Gavin Barron

Just a reminder.

Pressing this button closes out a chapter here at Microsoft. MGT was the first product I worked on as an FTE. mgt.dev has been updated to remove the playground. The final versions have been published to NPM and deprecated. Thank you to everyone who contributed.

It's not often that that I enjoy the "reporting" that comes out of the NZ Herald, but this is interview is just fantastic. Sidenote, a fit and proper person is such a wonderful phrase in this context. youtu.be/sfbhiSy71eA?...

I still get a kick out of loading up this page and seeing cool stuff my team and I built in my life before becoming an FTE at Microsoft

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I love secondhand books and always check out that section in a thrift store. So today I got to appreciate the utterly unhinged method of display that is sorting by the color of the cover

Footage captured from passengers on an airliner above Florida, showing the exact moment the Artemis II mission lifts off.

Who had the bright idea that a Python should not follow SemVer and allow for minor version increments to be incompatible with prior versions? Of all the choices, that was certainly one....

Spotify didn't pay artists enough even before stooping to outright theft. Happy I left that platform in 2013.

Mx 11: Dad, the QQ there means quick question. Me: Do not cite the deep magic to me child, I was there when it was written.

Yikes!

Yeah, my wife and I met as a consequence of spending time on a hyper specific phpBB site well before FB was a thing. Plus, a great many friends from Twitter, before the enshitification.

Bahahaha! This is hilarious and shameful that someone would pass off unvetted workslop to a government in this way. I wish I was more surprised, but sadly it's expected. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

New TypeScript typings for Microsoft Graph published (finally) www.npmjs.com/package/@mic... www.npmjs.com/package/@mic... cc: @julieturner.net @andrewconnell.com

LMAO, why would you think that firearms are an appropriate gift for a foreign government official? www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/w...

I'm so grateful for the sponsorship I've received for my Base to Space run up the Space Needle. You have pushed me well over my initial goal, let's see if we can push it over the 1K mark for Fred Hutch Cancer Center, because fuck cancer. runsignup.com/gavinbarron

I'm participating in Base To Space, a fundraiser for Fred Hutch Cancer Center. On Sunday I'll be running up the 832 stairs of the Space Needle, and would love it if you could sponsor me. runsignup.com/gavinbarron

the Colorado school shooter from the same day that Charlie Kirk was killed posted himself holding his gun on Twitter / X where he followed multiple far right accounts weird how you wouldn't call on Elon Musk too to testify at an online radicalization hearing

The Right has long ridiculed the supposed bleeding heart Liberals across the aisle, with many Conservative preachers going so far as to declare empathy a sin even as Jesus’ entire life overflowed with it. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-right-...

"we rarely acknowledge the invisible labor of thinking, integrating, and recalibrating, because it doesn’t fit neatly into a status update." Wow, that line resonated with me.

I fucking adore it when a developer has fixed a bug. 😍 And left zero tests to validated it or ensure that someone else doesn't break it again in the future 🤬

wow, just wow....

My patent award plaque for @devproxy.bsky.social has arrived! It's so cool to see what @wldk.nl and @garrytrinder.dev have done with it since our hackathon work.

A fine demonstration of the Streisand effect

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

My new favourite thing to do in GitHub Copilot... Use Ask mode and send my prompt, let Copilot figure out what it needs to do, then switch to Agent mode and...

In the past few weeks I’ve experienced the same as Gavin. Agent mode, Claude Sonnet 4 and MCP servers have been game changers. GH Copilot wrote a whole new feature for Dev Proxy Toolkit straight from our Dev Proxy docs exposed as MCP server, it worked perfectly.

A comic about a rat

So, I didn't hear about this latest piece of insanity from the broligarch in chief until just now. What in the ever-loving fuck is he thinking? Just edit out all the stuff he doesn't like with some AI BS? How can that be trusted and correct? Oh, that's right it can't be and will be wrong.

Wow, can't wait for the EU lawyers to get their teeth into this www.reuters.com/business/sal...

It’s not illegal for a United States Senator to go to a public press conference and ask questions about your constituents safety. It's our job.

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This is just one of many ways that visibility and representation matter.

Fascists gonna fascist

For folks living in the United States, participating in this sort of thing is a federal crime and will land you on the radar of the US Office of Foreign Assets Control If you don't go broke defending yourself from the federal indictment first, you'll likely go broke while you're in federal prison

This is fucking beautiful.

🥳BIG NEWS!!! I'm so excited to finally be able to announce that @andrewconnell.com and I have a new podcast - Code. Deploy. Go Live. We'll be delivering new content to you every other week, so please consider checking it out and let us know what you think! Six episodes are available now!

Wow. I'll admit that I didn't think that they would be this blatant in their disregard of the law.

*sigh* that's a huge fail #MSBuild. No to Elmo.

Yikes, someone is burning either a couple of grand in registration fees or their job to be disruptive during the #MsBuild keynote.

They’re literally deporting brown people and importing white people. That’s about as racist as it gets, folks.

Took my new bike for a ride at Duthy Hill after work this evening. I love the long evenings we get here.

In a nice bright spot of news today I see that the Wellington Phoenix are going to host Wrexham FC. I hope this inspires more kids to play the beautiful game in NZ. I remember travelling to see Winton Rufer and Werder Bremen play the All Whites as a kid www.footboom1.com/en/news/foot...