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Larry Osterman
@larryosterman.github.io
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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.

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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)
October 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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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.
September 6, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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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
August 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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This guy hung around eating blueberries long after mom left
Small fawn on a concrete walkway
July 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Hello friends
Two deer fawns on a cement walkway with mom in the background
July 26, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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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.
July 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Bunnies? You want more bunnies?

We have extras.
Two small bunnies chewing on leaves near a sidewalk... Two small bunnies chewing on leaves near a sidewalk
June 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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The Vessel
A bronze coated abstract multi story building
June 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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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
June 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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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.
June 4, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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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
May 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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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.
April 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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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
April 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Tonight's office
Inside a grand concert hall from the stage, a piano in front of the risers
April 4, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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One is not *my* cat, but the other is.
Anonymous tabby, a new mother lying on pavement with her head alert. She hangs out at the El Mangroove hotel in Costa Rica Matcha, a gray tabby blissfully asleep on his back, lying on his back with a smile.
March 31, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Such a fun morning chatting and sharing stories with Microsoft MVPs.
Larry Osterman (wearing a green shirt), Raymond Chen (wearing a business suit with a yellow tie), and KC Lemson (wearing a Protect Trans Lives sweatshirt) on a stage.
March 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Swag for Thursday.

And I didn't need to sneak in to get it (a teaser for Thursday).
Microsoft MVP summit badge for Larry Osterman.
March 25, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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So much of what is going on utterly sucks.

This does not suck.
Pool of water in the foreground looking out at an orange sunset
March 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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The 3 (pen set), 5 (clock), 10 (lucite covered 10 shares of stock), 15, and 20 (glass shares of stock) don't need as much dusting.
Microsoft 30, 25, 35 year crystals with a 40 year crystal in front.
March 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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30, 25, 40, and 35 on their shelf.

Still need to get 3, 5, 10, 15, and 20 up but that's gonna be another shelf.
Four Lucite crystals representing 30, 25, 40, and 35 years of service on a bakery cart shelf.
January 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Oh yeah, forgot to post these yesterday..

Microsoft 40th Anniversary crystal.
Bearded man in a purple shirt holding a ten inch tall lucite crystal. Lucite crystal on a desktop
January 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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OK, didn't see this Xmas present coming....
A bobblehead sculpture of a balding bearded man with the name Larry Osterman on the base. He is wearing a white shirt with a blazer, jeans and sneakers and holding an Apple!! Computer.
January 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Yourself, but as a cartoon
Image of Larry Osterman as drawn by the geniuses at Not Invented Here - Bill Barnes and friends. Shows a heavily bearded and somewhat balding man wearing glasses.
December 8, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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From our show.

See why we look so rediculous and buy tickets

Tickets at: www.seattlechoruses.org/2024/09/16/h...
Photo of a bearded man in a tuxedo and a red plaid vest, along with many other similarly attired men, all of whom have pink pointed top caps and a pink feather boa wrapped around their necks, all looking somewhat rediculous.
December 6, 2024 at 2:49 AM
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Obligatory "Tonight's Office" photo.
The interior of a grand concert hall, as seen from the stage. Bearded man wearing very silly glasses with a small fake white beard
November 26, 2024 at 4:06 AM