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Heath Stewart
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Principal Software Engineer working on #AzureSDK for #rustlang at #Microsoft. My opinions are my own. Love contributing to OSS in #cpp, #csharp, #javascript, #golang, et. al.

Avid outdoor adventurer 🏔️❄️👞🚴‍♂️, husband, father.
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And, wet and clumpy, you end up raking almost 1/2 mile of them from a local trail to prevent people from slipping on the steeper hills as part of a neighborhood service project.

It’s also a nightmare for bikes since the sides of the roads are now a slippery mess of detritus.
Yellow Big Leaf Maple leaves covering switchbacks with part of the trail now raked Red leaves cover most of a steep hill with the closer, upper portion already raked
November 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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I tied about 50lbs of excess treated lumber from our deck project to my back with some rope, a couple lashings, and a couple double half-hitches. I’m knotty like that.
Backpack-like straps tied to some wood planks with a hand holding the shoulder straps out Picture of me carrying the planks like a backpack
November 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Spent the morning with a few other guys in the neighborhood improving our local trail system. People kept cutting the curve and *slight * hill, eroding the bank. Made a retaining wall, flattened the hill a bit, and widened the uphill side.
A man stands in a trail along with several tools A picture of the widened tail with a retaining wall on the right and some tools in the foreground.
November 15, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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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.
Screenshot of code to create a Key Vault secret before using a macro to allow the snippet to be compiled without all the initialization code required as a Rust documentation test. Screenshot of code to create a Key Vault secret after using a macro to allow the snippet to be compiled without all the initialization code required as a Rust documentation test.
November 12, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Not sorry. I've been running into some timing-sensitive issues with a few tests lately that @larryosterman.github.io nor our CI repro. The code works fine, but some occasional off-by-1 errors in assertions.
Screenshot from Microsoft Teams that reads, "Just locally. Maybe it's an ARM64 thing. I guess I signed up for more RISC than I anticipated." Larry added a laughing emoji to the second sentence.
November 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Picture of the inside of a Butterfinger showing flaky layers. Flaky layers of rust.
October 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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100th consecutive week on #Zwift! I ride outdoors more spring through early fall, but always make a point to get at least one indoor ride in. Nice option to have, especially when roads start getting slick with detritus or ice here.
Screenshot of Zwift showing a 100 week streak with 141,694 calories burned, 4,401 miles ridden, and 329,691 feet climbed on Zwift.
October 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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New version of the (unofficial) Azure Key Vault CLI (akv) available on #homebrew or from github.com/heaths/akv-c...

This version adds key and certificate management, along with updates to use the latest #AzureSDK for #rustlang crates we're getting close to GA'ing.
Screenshot of `akv --help` reading: The Azure Key Vault CLI (unofficial) can read secrets from Key Vault, securely pass secrets to other commands or inject them into configuration files, encrypt and decrypt secrets, and managed keys and secrets in Key Vault. Usage: akv [OPTIONS] <COMMAND> Commands: inject Inject secrets from Azure Key Vault into a templated file or input between {{ }} run Pass secrets in environment variables to a process read Read a secret from Azure Key Vault encrypt Encrypt content to a compact JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token decrypt Decrypt a compact JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token secret Manage secrets in Azure Key Vault key Manage keys in Azure Key Vault certificate Manage certificates in Azure Key Vault completion Generates completion scripts for supported shells help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s) Options: -c, --color <COLOR> Print colors [default: auto] [possible values: auto, always, never] -v, --verbose... Log verbose messages. Pass `-vv` to log more verbosely -h, --help Print help -V, --version Print version
October 9, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Small change the size of a large change coming to #AzureSDK for #rustlang: while all client methods continue to be async, deserializing models is now sync. In most cases we already buffered the entire response anyway, but the goal was making sure we do so entirely in the pipeline (policy chain).
Screenshot of Rust code that reads, let secret = secret_client .get_secret("secret-name", None) .await? .into_body()?; // .await? no more println!("{}", secret.value.unwrap_or_default());
October 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Head resting on the step stool I made lower than the sofa? That’s a…choice.
A little black, fluffy dog laying on a cream-colored sofa with his head hanging over and on a step stool with a rug top that matches the area rug below it.
September 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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With #macOS Tahoe 26, I figured out a fun little command to set 🦀 as the folder icon for any #rustlang projects...not that I use Finder much (terminals FTW).
Screenshot of a bash command: find src/ -name Cargo.toml -maxdepth 2 -execdir xattr -wx com.apple.FinderInfo '00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00' . \; -execdir xattr -w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"emoji":"🦀"}' . \;
September 16, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Completed day 2. Cool and overcast again, but better than too hot. Got coal-rolled twice by some hick that kept turning around to do it repeatedly to a bunch of us - a charity ride.
Screenshot of Strava showing 68.84 miles in 3 hours 54 minutes with 2,293 feet of elevation gain.
September 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Competed another century ride yesterday at my second Deception Pass Class for #BikeMS. Though I beat last years’s moving time, elapsed time was a little longer since I took a more time at the feed stations chatting with people, so it was more fun! #cycling
Screenshot of Strava showing a distance of 101.5 miles in 5 hours 39 minutes with 5,144 feet of elevation gain.
September 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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After starting a discussion on the problems of supporting different async executors in #rustlang at #RustConf25 #UnConf, I got to talking more with these two devs working on, from L-R: #AwsSdk, #AzureSdk, and #GcpSdk.
Three developers - two in black shirts and one in the middle in a blue shirt - in a selfie from the Rust Conference Unconference.
September 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Now Archer is sad and will just have to settle for his dozen other plushies scattered around the house.

He doesn’t like them having to live in a basket we have for them.
Black fluffy dog giving me sad puppy dog eyes as he lays on a dog bed.
September 4, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Saving Ferris from having to be garbage collected. #RustConf25 #SaveFerris
Two dogs looking hungrily at a Ferris the crab plushy from RustConf25.
September 4, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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We stopped for coffee in North Bend at Arete (really good!) - their second location, which is in a bike shop - and saw this in their window.
Arete coffee shop door and window - the latter of which has a golden shovel and eye patch from a particular show shot partly in North Bend.
September 2, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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He also did his longest ride on Saturday going from North Bend through the Snoqualmie tunnel and back. His road/gravel bike is a little large for him now since it’ll matter less for road biking, so I got a decent one. Put a shorter stem on there for now and it fits him well enough.
My son on his gravel bike coming out of the Snoqualmie tunnel on gravel.
September 2, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Son and I finished replacing his old fork with a suspension fork. Bike is a bit small, but he’s hitting his tween growth spurt so I didn’t want to get him a mountain bike that’ll only last him a year or so. Figured this’ll do for now since he’s just getting into mountain biking.
My son on a red dirt bike with a new black suspension fork.
September 2, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Nothing like a freshly waxed chain 😍
Bicycle chain hanging on an old wire hanger with wax on it in front of a bike on a bike stand.
August 28, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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New #BikeMS Deception Pass Classic jersey arrived for team #Microsoft
Old man in an XS cycling jersey showing a cat on a bike getting beamed up into a flying saucer with Microsoft branding above it.
August 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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And now all the way up. The blue covers are to protect the fabric somewhat. Like I said: it’s his perch. 🙂
Little black dog standing on the back of the couch cushions.
August 18, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Just snapped this.
Little black dog resting on the back of some couch cushions.
August 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Oh, I’ve got pics! Just not if him on his perch. Sometimes - like today - we’re worried he’s going to push through the screen.
Little black dog riding at the front of a standup paddle board
August 18, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Our dog has a similar perch. It’s just his. What monster could say no to this pup?!

(He’s usually directly on it but seems I don’t have a picture of that.)
Cute black dog on the back of a couch and on pillows.
August 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM