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Director of Engineering at Stack Overflow. Coder, manager, father, husband, huge fan of calzones.

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It's not karaoke, it's helping to seal the Honmoon.

09.08.2025 17:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Fucking amateur. Onward and upward.

05.08.2025 04:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hey y'all! Weโ€™re a small browser company from Norway and Iceland, building a browser for all major platforms. Just a browser for the web, made for you. ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ธ

25.06.2025 12:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 86    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A command line interface

A command line interface

Some c# code

Some c# code

Weโ€™re about to take C# to the next level!

#dotnet #csharp

22.05.2025 00:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 229    ๐Ÿ” 35    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 27    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13

JESUS CHRIST ITโ€™S WAY TOO EARLY FOR COMMERCIALS FOR THE 2026 GEORGIA SENATE RACE

12.05.2025 23:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Even though it just worked and might seem boring, I would still love to see a guide on how you did it.

17.04.2025 00:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I am "got more birthday wishes on LinkedIn than Facebook" years old.

07.04.2025 03:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I feel you. I have more domains purchased for projects than actual finished projects.

07.04.2025 01:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As someone in a city with horrible public transit, I thought of public transit as a really good way to get around to avoid the street traffic. Do e-bikes get around the street traffic problem with bike lanes?

04.04.2025 03:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And the second half is a shit show.

28.03.2025 04:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We have all heard the saying "Never interfere with your enemy when they are making a mistake," which is good advice. But what more people should heed, since it is far more common: "Don't interfere with your teammate when they are saving your ass."

27.03.2025 19:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There are some places where a "rookie numbers" joke would be made, but all I do is feel the pain. Let those noise cancelling headphones ear that price tag.

11.03.2025 17:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I am embarrassed to say this is sometimes me. Keeping up with the latest in CSS is killing me!

05.03.2025 17:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Considering 3-4 years ago I was envious of Tesla owners, nothing. Pivoting from a 50k+ purchase due to recent events is hard for folks at a lot of incomes, even high ones. For folks planning on buying one, different story.

04.03.2025 18:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That movie did the best deconstruction of the genre in one scene than any movie had a right to. Brilliant.

23.02.2025 15:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Like I am supposed to believe Rachel Leigh Cook, Julia Stiles, Patrick Dempsey, Anne Hathaway, etc are unattractive because they speak a little sternly or their shoes don't match their outfit?

23.02.2025 14:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think Hollywood has always made this harder for themselves in the "unpopular into desirable" trope. Surely it's harder to make someone who is a borderline supermodel look more plain than it is to make someone who wouldn't be on the cover of Cosmo more traditionally beautiful, right?

23.02.2025 14:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This is the type of thing a junior engineer who asked AI to explain databases to him might say. He wants people to believe he is an engineer so badly that he keeps exposing himself. Stop listening to him.

11.02.2025 17:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Please just let me reuse my password. Please I am begging you. Please I donโ€™t care if someone hacks my Barnes and Noble account. Please I have no new passwords left. Please you have taken them all from me.

07.02.2025 16:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 283    ๐Ÿ” 31    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

2 weeks ago my 4 year old said I was her best friend and I still misty eyed telling everyone I know about it every chance I get.

19.01.2025 06:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

FYI, if you are a CEO about to lay off thousands of people, don't announce "They are low performers" before they even find out who they are. Not only is that a potential privacy/legal violation to tell the world why someone was laid off, it also just makes you a huge jerk.

15.01.2025 21:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A tweet from Elon using Unix commands in the wrong manner to try and poke fun at being Woke, so he is telling on himself.

A tweet from Elon using Unix commands in the wrong manner to try and poke fun at being Woke, so he is telling on himself.

That's not how any of these commands work.

13.01.2025 16:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Whenever you feel bad about tech debt or falling behind on features, just remember that Facebook account recovery codes haven't worked for almost a year.

09.01.2025 19:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's big, it's busy, but it's still one of the best organized airports in my opinion.

13.12.2024 17:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I never said it was anything different. I stand by my submission and victory.

04.12.2024 05:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That never happened.

It was a monitor.

04.12.2024 01:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You are never going onward and upward with a thievary lifestyle. I am surprised how true and loyal you be.

04.12.2024 00:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanksgiving still separates people into two groups: Those who prefer the canned cranberry jelly, and liars.

01.12.2024 20:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Same thing for me. It wasn't that I had trouble getting into work mode by being in personal space, it was that I had trouble getting out of work mode when I was supposed to be off by feeling like I was always in work space.

30.11.2024 04:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As of this morning, I have been offered free credit monitoring for the next two years from 3 different places because they had data breaches. After I signed up for the first, no point in the others, so 2 of the 3 had no consequences. The responsibility of these events needs to be more severe.

24.11.2024 22:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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