Oh yeah that explains why I'm so uncomfortable with it.

Oh ha ha thanks Peter! And now my confession to weaseling ambitions seems itself a cunning attempt at weaseling! :-D

Speaking of Rotterdam, I have had secret ambitions of trying to weasel my way into Joy of Coding for many years, it’s my favorite conference that I’ve never attended.

I should!

Oh wow that’s ridiculously beautiful.

I very explicitly do not consent to having my likeness turned into an ugly AI avatar.

I don’t need the hyperbolic value judgments (“this is awesome”, “this is really useful”) every other sentence, I just want to know how it works and what it does.

The sucking up to Microsoft.

It's very annoying to watch tutorials whose primary audience is the Microsoft MVP evaluation board.

I mean what he should really focus on is the W boson supply chain.

It's very hard to see a single thing Microsoft has done with Windows the last 10 years that has not been about surveillance to monetize user behaviour.

Exactly. Computer science and software engineering are different things. Though I definitely think that knowing a bit of computer science is useful for a software engineer, and knowing a bit of software engineering is useful for a computer scientist. So. Yeah.

In a couple of years I’ll try to muster the courage to do an internal lightning talk.

That’s hilarious and also accurate.