James O'Neill
@james-oneill.bsky.social
Exasperated curmudgeon
Ex Scuba instructor, Ex Formula team employee, Ex Microsoftie. Still doing Photography with Pentax and coding with PowerShell. Occasional drone pilot, but more prone to droning on.
Ex Scuba instructor, Ex Formula team employee, Ex Microsoftie. Still doing Photography with Pentax and coding with PowerShell. Occasional drone pilot, but more prone to droning on.
Um, @microsoft.com you are FUCKING JOKING, SURELY?
It's bad enough that I can't turn Copi lot in PowerPoint (I can in word and Excel, the option is absent in PPT).
But adverts in office apps based on making office into spyware? What on God's earth were you thinking?
It's bad enough that I can't turn Copi lot in PowerPoint (I can in word and Excel, the option is absent in PPT).
But adverts in office apps based on making office into spyware? What on God's earth were you thinking?
May 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Um, @microsoft.com you are FUCKING JOKING, SURELY?
It's bad enough that I can't turn Copi lot in PowerPoint (I can in word and Excel, the option is absent in PPT).
But adverts in office apps based on making office into spyware? What on God's earth were you thinking?
It's bad enough that I can't turn Copi lot in PowerPoint (I can in word and Excel, the option is absent in PPT).
But adverts in office apps based on making office into spyware? What on God's earth were you thinking?
My wife's super power might be gift buying. It was my birthday on Monday, no ideas about presents people could get me. She found ukdepartureboards.co.uk Pick a station, display its departures. Brilliant use of some public data feeds
April 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
My wife's super power might be gift buying. It was my birthday on Monday, no ideas about presents people could get me. She found ukdepartureboards.co.uk Pick a station, display its departures. Brilliant use of some public data feeds
They talk abut PCPR but stopped reading before section 10 :-) In my waiting for an answer folder
April 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
They talk abut PCPR but stopped reading before section 10 :-) In my waiting for an answer folder
One for me to chase on PCPR open data.
They've got a point about others in the industry not complying. Instavolt don't meet the Open data requirements and play dumb when asked.
They've got a point about others in the industry not complying. Instavolt don't meet the Open data requirements and play dumb when asked.
April 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
One for me to chase on PCPR open data.
They've got a point about others in the industry not complying. Instavolt don't meet the Open data requirements and play dumb when asked.
They've got a point about others in the industry not complying. Instavolt don't meet the Open data requirements and play dumb when asked.
@zapmap.com Some great stats you publish but someone should look at your graph labels :-)
March 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
@zapmap.com Some great stats you publish but someone should look at your graph labels :-)
How to annoy customers.
1. Use bad 'validation' rules (e.g. No E164 phone numbers. No accents, hyphens or apostrophes etc. in names)
2. Have error messages which point to something else being wrong. I Needed dev tools to find that a payment processing error was a broken test of phone no. Grrr
1. Use bad 'validation' rules (e.g. No E164 phone numbers. No accents, hyphens or apostrophes etc. in names)
2. Have error messages which point to something else being wrong. I Needed dev tools to find that a payment processing error was a broken test of phone no. Grrr
February 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
How to annoy customers.
1. Use bad 'validation' rules (e.g. No E164 phone numbers. No accents, hyphens or apostrophes etc. in names)
2. Have error messages which point to something else being wrong. I Needed dev tools to find that a payment processing error was a broken test of phone no. Grrr
1. Use bad 'validation' rules (e.g. No E164 phone numbers. No accents, hyphens or apostrophes etc. in names)
2. Have error messages which point to something else being wrong. I Needed dev tools to find that a payment processing error was a broken test of phone no. Grrr
Things you can't use are @ $ {} [] () + - !
Available are / * : £ € ^ _ ~ ¬
Available are / * : £ € ^ _ ~ ¬
January 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Things you can't use are @ $ {} [] () + - !
Available are / * : £ € ^ _ ~ ¬
Available are / * : £ € ^ _ ~ ¬
I went to change the rules that the #PowerShell Script analyser applies and the grey text which Co-pilot suggests is... Well you decide, "eerie" / "knowing" / "funny"
But maybe the folks who create the rules might use it as feedback.
But maybe the folks who create the rules might use it as feedback.
January 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I went to change the rules that the #PowerShell Script analyser applies and the grey text which Co-pilot suggests is... Well you decide, "eerie" / "knowing" / "funny"
But maybe the folks who create the rules might use it as feedback.
But maybe the folks who create the rules might use it as feedback.
"Yet ANOTHER MSFT 365 rise".
Really ? My 5 people for £80 a year licence hasn't gone up since 2014 and will be the same this year In fact when the tax went up Microsoft put the price down to keep the price including tax the same
Really ? My 5 people for £80 a year licence hasn't gone up since 2014 and will be the same this year In fact when the tax went up Microsoft put the price down to keep the price including tax the same
January 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
"Yet ANOTHER MSFT 365 rise".
Really ? My 5 people for £80 a year licence hasn't gone up since 2014 and will be the same this year In fact when the tax went up Microsoft put the price down to keep the price including tax the same
Really ? My 5 people for £80 a year licence hasn't gone up since 2014 and will be the same this year In fact when the tax went up Microsoft put the price down to keep the price including tax the same
Obviously variables and parameters can be emoji too
Someone is already thinking "which emoji should be approved as verbs ?"
I quite like the idea of 📝💩 | 🔧 | ✍️💩 in my code.
Someone is already thinking "which emoji should be approved as verbs ?"
I quite like the idea of 📝💩 | 🔧 | ✍️💩 in my code.
January 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Obviously variables and parameters can be emoji too
Someone is already thinking "which emoji should be approved as verbs ?"
I quite like the idea of 📝💩 | 🔧 | ✍️💩 in my code.
Someone is already thinking "which emoji should be approved as verbs ?"
I quite like the idea of 📝💩 | 🔧 | ✍️💩 in my code.
And yes, of course I'm watching what happens from #PowerShell too. The car sees ~6.8kW going into into the battery, charging isn't 100% efficient so what's pulled from the grid is about 0.5-0.7kW more
December 17, 2024 at 12:02 AM
And yes, of course I'm watching what happens from #PowerShell too. The car sees ~6.8kW going into into the battery, charging isn't 100% efficient so what's pulled from the grid is about 0.5-0.7kW more
I wish I could credit the person who drew this but I saved it long ago & lost the source. Absolutely not taking credit.
(My kids were born when Wakefield's scare about MMR was at its height, Denmark swung it for me: they switched to it overnight. Zero change to anything MMR was claimed to impact.)
(My kids were born when Wakefield's scare about MMR was at its height, Denmark swung it for me: they switched to it overnight. Zero change to anything MMR was claimed to impact.)
December 9, 2024 at 5:58 PM
I wish I could credit the person who drew this but I saved it long ago & lost the source. Absolutely not taking credit.
(My kids were born when Wakefield's scare about MMR was at its height, Denmark swung it for me: they switched to it overnight. Zero change to anything MMR was claimed to impact.)
(My kids were born when Wakefield's scare about MMR was at its height, Denmark swung it for me: they switched to it overnight. Zero change to anything MMR was claimed to impact.)
With multiple screens playing "hunt the mouse" became a problem: I have this option set but I'll need to check when I have a mouse on my laptop because it doesn't seem to work with right now :-( or maybe recently putting PowerToys on has blocked it ?
December 9, 2024 at 5:40 PM
With multiple screens playing "hunt the mouse" became a problem: I have this option set but I'll need to check when I have a mouse on my laptop because it doesn't seem to work with right now :-( or maybe recently putting PowerToys on has blocked it ?
Be careful. -In is **great** for small sets and/or few comparisons and is super easy to read but it looks at each member of the set until it finds a match, so it slows as the set gets bigger. See jhoneill.github.io/powershell/2... or below :-)
December 2, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Be careful. -In is **great** for small sets and/or few comparisons and is super easy to read but it looks at each member of the set until it finds a match, so it slows as the set gets bigger. See jhoneill.github.io/powershell/2... or below :-)
#StormBert is blowing like crazy at the moment, but the upside is that 60% of UK electricity is coming from wind at the moment and less than 10% from fossil fuels.
November 24, 2024 at 9:48 AM
#StormBert is blowing like crazy at the moment, but the upside is that 60% of UK electricity is coming from wind at the moment and less than 10% from fossil fuels.
And with a screen shot... thanks,�€¬@jdhitsolutions.com
November 19, 2024 at 10:36 PM
And with a screen shot... thanks,�€¬@jdhitsolutions.com