the board has struggled to establish its relevance. It remains unknown to the vast majority of Facebook and Instagram users; it hears only a small number of cases each year; it takes hundreds of days for cases to be heard and its decisions to be implemented; and when presented with the biggest case it ever got — whether Donald Trump’s accounts should be restored after he led an insurrection against his government — the Oversight Board punted.

The Oversight Board gets a lifeline

Getting Musk to join Trump on stage is a big coup for the Republicans, though, not just because the two men actually seem to hate each other personally. Musk, after shattering his reputation as the benevolent “I fucking love science” guy, is, ostensibly, just an influencer now, arguably the biggest right-wing influencer in the world. And so, he’s doing exactly what an influencer would do, and is now running a scammy payola scheme to pay people to register to vote in swing states.

What feels real enough to share

I'm somewhat sympathetic to the "man I need the job" line but this "well a manager lied to me first?" thing – just play the fucking tape forward. Just put your anti-capitalist self-righteousness on hold for one goddamned second and think. If your model is "it's okay to lie if I've been lied to" then we're all knee deep in bullshit forever and can never escape Transaction Cost Hell.

Don't lie in interviews

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Software development is a team sport, so any tool or process which helps individuals communicate better will improve the team’s performance. Images are an easy way to cut through confusion, and Greenshot makes image-based communication incredibly easy.

Greenshot is a free, light-weight screenshot software tool for Windows. Install it via Chocolatey from https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/greenshot. Once installed, Greenshot will sit in the background waiting to be used via hotkeys.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Software development is a team sport, so any tool or process which helps individuals communicate better will improve the team’s performance. Images are an easy way to cut through confusion, but it can be difficult to get a visual representation of your Azure Infrastructure. Providing this visual representation is very helpful in presenting or analysing your current state infrastructure, so here’s an easy way to generate it via a command line tool.

Azure Visualizer, aka ‘AzViz’ is a PowerShell module which automatically generates Azure resource topology diagrams as an SVG.

What you are reading is just my latest attempt at a blog and aspirations of regular writing. My life is littered with the remenants of unfinished projects, including multiple started-then-discarded blogs. I choose a host and a platform, struggle to write a couple of posts, and then abandon it. I could never understand why this could or should be the case, until I came across this post by Slava Akhmechet.

A few days ago I realized something. I don’t like writing.