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Gavin Barron

@gavinb.net

319 followers 261 following 148 posts

Geek, Skier, Dad, Software Developer. Opinions are my own.

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Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 28/08/2026

Pressing this button closes out a chapter here at Microsoft. MGT was the first product I worked on as an FTE. mgt.dev has been updated to remove the playground. The final versions have been published to NPM and deprecated. Thank you to everyone who contributed.

The confirmation dialog for archiving a GitHub repository

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Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 02/06/2026

I still get a kick out of loading up this page and seeing cool stuff my team and I built in my life before becoming an FTE at Microsoft

A screen shot of the Microsoft Build website with the live stream counting down to the keynote and the schedule pane open

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Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 09/04/2026

I love secondhand books and always check out that section in a thrift store. So today I got to appreciate the utterly unhinged method of display that is sorting by the color of the cover

A set of bookshelves organized in rows of colors, blacks, whites, blues, reds, yellows, and greens whti no regards for content or author.

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Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 07/10/2025

Apparently, they are "The Groove Armada Band".

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Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 27/09/2025

I'm so grateful for the sponsorship I've received for my Base to Space run up the Space Needle. You have pushed me well over my initial goal, let's see if we can push it over the 1K mark for Fred Hutch Cancer Center, because fuck cancer. runsignup.com/gavinbarron

A long haired bearded man in glasses smiles while wearing a black T-shirt with the text "F*CK CANCER"

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Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 08/07/2025

My patent award plaque for @devproxy.bsky.social has arrived! It's so cool to see what @wldk.nl and @garrytrinder.dev have done with it since our hackathon work.

A board with gears on it, the center gear has text on it stating a date, patent number and name.

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Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 25/06/2025

So, I didn't hear about this latest piece of insanity from the broligarch in chief until just now. What in the ever-loving fuck is he thinking? Just edit out all the stuff he doesn't like with some AI BS? How can that be trusted and correct? Oh, that's right it can't be and will be wrong.

A screenshot of tweet from Elon Musk that reads:
We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors.

Then retrain on that.

Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data.

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Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 04/06/2025

This is just one of many ways that visibility and representation matter.

Two lines of text surround a rainbow coloured line emulating a heart monitor with a heart in the middle that is half gay flag colors and half trans flag colors. The text reads:
Pride isn't about turning straight kids into queer kids.
Pride is about not turning queer kids into dead kids.

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Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 15/03/2025

DEI is bad mmmkay...

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Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 27/02/2025

Well, that's a really cool email to start the day with :)

Screen shot of text: "Congratulations! On 12/10/2024, the US Patent and Trademark Office granted Patent # for your patent application titled APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE PROXY WITH BEHAVIOR SIMULATION."

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Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 21/01/2025

Constantly losing where your mouse pointer is? I sure was until I changed some settings the color and size of the pointer in Window settings > Accessibility > Mouse pointer and touch #a11y

A screen shot showing the settings to adjust the color and size of the mouse pointer in Windows

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Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 09/12/2024

This is a ridiculously fun ride to be taking this week.

A white helicopter with yellow and black stripes sits on a snow covered helipad moments before take off.

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Gavin Barron @gavinb.net · 28/11/2024

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy but isn't a selfie

A sign with a pictograph of a skier with a cross bar through it and text underneath saying "limit of patrolled area" in the background snow covered mountains dominate the view to the horizon.

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