Me as a professional writing code.

This thread is good stuff, but this tweet out of the middle just “gets me” in a way I couldn’t articulate before. Diet Coke is my security blanket.

In August of 2005, Danny Simmons joined the "Windows Future Storage" (WinFS) team. Although eventually canceled, WinFS planted the seed that grew into what is now called Entity Framework. Danny is one of several current & former Microsoft employees who will join us on Wed Feb 23 (1/2)

for a special reunion to celebrate the role Entity Framework played in the 20-year history of #dotnet. The 10-year anniversary of making EF open source is also approaching. You won't want to miss this special .NET Data community standup! 🥳🎈🎆🎇 live.dot.net

#WinFS was canceled in 2006. A whitepaper was published in June to "eliminate the impedance mismatch between data models and between languages." The title? "The ADO .NET Entity Framework Overview." docs.microsoft.com/previous-versi… Join us Feb 23rd to celebrate the history of #EF!

I remember this! It was kindofabigdeal :)

I managed and grew many Engineers into leaders in Startups and Big Tech. Tech Leads, Team Lead, Staff+ "Architects," Managers of Managers, etc. I've also reported up to EVPs, CTOs, and CEOs. Eleven hard truths about engineering leadership 👇

Wow!! This is a #mvpsummit and the first time I meet with Diego Vega and Danny Simmons talking about #efmagicunicorns

Bloody hell. Looking at a message from the Ukraine Library Association concerning the cancellation of their forthcoming conference. it basically says "We will reschedule just as soon as we have finished vanquishing our invaders". Ukrainian Librarians, I salute you

Hats off to the Visual Studio team that was in charge of intellisense. It feel like magic coding in VS2022.

Why we can't stop saying gay, a story On the first day of my senior year of high school, a new boy showed up in my AP English class. He had transferred from a prestigious private school to my public school, and I was confused. I asked him why he moved and he shrugged 1/x

3/ There’s a new thing though, and here it is: I think the true believers have more or less faded away. Because the tech doesn’t work and the money is dirty dirty dirty.

In my career I have spent about 8 years self-employed, 9 working for other people, and 10 running companies, and from that experience I have concluded that what makes an effective manager is: they have to care about you.

me in every meeting at microsoft

Cis friends: declaring that you stand with trans and nonbinary people, that you will defend us in public and in private and won’t tolerate our abuse or dehumanization from other cis people, makes more of a difference than you think it does. A lot of people will follow the crowd.

Please Retweet: Today is the day for the start of the new National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. No matter where you are in the US, if you are in crisis, please call 9️⃣-8️⃣-8️⃣ to speak to someone who cares. There is hope for a better future. Call or text 9️⃣-8️⃣-8️⃣.

Be a Kermit the Frog. Have a creative vision and no ego. Recognize the unique talents of those around you. Attract weirdos. Manage chaos. Show kindness. Be sincere.

Let’s counter this bullshit Republican talking point right now- Retweet this if you don’t have college debt but are happy for the people who are getting some help with their student debt.

Pro-tip: They do not proofread. Three crystals, three different spellings of my name. :-)