Aaron Parker

@stealthpuppy

Developer of #Evergreen & #VcRedist. Senior Staff Engineer in the Office of the CTO @GetNerdio. Born at 329.56ppm. . Microsoft MVP (2011-2018, 2025)

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

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· 16d

"Wi-Fi is not a Wi-Fi interface" - wot?

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· 20d

Which GitHub app do I need to open today

Screenshot of GitHub apps on macOS showing how difficult it is to see the difference between the apps when both are in dark mode. This hows the GitHub Copilot app and the GitHub Desktop app both with almost identical icons with a dark background and the GitHub icon

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· 26d

Ha! It's a literal pancake menu

Screenshot showing the github.com top left header with the hamburger/pancake menu with a pancake in place of the standard 3 horizontal lines

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· Jun 29

Feels like I might be playing with fire.

Screenshot from my Unifi Gateway showing a message "IPv6 Detected on WAN1. IPv6 is available from your ISP". An "Enable" link is on the page which will take the user to a screen to enable IPv6

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· Jun 11

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· May 27

Wot?

Headline that reads “Dog shoots woman with shotgun at Nebraska convenience store”

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· Apr 2

What’s turdburger - the lesson to take away from a fossil fuel energy crisis is to double down on fossil fuels? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol

‘Dig and drill’: Angus Taylor says Australia should fast-track mining and coal projects amid fuel crisis

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· Mar 16

Good news - I no longer need to sell the house

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· Mar 15

Biggest Redback I’ve ever seen. Will need to move this out of the garage in the morning

Close up photo of an Australian Redback spit. The spider is hanging upside down with its abdomen towards the camera. A large and bright red colouring on the abdomen is visible

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· Mar 12

Feeding echidnas by hand

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· Feb 11

macOS Finder has issues on occasion not remembering last location and dimensions. I wrote a shell function that you can add to your ~/.zshrc file and run as needed from Terminal. It resets Finder back to defaults and a re-configures a few preferences. gist.github.com/aaronparker/...

Code listing for fixfinder shell function for macOS

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· Jan 29

Weird issue on my Mac with 570GB of disk unaccounted for - unable to determine what was consuming the space with any analysis tool. Reinstalled macOS and restore via Time Machine and I have my free space back. Side note: Time Machine is amazing. First time I've completed a full restore like this.

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· Jan 27

This is heavy... it's 7:30 and it's still over 40C

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· Jan 27

Great Scott!

Two men - Marty and Doc Brown from the Back to the Future Part II poster, with surprised expressions stand together; hot weather details for Cheltenham, VIC are displayed in the foreground showing 43C.

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· Jan 27

Great Scott, it's hot!

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· Jan 20

Having a phone number in 2026 is a liability

A smartphone call log shows four recent calls from flagged numbers labeled as spam, telemarketer, or fraud, with timestamps ranging from 12:21 pm to 12:56 pm.

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· Jan 9

Every frame makes for a lovely desktop wallpaper

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· Dec 6

Windows 11 supports web auth at the sign-in page (post provisioning) so anyone can have a simplified password-less auth sign-in experience learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window...

Windows 11 sign-in screen showing the Entra ID web-sign in dialog box

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· Nov 25

Local real estate doing some dodgy data collection

Flyer from a real estate agent - the flyer has the following printed on it:

SANTA CLAUS
IS COMING TO TOWN
With Christmas just around the corner, I'm so excited to let you know that this year we have made direct contact with Santa Claus!
Now, Santa has sent me on a mission with an important question for you. We would like to know if any of your kids would like to receive a personalised letter from him, Mrs Claus and all the reindeers and elves wishing the little ones a Merry Christmas?
If you would like your kids to be surprised with this letter, please provide your details in one of the following ways and Santa will deliver these letters personally addressed to your children in December:
Your Full Name:
Your Child's Full Name:
Address:
Phone:
Email:
Take a photo of this form filled out and send it to us by Friday 12th Dec:

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· Nov 19

Can confirm that you can sign into a on-premises Azure Arc enabled Windows Server desktop with Entra ID only credentials #AzureVirtualDesktop

A screenshot of a Remote Desktop session via the Windows App on macOS, connecting to a Windows Server 2025 desktop via Azure Virtual Desktop. The target VM is hosted on an on-premises Hyper-V server.

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· Oct 28

Well that ain't great #Microsoft - flagging your own site via SmartScreen

A screenshot of Microsoft Edge on Windows showing the site https://m365.cloud.microsoft as a dangerous site as flagged by SmartScreen. The error is shown in a full page red background and white text

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· Oct 20

"Windows back up"? Or is it Windows Backup?

Screenshot of the Windows 11 desktop showing the "Windows back up" application and shortcut

A screenshot of the "Windows Backup" for Organizations documentation

A screenshot of the "Windows Backup" and Restore settings from the Intune portal

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· Oct 12

Yeah, nah... What version of Terminal are you using?

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· Sep 17

If I were born 40 years earlier and ended up as a high school science teacher. Also, seeing me with a beard is extra funny because I can’t grow one

AI generated photo of me as a man in the 1970s with a brown suit and tie, and a beard

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· Sep 11

macOS 26 Tahoe final looks to be done

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· Sep 8

The funniest 1/2 second in cinematic history #JohnCandy

Reaction shot from Trains, Planes and Automobiles. John Candy has a surprised look on his face, looking through a taxi window with people in the background, but it's inside the airport

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· Aug 7

The Apple TV icon look real wonky on macOS 26, with the "Liquid Glass" style

Liquid Glass highlights on icons in macOS 26 visually skew the icon so that the top and bottom edges of the icon don't look parallel

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· Jul 30

Simple colour output in Azure Pipelines by using $PSStyle with PowerShell 7.2+ learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powers...

Screenshot of an Azure Pipelines run showing log output with lines in green, blue/cyan and yellow using the $PSStyle variable in PowerShell

Aaron Parker@stealthpuppy· Jun 8

How is Australia’s worst prime minister in decades, who blindsided one of our allies, among the King’s Birthday recipients? #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...