Chrissy LeMaire

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Dual Microsoft MVP, Inaugural GitHub Star, creator of dbatools, author and AI for Everyday IT from Manning Publications. Creator of @mutesky.app 🏳️‍🌈 Totally into AI, SQL Server and PowerShell. 📍 Very North of France

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Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· 23d

Holy shit, y'all. When I said it was expensive, I didn't know USA expensive. I just got a 3 month supply for €1,250. You could fly over and still save money.

Dark-themed screenshot of a two-column pricing table comparing the approximate monthly cash price of a four-week supply of Mounjaro without insurance by location. The table lists: Belgium, lower doses: €232.80 (about $266); Belgium, 7.5 mg: around €326 (about $373), with a note that the exact Belgian public price is not consistently published online; United States, cash/discount price: about $1,087; United States, average retail price: about $1,348; U.S. manufacturer list price: roughly $1,080–$1,112. The comparison emphasizes that prices shown for Belgium are much lower than typical U.S. prices.

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· 23d

I'll be releasing the source code once it's done, but Sol said this:

Dark-themed technical documentation explains how the Wishbringer interactive-fiction game runs in a modern browser: a React interface sends commands through the RemGlk bridge to the Bocfel Z-machine interpreter compiled to WebAssembly, which reads and updates the original .z3 story file. A numbered list expands the process, noting that Bocfel executes the game inside the browser sandbox, translates classic text-adventure operations into JavaScript data, and lets React update the transcript, map, score, artwork, and controls; the final paragraph compares the .z3 file to a program for a fictional 1980s computer rather than modern x86, ARM, or JavaScript code.

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· 24d

How can he breathe?

A cat with his face SLAMMED down into the chair

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· 24d

I had the series' next iteration on my bookshelf when I lived in San Francisco back in 2006/2007. I always preferred the single author versions of Wrox though. Didn't remember having a magazine rack, I love it. I miss SQL Server Magazine so much. It was often over my head but I loved it, still.

Three black modular shelving units stand against a white wall beneath a decorative textile wall hanging. The shelves hold books, framed photos, storage boxes, folded blankets, and a few small figurines, while the rightmost unit is mostly empty, suggesting the room is being organized or rearranged.

A black leather armchair sits beside a black bookshelf near a bright window. The shelves are filled mostly with computer and technology books, including programming, software development, and IT reference titles, with an orange folded blanket, a blue storage box, and a large fish-shaped sculpture on top, creating a cozy reading nook centered around a technical book collection.

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· 24d

Found this gem my friends made of me when I was 20 years old, clowning how much I loved Robert Vieira's SQL Server books. Those Wrox books were the first that spoke to the audience like coworkers and not like robots ala Addison-Wesley. Now I love @manning.com, which is casual but accurate.

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· 27d

"re444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444e9o00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000hnyjnbjqaaaaaaaaa" ~ Potato

Fluffy mostlywhite long-haired cat with bright blue eyes lounges confidently in a fabric window hammock attached to the glass with four clear suction cups. One front paw dangles over the edge while the cat looks directly at the camera, with closed horizontal blinds behind it and the cozy perch creating the amusing impression of a tiny suspended throne.

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· 27d

Working as designed 🫡

Screenshot of a dark-themed terminal or editor showing a project status update in light blue monospace text. It says all four bots are now active, with bullet points explaining that Lane B (Opus) has been reassigned from idle work to a backup database task, Lanes C and D (Fable) are progressing through assigned jobs, Lane A (Fable) is handling codex and datetime updates and will retry another task after an agent starts, and coordination has been consolidated into a canonical `migration/comms/BOARD.md` file with work now running from a dedicated clone to avoid conflicts in the main working tree. The tone is a concise engineering handoff indicating everything is organized and nothing has been left unfinished.

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· 27d

Linus Torvalds, my man! *finger gun emoji*

per linus torvalds: I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer.

Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.

Or just walk away.

AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.

It may not have been that "clearly" even just a year ago, but it's no longer in question today.

There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will actually look like in the end), but "is it useful" is no longer one of those questions. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn't actually used it.

Yes, it can also be a somewhat painful tool, both for maintainer workloads and just from a "it keeps finding embarrassing bugs" standpoint.

But the solution is not to put your head in the sand and sing "La La La, I can't hear you" at the top of your voice like some people seem to do.

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· 27d

my bots thank each other and me, i also thank a lot. don't know if they got that from me or if we are doomed bc they prefer politeness and SOMETIMES I YELL

Dark terminal screenshot where Claude thanks the operator for starting sql01’s Agent, then reports fixing the coordination clone’s missing Git identity, pushing a clean workflow update, and investigating permissions so the bots can start the agent themselves.

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· 27d

new manager just dropped

Dark terminal screenshot of Claude Code v2.1.211 running Opus 4.8 with high effort in the dbatools repository. A long prompt says four AI bots are handling a migration but often sit idle, so Claude must authoritatively coordinate three Fable bots and one Opus bot, have Codex check their work, and review and commit everything urgently but with high quality; Claude replies, “I’ll get oriented fast, then take command of coordination. Let me pull the key state files and load the coordination tools in parallel,” giving the scene a humorously intense middle-manager-for-AI-agents tone.

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· 27d

hahahah tickled by this deli name in NZ

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· Jul 11

Crazy cute 🥰

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· Jul 10

Having a whole lot of fun this week with Fable and Sol. Sol I'm reserving for front-end work, so I've updated @mutesky.app finally! And now I'm building a Dragon Quest-like front-end for Infocom's Wishbringer! The reimagination of the original map took my breath away 🤯

Hand-drawn fantasy map titled "Postal Zones Festeron, Anharia & Vicinity," shown with a letter and number grid overlaid. The map depicts a coastal settlement with roads, scattered buildings, a central fountain, wooded areas, fields, and a church on a rocky island connected to the mainland by a narrow bridge, with water surrounding the eastern and northern edges and a compass rose in the lower right.

Pixel art landscape viewed from behind a young traveler standing beside a loaded bicycle on a hill, holding a glowing egg and looking over a winding road through a cozy seaside village. A lighthouse rises from a rocky island at sunset on the left, while a towering dark castle beneath a swirling purple vortex dominates the distant hills on the right, creating a contrast between peaceful countryside and looming fantasy danger.

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· Jan 24

I just cant even believe this is my machine, it's from 2023 but I'm still so in love.

Windows Task Manager CPU performance view showing dozens of small graphs for each logical processor on an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X, with most cores lightly active and occasional sharp spikes, while overall CPU usage reads about 7 percent at a high clock speed, humorously implying a massively overpowered processor barely breaking a sweat.

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· Jan 12

Daaamn!

Screenshot of a GitHub commit by Linus Torvalds from 3 days ago, titled “Merge branch 'antigravity’,” in which he explains that Google Antigravity helped fix his visualization tool, noting it was also "generated with help from google, but of the normal kind." He describes troubleshooting built-in rectangle selection and switching to a custom `RectangleSelector`, after which things improved. The final line, underlined in red for emphasis, reads: “Is this much better than I could do by hand? Sure is.” The tone is wry and self-aware, with Torvalds implicitly endorsing AI-assisted coding by admitting its output surpassed his manual efforts.

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· Jan 4

Interesting! My cousin just put up a Mardi Gras Tree.

Christmas tree decorated in Mardi Gras theme with green, purple, and gold ornaments, beads, ribbons, and masks; the topper is a half-open purple and teal umbrella over a glittery purple clock face, blending festive holiday and South Louisiana carnival elements in a cozy living room setting.

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· Dec 6

And posters!

Illustrated guide showing how to cut different shapes of cheese with labeled diagrams for each type, including round (e.g. Camembert), pyramid (e.g. Valençay), wedge-shaped (e.g. Brie), wooden box (e.g. Mont d’Or), cylindrical (e.g. Saint Maure), heart-shaped (e.g. Neufchatel), small round (e.g. Chavignol), hard block (e.g. Comté), square (e.g. Carré Mirabelle), and blue cheese (e.g. Roquefort); each cheese is paired with dotted lines indicating the appropriate slicing direction, combining cheese etiquette with playful, clear visuals.

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· Dec 6

Bring back the old French PowerShell User Group logo 🥖🧀

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· Dec 6

You know, good point. I guess they were tricked by my last name and my SEVENTY SEVEN POINT FIVE PERCENT French DNA.

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· Dec 6

The fries at McDonald's in Portugal (circa 2016) 🍟 They were the best we've had.

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· Dec 6

Austrian banks rule

An outdoor ATM booth with a sign above reading "Bankomat" is flanked by two large posters in bold sans-serif font. The left poster says "fucking impressive spring," and the right one says "all that impressive shit." The tone is irreverent and vaguely poetic, using profanity for comedic emphasis, as if hyping up the season or urban atmosphere with exaggerated, edgy admiration.

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· Dec 6

Found an image of the infamous cheese I cut so wrong, I made a French family gasp! They handed me the knife, expecting me to be a civilized cheese person but I immediately cut off the tip 🔪 Even the child gasped. And that's when I learned that cutting cheese in France is an art.

A large wedge of hard cheese with a rustic, moldy rind sits partially wrapped in crinkled plastic on a dark cutting board; a knife is pressed into the top, mid-cut, while a wine glass base and another cheese wheel are visible in the background, suggesting a casual wine and cheese setting.

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· Nov 16

Hell yeah, got a couple more prompts to go but love the results.

Screenshot of a webpage from RealCajunRecipes.com showing the “Most Popular” section. It’s split into “Most Rated” and “Most Viewed” lists of Cajun recipes, each with titles in bold orange or red followed by average star ratings, nearly all being perfect 5 out of 5. Recipes include “Seafood Cornbread Dressing,” “Crock-Pot Jambalaya – Pastalaya,” and “Giff’s Taco Soup.” Despite the rich content, the design is visually plain and text-heavy with minimal styling or hierarchy, which contributes to a bland, outdated look that contrasts with the strong cultural flavor implied by the recipes.

Screenshot of a redesigned “Most Popular Recipes” page from RealCajunRecipes.com with a polished and elegant layout. The header includes a centered star icon, bold serif title, and tagline “Our community’s most loved Cajun classics,” with a badge below reading “Tested by Louisiana families since 2002.” Below that, a section titled “Highest Rated” features three recipes in clean white cards with rounded corners, numbered badges, and gold star ratings: “Seafood Cornbread Dressing,” “Corn Macque Choux IV,” and “Crock-Pot Jambalaya – Pastalaya,” all rated 5.0. The design emphasizes heritage and warmth through typography, color, and layout.

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· Nov 16

Vibing hard with @anthropic.com

Screenshot of a Visual Studio Code tab titled “recipes/most-popular/ looks like shit please use best practices to make it elegant and worthy.” The tab displays a comment with the same blunt message, followed by a more polished bullet point from a Markdown file: “I'll analyze the current most-popular page and redesign it using best practices to make it elegant and worthy of the site's heritage aesthetic.” The contrast humorously highlights the raw frustration of the original note versus the cleaned-up professionalism of the final write-up.

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· Nov 15

This did give me an idea tho! Perhaps we can have rotating holiday themes, like our cookbooks. And make the cookbooks the center pieces. Look how cute!

Cover image for *The Real Cajun Christmas Cookbook* featuring a bold, saturated color scheme centered on mint green, fire engine red, and white. A cartoon crawfish dressed as Santa holds a green gift with a red bow, grinning widely against a flat green background with white snowflakes. The title sits in a light mint banner with red and green text, echoing the traditional holiday palette but applied with high contrast and little subtlety. The overall effect is festive yet garish, with clashing tones that prioritize cheer over visual harmony.

Cover image for *The Real Cajun Mardi Gras & Lent Cookbook* with an extremely bold and saturated color palette dominated by bright purple, yellow, green, and red. A cartoon crawfish wears a jester hat and Mardi Gras beads while holding a king cake with glowing flair, set against a flat purple background and framed by layers of more purple. The title appears in a pink and yellow box with clashing fonts. The overall aesthetic is intentionally loud and chaotic, matching the Mardi Gras theme but pushing the palette to garish extremes that overwhelm the eye.

Cover image for *The Real Cajun Ice Cream Cookbook* with a pastel, dessert-themed color scheme that softens the usual bold branding. A smiling cartoon crawfish in a chef’s hat and neckerchief holds a swirled ice cream cone, surrounded by floating images of cane syrup cans, donuts, sprinkles, and sugar cubes. The background is light cream, giving the scene a playful, almost vintage feel. While still cartoonish, the colors are lighter and more cohesive than previous covers, with warm reds and yellows dominating instead of clashing. It leans more whimsical than garish, but still retains a kitschy, nostalgic charm.

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· Nov 15

Oh this is horrifying. The one with fresh context + read md. I discarded all the changes and now I'm trying with the old full-context window, so we can compare! Now I didn't say "Best practices UI/UX" this time around. I usually do to get me the designs I love, like dbatools.io and mutesky.app.

Screenshot of the RealCajunRecipes.com homepage with an outdated and cluttered design: a cartoon turkey in a pilgrim hat serves as the site mascot, clashing with the bold red header and beige background. The layout feels visually overloaded, with dense navigation menus, inconsistent fonts, and an awkward mix of emojis, icons, and colors. Despite the nostalgic tagline “la cuisine de maw-maw,” the overall aesthetic looks dated and unpolished—evoking early-2000s web design more than modern culinary appeal.

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· Nov 15

Ha! Cuuuuuute 🧓

nstructional screenshot guiding the next step in a website migration, telling the user to copy 2,269 exported markdown files to the Hugo content directory and run the server to preview the new site. It ends with bold text: “Ready to make Maw-Maw proud!” followed by chili pepper and crawfish emojis, echoing the site's Cajun theme and tagline “la cuisine de maw-maw!” as a playful nod to cultural pride and successful completion.

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· Nov 15

So I've exported all of our recipes and I'm redoing the website in Hugo. And I'm going to do AI SEO galore. (As an aside, omg, I logged into my VPS, installed claude and had it do all of my exporting! I didn't have to relearn WP CLI. I didn't have to figure out the sql schema or how even to login.)

Terminal screenshot showing a migration report labeled "2. User Accounts & Authentication Data ❌" and "3. Individual User Ratings/Reviews ❌." It states that 52,595 registered users were *not* exported, including usernames, emails, profiles, social login data, and user roles, meaning accounts can't be migrated to the new Hugo site. For ratings, only aggregate rating arrays (e.g., [5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5]) were exported, allowing average ratings to be calculated, but data on who submitted each rating and when was not included. The red ❌ marks indicate missing or failed data migration elements.

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· Nov 15

There's so much pressure — after using a ton of context to discuss the new design of RealCajunRecipes.com Knowing the context is full of our vibrant design discussion, do I open a new session or not? Knowing that the design is variable and I'll be staring at it for the next X years..

Early-2000s website with a down-home, folksy feel titled “Real Cajun Recipes,” decorated in playful fonts and clip-art icons like gumbo pots and crawfish; invites users to “Make Maw-Maw Proud!” by submitting Cajun recipes, currently boasting 849 in the archive; newest recipe is “New Orleans Muffuletta”; sidebar categories include “Breads & Rolls” and “Cakes & Candy”; homespun charm reinforced by phrases like “la cuisine dee maw-maw,” hand-drawn arrows, and a “Random Tip” urging folks to store eggs in the fridge, not the door, where it's warmer; overall tone is warm, welcoming, and deeply rooted in Cajun family tradition.

Chrissy LeMaire@funbucket· Nov 3

Even better? Vendors are always updating the CLIs and aitools makes it super easy to keep up even though they all have different install/update methods. Works on Windows, macOS and Linux.