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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 03/08/2026

Hi @ericlawrence.com when you've got a minute, can you DM me? (or email => lance at dvlup dot com). Want to share a message from the team, to you, thanks!

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 22/07/2026

I couldn't resist adding emojis to my GitHub Actions :D

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 16/07/2026

Thank you to @microsoftmvp.bsky.social for 2026-2027, can't believe it's been 14 consecutive years! Also, thank you to everyone who supports my community work... it's really a team effort from every side that makes it possible. I'm looking forward to the next year of #WinUI and #dotnet

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 01/07/2026

It was worth the wait... the #SmithBlade from @smithhack.bsky.social Everything is meticulously crafted and feels amazing. P.S. I can't wait to go tour HERC, just waiting until they're not still overwhelmed

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 30/06/2026

Native support for containers is now available in WSL with `wslc` drop in for docker. 1. Update WSL `wsl --update --pre-release` 2. Run Hello World `wslc run --rm -it ubuntu:latest bash -c "echo Hello world from WSL container!"`

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 01/06/2026

LOL,Im already going to be ruining my diet this week before I leave, might as well join you.

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 01/06/2026

In San Fran for #MSBuild! If you're here, too, come by and say hi while Im doing booth duty (booth G219, Progress Software)

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 09/04/2026

Microsoft Build session catalog is live! build.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions #build2026 #msbuild

build.microsoft.com

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 26/03/2026

Another cool factor? Load dvlup.com pretty snappy no? Guess what, its running on a Raspberry Pi 4 😎

dvlup.com

DVLUP

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 26/03/2026

I replaced NPM with Pangolin, its amazing (and uses Traefik behind the scenes)

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 26/03/2026

Hi Donna AI, I didnt replace it, rather, I did 2 things... 1. Updated the Twitter embed it to work with X 2. Added a new Bluesky embed

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 22/03/2026

Do you use Hugo or similar static site generator? I just figured out how to replace the twitter-shortcode with a custom bluesky-shortcode template. This was perfect for my blog posts because I needed to update all Twitter embeds to Bluesky embeds. Enjoy! github.com/LanceMcCarth...

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 29/01/2026

Really Samsung? Why no $1000 trade in for my current Fold 7? Nope, I'll wait until the #trifold is out of early access, so I don't create more-waste.

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 28/01/2026

I'm loving #HomeAssistant new energy tracking features. My place in Costa Rica is killing it with "100% Self-sufficiency" and "100% Self-consumed solar energy".

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 25/01/2026

Shoot me an email. Lance at dvlup.com

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 25/01/2026

I ended up getting reassigned to help the Qualcomm and Google team. Good to see @vinnydasilva.bsky.social again, too.

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 25/01/2026

Im an independent judge at #MIT #realityhack 2016 hackathon today. Bonus, I bumped into @jbmcculloch.bsky.social here.

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 23/01/2026

I discovered Pangolin this week and it is a godsend. I bought a supporter key within an hour of implementing it. It instantly replaced my nginxproxymanager and site-to-site ipsec (and 3 other things). My homelab life significantly easier :) If you selfhost, check it out github.com/fosrl/pangolin

github.com

GitHub - fosrl/pangolin: Identity-aware VPN and proxy for remote access to anything, anywhere.

Identity-aware VPN and proxy for remote access to anything, anywhere. - fosrl/pangolin

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 21/01/2026

I knew this from day one www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... i would also recommend looking for all the back doors HeWhoMustNotBeNamed had them integrate into every system to datamine.

theguardian.com

Doge improperly shared sensitive social security data, DoJ court filing reveals

Trump administration acknowledges that Elon Musk’s cost-cutting operation accessed Americans’ sensitive data

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 21/01/2026

Finally getting back to Bluesky after many months of being head-down on a project. How's the community going?

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 23/12/2025

It's that time of year again! @realityhackatmit.com, my fav hackathon 💻⚡☕🥽 I'll be judging again, my 3rd (or 4th? time), and every... single... time is🔥 Want to play? Apps are open until midnight tonight (Dec23 11:59 EST) realityhack.world/apply #HackToTheFuture #DreamMachines

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 16/11/2025

This is so annoying. The latest Microsoft Edge updates now permanently keep this stupid "manage extensions" button in the toolbar

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 28/10/2025

Just created my custom GitHub Universe wallpaper using Octocanvas from #GitHubUniverse 🎨

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 15/10/2025

Congrats to the #ESPHome team for today's huge update esphome.io/changelog/20...! I'm installing to Home Assistant right now 🛠️

esphome.io

ESPHome 2025.10.0 - 15th October 2025

Changelog for ESPHome 2025.10.0.

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 12/09/2025

Thanks to @jesseliberty.com for having me on the show today, it was a blast.

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 09/09/2025

LOL @jcsalterego.bsky.social did they target me with this example or did they blast you to the entire world?

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 15/07/2025

Yeah, you're supposed to remove the disks the 5 and 10 year disks represent 😊

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 15/07/2025

I've run out of space. Does this mean I'm officially an OG now? #MVPBuzz

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 10/07/2025

I learned this lesson with Insteon maybe 8 or 9 years ago... i vowed never again. At first, I built my own services (dotnet, REST, UWP, etc), then discovered early Home Assistant and fell in love immediately.

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 10/07/2025

Thank you @microsoftmvp.bsky.social I am again extremely humbled and honored. While this is my 12th consecutive year, I never treat it with any less importance, my heart is pounding right now. #MVPBuzz #dotnet #windowsdev

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 01/07/2025

I hope he can get Audible participation, too.

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 01/07/2025

I enjoyed this series, didnt know it was over. That's a bummer.

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 30/06/2025

I'm not going to need an update for a while... or ever again :D #UniFi #Ubiquiti #Homelab

Screenshot of UniFi Network portal of network devices using 10 GbE and 2.5 GbE connection speeds.

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 25/06/2025

Way to go Microsoft Partner Center!

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 23/06/2025

Wow that is a lot of time, what's the host device? Email me if you want to chat further. I have ~6 years of stuff in my HA journey... but I do a bi-yearly review for stuff that is not used anymore and I have consolidated/transferred to more efficient types (e.g. remote API to Matter).

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 23/06/2025

Interesting LLM jailbreak approach. I imagine this is going to get harder and harder to guardrail against, because it takes significantly longer context awareness. neuraltrust.ai/blog/echo-ch...

neuraltrust.ai

Echo Chamber: A Context-Poisoning Jailbreak That Bypasses LLM Guardrails | NeuralTrust

An AI Researcher at Neural Trust has discovered a novel jailbreak technique that defeats the safety mechanisms of today’s most advanced LLMs

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ᒪᗩᑎᑕE @lance.boston · 16/06/2025

This "one small trick"... got my uplink speed to double :) The trick? Instead of Cat6 to DOCSIS modem, I used an SFP+ to Ethernet module... this gets the full 2.5 Gbps out of the Cat6 Though my ISP can only bring 1.5 GBs, I'm still getting 2x what I was before the module.

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