Thom McKiernan

The 3rd thumb in action 👍👍👍 #mkgn

Had anothet great evening at MK Geek Night. Talks covered optimism, accessibility & augmentation #mkgn

Fluid forms, vibrant colors - Microsoft Design How a subtle refresh of our Microsoft 365 icons signals deeper change.

On a side note, the article above also mentions about the new icons coming for M365. If you followed me back when I was on "the other place" you'll know I'm a sucker for new icon news 🤤 What do you think? microsoft.design/articles/flu...

Meet Microsoft 365 Premium: Your AI and productivity powerhouse | Microsoft 365 Blog Microsoft is taking a big step forward with major updates to our individual subscription lineup, combining the best of AI and productivity at an unbeatable price.

Big news for students - Microsoft 365 Premium is now free for 12 months, and it will let you use Copilot side by side with your college/uni apps (while keeping enterprise data protection). More info on how to get it here www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...

A room with people sitting in front of a large projector screen showing Scott's talking from his office

Not IRL but great to have a chat with @scott.hanselman.com in our internal #TechBoost today. Brilliant talk on AI but probably not in the way you'd expect. I also got a compliment from him on my moustache ☺️💅

Unfortunatley finding that I still need to share this frequently. Let's keep it simple and just say "on-prem"
#brandpolice #grammarcop

A thumbnail with a dark background and a screenshot of VS Code that reads "VS Code Dev Days Join our series of in-person community events aka.ms/VSCode/DevDays" with a VS Code and GitHub Copilot logo

We're so excited to bring you VS Code Dev Days - a global community initiative to explore the AI capabilities within VS Code!

With more than 60 worldwide, in-person events and 4 special virtual editions, there's an event for you. Learn more: aka.ms/VSCode/DevDa...

I ❤️ using movies as my test case for any new AI feature. I've been using the Surveys agent for Microsoft Forms and it makes it instantly more useful with the insights it provides from the underlying data. Find out more: support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/...

#TIL that Microsoft To Do supports hashtags in task titles 🤯.

I'm trying to get back into using ToDo as my task list but sometimes a task doesn't just fit into one category. Hashtags let me easily click or search to find related tasks. You can use multiple tags and even emojis
#totd #MicrosoftToDo

Still feels a bit disconcerting when I realise #ChatGPT has a memory!

Anyway, don't they know it's not *just* Microsofties that use MS Forms, right?

AI image from prompt: Create an image that imitates the look of a double-page magazine spread of the Argos catalogue in the 1980s. The items in the catalogue should be the following toys, He-man. Teenage mutant ninja turtles. Boglin hand puppet. Gremlins. Game boy. Sony Megadrive Include descriptive text and pricing in £ just like in the real catalogue. Set all the toys on a dramatic photo-realistic play scene in the studio with 2 8 year old boys playing with them.

Had this idea for a birthday card and wanted to see how #dalle & #ChatGPT death with it. Trying to create my dream page in an #Argos catalogue from my childhood. Not perfect but good start 1st attempt. I like the sound of a Nintendo Gamepie 😂

@openaidalle.bsky.social

Feels like a trap

Ranked: Jurassic-verse A list of 7 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Jurassic Park (1993), Jurassic World Rebirth (2025), Jurassic Park III (2001), Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) and Jurassic World (2015).

Dominion can't go low enough! Ranked: Jurassic-verse boxd.it/KHGpS

I feel like I've been auto-describedbin in the most generic way possible 😂

Weird seeing ChatGPT show up as a referrer to my blog. Even though I haven't touched it in a year or so, nice to know that even with today's Web habits it's still useful for people

Had some old Windows #Vista screenshots show up in my OneDrive memories. We had it all figured out in 2009. Has there ever been a better UI?

Heidi has cracked another case - Elves are AI
youtube.com/shorts/LeEnU... 🤖 🧝🏼‍♀️
@heidiregan.bsky.social

So AI wine is a thing now

Some days you just have to give thanks out loud to the unknowable developer that put a little tweak in the software you use every day.

Today it's the dev who put "Change Picture > From Clipboard" into #PowerPoint @microsoft365.microsoft.com

All products | Oatly From oat drink to Oatgurt to ice cream, we make all kinds of totally vegan liquid oat products that are amazing, sustainable, plant-based alternatives to dairy.

I use oat milk too for tea and coffee but my son prefers soya milk in his tea.

Shop around as the "porridge" taste shouldn't come through. My go to is Oatly, their "semi" one is my fave not too sweet, creamy or porridgy! www.oatly.com/products

Wow! Tone-deaf advertising on the London underground 🤦‍♂️ #agenticAI

I may be the only one in my house that still watches #DoctorWho but I still enjoy all the nonsense & adventure! The 2-part finale of the latest season was really impressive. So much action & just when you thought it was over it had about 4 more endings!

I enjoyed using the new *optional* markdown in Notepad, less noise than VScode. LOL at the comments. Maybe people should try something before complaining #controversial

Heard some new business speak today,
> "we want a longer migration over time e.g. to bleed as opposed to slay"

Not sure which sounds more painful!

Finally, use the free security recommendations in Defender for Cloud, including how to fix risks. Or go a step further by enabling the workload protection plans for containers, key vaults, devops code, databases, APIs & storage 🥵 www.microsoft.com/en-us/securi...
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild /🧵

The rest of the BRK234 session walked through
📊 Diagnostics with Log Analytics in Azure Monitor
🔑 Switch from keys to EntraID Managed Identity
🚪 Add user auth with EntraID for internal/external logins
🛜 Network segmentation & webapp firewalls

#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild

For AI specifically, if you build in #Azure then #AIFoundry has built in security controls & filters. This means it blocks common threats & jailbreak attempts by default, but what about trolling? Harder to detect but you can slide a switch in Foundry/IaC to block it too!
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild

... The answer is to use a defence-in-depth approach. Security is like an onion - it has layers! A lot of these features may be seen as outside the remit of a dev but with an average of 1 sec to 100 devs we all need to help each other to stay secure
#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild

Cyber Threats & AppSec (Application Security) vulnerabilities are growing dramatically just over a year, so what can you do with #DevOps to reduce the risk...

#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild

Great to see this session was not only recorded but you can also grab the slides and code so you can try it out yourself
Repo github.com/microsoft/Bu...
Video & Slides build.microsoft.com/sessions/BRK...

#MSBuild #AzureEyesOnBuild