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For any #zappa or #vinnie #colaiuta fans out there (like me), enjoy! 🙂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIJR...

He Auditioned for FRANK ZAPPA... at 21!

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If you're stressed and need something relaxing to listen to, find Alex Wurman's "The Harshest Place on Earth" (soundtrack from March of The Penguins) Play on highest volume you can stand. You won't be disappointed. And even if you are, you'll forget why soon after.

If I end up getting a tombstone, it's just going to have my favorite emoji on it, and nothing else... 😕

HR Bill 8800 (NDAA) section 219 is interesting. Not sure why a budget procurement bill spends so much text on defining procedures like sub-section (c) when that should (legally) be defined in a dept policy. Then again, it's all theater anyway.

I'm waiting for AI services to introduce a "sponsor break" soon. Get you into a deep rabbit hole and then pause to show an ad before your next prompt. "Funny you asked about kidney disease. Have you talked with your Dr about Kidneea?" After the 3 minute ad is done it tells you you're out of credits.

M365 Copilot is unreliable for anything coding related. You may disagree, but after fighting with it over a simple #powershell syntax question over 10 times, I can't depend on it. This is no. 6 of 10 attempts to get it to correct the response. It never did.

The dynamic on each social media platform should be dissected scientifically. BlueSky feels like karaoke night. X feels like karaoke night at 3 AM. Discord feels like a gamer's dorm room. Facebook feels like a Walmart checkout line. LinkedIn feels like a gym with selfie cameras.

Fresh off the press! PowerShell Weekly for July 17, 2026 is here to brighten your day with the best automation insights and tricks. Ready to automate? #PowerShell #Automation #TechNews psweekly.dowst.dev?p=9080

If your Citrix desktops take 15-20 seconds to open Notepad, you're doing it wrong.

colleagues before departing/retiring: "Jim was interesting. Sometimes a challenge to work with" after: "Jim was a ****ing ***hole!"

PowerShell wizards, unite! The newest edition of PowerShell Weekly for July 10, 2026 is here. Unleash the power of automation with this week’s top tips and scripts. #PowerShell #Automation #TechNews psweekly.dowst.dev?p=9064

Is there a standard way of exposing both shared *and static* libraries from a nuget package that contains native libraries? The idea is that for NativeAOT, the static library can be used to create a single self-contained executable without DLLs on the side

Two lessons from the past week: Trying crazy project ideas on a limited LLM budget burns up credits faster than you'd expect. And credits eat budgets.

Lot's of musicians pulling off #zappa tunes on YouTube. But I'm still waiting to see a drummer pull off "Soup N' Old Clothes" like Vinnie did it. Just the first 30 seconds would be enough.

Today, our cold tap water is warmer that the hot water in Winter time.

QOTD: "I'll put my Guthrie Govan up against your little Shredboy anyday!" 😃

Who invents an API with a query feature that doesn't support an "exact match" operation? Whoever that is/was, they should rub pepper spray on their underwear.

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TIL that a silly ASP/SQL web app I glued together to track software licensing while I worked at a [redacted] defense corp in 2009, to replace a big ugly shared spreadsheet for 10k users, is still in use today. I'm happy and sad, at the same time.

Looking for some #SQLConfirmation more than #SqlHelp, but when you take away a stats modification_counter number from the potential stats update threshold and get a negative number... Does that mean the stat wasn't evaluated in a query recently enough to get updated?

PowerShell Weekly for June 26, 2026 is out now with Announcements, Community highlights, Fun sections, and more. Check it out! #PowerShell #Automation #TechNews psweekly.dowst.dev?p=9025

Five minutes before the bus arrived, I was running around the house looking for my daughter's a blue shirt because I'd forgotten it was Spirit Day. As an automation engineer, I took that personally. So I built an AI workflow to fix that. youtu.be/xKyCbxb6h_s #Automation #AI #n8n #Productivity

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@bitwarden.bsky.social app update changed from selecting cards to having to click on the text link inside them. Feels like rolling back to 1946. Wait for the coal delivery truck to arrive so I can fire up the boiler to heat my steam-powered mouse to click a few more times.

I did the math. Based on Labor Dept figures for May 2026, employed folks count about 134 million. To provide a $20/month AI subscription for each of them would cost about $32B per year. Compare that with the current federal budget and it seems pretty cheap.

Final useless rant of the day, in case anyone is tuned in: I spent half the day weed trimming 75 yards of 6 ft tall chain link fence covered in poison ivy. And it was everything I hoped it could be. Truly a life changing experience. Highly recommended. 3 thumbs up

Just using a mouse or touchpad, how many clicks does your OS require to trigger a complete shutdown?

I'll never understand why a city like Virginia Beach would name a road after a British admiral who burned it to the ground (when it was part of Norfolk). Pretty much the same as NYC naming a road Bin Laden Ave. Or Oklahoma City naming a road McVeigh Blvd. Humans are weird.

Purview Graph, A Love Story: Connect to the Purview, Create a Search, Start the Search, Export the Search, Download the Search, Extract the Search, Parse and Filter the Search, Delete the Search, Marry the Search, Start a Family with the Search, Retire the Search. The End