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Martijn Brant

@mbr.bsky.social
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🇳🇱 Microsoft Cloud and Infrastructure Architect/Consultant. MSFT. Sometimes talks in GIF. Words are my own. Also on @martijnbrant@mastodon.nl

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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 15h
TIL
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
RIP Nina (2016-2026)
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Clearly this is discourse
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
LE CHONK
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Merill Fernando 💚 @merill.net · 06/10/2026
So I'm planning on shutting down the labeler and the bluesky.ms site. I have about 7 folks sponsoring the annual $10 contribution and I'll be reaching out to them to cancel. If anyone wants to take over and run the service please let me know. 2/2
bluesky.ms
Search the Microsoft community on Bluesky and get verified!
Bluesky account verification for Microsoft staff and MVPs.
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Merill Fernando 💚 @merill.net · 06/10/2026
Hey folks, important PSA for the Bluesky Microsoft community Do you find the @bluesky.ms labeller service valuable? It's costing me a bit to run (requires a VM) and right now I'm neither a Microsoft employee nor an MVP. Plus I now have a SaaS business to look after. 1/2
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I find it very useful. Could you share more on the setup and operating costs (privately if you'd like)?
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The only reply, obviously
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And you just happen to do so on the day this news broke? www.cnbc.com/2026/10/05/r... Or was it the cause of your reading?
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Russia plague: What we know about the suspected case reportedly linked to a lab worker’s death
According to local media reports, as many as 189 people have also been placed under medical observation in Irkutsk in eastern Russia.
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A 200Gbps capable router is what .. like a 4U rack unit?
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hmmm
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Alan Kinane @azurealan.ie · 03/10/2026
A few months ago I wrote about why cloud capacity constraints in Europe aren't going away anytime soon. Microsoft has now put some dates and pricing behind that reality. azurealan.ie/2026/10/03/a... #Microsoft #Azure
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Azure capacity constraints in Europe: Microsoft puts dates and prices on the problem
In July I wrote about capacity constraints in Europe and why North Europe is feeling it most. My conclusion then was that we’d be working within those constraints for years, and that customer…
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Can confirm, did this last year. Great steps in this year as well. Vaultwarden + bitwarden is great!
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Why, in this AI age, do we still not have AI intent based filtering on social media posts? I'd like to not see certain posts but often just using keywords isn't enough. But I following people seems like a hard thing to do because of their connection and other posts.
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I was testing another email service, pretty big one from France. I noticed outgoing email was leaking my IP in the headers so made a ticket. They said they couldn't change shared hosting just for me. I suggested changing it for all customers, IPs are PII.. "no, go to privacy email hosts for that"
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The Office: Jim Halpert's 'Alrighty Then...'
ALT: The Office: Jim Halpert's 'Alrighty Then...'
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Never ever trusting @mailbox.org again.. they have banned my account for sending test emails. Testing done because messages were ending up in people's spam folder. Absolutely ridiculous!
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Finally watched "A Man Called Otto" (2022).. and I was really not ready for it. It really broke me. (content warning: themes about death) www.imdb.com/title/tt7405...
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Captain approves!
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Captain America: Hail Hydra Moment
ALT: Captain America: Hail Hydra Moment
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Argh, finally selected a new email host, migrated EVERYTHING to it, all correct settings.. works great for three days.. now: 550 5.1.1 : Recipient address rejected: User unknown in relay recipient table And support has a 48 hours reply window.
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My brother saw a license plate "SW ARCH" and he wondered what kind of OS they were running. I told him Windows, duh. How else are you using a car? #CertifiedDad
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just tested this with an older RDR2 disc for the Xbox One on my Series X.. Works like a charm. No more disc noise!
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New email service i've been testing for a while offers migration service via audriga. The source is Outlook.com account, displayed as supported on all websites.. yet the service doesn't support OAuth (outside of Entra ID migrations). I think consumer accounts have been OAuth only for a long time.
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GO!
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I got burned by the Personal Vault so many times. It just wouldn't unlock anymore on multiple computers and the web. All kinds of weird errors. Finally got it to unlock once, quickly copied everything out of there. Then it errored out AGAIN. So many errors and sync mistakes as well. Such a shame.
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I do not dare lookup my total played hours.. such an awesome game indeed.
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TF2 Spy Says Gentlemen
ALT: TF2 Spy Says Gentlemen
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why is every email host with ActiveSync protocols enabled on the planet hot garbarge? I just add a calendar item (the whole freaking point of AES) and it says "synced" .. but it never goes through. Multiple services, multiple mailboxes, multiple client apps. All garbage?
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Half-Life High Five 🫸🫷
List of nine games that shaped me: Zelda A Link to The Past, Command & Conquer, Commander Keen, Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Unreal Tournament, Zelda Ocarina of Time, Team Fortress 2, Super Mario World.
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Really cool stuff, great insights.
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I was ranting at my brother on this topic so he had sent me this.. QFT
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Contacted an IOT supplier that something was missing in their firmware. Within 1 hour I got a new testing firmware with a fix I can't flash the new firmware because the flasher crashes at 20%.. 10/10 service speed.. Unusable but speedy non the less! What if they just send 3mb of garbage to delay?
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Remember when you had to do subnet mask bit calculations in your head, for Microsoft exams?
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daniel r(ooooooh) 👻 @danielroe.dev · 19/09/2026
don't be nice.
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Don't be nice
Sometimes, it's more important to be good than it is to be nice.
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amos @fasterthanli.me · 19/09/2026
yup! be kind not nice.
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Same. Bitwarden UI/UX is a stap down from 1Pass but it's worth it in the end.
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Keith Kurson @keithlaugh.love · 18/09/2026
keith.is/post/digital... I have fully canceled my D/O account 😡
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DigitalOcean has $3 million for DHH and nothing for CSS-Tricks
A week and a bit on UpCloud, deleting my DigitalOcean account after more than 10 years, and what DigitalOcean is doing to CSS-Tricks, one of the best places on the whole internet.
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
😁
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Bored Pirate Monkey Drummer
Alt: Bored Pirate Monkey Drummer reluctantly doing ba-dum-tisss
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Beautiful illustration from Kurzgesagt showing the imune system detecting and massively killing cancer cells after a virus stripped the cancer of its shields. Fuck Cancer.
Beautiful illustration from Kurtzgesagt showing the imune system detecting and massively killing cancer after a virus stripped the cancer of its shields.
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Saw Normal (2025) yesterday.. it's very meh. It feels like Fargo meets Hot Fuzz .. without understanding what makes Fargo and Hot Fuzz great to begin with. www.imdb.com/title/tt3119...
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I love my logitech mx master 3 mouse but the scroll wheel is a bit gunked up.. doesn't fly like it used to. To clean it, you have to tear off the glide pads and remove five hidden screws .. FIVE! What an ass design.
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I do the same for AMS, which is code for Schiphol Amsterdam airport.. but people mostly refer to Americas in corp geo language.
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
YouTube, what have you become.. A "safe and fun" place where handle topics like casual cannibalism. Also the buttons say watch and watch now. And tech keeps wondering why the average consumer is negative on AI. "we might fuck up the next generation but at least we made money with Ai slop" SMH..
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Does the Gmail ui not have a white flag? That counts as French? *quickly runs and hides from the impending guillotine.
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You can't spell DOGE without DO...
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The UI is dark but it renders most emails content in white. Given that's most of the UI, I'm still staring at gigantic white screen.
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's when writers have written 10 to 20 good quality questions but the provider asks for 50~75 question pool. They just randomly start searching the docs for commands to copy paste. And it makes me wonder.. do exams even matter anymore in this agentic AI age? Understanding architecture is more imp
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Prepping some new exams, and they're up to their old tricks again. Please, exam writers, asking for an exact API call name and args is going back to the frigging 90s. Nobody does that, everyone autocompletes, reads the latest docs .. or worse, an agent will write it. APIs change nonstop.
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Michael Jordan: Stop It. Get Some Help.
Alt: Michael Jordan: Stop It. Get Some Help.
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The coolest lunchbox for baguettes
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
As a lifelong Zelda fan, I'm beyond excited for the new Ocarina of Time remake to launch in two months time. Look at it... JUST LOOK AT IT!!
Screenshot of the Ocarina of Time remake trailer, showing young Link in front of the Great Deku Tree
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Martijn Brant @mbr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Also isn't GTA known for visiting prostitutes and then flattening them with your car? What's next, Jack Thompson comes back?
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