What did it do?

(even us experts have a love/hate with our languages of choice)

Left a laptop with a #PowerShell web repl running for ~2 months. It hibernated.

Just hooked it back up. Clicked "turtle lucky".

A few seconds later, new #Turtle graphics appeared in the browser.

Apparently #PowerShell #DotNet #HttpListener webservers can friggin _hibernate_ without incident. 😎

After 9 months daily driving #PowerShell on a #RaspberryPi,
I'm finally switching back.

Going split my time 50/50 between #Windows and #Linux, #X64 and #Arm64.

Takeaways:

1. Almost everything PowerShell runs fine cross-platform 👍
2. Too many things require x64 architecture 😞

Nifty!

Got a venue in mind, or planning for virtual sessions ?

Very down!

Let's just make sure these are talks, not working sessions ( we tried that for a bit and it seemed to fizzle )

GitHub - StartAutomating/RoughDraft: A Fun PowerShell Module for Multimedia (using FFMpeg) A Fun PowerShell Module for Multimedia (using FFMpeg) - StartAutomating/RoughDraft

Hard relate.

Built a whole #ytdlp and #ffmpeg wrapper just so I could:

Get-Media -YouTubeUrl ...

GitHub.com/StartAutomat...

( Can also convert and filter video six ways from Sunday )

Enjoy!

Honestly shocked any building can reflect a sunset like this.

There's "capturing the sunset" and then there's this building.

#Sunset #Photo

Nice to see #Seattle finally get to spring!

Fun factoid: XAML's PathGeometry is _basically_ SVG.

So we can in fact do almost anything in either XAML or a web app.

True, I don't have to respond.

Also true: I neither corrected you nor told you that you were doing it wrong.

🤷

Care to correct the record?

This a spurious complaint or just a "baiters gonna bait" sort of thing ?

🦗

Apologies if I've been one of the people to help create this impression.

I find this happens about equally across ecosystems.

Of course, I'm a PowerShell + Linux person.

(🤔 does that mean I count twice?)

Looking forward to seeing the results of your experiment.

Ever wanted to install VSCode extensions with #PowerShell?

github.com/steviecoaste...

Unsuspecting windsurfer collides with gray whale in San Francisco Bay Footage shows a man windsurfing being forcefully thrown from his board as a whale surfaces off the California coast

In case anyone missed it, Mother Nature got in on some of the April Fool's Day fun yesterday:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Watch the clip for a wonderful example of #schadenfreude

I also think it should be trivial to list the different lexicon record types a user has.

It may not need to be surfaced in the UI, but it makes a lot of sense to exist as an xrpc endpoint.

Lacking this basic limits the ecosystem outside of BlueSky itself.

I think this should be as open as can be, and should be represented by a simple pairing:

Lexicon type/aturi and view URL.

That is, if I want to say:

All of my markpub.at are at example.com/foo/bar/baz, I should be able to.

Doing this would open the door to an ecosystem of views.

They say "no such thing as a free lunch".

This may be true.

Just 🤷 didn't expect last week's free lunch to cost me 4 days of sick and counting.

🤦

🫂 You too, huh?

Best of luck finding the right fit 🤞

🙏 let me know if whatever you find has more headcount

Standard Site Working Group Meeting Notes 3/29/26

On March 29th, we held an in-person meeting to check in with the community and discuss potential updates to the standard.site spec.

A huge thank you to @cozylittle.house for putting together a detailed summary of everything we discussed.

leaflet.pub/p/did:plc:ky...

Take your time and feel better.

I've also been under the weather.

I think it was attempting image selection.

Possibly related: looks like webp isn't supported 🤷

offtopic | James Brundage | MVP | Offprint Random thoughts about random things.

Seems to be working now!

offtopic.offprint.app/a/3mif3qpdfg...

Now if only I could figure out how to add tags...

Until then, enjoy another #offtopic post.

Fair.

I think I have another more unique phobia, and that is the fear that stuff I build will be used to do _more_ horrible things.

🤷 Occupational Hazard 🤷

(this is why cybersecurity and ethics in computing are important)

@offprint.app currently seeing a 500 error when I go to the dashboard. Tried logging in from a different in private tab. Same deal. Any idea what's up?

Does that phobia have a name?

Is there an official "phobia" name for the fear of accidentally cross-posting content into the wrong app / text thread?

If so, what is it?

If not, what do you think it should be called?

Either way, I suffer from this fear daily.

Until PowerShell 8... But, at the rate version numbers are moving, we've got ~3-4 years to solve that one. 😂😞

You can always call it "pwsh-latest". Just might not be accurate, per se, if they haven't updated in a while.

But adding your own little banner message doesn't sound _too_ bad. And/also, multi-pwsh installs _should_ be easier to pave over.

`multi-pwsh install latest` · Issue #31 · Devolutions/multi-pwsh It would be wonderfully ideal if we could install the latest PowerShell, without the user having to know which PowerShell version is the latest.

Mostly :-)

I'd love a "latest" option.

Did my GitHub duty and filed an issue:

github.com/Devolutions/...

Fair. I'm actually suggesting being able to install "dotnet" tools without dotnet.

Because it's the closest nuget package format to "just an app".

Fantastic!

Almost always easier to solve our own wishes than hope some large company will solve them for us.

As a .net tool?

If so, please link me so I may update the examples and kick the tires on the Pi.