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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Kusto-loco 1.4.9 now released. Lokqldx now supports KQL formatting. geo_info_from_ip_address now supports IPV6 lookup. Also fixed an annoying bug with float parsing in some locales. Download: github.com/NeilMacMulle...

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Release v1.4.9 · NeilMacMullen/kusto-loco

Core Implement with_index in mv-expand Add IPV6 support for geo_info_from_ip_address @akefallonitis fix issue with parsing real literals in non-english cultures Lokqldx Allow up/down arrow to s...

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Kusto-loco 1.4.8 now released with lots of new security-related/defender KQL functions thanks to akefallonitis.. Download from: github.com/NeilMacMulle...

A list of new functions in Kusto-Loco 1.4.8

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Yep - that cut-away was the real genius!

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

When you've truly internalised it...

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

pedestrians and ofc, an idiot behind the wheel of a car is even more of a danger. So on balance, even though i love mine and it's fun to ride, I'd recommend an e-bike as a better micro-mobility solution.

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

after a few drinks in the dark on bad surfaces are a recipe for disaster and the should probably be retired in favour of the bikes. Risk to others is more controversial. The problem is more about inconsiderate users than the mode of transport; I see plenty of cyclists on my commute blasting past

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

wheels are so small that any kind of pothole or even bike-friendly drop-kerbs can be catastrophic at speed. So they work well on a well-maintained bike-lane or pavement but not really elsewhere. We have Voi rental scooters and in the city; my view is that these, driven by inexperienced riders

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Owner of one of these (gifted) which I use to commute 4 miles to work.... I definitely have mixed feelings. Mine maxes out at 25kph (15mph) and while I often think it would nice if it could go a _few_ mph faster, the idea of one doing 25 or 30mph is scary. The main risk to self imo is that

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Kusto-loco v1.4.7 is now available. Copilot taught me a new KQL trick to extract selected fields from a JSON dictionary which is pretty neat!

A screenshot of the lokqldx tool showing the use of make_bag and pack to extract fields from structured json

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Couldn't agree more; I've always thought that the most effective developers are those who are able to build a very clear mental model of the system and the things that might contribute to the buggy behaviour before even touching the computer.

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The nice charts are based on _sixels_ which are generated using a lightly modified version of @trackd.x64.se 's rather wonderful [trackd/sixel library](github.com/trackd/Sixel). (Sorry, I feel bad for forgetting to update the main page to give credit.)

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GitHub - trackd/Sixel: Powershell Module to Convert images to Sixel/InlineImage/Kitty

Powershell Module to Convert images to Sixel/InlineImage/Kitty - trackd/Sixel

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

There's something very satisfying about using KQL in a powershell script to generate charts in Windows Terminal... github.com/NeilMacMulle...

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Hmm - copilot suggest NetTopologySuite. May have a play around with this at the weekend - I've been wanting to add geo-lookup to kusto-loco for some time but never had a convenient source of polygons. :-)

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This is definitely interesting - just curious if the api supports a lat/long->City/Country/Region lookup or if your thinking that this would be done by some other library ?

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Awesome ! Now I have no excuse not to port lokqldx !

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

BBC caption: "The number of red kites in the UK has increased by 2,464%" I love red kites but using % to represent multiples > 1 and then using 4 significant figures is just daft. I suspect the number has multiplied by around 24.5 (not 25.5) but anyway.. wonderful photo by Mark Hopkins!

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Right, it's not that I think they are *bad*; but their current energy policies are constrained by trying to appear "economically prudent" and hence insufficiently urgent. The Greens *express* urgency but then fail to follow through with policy that reflects that.

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Fair. Also easing planning requirements on solar/wind. However, a govt that responds to an oil-shock with "let's help people pay for petrol" rather than "let's help people install solar panels" can't really be accused of treating climate change with urgency.

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

It's a shame that none of our political parties seem to fall into the "takes climate change seriously"/"has sensible polices to address climate change" quadrant :-(

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Always amazed that youtube allows those scam ads for products that quite obviously violate the laws of physics/medicine Currently it's "chair tai chi" for me which promises to have me looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger in a month. Seems unlikey... ;-)

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Damn - now you really can see how she got that "Einstein visa"

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I finally got round to resurrecting the "copilot" support in lokqldx (with the help of github copilot!). I'm actually pretty impressed by Claude Sonnet's ability to use KQL behind the scenes to "probe" data from various sources - in this case application-insights. Still WIP but if you want...

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Good to keep a healthy perspective but congrats anyway- well deserved! :-)

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I was gifted this for christmas and although I was vaguely aware of many of the characters, I hadn't appreciated the extent of the connections between them. Truly enlightening, even if it made me want to reach for the nearest pitchfork!

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Hi Shawn, I'm not sure if this is expected but looking on the International/United Kingdom/Google link I see "Content is not available in your country"

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Still WIP but with the improvements in recent models I decided to resurrect the "copilot" support in kusto-loco. The aim is to get it to understand how to also use appinsights and remote capabilities as well as local data. #KQL

Kusto-loco using copilot to create KQL queries and charts

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

that understanding to the point that the total net productivity gain is questionable.

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

you're twiddling your thumbs for 5 minutes waiting for it to figure out how to change the font size on a label or something equally trivial that you could do yourself in 30 seconds if you'd written it yourself and understood it well. The temptation is to keep deferring the work needed to gain

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

The point about using them "for every minor change" is something I was discussing with a team-mate just today. There's definitely a tendency to let the LLM take over responsibility for "owning" the code. Initially it's great productivity boost, adding features faster than you could but by the end

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

So the person who answered was called "Pet Trace" as well? Hell of a coincidence !

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

May Labour finally f-ing learn that appeasing the Far Right is a LOSING strategy

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

..and for a bit more fun, discovered this wine-opener on a few years back - absolutely brilliant !

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Got an electric toaster? Can't believe I only discovered the existence of toaster tongs last year !

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Ah... it makes so much more sense now !

The insane penguin heads to the mountains, and certain death.

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

revision is likely to need to previously generated source code as input.

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

may just be that I haven't learned to use it effectively yet and should have taken smaller more focussed steps. But however you look at it, natural language is an insufficiently precise mechanism to treat as a true abstraction layer; any attempt to "rebuild" from natural language + small spec

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

maintaining or refactoring existing code. I recently tried to "convert" a non-trivial application from WPF to Avalonia. The results weren't good; a lot of non-UI-related business logic was rewritten by the AI as it floundered around trying to remove compilation errors. Admittedly the "fault"

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

It's a long time since I wrote or bothered looking at assembly. My main concern with AI as an "abstraction layer" is that it's an extremely loose-coupled and non-deterministic mapping. That might not matter when generating new code but suggests that you're likely to get in trouble when

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

That second picture with the scaffolding - wow !

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

That is the maddest article I have read all year ;-) You want to remove ambiguities in data formats by taking a screenshot of them - wtf ?

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

errr - ok, if you say so doctor....

“I can’t even think of a single time where he said something where I don’t think he understands the issue here,” said Oz

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

It took a while to get this going but here's a picture of the first lokqldx release after adding docking; before this it was basically just a fixed input and output window...

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Although the learning curve is a little steep, I have to say Dock is awesome!

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NeilMacMullen @neilmacmullen.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I sense you're being slightly sarky but apart from being a bit disappointed that they never posted the video from my colonoscopy ;-) I'm actually a fan! Such an improvement over the unsorted piles of appointment and results letters that it replaces...

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