Teacher, coder, author of heavy books. Many-time Microsoft MVP. Left this circus for Mastodon. Find me @prosetech@hachyderm.io

Toronto, Ontario
Joined January 2012
After thousands of traditionally published pages, I'm trying something new: a self-published book for kids & beginners learning to code. Meet "𝗔 𝗧𝗶𝗻𝘆 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗝𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁", released today in a free PDF gumroad.com/l/eARLn (Details in thread)
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How not to handle #null. Like all good bugs, this site only does this every once in a while
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Of course *you* know that a #ChatGPT response is a pattern of heuristically likely words that often contains factual mistakes. But do you know how deep the rabbit hole goes? medium.com/young-coder/chatg…
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Talking about the gradual decline of #WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), the outsourcing controversy, and the strange fact that #WinForms is still here after two decades. medium.com/young-coder/wpf-b… #dotnet
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If one of your technology resolutions includes #mastodon that's probably a good resolution
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Well, I'm out! The Fauci conspiracy theories, ex-Twitter-employee abuse, and dishonest moderation policy made me reconsider my time in the bird circus. I'd love to meet all you fine folks again over at Mastodon! I'm @prosetech@hachyderm.io
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And if you don't remember why you were following, here's a quick recap. I chat about the .NET stack, web dev, future tech, and--occasionally--weird creative things like my coding-with-ninjas book for kids.
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This has 1% to do with politics and 99% to do with a cynical troll who just believes capturing "conservative energy" will boost his platform, compensate for lost ad revenue, and eventually make him money. 2/3
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Elon & Marjorie Taylor Greene are just friends of convenience. If you figure out whether it's worse to be an immoral opportunist or an insane true believer, let me know. 3/3
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This season of black mirror is not as good as the first
Unsuspend accounts who doxxed my exact location in real-time
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The #midjourney prompt everyone wants to write: /imagine x,y,z but please put the right number of fingers on each hand
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Help define our 2023 roadmap - the BIG ROCKS! It only takes 5 min to complete! RT for reach please. 🙏 surveymonkey.com/r/ZVM6VB3
Happens often: I see a tweet in my timeline, scroll through the person's stuff trying to figure out why I'm following them, and then realize I'm not. Still I don't turn on the "mute tweets you don't follow" setting because I want to see if this algorithm can get better.