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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 24/08/2026

My first custom PCB has arrived for my desk motor controller. Now to get to soldering!

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 14/08/2026

How's it going? Oh, just a little bit of work for a Friday afternoon, probably going to push a PR then smokebomb out.

Copilot session showing:
- Changes +283156, -9025
- Plan with 4 items left
- 18 background agents

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 13/07/2026

Nifty little weekend project with GitHub Copilot app - I revived a long defunct OSS hardware project (Tessel2), got the toolchain to work on Windows, then built a Canvas to work with the device while pairing with Copilot. Next to see if I can update the OpenWRT version it runs

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 10/06/2026

Just dropped my Microsoft Build 2026 recap video! 🎉 All the big developer announcements condensed so you don't miss a thing. 🧵

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 08/03/2026

A bunch of computer surgery today and I've got a PoC boot of an old Mac Mini with Ubuntu to expand my homelab. The drive with Ubuntu doesn't actually fit in the Mac Mini, it's just a temp replacement to prove it'd work before I flash the "real" drive

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 02/03/2026

Awesome Copilot just hit 1337 commits 🤓 IYKYK

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 28/02/2026

Decided to do a spot of joggling at parkrun yesterday

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 23/02/2026

Well... that's a new error from GitHub

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 12/02/2026

Found in some code I had copilot generate for me 🤣

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 14/01/2026

For a bit of fun, I asked Copilot to add a font selector on my website www.aaron-powell.com Now there's a few different fronts to pick from to help with reading (I use OpenDyslexic a lot more these days)

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 15/12/2025

Power is out at home today, so I'm off to the local shops to work. Trustly little travel router, running off a battery pack, and it's like the home network is still up

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 10/12/2025

Thanks Australian Government and Discord, this is going on the wall.

A Discord notification saying "We determined you're in the adult age group".

Clearly Discord doesn't really know me.

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 13/11/2025

Oh, maybe I should close a few things...

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 11/11/2025

Ah yes, one of **those** days again

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 03/11/2025

Spent my lunch break hitting a milestone

Certificate of appreciation for my 10th blood donation

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 21/10/2025

Making my own esp32 based temperature sensor for @home-assistant.io I think I did an acceptable job soldering that too. Now to make an enclosure for it so it's a bit cleaner on my desk...

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 13/10/2025

Oh, it's that kind of day is it... *sigh*

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 09/10/2025

First 3D printed organisation system installed to tidy up my IoT/smart home draw. Gridfinity layout system with a collection of boxes and battery holders

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 29/09/2025

I'm not sure if I need to 3D print them... Yet

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 27/09/2025

Toying with a multi-colour print while editing an existing design, initially attempt is a 17hour print with 480 filament changes. Switching to multi-plate printing and a few orientation tweaks, 3.5hours (plus plate swapping). That's probably better 🤣

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 19/09/2025

When you question if you're writing LISP or C#

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 16/09/2025

Got a 3D printer but needed a place for it to go. Unfortunately, the space isn't big enough for anything standard, so I decided to custom build a workbench for it. Table tennis table acted as a cutting bench, and I got a nice, snug fit. And of course a Benchy to print first up 😉

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 02/09/2025

Maaaaaaaaaaybe I should call it a night

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 02/09/2025

When you type `azd up` but only half pay attention to the location you select to publish... There's no kangaroos in Austria...

I selected Austria East, not Australia East

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 02/09/2025

This is the greatest invention ever!

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 02/09/2025

Hmm, I think something is wrong with one of my Docker containers...

CPU usage is listed as 1255.71%

That's not probably not ideal...

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 27/08/2025

Just how many tools is too many... 🤣

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 26/08/2025

Creating a workshop on building AI Agents with MCP Servers in .NET, so naturally I use Aspire to orchestrate it. Being able to visualise the resource graph is really quite nifty. #dotnet

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 09/08/2025

All dressed up for my run at #City2Surf and rasing money for ICLC, NSW's only LGBTQIA+ and sex worker specialising legal services city2surf25.grassrootz.com/inner-city-l...

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 01/08/2025

Running my 7th #City2Surf next week — and raising funds for Inner City Legal Centre 🏳️‍🌈💼 They’re the only legal service in NSW for LGBQTI+, trans & sex worker communities. Chip in if you can: 👉 city2surf25.grassrootz.com/inner-city-l... #Fundraiser #RunForJustice #ICLC

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 09/07/2025

When you're too used to putting requests in the copilot chat...

I typed "git status" in the Copilot chat rather than Terminal, thus having Copilot make an LLM call to then ask if I want it to run "git status" on the terminal.

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 27/06/2025

Yep, these are just as unpleasent to eat as you'd expect.

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 27/06/2025

Oh... that's going to be a problem in completing this

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 22/06/2025

Friend was sick so offered up his race entry today, decided since I had a run planned, why not get a medal too! Thought my testing had been on point, and yep, seems so!

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 10/06/2025

Ooo neat new feature of the GitHub PR extension for VS Code - a node for PR's that Copilot has created at my request, so I can pick up from its starting point and run with it