Mark Downie
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🧑🏾💻OSS Contributor (dasBlog) 🏢PM @ Microsoft (Visual Studio, Core AI) 🏀📖🎸 ✝️ poppastring.com/blog
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A starter pack If you're looking to follow folks from Microsoft's Core AI Developer Division.
go.bsky.app/JuyrK9N
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about 1 month ago
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A post from the archive 📫: Curiosity unbounded
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/curiosity-unbounded
#musings
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Scott Hanselman 🌮
2 days ago
New blog post - Automatically Signing a Windows EXE with Azure Trusted Signing, dotnet sign, and GitHub Actions
www.hanselman.com/blog/automat...
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Automatically Signing a Windows EXE with Azure Trusted Signing, dotnet sign, and GitHub Actions
Mac Tahoe (in Beta as of the time of this writing) has this new feature called ...
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/automatically-signing-a-windows-exe-with-azure-trusted-signing-dotnet-sign-and-github-actions
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Dare Obasanjo
3 days ago
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
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A post from the archive 📫: The return of WinDbg
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/the-return-of-windbg
#debugging #diagnostics
4 days ago
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Look, too many lists exclude sweet potatoe from their top 5 pies, and I have to seriously reconsider who I follow on this app.
5 days ago
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Yes I'm Antifa. Why Aren't U?
5 days ago
AFTER FIVE YEARS OF BEGGING...
#microsoft
FINALLY listened to me and added a Property in
#visualstudio2026
to stop auto-inserting scrollbars in embedded forms (no more double scrollbars!) 👍
#programming
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tyama
14 days ago
VisualStudio2026のAIに20年前に作ったおバカコードを改修させたらなんとなくかっこ良くなった(^_^;
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Financial Times
5 days ago
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
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OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
https://on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
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Frank "Typh" Mikero
6 days ago
#games
#gamedev
#VisualStudio
#Microsoft
I converted all my projects from vs2022 to vs2026. Result?... All good!🤪
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Adam Driscoll
6 days ago
PowerShell Pro Tools (for Visual Studio) works fine with VS2026.
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OK, I will not be tricked into another fruitless late night search. If I want to see the lights I am just gonna book that trip to Alaska.
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5 days ago
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
6 days ago
Today we celebrated 100 million free school meals provided to children in London’s state primary schools 🎉
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nilay patel
6 days ago
Pesky Verge ethics policy strikes again in this killer
@andyjayhawk.bsky.social
piece looking into car YouTube’s obsession with Chinese EVs and the company organizing the access and junkets. Comments from DeMuro, TFL, OmarDrives, and more ->
www.theverge.com/transportati...
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As a sketch idea this would have been too ludicrous even at SNL
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6 days ago
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Barack Obama
6 days ago
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
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Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/us/viola-fletcher-dead.html
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Oleg Tkachenko 🇺🇦
6 days ago
Visual Studio is going evergreen: - Feature updates every month, not every quarter. - A new annual version each year, released in November alongside the .NET release.
devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...
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I am just glad that we are going to be able to look back at this moment and see how many people were just talking out the side of their necks. 🤷🏾♀️
6 days ago
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Paulo Morgado
6 days ago
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Visual Studio – Built for the Speed of Modern Development - Visual Studio Blog
Visual Studio will adopt the Modern Support Lifecycle as a continuously updated IDE designed to deliver innovation as soon as it is ready, while maintaining the reliability and stability you count on every day with control over your build tools choices.
http://dlvr.it/TPRfjf
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A starter pack If you're looking to follow folks from Microsoft's Core AI Developer Division.
go.bsky.app/JuyrK9N
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about 1 month ago
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Raspberry Berret
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8 days ago
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A post from the archive 📫: The gift of time
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/the-gift-of-time
#musings
8 days ago
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LIVE IN EACH SEASON AS IT PASSES BREATHE THE AIR DRINK THE DRINK AND RESIGN YOURSELF TO THE INFLUENCE OF THE EARTH.
#columbusmetroparks
9 days ago
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kia speaks
9 days ago
My favorite piece of content today.
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Open Sourcing Zork I, II, and III Code
www.thurrott.com/classic-tech...
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Microsoft Open Sources Zork I, II, and III Source Code
Microsoft announced today that it has open sourced the code for the first three Zork text adventure games along with their original documentation.
https://www.thurrott.com/classic-technology/329907/microsoft-open-sources-zork-i-ii-and-iii-source-code
9 days ago
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Dr. Carlotta A. Berry #NoireSTEMinist 🤖
9 days ago
#AcademicSky
#AcademicChatter
#TeacherSky
#EducatorSky
#BlackInSTEM
#WomenInST
#BlackWomenSTEM
Please don’t pick a major for the money.!💰
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Travis Illig
10 days ago
Closed my comic box last night after having one for over 30 years. It's a sort of bittersweet feeling.
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Last Comic Pickup
Closed down my comic box at Things From Another World last night and it feels weird.
https://www.paraesthesia.com/archive/2025/11/20/last-comic-pickup/
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The Gray Sage
11 days ago
Why study history? Because the field has never been more exciting!
#education
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A post from the archive 📫: Debug & Analyze Dump Files in Visual Studio
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/debug-analyze-dump-files-in-visual-studio
#visualstudio #debugging #diagnostics
11 days ago
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Michael Washington
14 days ago
I am finding it is helpful to add as many file references as possible in the
#GitHub
#Copilot
prompts in
#VisualStudio
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Paul Vick
13 days ago
I follow more of these people than is probably healthy given that I haven't worked there for a while... :)
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Introducing MSVC AddressSanitizer for ARM64 targets
#visualstudio
devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/intr...
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Introducing MSVC AddressSanitizer for ARM64 targets - C++ Team Blog
We are pleased to announce AddressSanitizer (ASan) support for the Microsoft C++ (MSVC) Build Tools for ARM64 targets. ASan is a runtime memory error detector that identifies difficult-to-find bugs…
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/introducing-msvc-addresssanitizer-for-arm64-targets/
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"The case that turned the justices into art critics" Andy Warhol would Warhol-ize Goldsmith’s photo and produce an image of Prince as a music icon. Decades later, these two contrasting portraits of Prince would wind up at the Supreme Court...
www.scotusblog.com/2025/11/the-...
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The case that turned the justices into art critics
In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. I. The artist formerly known as Prince It was 1981, […]
https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/11/the-case-that-turned-the-justices-into-art-critics/
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Author Myron J. Clifton
14 days ago
Where are the photographers? Skydivers? Astronomers? This is for all of yall. What an incredible project/result
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I cannot speak for today but this was how English History was taught in UK schools in the 80s/90s: - Romans - Anglo-Saxons & Vikings - Normans & Medieval feudalism - Tudors & Stuarts - Georgians (Industrial Rev, *nothing else* 👀) - Victorians (abolition 🤔) - World War 1 & 2
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A beautiful autumn day in Columbus Metro Parks
#quarrytrail
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Scott Hanselman 🌮
15 days ago
Vibe coding using my voice (as typing hurts) a new Windows feature using Copilot CLI (at the command line only)
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Let's vibe a new Windows feature LIVE using Voice Dictation and GitHub Copilot CLI
YouTube video by Scott Hanselman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMbHVu4lAGA
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David Fowler
15 days ago
Working on samples for aspire 13
github.com/davidfowl/as...
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GitHub - davidfowl/aspire-13-samples: A repo showing micro samples with aspire 13
A repo showing micro samples with aspire 13. Contribute to davidfowl/aspire-13-samples development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://github.com/davidfowl/aspire-13-samples
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The Athletic | Football
15 days ago
Wales beat Liechtenstein ahead of Tuesday's clash with second-placed North Macedonia. Belgium play Liechtenstein.
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A post from the archive 📫: What is a photograph?
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/what-is-a-photograph
#artificialintelligence #musings
15 days ago
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The Athletic | Football
15 days ago
Senegal lose for the first time since September 2023, as Carlo Ancelotti's Brazil beat them 2-0 at the Emirates. Goals were scored by Chelsea's Estevao and Manchester United's Casemiro.
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Dr Abeba Birhane
16 days ago
every new AI application amounts to coming up with a smart sounding way to prey and profit from the most vulnerable and gullable
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I Bringing Fluent Design to Mobile: My Reimagining of Windows Phone UI and Live Tiles (Windows Astra Concept) [I cannot get enough of these Windows Phone concepts that would never have helped 🤷🏾♀️]
www.reddit.com/r/windowspho...
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From the windowsphone community on Reddit: Bringing Fluent Design to Mobile: My Reimagining of Windows Phone UI and Live Tiles (Windows Astra Concept)
Explore this post and more from the windowsphone community
https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsphone/comments/1owc4w7/bringing_fluent_design_to_mobile_my_reimagining/
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Author Myron J. Clifton
16 days ago
Hey, racers…. I know you aren’t working when you could be cheering your marble??
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ardalis (Steve Smith)
17 days ago
Just learned a bunch about MCP servers and how to use them locally both for dev tasks and internal company functionality on today's
devBetter.com
coaching call. There's some cool stuff in the Docker MCP toolkit and it's pretty easy to spin up your own MCP server with the
#dotnet
new templates.
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David McCarter
19 days ago
Warning: Copilot and AI look slick, but don’t trust everything they spit out. They’re Junior Programmers — smart, but lacking real-world experience and best practices. Someday that’ll change, but for now you still need your own brain and judgment.
#dotnetconf
#Copilot
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Damian Edwards
17 days ago
Visual Studio 2022 Aspire users: *UPDATE to the latest version of Aspire* You're missing out on so much! Latest Aspire supports .NET 8/9/10! Run this in a terminal: dotnet new install Aspire.ProjectTemplates --force Open NuGet Package Manager & update all Aspire.* packages to version 13. Enjoy!
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Just published 🚀: An AI-orchestrated espionage campaign
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/an-aiorchestrated-espionage-campaign
#musings #artificialintelligence
17 days ago
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ardalis (Steve Smith)
17 days ago
And look what just arrived from
#dotnetconf
! Thanks! 🙏
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Author Myron J. Clifton
17 days ago
Bonkers coincidence… Such a rare last name too. Huh.
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jentrification
17 days ago
The city of
#Detroit
launched the emergency resource in response to the disruption in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, impacting some 1.4 million Michiganders.
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SNAP Map: Find food help during uncertainty
The interactive Detroit map, launched amid uncertainty surrounding food benefits, features 93 pantries and officials expect that to grow.
https://www.bridgedetroit.com/snap-benefits-food-map-find-help/
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