I swear there is no active politician in America today who "gets it" more than @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

This weekends project - an Xmas present from my sister. It was incredibly fun to build and it is SO detailed.

Join our community. Auditions Jan 3 & 10! 🎶 ➡️ Sign up for a time on Saturday, January 3rd from 10am to 2pm or Saturday, January 10th from 11am to 2pm, plus get more info about auditions, rehearsals & performances: bit.ly/4eFkCsj #Singing #Auditions #SingWithUs #Community #LGBTQChorus

Got up early and we went for a walk after breakfast. The view did NOT disappoint.

First Xmas movie: Hundreds of Beavers - first class, 100% approval Second Xmas movie: Anna and the Apocalypse - we all regret seeing it.

I keep wanting to say something, and I keep not knowing what to say. The trans community does not harm cis people by existing. They are just trying to live their lives, same as anyone else. That life doesn't look exactly like mine; my life doesn't match anyone else's. That's okay.

There's something kinda magical about sitting in a hotel room looking out the window on Eliott Bay on a somewhat rainy winter evening. Kudos to the hotel for putting captains chairs in front of the windows.

OK, the hotel view does not suck.

I am so angry at the pointless cruelty of this administration that I can barely think. And, yes. I hold those who chose not to vote as responsible for this as those who actively voted to support it.

At the Microsoft MVP summit, @kclemson.bsky.social, Raymond Chen and I did a talk consisting of stories from the past 40 or so years of Microsoft history. Unfortunately ir wasn't recorded. This fall, we recreated it on video to be shared, and I'm so happy we did.

I've been pretty quiet the last few months regarding MONSTER GUTS 2e, but I'm thrilled to announce that the game is almost finished. I'm expecting to release the PDFs sometime next week. #MG2e #MONSTERGUTS2e www.backerkit.com/c/projects/w...

i see so much love for inclusive detective stories, nick & nora spouses, and solid whodunnits and yet i can get no traction for my series that is all that and more. can you PLEASE help people know about Viviana Valentine? www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/GFM/a...

Cleaning up stuff and found this: a microwaved Windows NT 3.1 CD 😊

Accepting a friend request from a friend's wife. For all the wrong reasons.

People don't understand what is meant by "literacy" and the "literacy crisis". Literacy isn't just not being able to physically read. Many people know how to see words and say words, which is basic reading. Literacy is being able to infer the correct information from what you read.

🔔🎄 Opening Today! 🎉 Do you have your tickets yet?? 🎁 SMC rings in everyone’s favorite holiday tradition: seasonal classics, Christmas comedy, costumes, dancing and the gayest sing-along in Seattle. It’s the holliest, jolliest time of the year! ❄️ Tickets: bit.ly/46CpxIe

OK, jewish Hive Mind question: Anyone know why the box of aluminum foil has a kosher symbol on it? This implies that there is both kosher and traef aluminum foil. Which I didn't think was a thing, aluminum foil being, you know, aluminum.

TIL. When I started using x86 assembly daily, I was told to use xor ax, ax because it was a 2 byte instruction not a 5 byte instruction and memory was so slow that except for divide, the smaller instruction was always faster. Fascinating to see that the processors now embed this inside the pipeline

🔔 The Seattle Men’s Chorus rings in everyone’s favorite holiday tradition: seasonal classics, Christmas comedy, costumes, dancing and the gayest sing-along in Seattle. It’s the holliest, jolliest time of the year! ❄️ Tickets: bit.ly/46CpxIe

🔔🎄 The Seattle Men’s Chorus rings in everyone’s favorite holiday tradition: seasonal classics, Christmas comedy, costumes, dancing and the gayest sing-along in Seattle. It’s the holliest, jolliest time of the year! ❄️ Tickets: bit.ly/46CpxIe

Did you see Wicked: For Good this weekend?! 💚 If you were dying to sing along like us, then maybe you should audition to join Seattle Men’s Chorus! 😄  ➡️ Auditions will be January 3 and 10, 2026, from 9am-2pm. More information: bit.ly/4eFkCsj #JoinUs #Singing #Chorus #Seattle

I love this show. It's props time baby 😊

Ios 26 has REALLY messed up bluesky because it thinks bsky is in a window. There really needs to be an iPad version.....

Valorie mentioned that Scot (the family friend) had made a youtube video about the design of these games. Honestly, this seems so darned cool to me.

Check out the Kickstarter for one of my family friends: Christmas Ornament Games - Garland Games by Jordan Goddard on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/ind...

Pumpkin Goblins

Last night at chorus rehearsal: "I need you to bounce up and down during this song, except for this part where you need to be erect" The chorus lost it. One of my section mates: "After bouncing up and down, of COURSE we're going to be erect". My chorus is a bunch of fully grown 12-year-olds. ❤️

Over the past couple of weeks, I've been building a threat model for an internal component. Mostly me asking lots of questions, and getting great answers. Today I discovered they disabled the component because while answering one of my questions they found a vulnerability in the component!

Do people think the old docs or the new docs look better? Old: github.com/Azure/azure-... New: github.com/Azure/azure-... The code to create a SecretClient in #rustlang is a little higher up in the README. This mirrors what most other #AzureSDK languages do while allowing us to compile snippets.

Some of what I've been working on for the past month or so - the lions share is @heaths.dev but I have pieces in there too. We're getting close enough to this thing being done I can almost taste it.

Fun story: the dev lead for Windows 3.1 required all his devs to use machines which were dog slow every day because he figured that if they had to put up with slower machines than our customers they would make sure Windows 3 ran REALLY well on all machines.

Come see me and 180 of my best friends singing our hearts out! Dec 5-23 all over the Puget Sound area.

Dems, congrats on winning some - but I stg pls actually be useful and not just bask in the wins meaning magical overwhelming change. DO SHIT. Be on some new shit with effective tactics, not performative nonsense. I want to see more than just who can be the lesser of two parties of uselessness.

Late last night, I got the following text from King County Elections: "BALLOT ALERT Your signature has been verified and your ballot will be counted. Thanks for voting!" I cannot say how happy receiving this kind of alert makes me.

🗳️ Your voice matters — make it heard! Make sure you exercise your right and VOTE. 💪✨

advice to every Rust organizational decisionmaker out there: shut up, stop making excuses, and take notes from the PSF: bsky.app/profile/pyth...

"How did you spend your Sunday?" Obsessively refreshing the puget sound energy web site to see when we would get power back. 24 hours and counting with no power, heat or water.

Oh, lovely - a power outage. Good thing we have 5 powerwalls to give us battery backup for over 24 hours. Wait, what do you mean that a silent change to the Tesla app changed from optimizing for power outages to minimizing grid usage? So we only have 3 hours of battery left. Thanks Elon.

Omg, the solution to CIA's Kryptos being discovered by someone becoming a subject matter expert, going on location, and finding the plaintext sitting in a vault several miles away is the absolute *perfect* ending to Kryptos. You couldn't write it. Just absolutely A+ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...

Sharron made chicken puff tonight and it came out pretty well...

I've spent the past week working on a perf measurement framework for the Rust sdk, and I was really excited because I was seeing consistent results showing the Rust SDK was 50% faster on the same operations as the C++ SDK. And then I found the bug in my framework which invalidated the results.

We've been working hard to finish up the Azure SDK for Rust and this release brings us that much closer to making it a reality.

After dinner tonight there was a discussion about how most video games didn't have beans as a cooking recipe item. My comment was that was likely because they didn't want to deal with the consequences of the digestive impact of starchy proteins..

"You cannot operate heavy machinery for 12 hours after this procedure." I'm pretty sure that a compiler counts as "heavy machinery", right?

Microsoft’s guidance to H-1B employees following the $100K visa fee executive order is essentially to not leave the country and return before Sunday if you’re abroad. Same applies to spouses and kids. The implication being not to expect them to pay your $100K ransom to enter America.

RIP U.S. innovation. Between gutting the H-1B program, purging US scientists from civil service, slashing research grants, and disappearing international students off the streets, our government has made a conscious decision to kill America's roll as a global leader in science and innovation.

Last night, the @seattlemenschorus.bsky.social premiered the documentary based on our concert, Love Beyond Borders. It is a testimonial of the power of love, the resiliency of humanity, and just what some people go through just to be their authentic selves.

Since this person volunteered to be embarrassed, though I doubt someone this ignorant has any shame over their own stupidity whatsoever, let me explain to you why the firing of Jimmy Kimmel isn’t your standard “canceling” that the Republican’s are all crowing happily about.