Kevin Pilch

Looks delicious. My one tattoo is of a lattice top pie.

How did the Olympic organizers put a Team Canada and a Team USA hockey game in the same timeslot. Really needing to multitask today.

Fuck MAGA, more Gaga

@davidpierce.xyz listening to yesterday’s Vergecast with you mentioning a quest to find a new phone raised a question for me. Is there a workable way to dual phone if I’m not ready to give up my iPhone, but want to dabble in something else?

In the Trump era, has the word 'racist' lost its meaning? : Code Switch Over the past few weeks, President Trump has amplified derogatory and stereotypical comments about people from Afghanistan. He's derided Somalians as a whole, and specifically targeted Congresswoman I...

NPR did a podcast about this back in December. They have called him that before, but not often: www.npr.org/2025/12/10/n...

We’ve forgotten how to have in person meetings.

I’ve joined four meetings from a focus room at the office today. I’ve since found out that in two of them there were other participants sitting in adjacent focus rooms. :(

Waymo's self-driving cars are coming to Seattle The company's robotaxis have faced serious criticism in other cities.

Soon according to www.axios.com/local/seattl...

A little early Christmas present from work. I was due for a machine refresh and a new 15” Surface with a 12core Snapdragon X1E80100 ARM64 CPU, 64GB RAM and 1TB SSD was delivered today. All set up now, and I’m excited to see how the battery holds up through a day in the office when I go back in Jan.

Watched Spirited again. It remains a modern Christmas Classic.

Oh, thanks. I think it was a different episode of the same segment and I got confused.

@johntmhiggins.bsky.social what was the arm mount HR monitor you recommended on the Vergecast?

Nevermind, they are already taking about making 4km x 4km solar arrays to power their 5GW datacenter, so I guess adding half that area again as radiators wouldn’t be a blocker.

By my read this means a GW data center in space needs a radiator array with an area half the size of Central Park. That’s a lot to bring up, maintain, keep in orbit, etc. They neglect pumps, but I don’t see how you’d do it without them which means more energy, which means more area still.

I just don’t get what the heat dissipation plan is?

A glass pitcher of freshly homemade eggnog on a granite counter

Better late than never. Made a batch of @altonbrown.bsky.social ‘s aged egg nog for the holidays

@scalzi.com I saw recently that you wrote a summary of the Old Man’s War series. About to start The Shattering Peace, and now I can’t find it. Can you share a link, and maybe put it on whatever?

I typically make @altonbrown.bsky.social’s recipe, which is a combo.

All thread all the time. J/k it’s a bit of a pain still, but hopefully with brands like IKEA adopting it things will get simpler.

I’ve got a fire tablet that I use, but they aren’t designed to be always charging. Also, does the app work as a mic/speaker for Home Assistant voice? I haven’t tried that part yet.

Related - can NabuCasa make a hub with a tablet/speaker/mic to compete with Google home, Alexa devices?

When will #HomeAssistant support for #Matter binding come out of beta? Have been slowly replacing all my switches with Inovelli smart switches lately and having them control smart bulbs is terrible.

Record Scanner for vinyl collectors cuts costs with Azure Cosmos DB vector search - Azure Cosmos DB Blog by Artur Drozdz, Founder of Record Scanner (recordscanner.com) If you’re like me, there’s at least one room in your home with an entire cabinet dedicated to your growing vinyl collection. At this poin...

Cool blog about how the RecordScanner app uses Azure #CosmosDB's vector search capabilities: devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/rec...

I *may* own a pair of carbon plated shoes for races, but I’m not out here talking about them all the time Tim.

I think you are looking for @timheuer.com . I don’t cycle, I just run.

Azure for Rust developers - Rust on Azure Get started developing with Rust on Azure using services like Azure Functions, Key Vault, Messaging, Identity, Cosmos DB, Blob Storage, and the Azure SDK for Rust.

#rustlang docs are live on Microsoft Learn: aka.ms/rust/docs

These expand on #AzureSDK examples with more user scenarios and more to come. While we always want our crate READMEs to be helpful, we also want them to be concise. Of course, there's more information and many doc examples on docs.rs

No. Right now I don’t really have anything connected to Health Kit. Should i connect any/all of Garmin/Oura/Ladder?

Of course. I should remember to do this!

Oh, that’s fine. I have a Fenix 7, and I do record there too. It’s more my Oura activity completion is trending down, since it doesn’t know about the work I’m doing (and maybe that plays into recovery advice, etc).

I’ve been getting back into lifting a bit lately. I always take my Oura off when I do, but then I don’t get “credit” for it. Any other suggestions? @vicmsong.bsky.social ?