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Every single one of his posts is posted from a place of pain, it's pretty obvious.

So some horrible bug involving shifting registers ate a portion of his life, and we get a cool blog post.

Now that you say this, I really appreciate his writing style doesn’t project frustration. He has his way to make me curious about some weirdly technically specific errors, bugs, misconceptions without ranting or complaining. It always feels like a friend shared a nice little thing they would have learned the hard way over the years.

Might be the only Microsoft dev to wear a jacket and tie to work (though he's given up the jacket recently), certainly the most well known for his formal dress code on the main Redmond campus - see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6dmGyVkNKk

I just wish there weren't so many rather C++ focused posts. The last few months weren't really that interesting for me. I get that there's a limited amount of fun Windows stuff and anecdotes, but these deep dives into Windows API C++ intricacies don't really fit his usual topics