Eek. Using Claude to help me understand the options when building a custom pc.
It feels both helpful and risky. How much do I trust that it's correct???

I kinda think it should have an NPU in it though:(

I need a new windows dev box. Any thoughts, suggestions, or recommendations?

Hallucinations or gaslighting???

Why does clicking the "Join" button for a meeting still require clicking several more buttons before actually being able to join

At some point early this morning I passed 3.5 million views on my blog. Not bad as I only write it for me.
Surprisingly, views have gone up in recent months, which counters the expectation that AI answers are replacing all web search traffic

is CoPilot messing with me?

Is alphabetical order harder than maths and counting letters in a word?

#ai

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I'm going to my first Hackathon in a couple of years next week.
Today I've watched some project demos from a recent Hackathon. They had 10 mins each and just gave a really bad presentation.
I'm looking forward to giving a 90sec summary of what I do next weekend

Ooh, just found some early POC videos from a project two and a bit years ago.
Some of that functionality still isn't in the released product.
There's probably a reason I'm not a Product manager/owner...yet!

Innovation and development at the heart of Landscape Performance Live - Pro Landscaper UK Landscape Performance Live will be returning to FutureScape 2025, having made its successful debut last year.

Ever thought about creating a digital twin for your landscape?
www.prolandscapermagazine.com/2025/09/18/i...

It means the thing I built to make working with PRs easier, faster, and more reliable, doesn't work in some of the places it would be most useful :/

TIL: GitHub lets organizations prevent accounts accessing some data via API that those users can get via the UI.
I can see how that might be useful or necessary but it also stops some of my automated tools from working with some repos.

I've just been caught out by people who have used both on shared projects where these magic values mean different things on different people's machines. I'm against using either.

This, but also for "preview"

www.mrlacey.com/2024/02/why-...

I wish there was an easy way to reclaim disk space taken up by old, unneeded NuGet packages.

Does anyone have a better solution than deleting them all and redownloading them again when needed?

Congrats to all involved. (especially Michael)
I never imagined I'd be considered a 4-time hall of famer in anything.

The next incremental improvement I'd like to see in LLM software creation is models based on quality over quantity.
That it generates code that is insecure or inefficient or unnecessarily complex or doesn't test the thing it claims to test hurts everyone, regardless of experience or level of "vibe".

All time views: 3,000,960

Crosse a threshold!

In that it appears to use a RichTextBlock to render the response, it's worrying that content here can cause an app to crash.
Or is it when trying to generate the content it has an unhandled error?

I asked Microsoft Copilot a question in the desktop app but when it tries to display the response it generated it causes the app to crash. Repeatedly. Even in different machines.
Fortunately, I can view the response in a browser ok.

You started "this is more of a comment than a question"
But you actually made an unjustified and unsubstantiated statement of you opinion.

Is [new] 'sample code' more for people or for LLMs to use as training data?
Does it matter?
What differences are useful or needed for these different audiences?

#ThinkingOutLoud

Grrr. I wanted to try something out.
I assumed "even if it doesn't work it'll make a good blog post"
I assumed wrong. The blog post would just be complaining about how hard something that should be simple is and how Copilot couldn't help.
Not blogging it to avoid upsetting people. :/

based on old blog posts about improving WPF performance, I think they stopped optimizing launch time for a while. When they started again, it was after Win11 was out, and so they didn't include Windows 10-related optimizations.

The upcoming lack of updates when it goes out of support is going to be the main reason for me.

If I had the time and inclination and I was only building for Windows, I'd explore using WinForms to show a loading screen and acting as a bootstrapper for loading an app built with another framework.

(More complex apps with many dependencies would load slower)

graph of Windows app launch times for apps built with different frameworks and running on different versions of Windows - WPF apps on Win10 are 7-10 times slower than everything else.

If you needed another reason to get off Windows 10, how about app launch performance--specifically for apps built with WPF

Surprisingly, running on ARM isn't a guaranteed way to ensure that everything is faster. (But, ARM-based devices do have other benefits)

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Interesting lyrics

#YoureGonnaBeOk

Dear anyone, have you ever heard the expression "please disconnect your line" in anything other than the start of an MS Teams call?
It still sounds weird to me but wondering if it's a cultural thing and a common phrase elsewhere..