Jeremy Clark

Illustration of an anthropomorphised Brontosaurus in an early 19th century dress standing with a quill pen in her right hand at a writing desk with a sheaf of papers. She faces left, but her head is turned slightly towards the viewer. Beneath the desk are scattered a few more sheets of a manuscript. In the background, a framed silhouette portrait of the head and neck of another sauropod hangs on the wall.

Brontësaurus.

Ink & gouache on Strathmore grey toned paper, 151 x 147mm, 2014.

Because this seems to be doing the rounds again elsewhere. Perhaps the only piece of mine to have gone mildly viral, shunted uncredited like an orphan from workhouse to workhouse across the Internet over the years. 🤓

Dogs with Sticks

White dog with brown speckled sleeping on a blanket with its belly and paws up.

White dog with brown speckled sleeping on a blanket with its belly and paws up.

Sleepy dog.
#dogs #dogsofbluesky

bliki: Agentic Email Giving an LLM access to email is extremely risky

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I've heard a number of reports recently about people setting up LLM agents to work on their email and other communications. I think this is extremely risky

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An illustration of four axolotls spelling out “I ❤️ U” Jaunty Art 26

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Portrait of a Scottish Deerhound named Nessie

Happy with the result of this commission of an aptly named Scottish Deerhound called Nessie

The latest .NET Rocks podcast has me on it, talking about one of my favorite topics: source generators in C#!

#dotnet #csharp

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From magic to malware: How OpenClaw's agent skills become an attack surface | 1Password The same capabilities that make OpenClaw a groundbreaking tool also make it an urgent security risk. This blog contains confirmed examples of agent skills being used as malware vectors, and advice on ...

1Password not mincing words here:

"If you are experimenting with OpenClaw, do not do it on a company device. Full stop."

"If you have already run OpenClaw on a work device, treat it as a potential incident and engage your security team immediately."

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Another one for my series of comics on Theoretical Physicists . This one is an EPICALLY niche joke about the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. An illustration of Werner Heisenberg driving a 1930s style car down a German street Text reads: Werner Heisenberg got lost every time he checked his speedometer Jaunty Art 26

Werner Heisenberg got lost every time he checked his speedometer

In The End of the Dream, Wylie writes about President Nixon, but the book was published (and the author died) during Nixon's term. Old books are curious looks into another time.

An interesting side effect of reading science fiction from the 1970s is that many take place in far future years like 2020 (A Talent for the Invisible by Ron Goulart) and 2023 (The End of the Dream by Philip Wylie).

I heard last week that the physics teacher of the daughter of one of my colleagues told the daughter that girls who do their nails don’t do physics. Sigh.

So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.

Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM

An illustration I did on a cat being a cat version of Eadweard Muybridge: Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movement 1872-1885

Eadweard Muybridge: Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movement 1872-1885

White and orange cat nestled among three pink flannel pillows.

I aspire to one day achieve this level of comfort.
#cats #catsofbluesky

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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Photo of a dog's head (brown and white beagle) with patches of flour on her snout, forehead, and ear.

How I know my wife has been baking...
#dogs

A faint fingerprint on the page of a paperback book.

Another faint fingerprint. Another connection to a previous reader of this 47 year old book.
Side note: the printing of this particular book makes fingerprints more likely (similar to how newsprint smudges). #books #booksky

A faint fingerprint on a page in a paperback book.

The joys of reading used books: a faint fingerprint, and now I'm curious. Who are you, previous reader? Are you the original purchaser from 47 years ago? Or are you someone closer in time? I am sharing an experience with someone I will never know. #booksky #books

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Next month, I'll be presenting a full day workshop "Take Your C# Skills to the Next Level" at #Live360! (Also, I have sessions on Parallel Programming, LINQ, and Managing Abstraction.) Register by Oct. 31 and use my code "Clark" to save $500 off standard pricing. See you there! bit.ly/live360orlando

🚨 Early Bird pricing for #Live360Orlando ends Friday, Oct 24! Don’t miss your chance to save $300 on standard registration and lock in your spot for the ultimate week of tech training, learning, and networking in sunny Orlando. Final discount of 2025 → bit.ly/live360orlando

Autumn tree with orange leaves framed in a half-circle window. Inside the room is dark with a dog sleeping on a rumpled sofa.

#silentsunday

Today's the last day for TechBash 2025 standard registration! Save an extra $100 with code LASTCALL100

Come for 4 days and choose your workshop, like Jeremy Clark's DI in C#: techbash.com/schedule

#developers #dotnet #csharp #devconference #kalahari #poconos #nepa

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#developers #techbash #devconference #kalahari #poconos #nepa #familyfun #devcommunity #learning

White and orange cat laying at the top of the stairs in front of a replica of Picasso's The Old Guitarist.

Max and Picasso
#caturday

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟 I’m running for the @dotnetfoundation.org board!

I would be honored to have your support, and if you're comfortable, a share of this post and recommendation to others in the .NET community.

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#DotNet #DotNetFoundation #Community

This is a nice change in .NET. There are organizations that have hesitated moving to a STS-bound version of .NET because of the smaller support window. This effectively gets rid of that concern.

White cat with orange splotches laying on a blanket.

Max is very happy I'm home after a five day trip. #caturday

Black and white tuxedo cat curled up in a circle in a cat bed.

Zoë is particularly round today. #caturday

Rocks 9.2.0 A mocking library based on the Compiler APIs (Roslyn + Mocks)

w00t! My mocking library, Rocks, just went over 100k in downloads on NuGet!

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Yes, I know Moq and NSubstitute are in the millions, but hey, gotta take these little milestones :)

#dotnet #csharp

www.nuget.org/packages/Rocks
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It's on the sign in your picture.