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For my Chicagoland-based folks: DuPage Animal Friends has a fundraiser coming up at @noonwhistlebrewing.bsky.social in Lombard, IL, on October 2. This event is a ton of fun! I'll be there from 5-9 PM with the fam. Stop by, grab a drink, and support #ShelterPets! Tickets: dupageanimalfriends....

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Jeez, the NeoGeo AES+ is delayed until Sept 2027?!

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Thanks to Opus 5.5, Claude doesn't seem totally worthless! Only half joking - I was about to cancel my sub after being maxed out on frustration dealing with Opus 5. (Before the Claude haters or Codex lovers chime in, I use the crap out of Codex as well)

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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 18/09/2026

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Hmm. The last two days, my #Codex #VSCode extension works for a while. But, then -- seemingly randomly -- it refuses to display anything other than a grey box.

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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 17/09/2026

Spent the last couple of days facilitating @westmonroe.bsky.social's Basecamp, training ~75 new college hires. Great experience—super fun seeing folks across tech, industry, and functional teams use Codex in a mini-hackathon. They built amazing stuff in just hours! #AI #Hackathon

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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 08/09/2026

If I installed it, it wasn't on purpose. And this is some kind of auto update that is not in my control. 🙃

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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 08/09/2026

Umm... this is an ARM64 system, and I'm running Windows 11?

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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 30/08/2026

I'm Nashville-bound next week for the Hybrid Identity Protection Conference! I selected sessions on defending AD, retiring NTLM & securing Entra (@dotdot.horse, @ericonidentity.com, @merill.net, @samerde.day3bits.com) to help me keep my clients secure. Attending? Say hi! #HIPConf

Conference agenda webpage with tabs for Tuesday, September 8, 2026, Wednesday, September 9, 2026, and Thursday, September 10, 2026; Wednesday is selected. The schedule lists Breakfast 7:30 AM–8:45 AM, Opening Remarks: Mickey Bresman, Why Cyber Conflict Is a Human Problem, LETs KILL NTLM, Breaks, Attackers Aren’t Wizards: Turning Red Team Lore into Real Controls, Mission-Critical Conditional Access at Scale, Lunch, AD Experts Panel, Let’s Kill NTLM (Vol. 2): The Kerberos Connection, Abusing the Holes in Conditional Access: Modern Attack Paths and How to Close Them, and Evening Event 6:30 PM–10:00 PM.

Conference agenda page with tabs for Tuesday, September 8, 2026, Wednesday, September 9, 2026, and selected Thursday, September 10, 2026. The Thursday schedule lists sessions such as Breakfast, Human Resilience in the Age of AI: Building Proactive Cyber Defense, Your Agents Don’t Have Passwords: Governing Non-Human and Agentic AI Identities, Lunch, and Resilience Under Fire: A CISO’s Journey Through Crisis, Health Challenges, and High-Stakes Defense, each with times and magnifying glass icons on the right.

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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 29/08/2026

You nailed it. An Intune remediation script to call DSC v3.

Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 29/08/2026

Want #Intune "as code" without the nightmare of JSON import/export pipelines? @danny-stutz.bsky.social & I are showing a better way at Workplace Ninjas US. We'll use DSC v3 to enforce #Win11 baselines & fix drift in real time Jan 11-13 | Scottsdale, AZ workplaceninjas.us #WPNinjasUS #WPNinjas

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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 29/08/2026

I'm glad I have a team (Danny, Blake) submitting with me! We were able to spread the love.

Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 28/08/2026

The Call for Papers for PowerShell Summit 2027 is open on Sessionize, and I've just submitted a session! (OK, I submitted ten sessions...) What are you waiting for? Submit!: sessionize.com/pshsu... #PSHSummit #PSHSummit27

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PowerShell Summit 2027: Call for Papers

The PowerShell Summit is where the PowerShell community comes to learn, connect, and level up. Happening April 5–8, 2027, in Orlando, Florida, the Sum...

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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 18/08/2026

I'm working on that, too! Kinda. I'm building a reusable, hardened devcontainer setup

Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 17/08/2026

I am not a fan of this Claude Code UI. I get that it's editing a sensitive file, but not telling me what edit is being made/proposed makes this dialog meaningless. Also, right before this, I explicitly told Claude Code to make this edit, so the redundant pause is incredibly frustrating.

Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 17/08/2026

I'm trying something new: Codex is bossing Claude around. Also known as: the fox watching the henhouse. 😅

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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 17/08/2026

Codex taught me a new word: mojibake en.wikipedia.org/wik... (Another example where I knew the concept, but not the word for the concept - so: thanks, AI! 😅)

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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 15/08/2026

I’ll be heading to Nashville September 8–10 for the Hybrid Identity Protection Conference (#HIPConf26). The agenda and speaker lineup look excellent, and I’m especially looking forward to learning, exchanging ideas, and connecting with others in the #identity community. Who else will be there?

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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 14/08/2026

Voting opens tomorrow! Cast your votes for your favorite pets to be featured in the DuPage Animal Friends' 2027 calendar! 2 ways to vote: Purchase votes directly on the specific entry page Bank your votes and check out once Learn more: www.gogophotocontest...

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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 05/08/2026

Something fun for the DuPage Animal Friends calendar: a photo contest! Submit your best furry friend pics for a chance to feature your pet in the 2027 calendar. Donate $25 and upload here: www.gogophotocontest.com/daf2027. Share and help homeless animals! #dupagesaves #dupageanimalfriends

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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 05/08/2026

I'm familiar with this class of race condition/bug, but didn't know the TOCTOU term/acronym until now. 🧠

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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 05/08/2026

Why does AI feel the need to point out that every problem is a "real" problem? Saying something is "real" seems to be the leading AI trope of July/August 2026.

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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 01/08/2026

About 70% of the room were not Tech consultants, but by the end of the class, we were all using #Codex and doing spec-driven development to build a technical solution to all of consulting-life's problems 😅 But seriously, folks in the class built some really neat things! ✌🏻

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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 01/08/2026

I'm honored (and seriously jazzed) to have been able to fly to Dallas this week to teach about 30 of my colleagues what I know about using AI for consulting client delivery! I genuinely love sharing knowledge and empowering others. The fact that I'm paid to do this (on occasion) is amazing.

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You know me: just casually making $202B USD payments to my electrical utility! #ComEd

Super helpful for anyone interested in using or checking out DSCv3!

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Eh, I don't mind it. Community members and clients message me there; I hate to miss that stuff

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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 20/07/2026

Couldn't turn this off fast enough. Actually that's a lie; I tried to turn this off previously but I don't think it was an available notification category.

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Ruby-throated hummingbird perched on electrical lines near sunset on a hazy, low air quality day

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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 20/07/2026

Ruby-throated hummingbird perched on electrical lines near sunset on a hazy, low air quality day

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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 17/07/2026

Hot damn. 13 hours later, I finally have clean CI. (Doing Dev Containers "right" is hard)

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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 16/07/2026

Shocker to no one! Congratulations, man!

Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 15/07/2026

Windows Defender is flagging #Codex as malicious. "This program is dangerous and executes commands from an attacker." The ironic part is I'm working on building a devcontainer module for github.com/franklesn... -- to make it easy to sandbox coding agents. I guess I'll work from Codex on the web...

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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 15/07/2026

I backed into a parking space in a parking lot the other day, paid to park, and went to dinner. I came back to a ticket because apparently backing into a space is not allowed. Freaking $40 ticket. Ridic. I go to pay it, and they charge both a convenience fee AND a CC fee? Seriously, #ForestPark?

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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 05/07/2026

Happy Independence Day! 🇺🇸

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Frank Lesniak @franklesniak.com · 03/07/2026

I fired up my Lenovo Flex 5G yesterday and was pleasantly surprised that I was FINALLY able to update it from 23H2 to 25H2. Microsoft or Qualcomm fixed whatever driver issue was blocking/resulting in a BSOD. This #fanless Windows laptop still has some life! #Windows #Windows11 #Win11