Software Engineering manager. Used to write books, articles, and work on too many other things {he/him} @duncanmackenzie on bluesky
Redmond, Washington
Joined March 2007
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For folks who are interested in such things, I just looked up my level progression over the years at Microsoft. (Image is the same data as a chart)
Hire at L60
L61 -- Dec 1999
L62 -- Feb 2001
L63 -- Dec 2005
L64 -- Mar 2008
L65 -- Sept 2011
L66 -- Sept 2015
L67 -- Sept 2018
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Duncan Mackenzie retweeted
Vittorio has left this world today 😢
He was a unique individual. Full of passion, curiosity, knowledge, wisdom and sense of humor. “Buongiorno Eveybody!” he would start every conference talk.
I am only grateful to him. Auth0 is the result of his influence and passion for identity 🙏
I am very sad but also relieved that I was able to tell him how much I loved and admired him the last few months while he was sick.
Thank you Vitto, you will be missed but your legacy will be always remembered ✨
Swinging back on here for a moment to say I have some Blue sky invite codes. DM me if you need one and I will see what I can do – at Redmond, WA
Go to stripe.com/docs/payment-link… to try it out yourself 🙂 – at Bellingham, WA
One of my favorite features shipped in @stripe docs recently: you can now hover over api parameters in code snippets to get in-context definitions i.e. no more having to navigate away and break flow to get this information 😍
We updated the search UX on Stripe.com/docs, it's not a huge change, but there's a new feature we haven't added any advertisement about yet...
Hint: try typing API: in the prompt 🙂 – at Redmond, WA
Duncan Mackenzie retweeted
I repost this every single time I see Andrew Tate trending. Best burn ever.
Duncan Mackenzie retweeted
@docsmsft Friday post ship, post ship beers, post ship bug fix ship again 🚢 🐜 🚢 🔥
Duncan Mackenzie retweeted
🚨 Just a reminder: I'm hosting some great folks from Google who have even greater insights on Core Web Vitals, their evolution and some of the most significant changes in recent times. Join us. Link below.
A @towebperf event ⚡️ Powered by @Catchpoint!
Announced last week, I'm putting together a Core Web Vitals AMA w/ the Magistrates Of Metrics:
🗣️: @anniesullie, @mmocny & @tunetheweb
📆: Friday June 16th
⏰: 1pm EDT, 10am PDT, 6pm BST
🔗: bit.ly/cwv-ama-2023 (click for reminder)
have your q?s ready.
#webperf
RT⚡️
ALT 4 ppl and their avatars, announcing a web stream, with a blue futuristic graphic as a background. Toronto Web Performance Group Presents: Core Web Vitals AMA Friday June 16th, 1pm EDT. Live Q&A on Youtube powered by Catchpoint
Duncan Mackenzie retweeted
Because of the pay gap, women have lost out on more than $60 trillion in wages since 1967.
Yes, trillion.
Today women still earn roughly 82 cents for every dollar earned by men, despite playing an outsized role in our economy.
We must ensure fair wages for all.
Duncan Mackenzie retweeted
This is a reckless comment from a lawyer who knows better. No one is jailing anyone at will. A grand jury has found probable cause of crimes. Trump gets due process, like everyone else. He gets jailed only if a jury finds guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and a judge imposes jail.
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As a company of developers, building for developers, we care *a lot* about developer tools.
So we built Workbench—a first-of-its-kind dev tool that lets you look under the hood to understand, debug, and grow your Stripe integration.
Introducing Stripe Workbench. 🧰
Build faster than ever with our new developer tool.
Join the beta: workbench.stripe.dev.
I missed it when it was live, but happy to find video of demand of Connor playing at a @wizards_magic event in Dallas: twitch.tv/videos/1836771462?…
Duncan Mackenzie retweeted
Then with @micaelaballew, I got the chance to build stripe.com/terminal. I desperately wanted to make this animation extra special, so I quietly snuck in an easter egg to make the buttons clickable.
1337 still redirects you to the /jobs page 😏
Duncan Mackenzie retweeted
I had an awesome time interviewing @dwizzzleMSFT. Dave is super smart and a champion for security researchers and the hacker community. I'm now also convinced he's cloned himself and/or created a pocket universe in order to undertake all of his extra-curricular hobbies. 😁 Enjoy!
David Weston @dwizzzleMSFT, VP of Enterprise and OS Security at Microsoft, joins @nicfill in the first episode of the new BlueHat podcast to discuss the importance of security research as part of a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy.
Listen on Apple 🎧 msft.it/6019gZZex
If you live near Redmond and like pizza and beer... Tuesday is the day for you 🙂
ALT Sign showing that Black Raven is doing a "tap takeover" at Zeek's Pizza in Redmond on Tuesday, May 23rd
Duncan Mackenzie retweeted
Not everyone knows this, but Taylor Swift also wrote another book, under a pseudonym. It’s called Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Realist Novel, and you can buy it here: press.jhu.edu/books/title/11…
Swifties made a random, unpublished book a bestseller after convincing themselves Taylor wrote it dlvr.it/SnqWsY
Duncan Mackenzie retweeted
Chat is the most obvious but least interesting interface to LLMs. It’s like calling REST APIs using curl. There’s not enough exploration into using the LLM response to power graphical interfaces, like we’d use any other API.
Went through this history with someone at work recently, figured I should write it up and put it out onto the web
duncanmackenzie.net/blog/evo…
Based on my best recollection, but feel free to correct me as you wish 🙂
