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Brock Chapin

@brrrock.bsky.social
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PowerShell and guitar nerd stuff. Jerry Garcia enthusiast. SRE @ Proofpoint

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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have casually studyied electric guitar and collected guitar records for 35+ years. I wrote off Allan Holdsworth early on as a noodling shredder. Then I discovered his work in the 70s with Tony Williams, Bill Bruford. I am now in the cult of the genius Holdsworth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc71...
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"Proto-cosmos", Allan Holdsworth with the Tony Williams Lifetime, Sept 22, 1976, The Village Gate
YouTube video by Devil Take The Hindmost: Allan Holdsworth
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 27/08/2026
Apparently in the next version of Fable, Anthropic changed their tokenizer based on real world usage and made “Let me check rather than answer from memory” into a single token, reportedly saving 43% of all token generation very interesting tinyurl.com/58zf9d3c
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
all were guessing GLM 5.3… and were correct
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
1 year ago I never would have thought that AI services would cause me to look at all my subscriptions in this way... but here we are. I'm pretty pissed off about it. Hell maybe I should just by SuperGrok Heavy and some cheap cloud storage and the family can build BIG things.
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Google AI Pro is $150 year (intro pricing) with 5TB storage (not locked to 1TB per user) with decent Gemini Pro usage. Gemini Pro 3.6 is a GOOD frontier model. You can use Antigravity or your own harness. Nanobanana 2 is excellent. Their app integrations actually make sense.
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I trust MS Security and Outlook to handle my personal stuff. I want to stay with Microsoft📎, but in this year of our lord 2026 they have lost me. We need more AI services and my kids hate Word and Excel. Teams is a joke. They would rather use free Google and free GPT.
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
They could have unified M365 Copilot with GitHub Copilot and had something we could use for real work in my agent harness of choice but NO. Understand that I am a Windows lifer who writes powershell and Azure stuff for a living....
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My Family plan renews at 91$ year but I can upgrade to Premium for $140 yearly. I have kids in college and we all need more AI services so maybe this is a good deal? no. absolutely not. M365 Copilot is just an agent app that sucks 🐩💩
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I think I started my Microsoft 365 Family subscription in 2014? Company discount made it ~65$ per year and included +4tb of shared OneDrive storage. I had a beautiful yellow Lumen 939 phone 🍌 and life was good. Today I looked at upgrading to M365 Premium... 🧵
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
lol #marvelSnap
affliction
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I am truly grateful for @gilbertsanchez.com and his work and stewardship on the project to revive PSDepend. Last week I migrated 60+ internal repos to PSDepend 0.4.1 from a crusty fork. No issues, butter smooth. www.powershell.org/modules/psde... #PowerShell
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PSDepend
A PowerShell dependency handler. Declare your dependencies in a .psd1 file and let Invoke-PSDepend resolve, install, import, and test them.
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
didn’t happen. I read the release notes and pinned all repos in PSDepend
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I have mine pinned to 3.9.2 for this reason
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The Free Spirits featuring John McLaughlin Tokyo Live Such a great live record I saw the tour at Palookaville in Santa Cruz, CA and it blew my mind seeing Joey DeFrancesco blowing trumpet while playing B3 bass and left hand. www.discogs.com/release/1190... music.apple.com/us/album/tok...
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Tokyo Live by John McLaughlin & The Free Spirits on Apple Music
Album · 1994 · 8 Songs
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
one of my very favorite tapes: archive.org/details/gd19... jerrybase.com/events/19821... #GratefulDead
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Grateful Dead – 1982-10-09
Grateful Dead setlist and details for 1982-10-09 at Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
this should be studied
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
feeds banana peels into the cyber truck suck nozzle…. “Marty, it’s your kids… they are radical antifa democrats who hate AI”
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Windows 11 is the farthest possible thing from a “vibe coded OS”. It is the OS equivalent of a US Navy aircraft carrier. hope this helps
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
it’s ok to ride in a Wayno as long as you also tip it into its side after. equals out.
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Santa Cruz, CA
frenchy diver graphic. evilwings santa cruz
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I felt something for this clanker for like 11 seconds before my brain slapped back to reality.
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
following @esqueer.net immediately
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I'm not sure them is exhibiting true appreciation for our milks
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Summer reading #books
hardback Palaces Of The Crow
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I ended up sticking with 1Password cli for my immediate use case which is securing a Claude auth token. Replacing "ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN" with: "apiKeyHelper": "op read op://vault/claude/key" But I will be replacing a few legacy Credential Vault entries soon.
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Had a chance to play with PowerShell.SecretManagement using 1Password extension. Setup docs worked as advertised. Now I can pull PScredential obj directly from vault. It prompts for my Windows Hello auth. github.com/cdhunt/Secre... #powershell
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GitHub - cdhunt/SecretManagement.1Password: This is a SecretManagement extension for 1Password.
This is a SecretManagement extension for 1Password. - cdhunt/SecretManagement.1Password
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I thought we all went Steyer? who votes for a corpo?
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Side by side comparison with "BB PC Remaster" mod @fromsoftserve.bsky.social
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
static.klipy.com
Doctor Who: Maestro's Dramatic 'So Sad!'
ALT: Doctor Who: Maestro's Dramatic 'So Sad!'
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Strolling through Yharnam at 60fps with Blooborne "BB PC Remaster" mod by @fromsoftserve.bsky.social www.nexusmods.com/bloodborne/m... #BloodBorne #FromSoftware
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
github.com/Microsoft/co... For the shell conflicts we can add a function in profile to get around hardcoded alias in pwsh. Here I replace dir with the cmd version: function dir { param([Parameter(Position=0,ValueFromRemainingArguments)]$a) cmd /c "dir $a" } #powershell
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GitHub - microsoft/coreutils: Coreutils for Windows: Installer & Packaging
Coreutils for Windows: Installer & Packaging. Contribute to microsoft/coreutils development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
#Bloodborne #Gaming Cleric Beast Bloodborne Enhanced Mod 60fps
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
lol ok. this is the shade that feeds my soul. Love me some GD though.
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
flood these creeps at the FCC
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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a man wearing a white suit and a helmet stands next to another man wearing a helmet
Alt: AI bots clapping at this fck
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Overcast Friday night with my STEED #EldenRing
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
made a PR to merge the new llama.cpp w/ MTP into beellama.cpp 🐝 enables MTP and DFlash + Turboquant TOGETHER on a single 3090 MTP is getting all the attention this week, but DFlash is far more impactful for my system + use case #localLLM #Windows #Qwen github.com/Anbeeld/beel...
benchmark comparing my beellama Qwen3.6 27b with DFlash vs MTP vs DFlash + MTP
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I should mention that this game would be fully compatible with Woke2 and has it's own arc outside the film. Thief observes the cursed binary tragedy and becomes the hero they cannot. Their transition is partially signaled by them receiving their own animal familiar... a mouse.
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
grilling up some tri-tip asado in the garden while qwen code continues trying to build my beellama tooling ideas. no regrets about going with the 3090 over the M4 Mac #localLLM
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
many bosses and levels are designed to be fought by only Etienne OR Isabeau. You play that level/boss at only day or night etc. Other areas naturally transition by time. you cannot just 'pass time' like in Elden Ring. So time/transition is displayed in HUD and something to account for.
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
the first 2/3 of the film is just chapter 1 of the game because obviously we can't break the curse until the end. The world and story expand to procure knowledge and items for breaking the curse. Along the way we find other cursed characters: trees turned into humans, vampires, quail ninjas, etc
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
You start as a thief known as "The Mouse" using stealth but later transition to playing as Etienne or Isabeau. Etienne is a sword warrior accompanied by hawk Isabeau is sorceress accompanied by wolf
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
#multiMillionDollarIdeaOfTheDay Soulsborne game entirely based on the 1985 film "Ladyhawke". Plot, vibe, music etc New mechanic based on day/night curse transition where your character turns into male/female with animal counterpart. youtu.be/1ODVyWqW4ps?... #GameDev #Gaming #souls
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Ladyhawke (8/10) Movie CLIP - The Transformation (1985) HD
YouTube video by Movieclips
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
was confused after spending two hours sloggin through Caelid at lvl 30. Forgot that I never even went to Liurna. open world was a mistake #EldenRing #DarkSouls
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Just got to try Tom Holland's non-alcoholic beer @berobrew "Double Tasty" West Cost Pale Ale it's excellent. definitely reaches the same quality as Athletic brewing, but with a totally unique hop profile and balance. #beer
berobeer can
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
LOL been using this today in qwen vscode extension to troubleshoot why qwen code terminal app would not run using my local model. I had to downgrade to nodejs 21 and use localhost:8082 and it's working. It felt so wild giving it --yolo to troubleshoot itself. but it never stopped chugging.
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a close up of thomas the train 's face with the words make gifs at gifsoup.com written below it
Alt: tom train bugg eye chuggin
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
40 t/s using beeLLaMa (llama.cpp) running Qwen3.6-27b Q4 with context 200k + DFlash + TurboQuant on a single 3090 on native Windows 11 (no WSL) github.com/Anbeeld/beel... #localLLM @anbeeld.bsky.social
llama.cpp cmd
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Claude and I wrote a powershell detection script for 'mini shai-hulud' vuln on Windows gist.githubusercontent.com/bchap1n/95ab... #TanStack #MiniShaiHulud #npm #powerShell #Windows
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https://gist.githubusercontent.com/bchap1n/95ab2e0422d1fb22dc27c3ede9b92962/raw/99573621af6cfaac71f09c9220dac76a1379afcc/Find-miniShaiHulud.ps1
[CmdletBinding()] param ( [string[]]$SearchRoot = @( "$env:USERPROFILE\Documents", "$env:USERPROFILE\source", "$env:USERPROFILE\repos", "$env:USERPROFILE\.cla...
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Brock Chapin @brrrock.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
It is "powered by Azure Speech services" and I sure would prefer to use my secure and local liteLLM or LM Studio... but of course that's impossible and the feature is barely documented.
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