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Pieter de Bruin 🌍🌈☮️
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European. Questions and doubts allowed. More green and more social. Currently technical program manager at Microsoft.

🌉 bridged from https://hachyderm.io/@pdebruin on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
November 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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What a week last week was! Two newspaper articles and a TV appearance. Awesome, but a bit much....

All of that and some epistemology in last week's newsletter!

https://www.felienne.nl/2025-45 (Dutch)

https://www.felienne.nl/2025-45/#english (English)
AI in week 45
Welke kennis doet ertoe? Is ongeveer genoeg? | what knowledge matters? Is more or less enough?
www.felienne.nl
November 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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My PyBay talk recording is up!
“Just because AI can write your tests… should it?”

https://youtu.be/Lha1741iEjE

It starts with a tangent about honeybees vs native bees, but I swear, I found a way to relate that topic to the talk. I like to find ways to incorporate my hobbies into PyBay talks […]
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November 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.
November 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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What the hell have you built?

https://wthhyb.sacha.house/

Complexity is not a virtue.

Start simple. Add complexity only when you have proof you need it.
What the hell have you built.
wthhyb.sacha.house
November 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Laurent Buignon on creating a 3-tier app with GitHub Copilot #techorama
October 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Halil Ibrahim Kalkan on building a local development experience for Kubernetes #techorama
October 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Thijs Limmen on rebuilding retro games using prompts #techorama
October 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Bart Vries on mvvm and project Orleans #techorama
October 29, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Florian Lenz on building fast distributed apps with serverless #techorama
October 29, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Barbara Forbes on secure azure with defender for cloud #techorama #techoramanl
October 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Tony Edwards on Midi birds #techorama #utrecht #Netherlands
October 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Michelle Leroux Bustamente on delivering identity solutions #techorama
October 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Matt Allibone on creating data driven.net Maui apps #techorama
October 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
William Brander on how building a portable escape room made me a better developer #techorama
October 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Steve Sanderson on the past present and future of ai for developers #techorama
October 28, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Attending #techorama #Netherlands today or tomorrow? Let's chat about anything #microsoft #learn and especially #mcp Server 🙂
October 28, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Your MAGAt relatives won’t belive you when you tell them that Canada’s commercial using a quote from Ronald Reagan wasn’t a deepfake.

Send them this link posted by The Regan Libray 8 years ago for the full context (5 min): https://youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

If that doesn’t do it, you can rest […]
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October 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Had some GroenLinks/PvdA folks at my door today, in spite of the super heavy rain. I can't vote in the Netherlands (only in communal elections), but they reminded me that some progressive folks are still not decided whether they will vote at all and that especially women vote less ... So Dutch […]
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October 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Our Python+AI series is over, but you can still watch the videos, download the slides, and try out the code. Get it all from https://aka.ms/pythonai/resources
October 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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No assholes, no autocrats,
No billionaires, no barons
No Countesses, no clowns
No Dukes, No Dictators

No Emporers, no empires
No fiefdoms, no fascists
No gods, no gestapo
No heirs, no honours

No Ignorance, no idiocracy
No jesters, no gerrymandering
No Kings, no kakistocracy

#nokings
October 19, 2025 at 6:12 AM
October 18, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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I've put a few new drawings up at
www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale

There are also badges, prints and a zine at
www.tomgauld.com/shop
October 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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October 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM