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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 30/07/2026

I'd forgotten about this video of my daughter singing one of Glen Hansard's songs sixteen years ago when she was three. He had all the age groups covered. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILKz...

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Tessa singing along to Leave

YouTube video by GuitarTube.org

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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 02/03/2026

New 9U5P track released today. This one features my good friend and long-time drummer, Dan Griffin, on it. open.spotify.com/track/0tZ5LA... #postrock #post-rock #music

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Across a Broken Quiet

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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 25/01/2026

Kind of strange -- does the Paramount+ really not have play/pause buttons? Not seeing them in a desktop browser or the Windows Paramount+ app.

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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 23/01/2026

A lot of this post really resonated with me given the stuff we're trying in my org. mikefisher.substack.com/p/the-shape-...

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The Shape of Leadership

Leadership Lessons from Birds That Know When to Lead and When to Adapt

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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 10/12/2025

Great behind the scenes walkthrough by @keansbox.com on how the VS team keeps grinding on improving performance in Visual Studio. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNT-...

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Performance Improvements in Visual Studio 2026

YouTube video by Microsoft Visual Studio

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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 03/12/2025

I know her!! Congrats, Isa!! ❤️

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Visual Studio @visualstudio.com · 11/11/2025

🚀 Visual Studio 2026 is officially here! Faster performance, smarter tools, and AI woven into your workflow. ✅ 4,700 bugs fixed ✅ 300 new features ✅ Modern UI + AI-native design Learn more and upgrade now: msft.it/63327tMUkz

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Visual Studio @visualstudio.com · 07/11/2025

Visual Studio’s October update is here! ✨ Claude Sonnet & Haiku in Copilot Chat 🧠 Copilot Memories 📋 Planning for long-running tasks 📂 Instruction Files 🤖 Bring Your Own Model 💬 Chat commands Check out what’s new → msft.it/63320tHOO8

Visual Studio 2022
October 2025 update
→ More at aka.ms/vs/relnotes

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Claude Haiku 4.5
Available in chat
Memories
Copilot can now remember your project preferences and help you keep them documented and up to date
Planning
More reliable responses and transparency from your agent during long running tasks
Instruction Files
Tailored instructions for specific file types and areas of your codebase
Bring Your Own Model with Azure Foundry
Available in chat
Chat Commands
Use /clear or /clearAll to manage thread history

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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 20/10/2025

Short but sweet demo of some of the more recent Visual Studio debugger + Copilot improvements. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e79N...

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Debugger Agent for Unit Tests

YouTube video by Microsoft Visual Studio

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Andy Leonard @andyleonard.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

"It’s cool to see SSIS support continues for the many Microsoft customers still using the platform for data integration." - from my latest blog post titled "Add the SSIS Extension to Visual Studio 2026 Insiders." Read more at andyleonard.blog/2025/10/add-.... #SSIS #VS2026

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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 11/10/2025

Considering moving from Comcast to YouTube TV. I suspect it's not going to be easy to figure out all up pricing given bundles in play, etc.

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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 08/10/2025

Just set up the new Logitech MX Master 4 mouse. I've loved this line of mice for years. The new "Actions Ring" and haptic feedback may be a bit of a stretch to me, but we'll see. Nice though that it has an additional button than previous models. www.logitech.com/en-us/shop/p...

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MX Master 4 Wireless Mouse | Logitech

Elevate your workflow with MX Master 4: Haptic feedback, MagSpeed scroll, 8K DPI, & Logi Options+ customization. Shop now!

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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 02/10/2025

Finally tried a voice conversation with ChatGPT on my drive to the office. Asked about reinforcement learning and ended up with a great chat that gave me a much clearer picture of it and related areas. Really pretty amazing. It really felt like just having someone sitting next to me.

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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 29/09/2025

I wish Word supported Markdown. I'd love to have all of the collaboration and review support Word has but on Markdown files. I've heard there are extensions but that feels like a non-starter given how I'd mostly want it for collaboration with others.

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ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 11/09/2025

The startup time on the new Visual Studio 2026 preview is really impressive. Even for a very large 100+ project solution, it opens in just a few seconds.

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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 17/09/2025

So many bots starting to follow me here that a few of them are even using the same profile photos.

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Visual Studio @visualstudio.com · 16/09/2025

Claude Opus 4.1 (Preview) is now in #VisualStudio! Want to try Anthropic’s most powerful model right inside VS? You can now switch to #ClaudeOpus 4.1 (Preview) in the Copilot model picker. Head to the model picker in Copilot Chat, select Claude Opus 4.1 (Preview), and start building with it now!

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Claude Opus 4.1 (Preview) is now in Visual Studio!
read the blog.

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DJ @djisfurious.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Gotta say that in other news - I’m really enjoying the new #vs2026 insiders version. Not one crash and now it’s my primary IDE . Seems snappier and cleaner. Great job #VisualStudio team. And shout out to #SSMS team! V21 is breath of fresh air.

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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 13/09/2025

Need to figure out how best to tweak my notes workflow to take advantage of the benefits of AI and all of the updates to apps in the workflow such as Teams, Loop, OneNote, M365 Copilot (especially Researcher), etc.

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Visual Studio @visualstudio.com · 10/09/2025

! LIVE EVENT ALERT ! It's time to celebrate the future of development at the #VisualStudio2026 Insiders Release Party. Join the team as they unveil the sleek new look, cutting-edge AI integration, and the big themes shaping this release. LIVE today @ 10AM PT msft.it/63327sigHV #VS2026

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Visual Sutdio 2026 Insider's Release
New UX, Copilot Updates, .NET 10, and more.

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David Wengier @david.wengier.com · 10/09/2025

Hey so Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is out, and it's very exciting, but if you edit Razor files I have a personal favour to ask. For the last ~18 months I, and a few of my friends, have been working on a new foundation for the Razor editor called "Cohosting". I'd love for you to try it out.

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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 10/09/2025

Great rapid fire video with a lot of the new stuff in today's VS 2026 release by @noraajunker.bsky.social. And is that a case of 5.25" floppies in the background? Awesome!

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 09/09/2025

Welcome to Visual Studio 2026 Insiders: devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio... I haven't posted much for a while as I've been heads down working with the Visual Studio team to deliver all the performance and other goodness in this one.

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Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here! - Visual Studio Blog

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here – and it marks one of the most ambitious steps forward we’ve taken with the IDE. This release brings AI woven directly into the developer workflow, performance impr...

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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 08/09/2025

Just pushed a super basic WPF app that I'm going to use for the one feature Windows's Snipping Tool still doesn't have that I really miss from when I used SnagIt. github.com/gusper/SnipJ...

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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 04/09/2025

Subscription renewal emails: "We just processed your payment" makes me think, "Sigh, I guess I have a year to cancel this." "We're about to process your renewal" makes me think, "Do I actually need this?" Companies in the latter group: I'm assuming it's genuine customer care, and I appreciate it."

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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 04/09/2025

I finished "The Nvidia Way" over the weekend. It was a good read that reminded me how much I used to enjoy books about tech industry (almost always software though) startups twenty years ago. Makes me want to catch up on all the books that have come out since then. www.amazon.com/Nvidia-Way-J...

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The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant

Amazon.com: The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant eBook : Kim, Tae: Kindle Store

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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 03/09/2025

Radiohead announced some dates in Europe. I haven't seen them since the Pablo Honey tour. Think I need to check in with them again next time they come around to see what they've been up to.

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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 31/08/2025

I'm not someone that follows F1 tons (and yes introduced to it because of the awesome Netflix series), but Lando Norris has always impressed me with how easy going he seems to be about really crappy stuff. Compared to the most others, he seems like such an outlier.

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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 31/08/2025

Just spent a couple hours trying to remap the Copilot key on my laptop to the End key. Failed miserably. I'm genuinely not sure it's even possible. I swore I had already done this, but it turns out I hadn't actually tested on my other laptop with a Copilot key.

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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 30/08/2025

Got the new keyboard. Build quality is wild. Surprisingly heavy. Keys feel super different. Actually, everything feels different. We'll see how it goes. (I wish I had a count of backspace presses this post required. Easily 20+ though.) @chuckguy55.bsky.social

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Mads Kristensen @madskristensen.net · 29/08/2025

GPT-5 mini is now in Visual Studio

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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 27/08/2025

Thinking of starting a movement around making "inline" replies in email a thing of the past. Quoting text and addressing it in your reply is so much cleaner even if it takes a little bit more work.

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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 27/08/2025

I give up. Severance is just not for me.

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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 27/08/2025

Finally looked into and got BlueBubbles working with Cloudflare's tunnels. The default setup worked pretty well but I did still find myself having to manually "Fetch Latest URL" pretty often. Now that should be a thing of the past with the new setup as it'll always be the same URL. Love this app.

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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 26/08/2025

Did a lot of Azure related dev work in Visual Studio last week. Copilot certainly made it much easier for me, but I wonder how much better it would have been if I had been using this new support. Will give it a spin soon. devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...

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GitHub Copilot for Azure (Preview) Launches in Visual Studio 2022 with Azure MCP Support - Visual Studio Blog

The GitHub Copilot for Azure extension is now in Public Preview for Visual Studio 2022 (17.14+). It brings a curated set of Azure developer tools—exposed through the Azure MCP server—directly into Git...

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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 26/08/2025

My 2FA codes suddenly broke today and just realized it was because my new laptop's clock was off by almost two minutes. Not proud of the speed at which I figured this out though.

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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 25/08/2025

Setting up a new work laptop. Only way I was able to find I could get it to work (after trying pretty much every other option I could think of) involved finding a USB->LAN dongle. Glad I never threw that thing away and I was able to find it.

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