Stuart R Ainsworth

But as a Southerner, I absolutely agree with your first statement.

You lived in the UK long enough to know that pretty much anything qualifies as a “pie” or a “pudding”.

You should go back to see this. The engineering alone is awesome.

Cold, gray skies over Vicksburg today. Fascinating opportunity to talk to my kid about American history and how hard it is to rebuild after things get broken.

Parallels is the smoothest experience that I’ve had with Windows locally.

However, for me, I’ve had fewer reasons to run Windows at all and cloud based machines have been more than adequate for my use cases.

I felt a disturbance in the force this morning.

@buckwoodymsft.bsky.social

So we recommend pairing, but we call it “learn by doing”. The expectation is that the driver is the person is who is less experienced and the coach is in the passenger seat. They’re not always seated side by side. They COULD be, but sometimes they’re just available to answer questions when needed

First Thanksgiving meal. Shirt of the day! Let the festivities begin!

My wife used the money from her last Christmas card to buy a Dutch oven of her own, and every year she makes apple dumplings for her grandma. She’s teaching our son how to make them.

Every time I see that red pot I think about Lilah and smile. I smile more at times like these.

Grandma Lilah was an amazing cook. She lived in an old farmhouse all by herself out in the middle of nowhere and she used to make these things called apple dumplings in an old Dutch oven.

She passed in early January 2000.

Story time (for no particular reason).

My wife’s grandma used to send her Christmas cards with $50 in them. After we’d been married about 5 years, she started doubling it to $100. She didn’t put my name on the card, but I guess she figured I was sticking around.

I like how “Fire” is listed as the last outcome of the description.

Because that’s what will happen.

Man, I am digging the mute list ability here.

I’m able to follow conversations selectively, because people are complex. Y’all sometimes talk about things I don’t care about, and it’s nice to be able to get away from it while still be able to check up on you.

Just got to tell a new developer on my team that “you will always remember the first time you break production”. Today was his day.

Me? I loaded a virus on a database server.

a woman in an orange fur coat is standing next to another woman in a red coat . ALT: a woman in an orange fur coat is standing next to another woman in a red coat .

Hey, vendors are starting to show up over here now. This could turn into something.

@datadoghq.bsky.social is here!

The older I get , the more I realize:

Change in technology is always easier to embrace than changes in process.

Just listened to a hackathon awards presentation at my company, and it struck me: as an EM, I need to make time on the road map to make these projects happen.

Engineers put their passion into these projects. I need to figure out how to pave the road to make them happen.

Yeah. I’m not looking forward to the trip home for Thanksgiving this year.

But to quote one of my favorite singers, Paul Thorn:

“I don’t like half the folks I love”.

And for me, as a recovering political junkie, I’m enjoying interacting with people on common ground while gently agreeing to tread very lightly around uncommon subjects.

We’ve been so inhumane for so long to each other; it’s going to take time to build trust again.

So, since I’m not really in the Microsoft space anymore, I just found out #MSIgnite is in Chicago this week.

Wondering who’s flying out of Atl tomorrow at 330? I gotta go the office for a day :)

However, I’ve yet to find another data query language that feels like it’s worth starting over for. They all end up being similar enough to SQL that people just make them SQL in the end.

I’m so far removed from the hands on keyboard space these days that I doubt my opinion is valid much anymore, but I always wonder where the tipping point is for “starting over”.

SQL has morphed into such a powerful tool, but it has baggage.

I know @kendralittle.bsky.social did something with static something or others a while back. Haven’t looked at it closely, but curious if there were other options on the table for folks aging out of the blogging game.

So I don’t blog much anymore, but I hate to throw away years of content. I’m also cheap and I don’t want to keep renewing Wordpress on a host.

What are my options?

Go.

End of year stuff is always hard. Busy times and it’s hard to take time to breathe.

I usually escape via music, but as I get older I’m struggling to find new artists I like. I dig Americana and British new pop lately. Anything else I should be checking out?

a man with a beard is holding a glass of wine in his hand . ALT: a man with a beard is holding a glass of wine in his hand .

Only slack? Celebrate the consistency, my friend.

….at least until the emails from the upper executives begin.

Life is short.

Go to the concerts.

Avett Moon last weekend. Pink tonight.

Ha. This didn’t age well.

Wound up with Datadog On Call.

Sometimes you take a chance on a beta product.

Haven’t been on social media for a long time. Been seeing a lot of buzz about Bluesky again on LinkedIn so thought I would give it another go.

I’ve missed y’all.

Thanks for the completely out of context reply but I’m not interested.