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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 23/05/2026

Not to rag on them, but I searched for a company, the only result was a Wikipedia page for the company, not the company website... Then I searched Microsoft... And their site doesn't come up either...

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 08/05/2026

@comicbook.com honest question: do these ads really pay enough to render your site unusable? Because I just left after realizing I couldn't even fit a single screenshot in the space left behind these ads...

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 18/03/2026

Is @slack.com and @discord.com trying to cause an incident? They've both seemed to replace the Flag of Scotland with a flag of something else... Apparently maybe with Seychelles?

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 10/03/2026

I found this on Facebook... I have no way of saying for sure, but this is either @blowdart.me or @sinclairinat0r.com in disguise... My money is on barry.

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 26/01/2026

Does anyone else remember protected browsing mode on Servers? Did you ever think you would long for having it back? Have you launched Edge on Server 2025 recently? Apparently we went from secure by default to AI by default?

Screenshot of Edge on Windows Server 2025. First page welcoming you to your AI browser.

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 07/11/2025

It's almost like there's a reason for these pinned messages in the PowerShell discord...

Two discord messages.
First one from Fred says: Whenever you use dynamic parameters, god kills a puppy, a kitten, and a human baby, then founds another teeny heartthrob casting band.
Second one from Cory says: Dynamic Parameters are hell, and they do not belong in sane code.

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 12/06/2025

Not gonna lie, when I search for Lyft and see it is the only app that includes ads, I'm getting one of the other apps. Why would I be paying you money for a service and also being forced ads?

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 05/06/2025

If you're going to have a modified pro police pride flag, at least make it this one I saw on Facebook for a page I almost blocked...

There is no such thing as pride
Without a thin blue line

The brave men, women, and non-binary heroes at stonewall couldn't have thrown bricks at cops if there hadn't been any cops

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 30/05/2025

Anyone who insists on calling it a skeet is a skeet: "is used as a stereotype to describe someone who is ignorant, aggressive, and unruly"

Skeet
Newfoundland

The noun skeet in Newfoundland and Labrador English is considered to be a pejorative epithet. Though it has never been formally defined in the Dictionary of Newfoundland English, it is used as a stereotype ...
Source:
Wikipedia

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 07/05/2025

Anyone know what this is from in an empty editor tab in @vscode.dev? Is this @github.com copilot that I've had disabled for ages? I tried ctrl+i but it didn't do anything (I suspect because of vim bindings...)

Pres 'ctrl' + 'I' to ask to do something. Start typing to dismiss.

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 06/05/2025

I had not... I tried to plan to attend, hut Google doesn't seem to have directions for me to get from here to there 😔

Screenshot of Google maps searching for directions from "Home" to "Aberdeen, United Kingdom" the directions are "Can't seem to find a way there"

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 02/05/2025

This was on Facebook. Doesn't quite sum it up, but it does cover some of it.

I don't mind having to pay taxes when the poor can't.

What upsets me is having to pay taxes when the rich won't.

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 11/04/2025

Had a great #pshsummit! Met lots of great people, caught up with old friends. Solved janestreet's puzzle card deck with a little help from my friend (or hinderence 🙃)

Cory Knox holding phone opened to janestreet's answer page for their puzzle deck.

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 08/04/2025

Ran into @jsnover.com at #pshsummit! Unfortunately I left my @markrussinovich.bsky.social books at home so I couldn't get him to sign them 😔

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 02/04/2025

I saw this on Facebook with the caption "Cursed right triangles" (or something to that effect). I got a chuckle out of it and immediately thought of @standupmaths.bsky.social. It then got me thinking, is there a right triangle such that a, b, c are whole numbers, and a=b?

Drawing on graph paper showing a right triangle with two inner right triangles. The sides of the outer triangle are labeled with 0's. The inner triangles both have a hypotenuse of 0 and have sides of 1 and i or -1 and i.

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 28/03/2025

So Fitbit/Google says "You must move your Fitbit account to a Google account"... But also: "oh, you pay for your Google account? Yeah, no you can't do that..." Because what I always wanted when I got my own domain for these things was to create yet another account...

Screenshot of the Fitbit/Google help page about moving to a Google account (https://support.google.com/fitbit/answer/14237024?utm_source=transactional&utm_medium=email_crm&utm_campaign=GS108284&utm_content=bodylink4&hl=en#zippy=%2Care-google-workspace-accounts-supported).

Text from screenshot:

How to move a Fitbit Account to a Google Account
Use this article to learn about using your Google Account to sign in to the Fitbit app. For instructions on how to create a Google Account, refer to How do I create a new Google Account?

Expand all Collapse all

What to understand before moving your account
What’s a Fitbit account and what’s a Google Account?
I use my Gmail address to log in to Fitbit now. Do I already have a Google Account on Fitbit?
What will happen to my Fitbit data if I move Fitbit to my Google Account?
Is Fitbit sharing my data with Google before I move my account?
Will I be required to have a Google Account to use Fitbit devices and services?
What if I don’t want to move Fitbit to a Google Account?
How to move Fitbit to a Google Account
How do I move Fitbit to my Google Account?
How do I move "My Family" in the Fitbit app to my Google Account?
Are Google Workspace accounts supported?
If you use a Google Workspace account, you can't link your Fitbit account to it. Instead, use a different Google account or create a new one.
How long does it take to move Fitbit to my Google Account?
Why should I move Fitbit to my Google Account?

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 12/03/2025

Does anyone know: When using Ctrl+P to navigate to a file in @vscode.dev, how do you determine which file is which without using the mouse? Difference between these files is that these are in two different directories. If I mouse over them, I can see the directory. But I don't want to use my mouse.

Screenshot of vscode command palette showing two deployment-plans-edit.spec.ts files.

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 10/03/2025

Here they are... The red ones I changed, and the green one I used to change, I'm glad they got rid of it because OMG... Also: sticky keys... Usually after they try to activate because I'm holding a key down too long...

Screenshot of the Multitasking settings page for Windows.

Red highlights around:
- Snap Windows > When I snap a window, suggest what I can snap next to it.
- Snap Windows > Show snap layouts when I drag a window to the top of my scrren.
- Show tabs from apps when snapping or pressing Alt+Tab (set to Don't show tabs)

Green box around "Title bar shake"

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 07/03/2025

Saw this on that scummy site...

Facebook post from "meanwhile in canada" account. Text of post reads: "Canada has two modes, I'm sorry, and you're about to be sorry."

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 26/02/2025

I think I can explain why the browser link icon is what is it... The icon appears to actually mean "refresh linked browser(s)"... and the refresh icon in Edge and Windows Explorer is clockwise (although rotated slightly, so it's not a direct representation).

Screenshot of the drop down on the "Browser Link" button in Visual Studio. The options are: "Refresh Linked Browsers", "Browser Link Dashboard", "Enable Browser Link", and a disabled "Enable CSS Hot Reload"

Screenshot of the refresh button in Microsoft Edge. Depicting a clockwise arrow.

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 23/02/2025

To close the loop, this is the comment I was referring to: www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/com... Shared with a screenshot of it in case it too gets deleted.

The current PID loop refresh rate is 6.67Hz, so accuracy and response is far from optimal. The bottleneck is a controller card that I currently have to go through at 9600 baud, severely nerfing the performance. The next version will have a Raspberry Pi with .NET connected directly to the motors, in which case performance should basically be limited only by motor characteristics.

Edit: Some more details:

The database is a SQLite database. I use EF Core and FluentMigration.

Joystick input is handled by Silk.NET

In the frontend I use the MudBlazor component library

The sensor inputs (heading, altitude, pitch, roll) are read from a GNSS compass from Advanced Navigation. It's the big white thing you see next to the light.

I use NetTopologySuite, GeographicLib.NET and MathNet for various geospatial-related calculations.

Stabilization is achieved using rotation matrices that basically subtract the pitch and roll sensor readings from the desired pan and tilt control values.

Edit 2: I deleted this post because a bunch of people are getting confused. Will be back on another occasion and include some screenshots or video of the UI to connect the dots for people.

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 23/02/2025

This makes me sad to not see it... Although in the comments OP seems to indicate they will reupload in the future with some other info to connect the dots on how the project used blazor and such...

Screenshot from r/dotnet on reddit of the original post indicating it has been deleted by the person who originally posted it.

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 21/02/2025

I have an A&D Bluetooth one. The app it suggested is replaced with this new one that is much better. I ended up using the cuff from the first one I got which was also an A&D non-bluetooth model. The main thing in my experience is to make sure you get the right sized cuff.

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 25/01/2025

Ok, it's definitely this setting that I'm pretty sure I turned off... I had to turn it back on, I then restarted, and while it still didn't bring recent items back, as soon as I opened VS Code, it's JumpList of locations was back. Visual Studio's still isn't, but that one wasn't used nearly as much.

Windows 11 Settings window showing the Start Settings pane. Highlighted is the option "Show recommended files in Start, recent files in File Explorer, and items in Jump Lists"

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 25/01/2025

I mean... That's possible, but since search on Windows 11 doesn't seem to show that as a setting... Meanwhile Windows 10 finds some settings for the Start menu... Perhaps I need to look in the Windows 11 settings for start menu 🤔

Start search in Windows 11 searching for "recent items" showing only search results.

Start search from Windows 10 for "recent" showing a number of results for settings of the local computer.

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 15/01/2025

Facebook feeding me @justinseitz.bsky.social content, but without attributing it to him.

Black text on white background:

Went outside today
Very cold
*****
Zero stars
Do not recommend

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 08/01/2025

This is also in Visual Studio. Not sure about customizing the colours though.

Options dialog from Visual Studio opened to the Text Editor section. Highlight around "Enable brace pair colorization"

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 04/01/2025

I mean... Perhaps... But look at this... And James didn't stop me from pressing buttons 😅

Screenshot of Amazon orders showing 5 orders arriving before Tuesday.

Items shown:
- laser cut organizer for gloomhaven buttons and bugs
- Lego mini orchids
- Lego mini bamboo
- the book of elsewhere
- brzrkr deluxe edition

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 18/12/2024

I don't have an option to manage the subscription... I get an email each month telling me that I continue to get access to it for another month.

Screenshot of the Add-ons sections of GitHub settings showing GitHub Copilot information.

Screenshot of GitHub email. The email reads:
Hi there,

Thank you for renewing your free access to GitHub Copilot. Your access to GitHub Copilot will be reviewed on 2025-01-06. GitHub Copilot checks eligibility monthly per our policy. No steps are needed on your end.

We hope you enjoy using GitHub Copilot and participating in the developer community.

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 22/11/2024

Not gonna lie, it seeks like @revdaniel.bsky.social and @lookitup.baby coordinated this...

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 21/11/2024

I noticed that too. I did appreciate the irony of the last bit of this one... It looks like whoever he was harassing took his advice 😅

Screenshot of Danny Engelman replying to a blocked post. Reply says "imports are not listed by date, they go to the top of the timeline. Besides, your post basically IS a link. Don't import junk or accepts junk replies"

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 20/11/2024

Is this the DBA equivalent of the young programmer meme?

Picture of old man. Quote above photo: "programming is not stressful at all" provided attribution of quote: Arthur, 25.

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Cory Knox (corbob) @coryknox.dev · 21/02/2024

Are you confused by git? I know I am! Are you attending #PSHSummit in April? Me too! Ryan Richter and I will be presenting a workshop on git. We'll cover everything needed for you to get up and running with git.

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