Jason Malinowski

May we all follow in Gary’s footsteps.

🖋️ Benjamin Schwartz, from 2021 #NewYorkerCartoons

'tis the season to wonder why Amazon doesn't give you any sane way to say "this is a gift from so-and-so" on the shipping label. Because nothing brings the holiday spirit like sending an email to all your family with the tracking code wondering who should open this random package.

I'll start - if you hold CTRL, it will pause Task Manager so the processes don't move around when you're sorted by resource usage

To those who are celebrating, Happy Installing-All-The-Missing-Updates-On-Your-Extended-Family’s-Electronics Day.

A silly dialog saying "Someone recently tried to log into your account from an unrecognized computer or mobile browser. Because you set up two-factor authentication, your account is temporarily locked. Please complete the following steps to regain access to your account."

Me: I need to log into Facebook. Facebook, here's my password and 2FA code.
Facebook: SOMEBODY IS TRYING TO LOG INTO YOUR ACCOUNT! YOU NEED TO REVIEW THE LOGIN!
Me: uh, that's me? 10 seconds ago? on the same device?

Interested in working in .NET Tooling? My team is hiring for a few roles. This is a great to impact the .NET ecosystem, work with devs all across Microsoft and help drive the .NET platform forward.

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Awesome, this worked great! Thanks!

Seattle Seasons The Dark Wet Paralyzing Snow (1/4 inch) Brightening Wet Fakeout Sunbreak Molding Wet Flowering Wet Juneuary Glorious Sun Oppressive Sun Choking Smoke Welcome Drizzle Spiders <-- We are here Convergence Zones The Dark Wet

Well that escalated quickly.

If you installed the Visual Studio 2026 preview and were getting lots of errors trying edit C# code…sorry about that. We shipped a fix an hour ago so go check for updates in your Visual Studio Installer.

An image from Home Depot's website letting you filter by the size of the fitting, with an entry measured in feet rather than the logical inches.

When replacing the plumbing under your sink drain, it's important to check if your sink is one and a quarter inch pipe, one in a half inch pipe, or, per Home Depot's filter, one and a half foot pipe.

As a physicist I can easily calculate time dilation from relativistic motion (time slows when you're moving fast) or proximity to a massive object (time slows in gravity) but I have yet to find a solution for emotional time dilation (the task takes five minutes to complete but six weeks to start) 🫠

Dear candidates for literally every elected position: sending me unsolicited texts will not make me want to vote for you. In fact, it makes me consider your opponents. Don’t make me consider voting for the crazy primary candidates. Please.

Amazing. Respect the lede.

Don't worry you'll have plenty more chances to use it. Like tomorrow. Or the day after. Or the day after that, or...

Also let’s say we want to pay. How do we ensure future devs on the team remember to get a license and pay? What does that mean when some person outside our team sends a code fix to our repo? The overhead of all of this simply isn’t worth the cost.

Yep, the price is far too steep, especially when it’s per dev. And it’s not like a unit test framework doesn’t already come with its own assertion library. One internal product I know used FluentAssertions in some tests; it’ll be easier and cheaper to switch it to xUnit asserts than pay this.

Which service?

Today’s the day. It’s the 2024 Hater’s Guide to the Williams Sonoma catalog!
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It’s also nice that if you lose power, their network doesn’t go down. So when we lost power during the storm last month we could still use internet (until my UPS for the router went out.) Obviously if a tree takes out a pole-mounted fiber line it’s a different story.

Some of their engineering folks are on Reddit and when there is a question of “how do I see how much data I use” their response is paraphrased as “why would we even track that?” They just want to make a solid network and make people happy that way.

Service has been good. Fast, reliable, and it’s nice being able to toss around huge files without thinking about it. Or when I got a new Xbox I downloaded a half of terabyte of games without giving it a second thought of data caps.

For gigabit the introductory price was $60/month for us in Redmond; it went to $80/month after a year. There have been two $5/month increases so it’s now $90/month here.

"Why is there an emergency eye wash station in the team room?"

"We do code reviews on Thursdays."