Nick Craver
@nickcraver.com
Dad, Husband, and Partner Software Engineer Microsoft working on Azure. Formerly Stack Overflow. I build very fast things to improve life for millions of developers.
I feel like honesty in a relationship is key. So whenever prepping Mother’s Day presents, I feel it’s best to let her know she’s been bamboozled right up front.
May 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I feel like honesty in a relationship is key. So whenever prepping Mother’s Day presents, I feel it’s best to let her know she’s been bamboozled right up front.
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Pete Hegseth: ‘There Are No State Secrets In A Healthy Relationship’
Pete Hegseth: ‘There Are No State Secrets In A Healthy Relationship’
WASHINGTON—Staunchly defending his decision to share sensitive military data in messages to his wife, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters Monday, “There are no state secrets in a healthy rel...
theonion.com
April 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Pete Hegseth: ‘There Are No State Secrets In A Healthy Relationship’
…why in the world would you choose to use the same symbol?
April 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
…why in the world would you choose to use the same symbol?
Considering putting "Manually generated content may be incorrect" in my mail signature
April 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Considering putting "Manually generated content may be incorrect" in my mail signature
Evidently you’re not supposed to describe a string of predictable consequences as a FAFO queue in meetings.
March 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Evidently you’re not supposed to describe a string of predictable consequences as a FAFO queue in meetings.
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Did you know? By replacing your coffee with green tea, you can lose up to 92% of what little joy you still have left in your life.
March 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Did you know? By replacing your coffee with green tea, you can lose up to 92% of what little joy you still have left in your life.
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People who think prompt engineering is just trying stuff at random until you get the results you hoped for: I have bad news for you about how the majority of programmers work.
February 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
People who think prompt engineering is just trying stuff at random until you get the results you hoped for: I have bad news for you about how the majority of programmers work.
Plutonic relationship: Where everything is going great and you’re part of the group but then all of the sudden it’s too small and distant to be considered real.
January 27, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Plutonic relationship: Where everything is going great and you’re part of the group but then all of the sudden it’s too small and distant to be considered real.
One of my teammates had to evacuate their house this week due to a gas main break, from a fiber install.
Immediate thoughts:
1. Oh no, hope everyone is okay!
2. Fuck yeah. It's about damn time the fiber peeps started punching back.
Immediate thoughts:
1. Oh no, hope everyone is okay!
2. Fuck yeah. It's about damn time the fiber peeps started punching back.
January 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
One of my teammates had to evacuate their house this week due to a gas main break, from a fiber install.
Immediate thoughts:
1. Oh no, hope everyone is okay!
2. Fuck yeah. It's about damn time the fiber peeps started punching back.
Immediate thoughts:
1. Oh no, hope everyone is okay!
2. Fuck yeah. It's about damn time the fiber peeps started punching back.
"What's your maintenance project called?"
"Project Theseus"
"Oh that's a coo....wait a minute"
"Project Theseus"
"Oh that's a coo....wait a minute"
January 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
"What's your maintenance project called?"
"Project Theseus"
"Oh that's a coo....wait a minute"
"Project Theseus"
"Oh that's a coo....wait a minute"
Whelp, icy roads and school’s cancelled.
a man in a dark room with the words none of you seem to understand behind him
Alt: Rorschach in prison: “What none of you seem to understand is I’m not locked in here with you, you’re locked in here with me”
media.tenor.com
January 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Whelp, icy roads and school’s cancelled.
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I’m doing pretty well recently, but not like so well that I have a lot of patience for ignorant people saying stupid things about suicide and depression.
www.cnn.com/2025/01/04/e...
www.cnn.com/2025/01/04/e...
Jeff Baena, writer, director and husband of Aubrey Plaza, dead at 47 | CNN
Jeff Baena, a writer and director whose credits include “Life After Beth” and “The Little Hours,” has died, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner.
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January 6, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I’m doing pretty well recently, but not like so well that I have a lot of patience for ignorant people saying stupid things about suicide and depression.
www.cnn.com/2025/01/04/e...
www.cnn.com/2025/01/04/e...
Quick project since plates came in: I like to use plates and magnets for simple tool storage. First up: drilling and counter-sinking plates, ordered a stack of 6” squash plates for this but if space on garage shelves:
January 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Quick project since plates came in: I like to use plates and magnets for simple tool storage. First up: drilling and counter-sinking plates, ordered a stack of 6” squash plates for this but if space on garage shelves:
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Finally had time over the holidays to realize a long-standing dream of mine: a hex editor that knows about the PE file and .NET metadata format. You can click any byte and it will show you which data structure it is in the tree. Every byte is covered.
The parser is at github.com/KirillOsenko...
The parser is at github.com/KirillOsenko...
December 29, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Finally had time over the holidays to realize a long-standing dream of mine: a hex editor that knows about the PE file and .NET metadata format. You can click any byte and it will show you which data structure it is in the tree. Every byte is covered.
The parser is at github.com/KirillOsenko...
The parser is at github.com/KirillOsenko...
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When I was a young writer, I received a LOT of rejections. Now, after decades of hard work, I am no longer young.
December 14, 2024 at 1:08 PM
When I was a young writer, I received a LOT of rejections. Now, after decades of hard work, I am no longer young.
Awwwwww yeah, my years of taunting how the Office team already did it with .docx has finally paid off.
Hey #dotnet folks - one of the things we're looking forward to in the 9.0.200 release is support for the new SLNX solution file format introduced in Visual Studio in preview form. You can get access to a preview of 9.0.200 and try it out yourself here: github.com/dotnet/core/...
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December 16, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Awwwwww yeah, my years of taunting how the Office team already did it with .docx has finally paid off.
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December 15, 2024 at 4:34 AM
"Why is there an emergency eye wash station in the team room?"
"We do code reviews on Thursdays."
"We do code reviews on Thursdays."
December 11, 2024 at 6:20 PM
"Why is there an emergency eye wash station in the team room?"
"We do code reviews on Thursdays."
"We do code reviews on Thursdays."
In retrospect, it was probably the "If you aren't familiar with WinDbg, it's an older style text adventure game designed by sadists" comment that got me in trouble.
December 11, 2024 at 12:33 PM
In retrospect, it was probably the "If you aren't familiar with WinDbg, it's an older style text adventure game designed by sadists" comment that got me in trouble.
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Getting in the hot tub at 10pm for the back seemed like a good idea to eventually get some sleep…but as I stare at the door 25ft away, there may be some regrets setting in.
December 4, 2024 at 6:04 AM
Getting in the hot tub at 10pm for the back seemed like a good idea to eventually get some sleep…but as I stare at the door 25ft away, there may be some regrets setting in.
I’m on a lot of other optimization these days…but only because fast builds let me iterate quickly and CIs give me confidence in the changes.
Fast builds and green checks are so very important if you want your team to do anything else quickly. Every team should make these a baseline priority.
Fast builds and green checks are so very important if you want your team to do anything else quickly. Every team should make these a baseline priority.
When @nickcraver.com joined Microsoft I was curious what he will naturally gravitate towards after he looks around. Nick looked around and decided to fix builds!
When @nguerrera.dev joined Microsoft, I already knew what he will deem to be most impactful task for starters: fixing builds!
When @nguerrera.dev joined Microsoft, I already knew what he will deem to be most impactful task for starters: fixing builds!
December 4, 2024 at 5:26 AM
I’m on a lot of other optimization these days…but only because fast builds let me iterate quickly and CIs give me confidence in the changes.
Fast builds and green checks are so very important if you want your team to do anything else quickly. Every team should make these a baseline priority.
Fast builds and green checks are so very important if you want your team to do anything else quickly. Every team should make these a baseline priority.
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If there just one one skill or attribute that I think early in career folks should focus on, it would be, "be curious".
This isn't "questioning every decision"-curious, but the "I wonder why it works this way, let me figure that out"-curious.
This isn't "questioning every decision"-curious, but the "I wonder why it works this way, let me figure that out"-curious.
December 3, 2024 at 10:01 AM
If there just one one skill or attribute that I think early in career folks should focus on, it would be, "be curious".
This isn't "questioning every decision"-curious, but the "I wonder why it works this way, let me figure that out"-curious.
This isn't "questioning every decision"-curious, but the "I wonder why it works this way, let me figure that out"-curious.