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This is the kind of thing I'd expect from Raymond Chen - which is extremely high praise!

I'm glad they tracked it down even further to figure out exactly why.

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Or randomascii. A freaking legend (although he had a heart braking streak of bad events ... I wish him the best)

What happened to him?

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2024/10/01/life-death-and-...

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2016/10/17/vestibular-dysf...

So sad :(

Damn. That was so painful to read. He's such a talented and respectable guy. Wish him all the best moving forward.

I remember reading this and having a mini-midlife-crisis after every read

I documented it this time :sigh: https://github.com/MatthewJohn/terrareg/commit/2231ba733a7f5...

i moved in with my SO last weekend after being together for multiple years, reading the blogpost about his wife dying in the span of 9 weeks really sent chills down my spine :(

i need a hug.

Raymond is a wizard. Read his blogs for many years and love his style and knowledge.

Raymond knows everything. From microcode bugs on Alpha AXP to template meta programming to UI.

I wonder how many times a Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, Bain, EY, McKinsey, or BCG consultant naively tried putting him on a shortlist for being “impacted” over the years because he was in the Top X of a spreadsheet sorted on Y.

"Look this guy's job seems to be mainly writing blog posts. We could replace that with AI and get it to regularly pitch the new Visual Enshitify 2.0 product launch as a bonus. Win win win!"

He's a total legend, yet apparently he's never met Bill Gates in person from what he said in an interview in the Dave's Garage YouTube channel a few years ago. You'd think that someone who's been that prominent for so long in the company would have been invited to a company dinner where he was present or something.

Microsoft's a big company, and billg "stepped down" in 2000. Raymond is still working, so they overlap less than may appear.

He has stories on his blog about windows 2 iirc, so there was an overlap from a time where they were still relatively small. So I think it's a bit odd they never talked or met.

Small thing but I love the effort he puts into actually coding up his examples instead of screenshots. For example: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250414-00/?p=11...

He has many better ones but that's the latest one I've seen

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