github.io/Adapting-MRT... Yes folks, it finally happened. I have a Mac. Only used for AVP development though ;)

After a Lens Studio project keeping me occupied for half a year, I finally made some time for blogging again. For my Lens Studio app, I made an architectural piece of code called a "Service Manager", Which made me run into some peculiar TypeScript things again. localjoost.github.io/Service-driv...

Mood

What if heaven exists and when we get to the gates St Peter asks “how many unused domain names did you have?”

How to be a leader and not be an *sshole, or how a normal person not coming from a high socio-economical class more or less accidentally became a country's PM, was in the hot seat during various natural disasters, a terrorist attack, and a global pandemic. And became mother while doing all that.

Soviet Star Trek - some people have WAY too much fun with AI video. I wonder how much Kilowatts have been burned making this People have way too much too much fun AI video www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwDk... www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtuI...

This is one hell of a speech. The point where his voice breaks, when he recounts learning his parents sold the van, and for what... that really hit me, for very personal reasons. No more spoilers. Go watch.

Look what I found back. With recipes from lots of MVPs (former) Microsofties and community members (including @scott.hanselman.com @maryjofoley.bsky.social @papa.dev @chriswoodruff.bsky.social @richcampbell.bsky.social etc. From 2011 #mvpbuzz 😁

9 years ago I built my first real #MixedReality app, HoloATC, for #HoloLens 1, in #Unity. I just completed a port - or actually a complete rewrite) - for #Snapchat #Spectacles. If you have one, give it a try! It is my first XR venture outside Unity my-lenses.snapchat.com/28249103-810...

Well, I must say *this* is a surprise. I assumed my stint as an MVP would end when Microsoft left the XR field. Lo and behold: last year I was a Mixed Reality Development / Windows Development MVP, this year I am a proud Windows Development / Developer Tools MVP. #mvpbuzz

Also brilliant on #Mac: if you think UAC on Windows is annoying, imagine having to fill in your password for every change you male to the system, every permission that is needed. I assume Apple designed delightfully that to make sure you quickly learn your password by heart. 🙄

For the first time in well over 5 years I have to deal with a #Mac again. Setting it up from scratch. After an hour of seemingly randomly disappearing windows I find out that clicking on desktop (which happens frequently if you just miss a window) moves all windows away. WHAT LUNATIC DESINGED THIS??

Kiwi English is very interesting. It constantly throws my language processor just that bit off track 😁

Every smartphone user knows the sinking feeling of when you have to quickly do something with or know from an app you don't use often *right now*, and finding out it has been completely changed, logged you out, removed settings or favorites. Because data migrations are hard, apparently.

That is pretty cool !

ReSharper in #VSCode: Public Preview Begins! 🚀 The legendary C# productivity toolkit has just become available for Visual Studio Code. Your editor may change, but your ReSharper benefits remain. Dive into the details here: jb.gg/rs-in-vscode... #dotnet #visualstudio #csharp #.net #jetbrains

And here we are, 30 years later. We celebrated with a dinner friends and family yesterday evening - those that are still amongst us - in our favorite restaurant. Some brought their kids who were not born then, yet are now at the same age as us on this picture 😁 Love you still as I did that day 💞

Blogged: "A behaviour to move an object back to its initial location after moving it manually" #MRKT3 #Unity #MixedReality localjoost.github.io/A-behaviour-...

Maple Syrup Production by US State Note: Quebec alone produces 3X more than the entire US. Latest stats by province & state: brilliantmaps.com/maple-syr...

@richcampbell.bsky.social heard you talk about Tasmanian whisky on WW. Years ago I discovered a Tasmanian whisky called Sullivan's Cove. On a local whisky festival. The actual owner of the distillery was here in Amersfoort. It was Very good and quite affordable. €80 for a cask strength bottle

Had quite some fun with is back in the day, as far back as Windows Phone 7. Quicquid coepit et desinit

By now, almost every user of #HoloATC is a #Quest 3/3s user, there's also a fair bit of Quest 2 users. Yesterday I saw a #HoloLens2 light up in Bellevue, WA, USA. Maybe someone at Microsoft who shortly revived a dust-gathering device? #foroldtimessake

@thurrott ref WWeekly we also have a Samsung washer. The song it plays we identified after some time as an excerpt from Franz Schubert's "Forrellenkwintet" from 1819. Maybe Samsung wants to do some cultural education? 😁

Just leaving this here

Almost every nerd is aware of the iconic Microsoft Windows theme songs. The one for Windows 95 just became history as it got inducted into the National Recording Registry. #Microsoft #Minecraft #Windows

WinAppSDK 1.7.1 is out! Mostly bug fixes details here github.com/microsoft/Wi... #WinAppSDK #WinUI #WinDev #Windows

Looking to build an #MCP server in C#?!?! I got you covered with my walk through guide! It takes minutes to setup and get running and testing and it is a BEAUTIFUL API! devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/build... #vscode #mcpservers #githubcopilot #dotnet #csharp