Pro tip: If you have a large monorepo in GitHub and are ever thinking of having copilot open 200+ minor formatting issues assigned to copilot, so that copilot agent creates 200+ PRs and then telling local copilot to automate approve/merge of those 200+ PRs, maybe just... don't.

I have to say I'm not upset that my jury duty got cancelled today. I really wasn't looking to being in downtown Seattle on Wednesday (although I'd likely be in a courtroom during most of the chaos).

Seattle area: Run, do not walk to see Cirque du Soleil Echo in Redmond. It's that good. And we ARE seeing it again

Tonight's dinner conversation included Cantors diagonalization proof, Othello, and Ranked Competitive Breast Growth. #welcometotheosterhorde

I just learned that one of my early 1990s coworkers, Adrian King has tragically left us. Adrian was an amazing individual and was responsible for possibly one of the most epic Microsoft promotional videos ever made. He shows up at about 11 minutes into the video.

The 2000 WA State gubernatorial race was an eye opener, and @goldy.horsesass.org's excellent coverage at HorsesAss gave me an excellent primer on how it's possible for elections to be both messy as heck, and 100% reliable. The "messy as heck" part is mostly where "election fraud" claims come from.

TIL that King County Jury Selection is done fully remotely, not in-person. I'm so excited that I *don't* have to go downtown for at least the voir dire part of jury selection.

Today’s happy homeowner... Had to drill a hole in the side of a cabinet in my daughter's house. We had an appropriately sized hole saw already, so no problem, right? We forgot to measure the thickness of the cabinet. Did you know a 3/8 inch hole saw won't cut through a 5/4 inch cabinet? FML.

In today's "Fun with LLMs", I had an LLM (Claude Opus 4.5) correct me on the word choices I made in my instructions. It said it didn't need to follow an instruction because the instruction only applied after a *task* was done, and it had only done one *step* of the "task".

I've been running a series of experiments using GH CoPilot to perform a straightforward task, and comparing different environments. My core takeaway: Based on LLMS today, LLMs are very much like toddlers. Credit to my wife for the analogy.

Ok, started reading The Regicide Report last night. Thank you SO MUCH @cstross.bsky.social for resurrecting Dr. Phibes AND Vulnavia. I literally said: "No, he didn't; Oh, he DID!" and somewhat later "And Vulnavia too!" out loud much to the confusion of my family (we are all Phibes fans).

I don't normally do sports all, but this game is NOT dissapointing. And not just because the Seahawks are ahead. The drama is wonderful.

When your daughter nonchalantly mentions that her coworker is on the Seahawks dance squad.

I'm reading @kbspangler.com 's Maker Space, and it's characterization of DHS is hitting rather harder these days than it would have in 2014.

So I'm playing around with using Copilot to deploy a web app and for giggles I thought to add theming to the web app. The results were... Interesting From left to right: 1970s Memorandum, 1990s GeoCities, Art Deco, Modern Web. In real life, the GeoCities theme is possibly worse than Hot Dog Stand

Ellie just dropped this off for me to read, and holey moley it's fantastic. The art, the monsters, the meta gameplay, heck, even the land acknowledgement is phenomenal. I know I'm rediculously biased, but this is an incredible work.

New "report and block" spam: accounts with a possibly AI generated picture of a woman, and the text "My garden hasn't been watered in a long time". Found about a dozen tonight alone.

Today's "Larry is overthinking the lyrics" moment: In the song "Popular", is Galinda's self-correction of her own pronunciation of "PopulEr" as "LAr" an intentional mispronunciation for comic effect (one of many malaprops that Galinda makes in the show), or an actual attempt at lyric correction.

BREAKING: Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife has made a “transformational” donation to the LGBTQ+ advocacy group. This large gift comes just months after the Trump administration shut down counseling services for queer youth. My latest for @wired.com:

Just got my second jury notice in 41 years as a registered voter in Washington state. The first was canceled a week before it was scheduled to start, we'll see what happens this time.

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.

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.