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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 17/08/2026

My deepest sympathy for the people responsible for responding to the GitHub incidents and outages lately, but at some point Microsoft needs to show some accountability for turning a platform millions of developers trust with their work into a risky dependency.

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 22/06/2026

I would love to be able to use my computer or video game system for more than one day without some app nagging me for an upgrade. Sometimes it's the same app with multiple updates per week. It feels sloppy.

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 16/05/2026

Nest was down today but Google’s status page said all was fine. It’s so depressing when companies can’t (or won’t) be transparent about outages.

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 02/05/2026

Did you know I made a link page generator? It’s like linktree but it just gives you an HTML page you can post anywhere. And it’s free. bphogan.com/linkmaker

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 02/05/2026

Love getting feedback like this.

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 01/05/2026

Ok, @temporalio comes through again. I posted a message through my custom posting system yesterday, and the posting to X failed. They deprecated the API I used. Today I corrected the issue and the Workflow completed. No code changes or restarts.

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 30/04/2026

I love @tailscale. Whether I'm at a coffee shop or a doctor's office, I'm safely routing traffic back home, with access to my servers, my local LLMs, and even my cloud servers. The fact that I get to work there with a great team is even better.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

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Mitchell Volk @mvolk.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I swear to god if anything AI related tries to pull an April fools joke tomorrow I’m going to kick off digital Ragnarök

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 01/04/2026

Kids don’t try this at home

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 04/01/2026

This is the key though. Use AI tools on domains you understand well so you can guide them. They accelerate your work. They don’t replace expertise.

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 01/01/2026

Another good one. Nicely done

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 31/12/2025

Issue 48 of my newsletter ships later today. It includes a markdownlint tutorial. Subscribe at newsletter.bphogan.com to get the latest issue in your inbox.

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 22/12/2025

Just pushed publish on my 4-song Christmas EP. Traditional songs in my style. If you celebrate, give a listen. soundcloud.com/bphogan/sets/december

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Ken Kousen @kousenit.com · 30/11/2025

I'm a subscriber, and I can vouch for the fact that it's good. And free, as he said :⁠-⁠)

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 24/10/2025

The Minnesota Wild plays at the Grand Casino Arena and airs games on FanDuel Sports Network, and we are supposed to be surprised there’s a current sports betting scandal in another sport?

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 21/10/2025

HOW DARE YOU, MR. HOCKEY PLAYER! HOW DARE YOU USE YOUR HOCKEY STICK TO PUT A PUCK IN THE NET! NO GOAL FOR YOU!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I can only be friends with people who are old enough to remember the annoyance of suddenly having to use area codes even for local domestic calls we used to only have to remember seven digits!

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Rebecca Le @sevensea.cat · 02/10/2025

Yessss I love AsciiDoc, everyone should use it! It renders natively on GitHub too, by using the .adoc file suffix, so you can even use it for your readmes and the like

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 01/10/2025

Yesterday I published Issue 45 of my monthly newsletter, and it's about why Markdown might not be the best way to implement content. Read it and subscribe to be the first to read next month's issue. newsletter.bphogan.com/archive/issu…

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 26/09/2025

Everyone wants corporate sponsorship of OSS until they find out that sponsorship means control. Do what we want or the money you depend on goes poof. No free lunch. Disappointing. joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 24/09/2025

"Let's all band together to get consumer protections rolled back, and we'll say it will increase competition" is a hell of a sales pitch. tinyurl.com/2s44zc9j

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 22/09/2025

Do you remember… The 21st night of September…

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 10/09/2025

Vale is my go-to tool to catch style errors and enforce consistency in content, and after implementing it in multiple jobs and projects, it was time to create a guide anyone can follow. Now in beta. pragprog.com/titles/bhvale/write-be…

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 09/07/2025

Hyphen: - Underscore: _ Em-dash: — En-dash: – So many dashes…..

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 03/07/2025

You “log in” with your login. Your users “sign up” for your service and you track “signups.” Go check your buttons.

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 30/06/2025

Today, I used ChatGPT o3 to research two articles for my newsletter. Every article it found was current and relevant. Every fact it cited was made-up. The statistics did not appear in the article cited. Content without curation will be painful.

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 19/06/2025

Some things I learned while using Claude Code on some personal projects over the last two weeks. bphogan.com/2025/06/19/2025-06-19-c…

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 12/06/2025

With major providers down, this feels like a snow day, where the school's closed and all the work that was due today is now due tomorrow.

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 12/06/2025

Centralizing everything behind a couple of cloud providers really does help us build things faster. But when there's an outage, you really feel it.

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 12/06/2025

Now his hat is on backwards He can show you his tattoos He is in the music business He is calling you….

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

*sigh*

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Alan @alanwordguy.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

"...People are beginning to confuse the outputs of generative AI with facts, with knowledge, or with insight.... And here’s the real danger. It’s not just that GenAI gets things wrong. The deeper threat is that we stop noticing when it does."

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

"pivot to AI" is the new "pivot to video"

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 08/05/2025

Few things are more condescending than trying to do something online and being told you have to call, only to have to listen to the automated system tell you that you can manage your account online. I promise you. I tried. Talking to people is a last resort.

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 05/05/2025

Tailscale has a lot of cool features I didn't know about until I joined, but tsnet (tailscale.com/kb/1244/tsnet) is one of the best. With tsnet I can write Go apps that have Tailscale built in. Makes creating internal services so easy. Even on the free plan.

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 28/04/2025

Going to attempt to live stream some music making over at www.twitch.tv/bphogan for a bit. Come say hi.

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The Pragmatic Bookshelf ✅ @pragprog.com · 17/04/2025

Spring Best Sellers Sale, Week 2 40% Off – This Week Only! Code: 2025testing at checkout pragprog.com/titles/... @bphogan.com

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 01/04/2025

That unfortunate feeling when you check something so many times and only find the blatant spelling mistake after you hit publish. Related news: the new newsletter issue is out.

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 20/03/2025

Instead of an unsubscribe link: “If you wish to stop receiving Windows Insider Program emails, you will need to leave the program.” It’s a newsletter. It’s not account info. Pretty sure “report spam and block sender” is also an option.

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 11/03/2025

#gifflesimpsons380 🍩 1/6 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ giffle.com/simpsons

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 06/03/2025

What does winning feel like? When you have exactly enough cheese for the last cracker on the plate. No leftover cracker. No leftover cheese.

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nnenna hacks @nnennahacks.com · 01/03/2025

@bphogan.com I just read your latest issue of Code, Content & Career. On the topic of books being important in the “age of LLMs”, I couldn’t agree more. I will always rely on books for learning. Authors & their team are heavily vetted professionals. They are experts and provide sources of truth.

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 28/02/2025

Signal has great video call quality. Sharing this info today for no particular reason.

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 24/02/2025

Did something happen to ChatGPT? It’s been making more and more stuff up and arguing with me. Or worse, showing me the same wrong answer repeatedly. Even o1 when I correct it or show it context from docs.

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 20/02/2025

I’ve often thought about live stream writing a chapter of a book or article. But then nobody wants to watch me swear at the computer while I try to figure out why yet another “documented” feature doesn’t actually work the way the docs says it should.

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Software development's the first profession that can have an impact on this kind of scale. Literally one person can wreak havoc with a few keystrokes.

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Brian P Hogan @bphogan.com · 15/02/2025

Just because you are an expert at what you do does not mean you are an expert at explaining what you do.

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