Matt Daines

Today I learned that -Confirm on a PowerShell script using a "Should Process" isn't saying "I confirm, do the thing" (like -Force) it's actually saying "I want to confirm first".

My Bluesky discover feed is getting a lot more US politics than I'd like. I don't live in the US so all the internal politics is irrelevant to me and yet it's dominating my feed.

Windows file explorer can't even handle making a folder without freaking out and it's driving me up the wall.

Red Dead 2's story is fantastic. Just completed my second play through.

I had to encourage this house spider from between the two parts of my sofa yesterday. Quick and clever guy was evicted to the back of the garden. Hopefully, that's the last of them this year but I feel like there'll be one more.....

The car lease is up and was collected today. I'm going to try going carless for a bit! Going to have to get a lot more comfortable cycling.

Completed my first #parkrun after leaving it for years! Happy with my pace and I'm well chuffed to get my 10k steps away before midday! I'll be back next week 🏃🏻‍♂️

Someone else summed it up really well gruhn.me/blog/2026-08...

"This endpoint must not be called on the client, is it?" "Claude Code says that it's sever-only." Yeah, but I'm not asking Claude Code, am I, I'm asking you. Can we tell the difference anymore?

Grass. Evolved ~80-100 million years ago. And I'm allergic to it's damn pollen.

I just had to fix my WireGuard VPN on my mobile by reinstalling the app. Nothing obviously wrong during troubleshooting. I wonder what happened there?

I'm really jealous that there are so many posts containing photos of the aurora. All I've seen is thick clouds!

New blog post tomorrow, assuming refreshed morning eyes don't spot anything wrong. It's been a hot minute since I've written a post! ​(And I really need to work on my theme - it's on the backlog as my professional alter ego would say)

I think I'm going to focus on #Python fundamentals on boot.dev during the work week. I'm not sure I have the mental capacity to learn new content after a 10 hour work day. But we'll see how the week goes.

Just completed the course "Learn to Code in #Python" on boot.dev. It's pretty good! There's definitely concepts that I'd like to practice before I go any deeper with Python - such as splicing. Fortunately, the next course is "Learn #Linux" so I have some time to practice in the training grounds! ⚔️

My new thing is taking #PowerShell scripts that run serially and making them parallel, apparently. Quite rewarding seeing the drastic drop in runtime.

Would you host someone else's small data centre if it reduced your heating bills? I think I would. But I don't know if that's just because I'm a techie. ... I'm also assuming I'm not footing the electric bill. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'd love to learn a programming language. It's between Python, C# and Typescript. I like the idea of explicit types but I do think it's going to be Python. Seems like a good place to (re)start.

My weekend win - I've automated #Azure #Entra app registration secret rotation for #Certbot (for Azure DNS auth) and #OpenWebUI OAuth. No more manual rotations and rollouts!

I'm sure the story of GTA VI is going to be great but I'm actually not looking forward to the online mode. GTA V's online mode is why I haven't played GTA since 2019. It's anti-fun and I wouldn't be surprised if GTA VI is the same a couple of years in.

Is hiking just walking but there's hills in the way?

Worked on a Hugo shortcode tonight so now I have info, warning and danger "banners" published to the blog instead of blockquotes with questionable CSS.

Hmm, I keep getting signed out of my Blue sky app on mobile.

It's taken quite some time but I finally have a custom Hugo theme. It's pretty basic and there's certainly things I'd like to add but you've got to start somewhere!

Fixed my reverse proxy yesterday so now I have one less excuse to set my blog back up. I have a shipping list of things I'd also like to do with tech today - GitHub Actions for Kubectl - Using Ansible to manage my K3S nodes - An Azure project I've been working on... But I think today is blog day.

Been watching T90's #AoE2 videos on YouTube and the nostalgia is hitting. Think I might play a game or two

To no one's surprise, UK newspapers are full of truly dreadful - and, at times, outright bizarre - "reporting" of the Climate Change Committee's new carbon-budget advice. For a sane and nuanced summary – with lots of charts - here's our detailed coverage... www.carbonbrief.org/ccc-reducing...

The cost of my standard #Nandos order has now crossed a threshold I told myself I wouldn't pay for. I guess I'm having something else for dinner.

I wish there was an alternative to Android and iOS. It's sad how the smartphone market converged into a duopoly