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Scott Hanselman 🌮

@shanselman

5 months

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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2 years

Happy 22nd anniversary! (yes, I know lol)

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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3 years

This is AMAZING. How mRNA vaccines work. By @hotvickkrishna as seen on his TikTok

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2 years

@Chris_Kasten #melanin

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2 years

My mom sent me this picture of my dad watching the live stream on the Microsoft website today. He doesn’t understand what I’m talking about, but he says he’s proud of me.

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Showing a young person my arcade cabinet and they said 'ohh, I like the bathroom buttons.' Sigh

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3 years

My Teams meetings always end SO awkwardly and it's not clear when to leave. So I made live end credits. (no post credits scene)

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4 years

Quarantine work !== Remote work. I’ve been working remotely with success for 13 years, and I’ve never been close to burn out. I’ve been working quarantined for over a month and I’m feeling a tinge if burn out for the first time in my life. Take care of yourself folks. Really.

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2 years

Apple needs to KILL In-App Browsers. Just launch the damn default browser I trust.

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5 years

@jessicaliebman This is an arbitrary bit of gatekeeping that is both culture- and generation-specific. In doing this you’re also gong to skew results to people who act and think like you, thereby decreasing intellectual diversity on the team. A thank you is classy, but not a disqualifier.

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4 years

SARS: Nigerian youth, celebrities protest against controversial police unit accused of brutality #EndSarsNow #EndSARS This affects Nigerian Developers disproportionately as they are likely to be carrying laptops

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9 months

This is a weird feeling as I’ve dedicated my career to sharing others’ achievements but I’m gonna to take a moment to celebrate myself. I’ve been promoted to Vice President of Developer Community at Microsoft!

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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2 years

Hey friends - we've open sourced the code to 1995's Microsoft 3D Movie Maker Thanks to @jeffwilcox and the Microsoft OSS office as well our friends in legal and those who continue to put up with me being a nudzh. Thanks to @foone for the idea! Enjoy.

GitHub - microsoft/Microsoft-3D-Movie-Maker: This is the source code for the original Microsoft 3D...

This is the source code for the original Microsoft 3D Movie Maker released in 1995. This is not supported software. - microsoft/Microsoft-3D-Movie-Maker

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foone🏳️‍⚧️

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2 years

hey @Microsoft give me the source code to 3D Movie Maker. You released it in 1995 and I want to expand and extend it. my DMs are open, I'll help you open source it.

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6 years

So Windows 10 has "Game Mode" to optimize when playing and streaming. It has "Presentation Mode" when you're using PowerPoint and projecting. I propose Developer Mode. I want Indexing off, Virus checking off, max filesystem speed, optimized caches, etc. IDE/Text editor priority.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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2 years

Me today at Microsoft

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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1 year

This is MASSIVE. The Windows Subsystem for Linux in the Microsoft Store is now generally available on Windows 10 and 11! Windows 10 users can now run Linux GUI apps natively!

The Windows Subsystem for Linux in the Microsoft Store is now generally available on Windows 10 and...

Today the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in the Microsoft Store is dropping its “Preview” label and becomes generally available with our latest release! We are also making the Store version of WSL...

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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5 years

I explained in several paragraphs what @github is to my niece. Niece: “So, it’s Nerdstagram?” Me: “That’s fair.”

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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9 months

it's totally Ok to code just for the money.

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If you're coding only for the paycheck, you're in it for the wrong reasons. Passion is what drives innovation. Code because you love it, because it challenges you, because it excites you. Then, success will follow.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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3 years

Cinnamon Toast Crunch shrimp tail guy is married to Topanga and that completes 2021 bingo for me.

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4 years

Me: 30 years writing software for money Also Me: Googles how to hide a div with a querySelector Hang in there #codenewbies

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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4 years

This was my setup for my home office the day I started at Microsoft in 2007.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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1 year

Wow. Just. Wow.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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4 years

Brand twitter on fire today.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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7 months

I prefer to put my raw SQL statements in textboxes on the client side so customers can modify them directly and have more control.

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7 months

Server actions 🔥

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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2 years

Before Netflix this is all we had to stare at

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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3 years

Reproducing a bug locally.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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4 years

TIL a new software term: "Scream Test" - When you don't know if something is still being used so you take it away and see if anybody screams.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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5 years

Friends. Let’s get real. Student loan debt is ruining the US. I’m here in Europe, dude has a PhD and THEY PAID HIM A SALARY TO GET IT. We need to get our shit together or we are screwed, globally. Education shouldn’t be a privilege.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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3 years

Folks on my TikTok asking questions like “is 27 too old to learn to code?” NO. UNLESS YOU ARE ACTIVELY BEING EMBALMED YOU CAN LEARN TO CODE

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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4 years

I’ll say this once. My wife had cancer. If I’m having a Cancer fundraiser, I don’t need you or anyone else running in yelling “All Diseases Matter.” Right now, #BlackLivesMatter and it’s OK for you to say that. Say it. You don’t need to qualify it any more. No “but”

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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3 years

My wife (a nurse in a COVID ward) just got the notification she's in the first group at her hospital to get the vaccine. She'll get it Friday 7pm. 🥳 Will report back.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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3 years

A lot of people don’t realize how much work goes into making some thing look like it was no work at all.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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3 years

My wife got me an awesome Swiss Army Knife for our anniversary. She says it reminds her of me because it does A TON OF STUFF very poorly.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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2 years

In the Microsoft Archives

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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1 year

Where do you think the dataset came from? Destroy the human and the ML is trained on…what? AI is cool but pro tip - actually knowing stuff is cooler.

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1 year

ChatGPT will replace StackOverflow.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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4 years

Life hack that I’m deeply ashamed of but also is too useful to keep to myself. Greasy chip fingers messing up your expensive laptop? Type from inside the bag. I apologize.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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5 years

Reasons for taking a paid day off for developers: * got the flu * mental health/self care day * child care * messed up a git repository so much that I just need to leave the building for a while and be somewhere else

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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1 year

someone defended firing 88% of the staff in a message that said "it's just DevOps." Oh, you sweet summer child.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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3 years

I am SO excited about this LEGO

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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4 years

Amazing tip for teachers this coming week I saw on our internal school group. Tape a pencil to the back of your laptop and tip/hang a CD over the front, angled down. Instant free document camera.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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3 years

Can hardly believe it. This is Windows 10 in 2021.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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1 year

So you’ve got a $44B problem and you’ve decided to solve it with Regular Expressions…

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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4 years

I’ve been learning JavaScript literally since it was invented and I still feel that I know nothing.

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4 years

I have been learning JavaScript for little over 1 year and still feel that I know nothing 😐

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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3 years

Our company has a new policy where 1 hour meetings are just 55 minutes, thereby freeing an extra five minutes to weep softly at my desk before the next video call starts.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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3 years

I wrote a blog post on December 22, 2003 where I talked about how nice it was to have three monitors. Every few weeks the picture - now owned apparently by the internet - goes viral. Here’s the original. Enjoy.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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1 year

You never know who you’ll bump into @ #MSBuild

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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3 years

Looking for an entry-level programmer who: ✅ invented The Internet

The Jobfather™️ 🇯🇲🇨🇦🇬🇧

@TheJobfather__

3 years

SIR?????

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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5 years

Great Pro tip for programmers. Sleep and try again tomorrow.

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5 years

Spent ~2hours or so on a problem yesterday evening and couldn't solve it. Solved it within 5min of sitting at my computer this morning

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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6 months

As a Vice President at Microsoft I always ask interviewees if they have a strong opinion about folks who ask them if they care about coding fonts. Then I have those folks stop interviewing my candidates.

Joe Flateau 👨🏻‍💻 🏒🇺🇸

@joeflateau

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As a Staff level engineer, I always ask interviewees if they have a strong preference on coding fonts. If they do, they go right in the bin. Focus your energy on what matters

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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3 years

Here at McDonald’s. I AM HERE TO HELP!

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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1 year

For more info, just visit this URL

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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2 years

@hankgreen Dumb question, but are these “as our eyes see it” color images or are these false color or post processed? Like what’s the FOV? If we were floating in a space suit would we be able to see this? How far away would we be to have this view in our own field of view?

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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4 years

I burst into tears at physical therapy today. The year just hit me all at once. It hurts. Between diabetes and this temporary paralysis, it’s been a week. 2020 is ass. It’s OK. Happens a few times a decade. Maybe it happens to you twice a week. Let it out, listen to your body.❤️

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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3 years

Nothing is more powerful than NOTEPAD.EXE

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3 years

Should you get into software engineering only for the money?!? #CodeTok

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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6 years

Dear every website ever, I will never, ever enable notifications on your site.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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5 years

Number of lines of code written is not a measure of your value to a project.

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1 year

Wait so now the popular vote matters?

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2 years

@lounecl

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3 years

Just let you know what kind of a person Abel Wang was, even in the middle of everything he was going through, he was sending texts to comfort *US*

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3 years

It’s ok to have Imposter Syndrome! You’re not alone. #programming #codetok #CodeNewbies

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4 years

This election has been brought to you by the windows progress bar

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5 years

How can you tell if you’re writing modern JavaScript? Try it in Internet Explorer! If it doesn’t work, it’s modern JavaScript!

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3 years

I’m realizing I often stay up late as a way of trying to take back control from the days I can’t control

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5 years

"We've enjoyed interviewing you Scott, great job on all these real-world not-whiteboard interview tech questions. One last question. You've been coding for 25 years. What's the Markdown for a URL with custom title text?" ... "Can I google it?" "No." "I'll show myself out."

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4 years

SWAG. Seriously, pinch me.

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5 years

Anytime I’m traveling I use Google Translate to check translations in real time on signage. You have to see it to believe it. This is real and LIVE while you move your camera. @ Paris

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3 years

Throwback. This was my first #diabetes app “Glucopilot” on the Palm Pilot. Mid-90s? #wearenotwaiting #t1d

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4 years

It cannot be overstated how important it is to have a boss that believes in you

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6 years

My wife is from a “shithole” country. She has an MBA, two BSs, is a registered med/surg nurse, and speaks 5 languages. I went to community college. We’re both Americans with value that came to our citizenship via different paths. We are equals.

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1 year

It’s never DNS. It’s always RPCs.

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My son just turned 18. He hit us with the “given we’re all adults here…” argument literally two minutes after 😂

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1 year

I use this in all my meetings at work last week. 80% of folks knew something was “wrong” and half asked me to “make it stop.” It’s close, but it’s creepy.

Jousef Murad

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1 year

Introducing Eye Contact by NVIDIA 👀 NVIDIA just released a new Eye Contact feature that uses AI to make you look into the camera.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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5 years

It’s 2019 and I’m updating the firmware on a Zune. Fight me.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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3 years

Merged 😀

Revert "Remove Hot Reload support from dotnet watch (#22217)" by 3nprob · Pull Request #22262 ·...

This reverts #22217.

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3 years

I’m sorry but this isn’t healthy software culture.

Hadi Partovi

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3 years

The Internet Explorer team was the hardest-working team I’ve ever been on. And I’ve worked at multiple start-ups. It was a sprint, not a marathon. We ate every meal at the office. We often held foosball tournaments at 2 am, just to get the team energy back up to continue working!

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Something I've learned in near 30 years of being in Tech. Not everyone knows what they're talking about. You don't have to take advice if you think it's bad advice. Collect nice people like Pokémon. Discard the mean people.

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3 years

I am planning a hand recount of my savings account, hoping for an additional $6.3 million to show up.

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5 years

@wembleyleach @kwuchu @jessicaliebman Ya the feedback email isn’t compulsory but the thank you is? Agreed

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6 years

All this tech. LCDs, ARM processors, gigs of RAM, WiFi, VMs, just so I can avoid opening the fridge door?

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6 years

One of the number one rules of software development, never ever deploy software on a Friday.

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4 years

The person in front of me at the drive-through paid for my order. That’s never happened to me before, so I paid the next 10. Merry Christmas.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮

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Explaining #Meltdown to non-technical spouse. “You know how we finish each other’s...” “Sandwiches?” “No, sentences. But you guessed ‘sandwiches’ and it was in your mind for an instant. And it was a password. And someone stole it while it was there, fleeting.” “Oh, that IS bad.”

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3 years

The Win32 API Reference

sNOway suz ☀️🌴⛱

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Name the book Biden was sworn in on. Wrong answers only.

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If I'm ever fired from Microsoft, it'll be either because we Open Sourced too much stuff, or because I lost this $13.95 receipt from Qdoba and have a late expense report.

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My wife on the phone with her Zimbabwean auntie. I can hear them on speakerphone. “I see the pictures you put on bookface. Scott is aging all alone. Try to be nice to him.”

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2 years

Serverless doesn’t mean there’s no servers, it means we think about servers less.

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2 years

Insulin should be free.

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4 years

Everyone is concerned that they’ll put a microchip in your blood so they can track you - there’s no need, you’re carrying one in your back pocket. Relax.

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3 years

I do NOT want a smart fridge.

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2 years

Early in career coders: You know how old-heads can magically solve a problem in 5 minutes? It’s amazing. What they don’t mention is that’s because the magic of being senior is YEARS of debugging and HOURS of googling and reading and walking. They’ve seen it before. You will too!

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“Now I can run npm install”

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4 years

Everyone: Can I get a copy of these slides? Also everyone: Never downloads or looks at the slides ever.

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2 years

BREAKING: What programming language should you learn in 2022?

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Journalist writing about coders: "To the untrained eye, the code is just a jumbled mess of letters, numbers and symbols. But to a coder, each line is clear. She knows and understands every digit and dot in the same way a pianist would read a page of musical notes." Actual Coder:

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This is programming in a nutshell. I have been trying to get these JavaScript tests to pass for hours. Stayed up late. 55 tabs open. JS SUX Call @noopkat , give her 15 mins of context and setup. She quietly says: "Remove that function and parens on line 38." It works. I SUX.

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4 years

90% of the world's business logic runs in Microsoft Excel

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4 years

Throwback! #Diabetes tech! #WeAreNotWaiting

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4 years

Today’s work shirt. Shout out to #BlackTechTwitter #css

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5 years

Just seeing what the new OSS Windows Terminal can do, nbd

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6 years

My sister in law is getting married on New Years Eve. We snuck her brother over from South Africa tonight and hid him in her kitchen. We showed up and “demanded some tea.” She heads into the kitchen...;)

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