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Working on the Google Classroom team; Microsoft C# MVP; SLaks on StackOverflow. Looking to make a positive impact on as many things as I can get my hands on.

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Joined April 2010
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I embedded the #Roslyn editor in my own standalone app! Many thanks to the Roslyn team for making this possible.
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Achievement Unlocked: Got an error message from MS Word that has no Google results! "Word cannot replace the found item with text containing a break."
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TIL: PowerPoints 3-D Rotation feature uses Euler Angles in the ZYX order.
When I ask myself "what would have the most impact today?" I sit down and write documentation.
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Can anyone explain to me why so many nurses are anti-vax? I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around this.
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I'm doing some prototyping tonight with Spectre.Console, inspired by Ariadne and CodeSpan. Would something like this be useful in .NET applications?
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Normal people thinking about large numbers: Wow; it has hundreds of digits! Thinking about large numbers after learning about the Ackermann function: If there is any way you can begin to imagine some way to express the magnitude of the number, it's small change; add up arrows.
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.@BrandSanderson Is soulforging computational? Could a Soulforger craft a stamp so that she spent the last ten years researching some problem, then write down the answer before the stamp fails to take?
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Replying to @SwiftOnSecurity
Cruise Director Dumpster Fireman Sword Fight Choreographer (in my CV) Director of Soda Purchasing Manager, Corporate Espionage Enterprise Scapegoat Farmer Patience Tester Snake Wrangler Chief LinkedIn Tracking Pixel Developer Treat Hunter (Easter is coming)
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I did it! I beat 2048!
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You need to manage computers with computers. Making humans do anything twice is an affront to the species.
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. @stevesi nails it here. Back when I was at my peak as a developer, I could keep the entire architecture and working model of an app I was building in my head. There’s something transcendent about it. hardcoresoftware.learningbys…
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How To Annoy Your Coworkers ™: Use emoji in your database table and column names. SELECT ✉️ FROM 👫;
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I've never actually *seen* a real-life hash collision: sharplab.io/#v2:EYLgdgpgLgZg…
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Always.
Do you ever place your mouse cursor directly on the right of a slow moving progress bar just to make sure things are still happening?
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You know how some languages have a "everything is a ..." kind of approach? everything is a list, everything is an object, everything is a segfault. that sort of thing. pcre is essentially an experiment in "can we make a language where everything is a special case?" for example:
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"Don't write better error messages, write code that doesn't need them." -Jason C. McDonald
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Here's an exotic expression for the sine of a single degree
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Replying to @Nick_Craver
The CLR Profiling APIs are a pathway to many abilities some consider to be... unnatural.
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Replying to @othermaciej
UA strings remind me of spells where we honor our ancestors by naming them
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