Put the knife down and take a green herb, dude.

As my tempest of phone upgrade decisions rages in its teapot (Duo vs Fairphone vs. 17e vs. 18e), it occurs to me that the iPhone Duo's unfolding animation is a replacement for turning your phone sideways.

As I'm wrapping up today, GPT-5 mini via Copilot gave me code that included: ?

Interesting Apple keynote.

Note to self: for /f "tokens=*" %i in ('git branch --format="%(refname:short)" ^| findstr /C:"feature/"') do @echo git branch -m "%i" "old/%i" Then remove @echo to make it "really happen".

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is so much better than GPT-5 mini that I figured I'd look up how much it'd cost to swap.

Note to self: To look through your git history to find files by name (and to have the files edited in each commit listed)... git log --all --name-only -- "**/*Base*" Though note that it's case sensitive, and not because I used a capital B.

From github.com: Important update On April 24 we'll start using GitHub Copilot interaction data for AI model training unless you opt out.

Okay, I hit a rabbithole today.

I mean, I already knew (if only based on the hard flattening of my own reputation graph) that StackOverlow was dead, but sheesh.

It's neat that you can program logic on most any computer that boots nowadays.

Okay, if you're Gen X or older, you grew up with watches to tell time.

Was writing an email to a buddy who likes sports, and mentioned that I know someone who lives in DC.

Okay, was looking back through WCF earlier this week for a prospective client, and figured I'd leave some notes.

Looking into updating a slew of VB.NET API to C# for a client, and figured I should brush off my VB.NET before getting too serious.

Note to self: It's pretty easy to get a Stripe CheckoutSession in .NET.

Sometimes, I surprise myself: @Cthutu I wish "It's like the difference of [declaring] an address vs [commanding] directions.

I'd missed the whole Forced Reset Trigger debate over the last year or so, but caught an article about it in The Post Sunday and figured I'd see what it's about.

From Hacker News' Malicious npm Packages Infect 3,200+ Cursor Users With Backdoor, Steal Credentials: Cybersecurity researchers have flagged three malicious npm packages that are designed to target the Apple macOS version of Cursor, a popular artificial i…

Coverage reports in C# with Cobertura In the last contract I completed, we were building WebAPI microservices in C#, and part of our build process was to run all of our XUnit (and, depending on who originally wrote the microservice, maybe NUnit) tests and…

From "Amazon now has a ‘Get book’ button in its iOS Kindle app" on theverge.com: Apple has appealed the decision, but is also complying with it in the interim, prompting several companies to announce app updates making it easier for users to pay for subsc…

If you needed an excuse to get on your Apple high horse, I got a new one yesterday.

Okay, hopefully you're not letting your cat do this, but that's funny.

If you believe a post on reddit titled, "UPDATE: Apple Watch Series 3 LTE *CAN* Call Emergency Services without an associated phone plan", you can call 911 with a cellular/LTE powered Apple Watch even without having an active service subscription for cell…

Okay, let's write a Chrome extension.

I purchase music outright because I'm old.

From stackoverflow.com: Taken from MSDN's page on InvalidOperationException: "InvalidOperationException is used in cases when the failure to invoke a method is caused by reasons other than invalid arguments." – STW Commented Apr 21, 2009 at 19:44 I often…

TL;DR -- If you Ikea stiffed you some 101350 fluted dowels, you can buy 5/16" dowels from Home Depot, 50 for under $4.