It took ADP about 24 hours to restore access to my W2 - with lots if not all @microsoft employees impacted. At least it's working now. #TaxDay

Jazz is too complicated for ChatGPT / BingChat / Bard. I asked them to give me the pitches in the following jazz chord: D#m13(b5) / D#min13(b5). All of them miserably fail.

I'm @ bernd.dev on Blue Sky.

Always disappointing when leadership with significant stock compensation talks as if employees had anywhere near the same compensation ratio between salary and stocks. We don't even get any refresh grants, even when the on-hire grant has fully vested. Out of touch with reality...

Tonight I wrote and recorded the piano piece to which my fiancée will walk down the aisle. Wedding is in 2 weeks.

𝕀 𝕥𝕠𝕠 𝕔𝕒𝕟 𝕦𝕟𝕚𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕖 𝕞𝕒𝕥𝕙 𝕤𝕪𝕞𝕓𝕠𝕝𝕤

Philippines vs New Zealand. What a game! Great job Philippines! 🇵🇭

How do you figure out W4 withholdings when you recently got married and your spouse is a freelancer with unpredictable jobs?! The IRS W4 app is also bug ridden and not useful. What a nightmare...

I only code for the money, or to help family automate things that they never asked me to automate 😂

I've decided to run for the Dapr Steering & Technical Committee. I've worked on Dapr for 2.5 years and have been a maintainer of several repos. You can read about my nomination here: github.com/dapr/community…

Could this decision remove the golden handcuffs of startup employees? I'm no tax expert or legal scholar - could this also impact stock option exercises where valuation has increased a lot (hence Alternative Minimum Tax applies) despite unrealized gains? washingtontimes.com/news/2023/nov/…

When customers / users (in my case other engineers) use the product you built for use cases in which you know it cannot excel, how does that make you feel? Even though it's an unintended use case, I feel bad if users have a bad experience.

I've been a core maintainer of Dapr for the past few years.