Larry Osterman

@larryosterman

Long term MSFT employee, Dad, Singer. Expect cat pictures, tech nerding, etc. Previous: SMB filesystem, Exchange Store, Windows Audio, Windows Runtime, COM, Confidential computing. Current: Azure SDK for C++ Proud LGBTQIA+ ally. Profile pic from Not

556 Folgt2.452 Follower1.548 Posts

Bluesky

Ist das dein Profil?Übernimm es — dann gehört dir larryosterman.dirty.social.Profil übernehmen

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· 28d

Afternoon bee break.. I love my walks to the train...

Honeybee on an orange and brown daisy like flower

Black and white honey bee on the bud of a flower.

Black and white bee on a purple daisy like flower.

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· Jun 21

Yesterday I went to the old house to pick some stuff up and discovered a friend in our driveway... He was chill bit watched me like a hawk as I put the stuff in my car. I know black bears are generally pretty chill but it was still somewhat unnerving.

Small black bear on a hillside seen through the window of a car

Small black bear looking over at the viewer from a hill. There is some foxglove in the foreground.

Hillside with a small brown shed to the left and a rock to the right. If you zoom into the picture, there is a small black bear looking out at someone in front of it (the photographer).

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· May 23

Found some old t-shirts while cleaning up...

Tshirt with the word Microsoft with a stylized letter O and the number 10 from 1984

Black tshirt with the words "We're back and we're bad Lanman"

Tshirt saying "Rumor Central" offer a pontalist image of a cat in a suit.

Tshirt with the text "If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes" and the hind quarters of a Rottweiler

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· May 9

Looking through memory boxes and we found....

Four boxes of Magic the Gathering cards.

On one of them is a pamphlet saying "Magic the Gathering A Fantasy Trading Card Game by Richard Garfield, Ph. D"

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· Mar 26

Pulled out a pile of stickers to find a treasure trove... @kclemson.bsky.social @threddyrex.org

A photo of a desktop covered in stickers including several ninja cats and other stickers

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· Mar 13

So this is happening.....

A snow covered yard covered in a couple of inches of snow. A green shed is in the background and a wooden bench is in the foreground.

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· Jan 31

Technically it's half inch plywood panel over a 3/4 inch hardwood panel. This is the picture I sent my wife after the replacement hole saw had finished the job.

A drill, carpenters square and hole saw on a kitchen counter.

In front of them are two round plugs of wood, one 1/2 inch thick, the other 3/4 inch thick.

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· Jan 23

So I'm playing around with using Copilot to deploy a web app and for giggles I thought to add theming to the web app. The results were... Interesting From left to right: 1970s Memorandum, 1990s GeoCities, Art Deco, Modern Web. In real life, the GeoCities theme is possibly worse than Hot Dog Stand

1970s Memorandum theme - brown banner in Courier font with a background of yellow lined paper.

1990s GeoCities theme - animated Green to Orange border with a bright canary yellow background and Comic Sans font.

Art Deco Theme - White serifed text on Black background title bar with orange Times Roman text on a black background.

Modern Web application - White on White text for the banner and a san serif font for the text.

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· Dec 30

This weekends project - an Xmas present from my sister. It was incredibly fun to build and it is SO detailed.

Photo of a Japanese themed book nook on a bookshelf with older computer programming books.

The book nook is incredibly detailed and illuminated.

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· Dec 27

Got up early and we went for a walk after breakfast. The view did NOT disappoint.

A sepia toned image of a large ferris wheel back lit by the sun. In the background are two stadiums and a Washington state ferry

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· Dec 20

There's something kinda magical about sitting in a hotel room looking out the window on Eliott Bay on a somewhat rainy winter evening. Kudos to the hotel for putting captains chairs in front of the windows.

A view of Eliott Bay looking over a rooftop terrace.

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· Dec 19

OK, the hotel view does not suck.

View looking out over a terrace patio with a mostly obscured pike place market sign to the left and the puget sound and west Seattle dominating the background

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· Dec 9

Cleaning up stuff and found this: a microwaved Windows NT 3.1 CD 😊

Windows NT 3.1 CD with faint cracks from being microwaved

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· Nov 25

I love this show. It's props time baby 😊

A bearded man in a white patterned shirt (with horror movie kitties) wearing an utterly rediculousl sunflower mask with sunflower glasses

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· Nov 18

Pumpkin Goblins

A tray of six cooked pumpkins on a metal tray on a marble countertop. The pumpkin skins have shrunk and look like creepy eyes

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· Oct 10

Sharron made chicken puff tonight and it came out pretty well...

Chicken puff. Chicken pieces baked under a popover like pastry.

An old Osterman family recipe.

Spooning a part of a homemade popover like crust and chicken into a bowl (off camera)

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· Sep 6

My new chorus bag arrived just in time for the first rehearsal next week.

Gray leather bag with iridescent blue side panels and a pop of red color on the strap.

Gray bag with a flap over the front and iridescent sides.

Jump scare image of the interior of the bag showing the creepy eyes and large rounded teeth which are revealed when you open the bag.

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· Aug 3

Today's activity: Sapphire Mining with friends. At glitterandgoldstudio.com in Seattle. A incredibly fun experience. Highly recommended.

A woman in a black tshirt looking at a piece of rock which might be a sapphire.

A tray filled with small rocks, very few of which are sapphires

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· Jul 26

This guy hung around eating blueberries long after mom left

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· Jul 26

Hello friends

Two deer fawns on a cement walkway with mom in the background

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· Jul 17

Received this captcha earlier today. What cursed hell is this?

A captcha asking for "all things that need to be plugged in to work". 5 of the 9 images are AI generated images of dogs on skateboards, two of them are AI generated cats (one reading a book) and the remaining two are essentially the SAME AI generated image of a television set.

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· Jun 17

Bunnies? You want more bunnies? We have extras.

Two small bunnies chewing on leaves near a sidewalk...

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· Jun 11

The Vessel

A bronze coated abstract multi story building

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· Jun 6

Tonight's wildlife. It flew off with its dinner shortly after posing for the picture.

Owl staring at the camera from behind a collection of leaves

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· Jun 4

So I came home from work today and found... Yeah, a black bear. Eating seeds in our yard. Inside a 6 foot high fence.

A small black bear chomping down on some seeds inside a fenced garden.

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· May 5

Azure SDK and Devdiv folks, a sneak preview of our entry for the bake off.

Rainbow colored Jello in a ring mold on a marble counter

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· Apr 10

From GitHub Copilot earlier today. I'm slightly flabbergasted. And I'm trying to figure out which Larry Osterman it's referring to :). Note: Alt text is a summary of the important bits in a wall of text :(. But it gets the gist of it.

I'll improve the test file for the conditional request headers with proper formatting and detailed comments in a style similar to Larry Osterman's. Larry is known for his thorough and practical commenting style that explains not just what the code does and why it's doing it and how it fits into the bigger picture.

The text repeats several times on a similar vein.

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· Apr 4

This mornings office...

Interior of a big tent with loud band and a lot of people. There is a Microsoft banner in the big screen

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· Apr 4

Tonight's office

Inside a grand concert hall from the stage, a piano in front of the risers

Larry Osterman@larryosterman· Mar 31

One is not *my* cat, but the other is.