Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 16/10/2026“How did this happen?” “Well, Grand Master, I checked the risk register and the security team accepted the risk with a note of ‘adorbs’.” 060 6
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 16/10/2026He's adorable but, with a name like that, you know he's going to betray you and slaughter all the padawans. 270 7
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I read constantly on the cell phone that I'm already carrying! 000 0
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 15/10/2026One of them always lies and the other one, ahhhh *checks notes*, also always lies? This is the worst logic problem ever. 020 2
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 14/10/2026They do. You probably need to open a support ticket to get them to refuse to add it. 010 1
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I realize that you may have just been sharing and not actually looking for solutions. I am, generally, unable to help myself. 010 1
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 14/10/2026If you're a Google shop, apparently not -- you can just turn the warning on/off, there's no allowlist. knowledge.workspace.google.com/admin/gmail/...knowledge.workspace.google.comControl Gmail external recipient warnings | Google Workspace Help 111 1
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 14/10/2026If you're a Microsoft shop, yes. But it's an admin-level control. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answer...learn.microsoft.comSender is outside organization - Microsoft Q&AHow can I approve email addresses "outside my organization" to override the warnings? these warnings repeat regardless of the amount of times I receive emails from them. 200 2
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 14/10/2026In retrospect, having never actually been a developer, I have no idea why I have such a strong opinion on the subject. Now, I'm resolved to be less judgy about it AND to find a way to work "dromedary case" into a conversation. > Similarly, lower camel case (also known as dromedary case)... 030 3
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 14/10/2026> Some people and organizations, notably Microsoft, use the term camel case only for lower camel case, designating the upper camel case separately as Pascal case. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_c...en.wikipedia.orgCamel case - Wikipedia 230 3
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Learned something new -- my mansplainBrain immediately said "That's Pascal case, not camel case!" Went to go check that statement for correctness and, it turns out, spending 20 years at Microsoft warped my understanding. 120 2
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026My key rule -- ONLY share what you need to share. Professionally, I use one browser for actual work and a completely separate browser for doing demos/presentations. (Not just a new window. I use Zen for real work and Chrome for demos/presentations.) 120 2
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026@bsky.app Thanks for this clear and actionable error message. /s 010 1
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Not ashamed to admit that I'm going to cry at Ted Lasso this week. 010 1
Reposted by Neil Carpenter#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 08/10/2026*I wonder if there's some aspect of AI that I myself should pledge to have nothing to do with. Maybe "tracking, doxing, harassing and censoring dissident intellectuals," but that's almost certain to be one of its biggest, broadest applications. 28017 80
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026My ex- and I shared an Audible account. It took _years_ for Amazon to stop recommending paranormal romance titles to me. 110 1
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I would like this story to be the first thing that every single reporter asks Pete Hegseth about from now until he's impeached.apnews.comSoldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strike tell AP the military's medical system failed themSome U.S. soldiers gravely wounded in the deadliest Iran strike on American troops say the military medical system failed them. 010 1
Reposted by Neil CarpenterMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Abstinence makes the church grow fondlers. 1194409799 4.4K
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A few years ago, a female Uber driver in LA told me she bought her Cadillac electric car because a previous expose on Musk's thinking on breeding freaked her out. "There's no way that guy is getting a dollar from me." 020 2
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm surprised that Megyn Kelly can still surprise me. 110 1
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026There's always a reason that exes are exes. But kidnapping is a new reason for me. 111 1
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I'm being pedantic and I have no excuse -- but I feel like, since you _knew_ the right direction, you weren't lost. You were, though, waylaid. 100 1
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It sounds like, technically, your dumb ass ex got lost in the desert. 100 1
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I worked on a team in Microsoft technical support that was a nice, even 100 employees across three sites in the US. You're not going to be surprised when I tell you that there were, best I can recall, 5 women on the team. You just don't get those sorts of numbers without some very serious bias. 010 1
Reposted by Neil CarpenterUndercaffeinated Eel @caffeinatedeel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It's a very good quote and one that reframes a LOT of the world when you become aware of it. 620032 200
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I always think of a female colleague who told me "It doesn't matter how many women we recruit -- if we don't create a culture where they're comfortable staying, we're just pouring more water into a leaking bucket." 150 5
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It’s only been out of extended support for a decade, I’m sure it’s fine… 000 0
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Talked to a CxO recently who refused to believe that people can write entire blogs without AI. 021 2
Reposted by Neil CarpenterNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I wish there was a way to figure out which of my donations got me on all these spam lists so I could never donate to those causes again 1622213 222
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My partner and her mom have a mental blocklist of establishments that have served them sweetened cornbread. 010 1
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Seems like it would be more authentic to use corn syrup. 100 1
Reposted by Neil CarpenterDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on. 3249852753 5K
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I see three, maybe four, who are clinging on to the last of their hair with a distinct lack of grace. Your god wants you to be bald, boys. Stop fighting it. 010 1
Reposted by Neil CarpenterGuilherme Nunes @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Does this count as an exorcism? 136899 368
Reposted by Neil CarpenterShell @risu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Hell hath no fury like a tech man held accountable for his actions. Every time they tell you a woman is nasty, useless, difficult etc - it is likely because she said no, or reported him. 1178 17
Reposted by Neil CarpenterTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing 301814693 1.8K
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Any chance of getting the individual bears as separate stickers? It seems like this is a sticker of all the bears. <3 www.inprnt.com/gallery/loll...inprnt.comFat Bears, an art print by WrenFat Bears - Gallery quality metal print with hanging hardware ready for display. 010 1
Reposted by Neil CarpenterCatalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 23/09/2026The US has arrested the CEO of Oxygen Forensics for hiding the company's Russian ownership when selling software to the US government www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr... 2128 12
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I did, once, but it was to pay for pictures from pro-Ukraine protests in Manhattan to be displayed as Instagram ads to accounts in Moscow. 010 1
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026static.klipy.comMan and Cat High FiveALT: Man and Cat High Five 000 0
Reposted by Neil CarpenterSarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026 64186264582 18.6K
Neil Carpenter @neilcar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026We’re going to see a lot more people putting the blame on AI. 010 1
