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What is the biggest lie in tech and why is it Update and Shutdown?

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Damn 😭

💡 The Death of Manual Docs: A DevOps Approach to Power Platform Docs

Ian Tweedie shows how #PowerPlatform solutions can be documented automatically using Azure DevOps pipelines, producing diagrams and Word docs from solution metadata

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Baby Smash! • Delightful keyboard fun for curious kiddos Baby Smash! is the playful, baby-proof keyboard experience that turns every key press into colorful giggles.

Hey friends, the baby that I made Baby Smash for is going to turn 21 this year. So I updated with it an all new website, installer, new .net 10 code base, and code signed executable. Please test it. Code on Github babysmash.com

"really reign in my shitposting" 😅

I mean, that's what alt accounts are for these days right? 😂

It's always refreshing to hear a politician sound like a human and not just another Eton clone. 👏👏👏

Christmas dinner.

Completed Christmas cooking instructions

Then the finished result! It was great. We are stuffed. Now to just lay on the sofa and start to each chocolate when we have a little bit of room.

Merry Christmas everyone!

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Food out of the oven

Catching up after the chaos that is the final sprint.

Thanks everything went in and came out. Carving took longer than expected but that's always the way. Cats may have got a little bit of turkey.

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Christmas turkey

Also, turkey looks 🔥🔥🔥

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List of Christmas dinner instructions

Panic descended. Not realising we needed oven proof dishes. Managed to sort them. Still on track. Don't sweat the small stuff.

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List of cooking timings with the beef crossed out.

First audible on the play is we have, at the last minute, decided to ditch the beef and have that tomorow.

It requires searing and we only have 1 oven and there are only 3 of us this year.

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So far we have the turkey seasoned and in the oven. Now we basically wait until just after 1pm 🤷

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Turkey, butter, salt and pepper and a surface go 2

The Christmas cooking thread is back for 2025!

This time we have ditched the board in favour of going digital, so we have the Surface 2 Go rocking!
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And every news outlet thinks it's acceptable to create clickbait headlines, instead of just giving us the news and seeing if we want to read the article, rather than tricking us and then us skimming to find the news...which isn't actually news 🤷

Look out. #Supergirl lands in theaters June 26.

Power Platform Pipelines oAuth Configuration App I've written before about my architectural pattern for oAuth connection delegated deployments and I've even provided a step by step guide and template flow to help people with the process but it's sti...

Want to use Power Platform Pipelines with delegated deployments but getting stuck on connections? 🤷

I've just released a new solution to help with this. An app to manage connections, a flow to reconfigure connections per environment and pipeline.

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Wow memories right there! I bought an Analog Mega SG a few years ago for playing games like this. I may also have a bunch of other Analogs as well 😅

Is everyone enjoying the Black Friday 3 months we are having? 😅

Many BN(O) families in Warrington are worried about sudden rule changes. They’ve contributed so much to our town. My ask in Parliament was simple: keep the pathway stable and honour the commitments already made.

Simpsons May God Have Mercy On Us All GIF Alt: Simpsons May God Have Mercy On Us All GIF

Watching it once was enough for me. Can't go through that again 😭

Dicks bean bar coffee

Got to the other train station early today so grabbed a large Dick's. Should be tasty.

This has been on my wish list for a while but it's always so expensive on steam with the DLC. But games delisting is an instant purchase and GoG discounts help, so thank you!!

Also, it's nearly 1 am because Hades 2 🙃😅 just one more run!

I'm loving Hades 2. It's no surprise, I loved Hades 1 but man did they just ramp all the things up I loved and toned down all the things I hated... Which wasn't much. Except the damn Rat King Uh-Oh! 😡

This is one of the most confusing articles I've read. Pizza Hut is to close 68 resturants, with over 1200 employees possibly losing their jobs 😢

But Pizza Hut just bought Pizza Hut, saving 64 restaurants, and saving over 1300 jobs 👏

What did I just read? 🙃

Getting Started with Power Platform Pipelines YouTube video by Matt Collins-Jones

I've started a new video series on Power Platform Pipelines! This will take users through installation, governing, usage and extending of Power Platform Pipelines, enabling better ALM for organisations. Check out my first video below.

youtu.be/3_LwcgdWEuk

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🤔 If I was designing a killer AI robot, obsolete hardware to enable and disable it would be what I'd choose.

Make those IT guys look through their random cable box to find that one serial cable they kept to defeat it... only to be slain because they don't have a PC with the port. 🤷🍿

Kinda wild Apple will kick ICEBlock out of the App Store on safety grounds but the Saudi government app that lets men track women (their “property”) and control their travel is fully allowed even after the Human Rights Watch AND members of the Senate begged them to ban it.

It was 🔥🔥🔥 not gonna lie.