Gavin Barron
@gavinb.net
Geek, Skier, Dad, Software Developer.
Opinions are my own.
Opinions are my own.
Mx 11: Dad, the QQ there means quick question.
Me: Do not cite the deep magic to me child, I was there when it was written.
Me: Do not cite the deep magic to me child, I was there when it was written.
October 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Mx 11: Dad, the QQ there means quick question.
Me: Do not cite the deep magic to me child, I was there when it was written.
Me: Do not cite the deep magic to me child, I was there when it was written.
Yikes!
BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.
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The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
www.404media.co
October 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Yikes!
Yeah, my wife and I met as a consequence of spending time on a hyper specific phpBB site well before FB was a thing.
Plus, a great many friends from Twitter, before the enshitification.
Plus, a great many friends from Twitter, before the enshitification.
Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?
October 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Yeah, my wife and I met as a consequence of spending time on a hyper specific phpBB site well before FB was a thing.
Plus, a great many friends from Twitter, before the enshitification.
Plus, a great many friends from Twitter, before the enshitification.
Bahahaha! This is hilarious and shameful that someone would pass off unvetted workslop to a government in this way. I wish I was more surprised, but sadly it's expected.
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MSN
www.msn.com
October 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Bahahaha! This is hilarious and shameful that someone would pass off unvetted workslop to a government in this way. I wish I was more surprised, but sadly it's expected.
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
New TypeScript typings for Microsoft Graph published (finally)
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www.npmjs.com/package/@mic...
cc: @julieturner.net @andrewconnell.com
www.npmjs.com/package/@mic...
www.npmjs.com/package/@mic...
cc: @julieturner.net @andrewconnell.com
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October 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM
New TypeScript typings for Microsoft Graph published (finally)
www.npmjs.com/package/@mic...
www.npmjs.com/package/@mic...
cc: @julieturner.net @andrewconnell.com
www.npmjs.com/package/@mic...
www.npmjs.com/package/@mic...
cc: @julieturner.net @andrewconnell.com
LMAO, why would you think that firearms are an appropriate gift for a foreign government official?
www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/w...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/w...
FBI boss Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws | CNN
On a visit to New Zealand, FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed, New Z...
www.cnn.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
LMAO, why would you think that firearms are an appropriate gift for a foreign government official?
www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/w...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/w...
I'm so grateful for the sponsorship I've received for my Base to Space run up the Space Needle. You have pushed me well over my initial goal, let's see if we can push it over the 1K mark for Fred Hutch Cancer Center, because fuck cancer.
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September 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I'm so grateful for the sponsorship I've received for my Base to Space run up the Space Needle. You have pushed me well over my initial goal, let's see if we can push it over the 1K mark for Fred Hutch Cancer Center, because fuck cancer.
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I'm participating in Base To Space, a fundraiser for Fred Hutch Cancer Center. On Sunday I'll be running up the 832 stairs of the Space Needle, and would love it if you could sponsor me.
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Gavin Barron - Base 2 Space
Cancer is a disease that has touched us all. I'm participating to help raise money for the Fred Hutch Cancer Center in their continued and dedicated research in this field. Please donate today to ...
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September 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I'm participating in Base To Space, a fundraiser for Fred Hutch Cancer Center. On Sunday I'll be running up the 832 stairs of the Space Needle, and would love it if you could sponsor me.
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the Colorado school shooter from the same day that Charlie Kirk was killed posted himself holding his gun on Twitter / X where he followed multiple far right accounts
weird how you wouldn't call on Elon Musk too to testify at an online radicalization hearing
weird how you wouldn't call on Elon Musk too to testify at an online radicalization hearing
September 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
the Colorado school shooter from the same day that Charlie Kirk was killed posted himself holding his gun on Twitter / X where he followed multiple far right accounts
weird how you wouldn't call on Elon Musk too to testify at an online radicalization hearing
weird how you wouldn't call on Elon Musk too to testify at an online radicalization hearing
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The Right has long ridiculed the supposed bleeding heart Liberals across the aisle, with many Conservative preachers going so far as to declare empathy a sin even as Jesus’ entire life overflowed with it.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-right-...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-right-...
The Right Mocks Empathy, Until They Need It
Charlie Kirk’s murder was a brutal, reprehensible, vile act.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The Right has long ridiculed the supposed bleeding heart Liberals across the aisle, with many Conservative preachers going so far as to declare empathy a sin even as Jesus’ entire life overflowed with it.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-right-...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-right-...
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![[PANEL 1 - Threddy and Freddy chatting in a conference room]
Freddy: I'm requiring all employees to return to the office.
Threddy: Do you have space for everyone?
Freddy: No. But the data clearly shows that employees will be happier.
Threddy: Can we see the data?
Freddy: Also no.
Threddy: I feel really good about this.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:watmxkxfjbwyxfuutganopfk/bafkreigzaadvwcl6ywsnq3auflscvn4oc6lzi6y3z5fh3vrixfyg6g2cj4@jpeg)
"we rarely acknowledge the invisible labor of thinking, integrating, and recalibrating, because it doesn’t fit neatly into a status update."
Wow, that line resonated with me.
Wow, that line resonated with me.
I’ve been a little quiet lately... on purpose. Here’s why the quiet season matters ashley.dev/posts/the-qu...
Ashley Willis
I didn’t mean for this to be a quiet season. It wasn’t planned, it wasn’t marked on my calendar, and it certainly wasn’t framed in my mind as a stretch of inten...
ashley.dev
August 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
"we rarely acknowledge the invisible labor of thinking, integrating, and recalibrating, because it doesn’t fit neatly into a status update."
Wow, that line resonated with me.
Wow, that line resonated with me.
I fucking adore it when a developer has fixed a bug. 😍
And left zero tests to validated it or ensure that someone else doesn't break it again in the future 🤬
And left zero tests to validated it or ensure that someone else doesn't break it again in the future 🤬
July 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I fucking adore it when a developer has fixed a bug. 😍
And left zero tests to validated it or ensure that someone else doesn't break it again in the future 🤬
And left zero tests to validated it or ensure that someone else doesn't break it again in the future 🤬
wow, just wow....
xAI has disabled Grok, deleted a slew of its antisemitic and neo-Nazi posts, posted a statement, and are evidently rolling back the prompt that made it identify as "MechaHitler," but this new low for Elon Musk's chatbot will live in internet infamy:
Elon Musk's Grok Chatbot Goes Full Nazi, Calls Itself 'MechaHitler'
Elon Musk's Grok chatbot has unleashed a slew of antisemitic commentary and praised Hitler after apparent change allowed to be 'politically incorrect'
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July 9, 2025 at 12:17 AM
wow, just wow....
My patent award plaque for @devproxy.bsky.social has arrived!
It's so cool to see what @wldk.nl and @garrytrinder.dev have done with it since our hackathon work.
It's so cool to see what @wldk.nl and @garrytrinder.dev have done with it since our hackathon work.
July 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
My patent award plaque for @devproxy.bsky.social has arrived!
It's so cool to see what @wldk.nl and @garrytrinder.dev have done with it since our hackathon work.
It's so cool to see what @wldk.nl and @garrytrinder.dev have done with it since our hackathon work.
A fine demonstration of the Streisand effect
ICEblock, which allows users to alert others to the geographical location of ICE officers, is the top social networking app in the App Store right now after Karoline Leavitt condemned it from the podium yesterday.
July 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
A fine demonstration of the Streisand effect
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I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.
July 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.
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My new favourite thing to do in GitHub Copilot...
Use Ask mode and send my prompt, let Copilot figure out what it needs to do, then switch to Agent mode and...
Use Ask mode and send my prompt, let Copilot figure out what it needs to do, then switch to Agent mode and...
June 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
My new favourite thing to do in GitHub Copilot...
Use Ask mode and send my prompt, let Copilot figure out what it needs to do, then switch to Agent mode and...
Use Ask mode and send my prompt, let Copilot figure out what it needs to do, then switch to Agent mode and...
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In the past few weeks I’ve experienced the same as Gavin.
Agent mode, Claude Sonnet 4 and MCP servers have been game changers.
GH Copilot wrote a whole new feature for Dev Proxy Toolkit straight from our Dev Proxy docs exposed as MCP server, it worked perfectly.
Agent mode, Claude Sonnet 4 and MCP servers have been game changers.
GH Copilot wrote a whole new feature for Dev Proxy Toolkit straight from our Dev Proxy docs exposed as MCP server, it worked perfectly.
The productivity gains from GitHub Copilot are off the charts.
Now, it's not to be blindly trusted, but if you aren't using it as a time saver and flow-state question answerer then you're missing out.
Now, it's not to be blindly trusted, but if you aren't using it as a time saver and flow-state question answerer then you're missing out.
June 26, 2025 at 10:57 AM
In the past few weeks I’ve experienced the same as Gavin.
Agent mode, Claude Sonnet 4 and MCP servers have been game changers.
GH Copilot wrote a whole new feature for Dev Proxy Toolkit straight from our Dev Proxy docs exposed as MCP server, it worked perfectly.
Agent mode, Claude Sonnet 4 and MCP servers have been game changers.
GH Copilot wrote a whole new feature for Dev Proxy Toolkit straight from our Dev Proxy docs exposed as MCP server, it worked perfectly.
The productivity gains from GitHub Copilot are off the charts.
Now, it's not to be blindly trusted, but if you aren't using it as a time saver and flow-state question answerer then you're missing out.
Now, it's not to be blindly trusted, but if you aren't using it as a time saver and flow-state question answerer then you're missing out.
June 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The productivity gains from GitHub Copilot are off the charts.
Now, it's not to be blindly trusted, but if you aren't using it as a time saver and flow-state question answerer then you're missing out.
Now, it's not to be blindly trusted, but if you aren't using it as a time saver and flow-state question answerer then you're missing out.
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A comic about a rat
June 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
A comic about a rat
So, I didn't hear about this latest piece of insanity from the broligarch in chief until just now.
What in the ever-loving fuck is he thinking? Just edit out all the stuff he doesn't like with some AI BS? How can that be trusted and correct?
Oh, that's right it can't be and will be wrong.
What in the ever-loving fuck is he thinking? Just edit out all the stuff he doesn't like with some AI BS? How can that be trusted and correct?
Oh, that's right it can't be and will be wrong.
June 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
So, I didn't hear about this latest piece of insanity from the broligarch in chief until just now.
What in the ever-loving fuck is he thinking? Just edit out all the stuff he doesn't like with some AI BS? How can that be trusted and correct?
Oh, that's right it can't be and will be wrong.
What in the ever-loving fuck is he thinking? Just edit out all the stuff he doesn't like with some AI BS? How can that be trusted and correct?
Oh, that's right it can't be and will be wrong.
Wow, can't wait for the EU lawyers to get their teeth into this www.reuters.com/business/sal...
Salesforce blocks AI rivals from using Slack data, The Information reports
Slack, a Salesforce-owned workplace messaging app, recently blocked other software firms from searching or storing Slack messages, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing a public disclosure.
www.reuters.com
June 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Wow, can't wait for the EU lawyers to get their teeth into this www.reuters.com/business/sal...
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It’s not illegal for a United States Senator to go to a public press conference and ask questions about your constituents safety.
It's our job.
It's our job.
June 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
It’s not illegal for a United States Senator to go to a public press conference and ask questions about your constituents safety.
It's our job.
It's our job.
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🚀 Proud to share what me and my team have been building: Microsoft 365 Copilot connectors for people data!
It’s all about bringing richer, unified people insights into Copilot and Microsoft 365.
Check it out 👉 learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/...
#Copilot #GraphConnectors #PeopleData #Microsoft365
It’s all about bringing richer, unified people insights into Copilot and Microsoft 365.
Check it out 👉 learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/...
#Copilot #GraphConnectors #PeopleData #Microsoft365
Microsoft 365 Copilot connectors for people data - Microsoft Graph
Microsoft 365 Copilot connectors for people data
learn.microsoft.com
June 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🚀 Proud to share what me and my team have been building: Microsoft 365 Copilot connectors for people data!
It’s all about bringing richer, unified people insights into Copilot and Microsoft 365.
Check it out 👉 learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/...
#Copilot #GraphConnectors #PeopleData #Microsoft365
It’s all about bringing richer, unified people insights into Copilot and Microsoft 365.
Check it out 👉 learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/...
#Copilot #GraphConnectors #PeopleData #Microsoft365