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• Post #4075843

  Backup your stuff and have a digital will or plan. Set up your legacy contacts https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTAMkBCnn/

• Post #3885708

  Heading back to Portland after a hard but energizing week at BUILD. What a lovely team.

• Post #3885707

  iOS is redoing Screen Time just in time for my kids to graduate from high school

• Post #3616991

  There’s so many fascinating generation gaps, but the one that always hits me is that these kids will sit on the porch and call or text rather than knock on the door or press the doorbell

• Post #3348392

  I have a $30 stationary bike that I got at Goodwill and I have an old Android tablet stuck to it, but I don't have a Peloton membership. Nor do I have the interest to ride 80 miles to the beach. So I made http://PedalScape.com It's a local PWA, no backend at all, no tracking, just 4k bike rides.

• Post #3279531

  We really gotta stop normalizing the whole full on speakerphone FaceTime call in a restaurant thing. Put the phone to your ear sir

• Post #2566896

  Absolutely fantastic interview with Dr. Ifeoma Ajunwa this week about her upcoming book "The Quantified Worker" with topics that are so essential during this time of #techlayoffs #layoffs #ai Please boost! https://www.hanselminutes.com/877/the-quantified-worker-with-dr-ifeoma-ajunwa

• Post #2566895

  If I failed to text you personally to check on you because of #layoffs, my sincere apologies. 20k+ people in two days across companies and almost 50k in a few months is overwhelming and I’d text everyone in my contacts to check on you 😢 If I can help, add me on LinkedIn or text me

• Post #2485906

  I just spent the last two hours debugging the Bluetooth stack *in anger* because for the last few weeks I've had to re-pair my mouse with my laptop. Every time. Remove mouse, re-pair. Turns out I had two identical mice in my backpack and I've been switching between them. It was me.

• Post #2375012

  If you loved the Living Computer Museum in Seattle as much as I did, you should know that SO MANY of those systems are still alive and running at http://icm.museum?donate under the same stewardship of Stephen Jones who was also at LCM. You can visit OR connect remotely! DONATE AND DOUBLE YOUR DONATION!

• Post #2071494

  I saw this article about a new Mac featured called "Edge Light" that literally puts a fake white ring light around your screen. It's kinda insane and genius. So I vibed it for Windows. https://github.com/shanselman/WindowsEdgeLight get it from Releases, unzip and run the single .NET 10 exe. Will autoupdate also.

• Post #1987431

  A reminder, if you own your own domain you can quickly setup webfinger like this https://www.hanselman.com/.well-known/webfinger (can just be a static file, or dynamic) so that if someone searches mastodon (use me as an example) for @shanselman then it will call out to my domain, find me, and tell you my aliases, which is my account at hachyderm.io. Cool eh? Should take you just a few min to implement!

• Post #1751345

  The earliest DOS source code was found on printer paper in Tim Paterson's garage so we've open sourced it on 86-DOS 1.00’s 45th anniversary! This is next-level software archaeology for preservation, and plain ol’ curiosity. #DOS #RetroComputing https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/04/28/continuing-the-story-of-early-dos-development

• Post #1720074

  Hello non-technical people. Just a heads up. Musk isn’t a programmer, a systems architect, or anyone with experience building or running large systems of any kind. However, he’s taken credit for others building large systems which makes him think he’s That Guy. He is not.

• Post #1700660

  This is very cool https://omnivore.app

• Post #1530847

  Only takeaway for me on this $35 insulin story is that the price was high for no reason other than corporate greed. Insulin was always supposed to be free. “Insulin belongs to the world, not to me.” - Banting, inventor of insulin #Insulin4All

• Post #1424119

  Minor medical situation on the flight and it’s cool that my wife is able to jump up and help out when they ask for a licensed medical professional. One day someone will need a regular expression so I stay ready.

• Post #1101184

  @flq Sorry, I just got really, really busy at work. I need to go back in time and actually put the shows up that I've already recorded. It's not a hiatus. It's just overwhelming.

• Post #816213

  Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done. I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! https://youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #ted

• Post #615211

  Hey friends, the baby that I made Baby Smash for is going to turn 21 this year. So I updated with it an all new website, installer, new .net 10 code base, and code signed executable. Please test it. Code on Github http://babysmash.com

• Post #615210

  So this happened… Remember: They’re not conscious! Had a great time on CBS today talking about AI agents, how they operate, and more! Special appearance by Reachy https://www.cbsnews.com/video/tech-executive-explains-how-ai-agents-can-complete-tasks-but-warns-against-too-much-access/

• Post #615208

  Virtual Desktops on Windows aren't used enough. Mac has the "maximize to Virtual Desktop" button so I did a similar thing for Windows. Please go test it and file issues. SHIFT-CLICK on the Maximize button will maximize a window to a new Virtual Desktop. Also a hotkey. https://github.com/shanselman/MaximizeToVirtualDesktop/releases/tag/v0.0.1

• Post #615207

  Had an amazing two days speaking to thousands of developers on how to navigate the uncertain future. One thing that really struck me though was the number of times people said things like I read your book in high school or I learned this language from your video, and now these folks are senior engineers at big companies I’ve only been doing this for like what, five years? Crazy 👴

• Post #615206

  You vibed an app, for an audience of one. Add it to Tiny Tool Town. But You know what Tiny Tool Town REALLY needed? *TIKTOK MODE* Why not mindlessly scroll awesome vibe coded apps rather than videos? Maybe one will help you or someone else! go hit **https://tinytooltown.com** and tap "SHORTS" for TikTok/Shorts/Reels Mode

• Post #615204

  Last year Mark Russinovich and I wrote a paper on how Software Engineering will redefine the profession, and how early in career engineers may see an “AI Drag,” while seniors will see a significant boost. This paper was published today in the Communications of the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery The real story though, is that we propose a program where companies must invest deeply in our EiC pipeline, not just hiring juniors but giving them formal *preceptors* (modeled after nursing)...

• Post #615203

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