Those who can, do. (or leave) Those who can't, become managers. Look at Boeing..... more managers than engineers. That's why stuff comes falling out of the sky.

I love Microsoft, it guarantees me a job till the day I die or loose my mind. ;P (Whatever comes first)

I use a small USB thumb that attaches to my key ring. It has space inside the USB connector to hold a micro SD card. I sometimes forget my wallet, but so far a forgot my keys only once. Brand: CanaKit Website: Mini MicroSD USB Reader[^]

I struggle with that as well. I have a few hobby projects that seems to go no-where. One of my hobby projects has now been restarted 11 times. Started on an Informix DB, converted it to Oracle, and now SQL Server. It started as a Delphi project, converted to C# / WinForms, and now WPF Have been looking at WinUI, MAUI, Blazor, Aspire. I know that it will go nowhere in the end, but it keeps me busy and I might learn a thing or two.

Of course they wont fix bugs. They just rename/renumber them. :laugh: Of course they can't put that in the release notes. Error 62316: File not found => Error 86549: Miscellaneous input/output conflict. ;P

I learned C# many years ago coming from a Delphi background. I found C# not that different from Delphi if you substitute begin and end with { and } After all they were both developed by the same person. (Anders Hejlsberg - Wikipedia[^])

Samsung A53. It was my wife's phone, but she wanted mine. (Samsung S20) I use it for 2FA and playing some games. (Candy Crush, just passed level 6000) :-D

We Gotta Get Out of This Place from The Animals or Highway to Hell from ACDC

I use WPF almost exclusively. I have to admit it was a very steep learning curve, but now I will not touch WinForms anymore. The new flavours of XAML are not fit for purpose. (UWP, WinUI, MAUI) This is the biggest mistake made by Microsoft: Having multiple dialects of XAML. Why incompatible versions of XAML. If we have a WPF project, we can't 'upgrade' it to something more modern without months (years) of work and bucketloads of money. C++ is for bare metal programming. We will NEVER use C++ with a GUI. And for VB6: I worked for a company that used VB6 for their main applications. They didn't want to rewrite in WPF, so I left.

Yeah, like mine used to be, until the cooling bill became to expensive. :cool:

In Germany, the railways are still using Windows 3.11 for their display boards. Who says you have to upgrade. :laugh:

I had a similar problem. I was not getting the e-mails in the morning. When I looked at my settings, everything was cleared. I switched the e-mails back on. Imagine, I can't live without the daily update in the morning.

I switched to an artificial tree many years ago. :cool: No more needless killing of the only thing that gives us breathable air. (I know algae are helping as well) It has 500 LED lights build in, sets up in under an hour, and looks good. It doesn't have the 'smell' but at least it doesn't interfere with the Christmas cooking. Stop killing our friends, they deserve life too.

I like to make tools and utilities to automate manual tasks. That means spending a month creating a tool that can do a manual job that takes 2 minutes once a month. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I hate command line stuff, so I build UIs around those to be able to use my favourite rodent. And I get really annoyed by UIs that are sloppy. (outlining slightly off by 1 pixel :doh: ) So I try to build them again, but better.....

It is 101010

My sleeping in getting less and less. I'll go to bed around 01:00 (earlier makes no sense for me) and I am awake at 07:00. :zzz: During the day I am tired but that is easily cured by black coffee :java: and Red Bull. (I have to support Max. He is my countryman ;) ) But I tend to 'wake up' around 19:00 and when bed-time comes I am not sleepy at all. I noticed that it get worse with age. (when I was born, I could sleep 20 hours a day :laugh: )

It's a compromise between my job and my wife's job. We are living roughly in the middle. And the houses around my workplace are unaffordable. (Starting at £800.000 and up) Luckily my code is reviewed whenever I make a change. And my contributions are with the latest frameworks (NET 6 and 7, Blazor, Azure)

2 weeks ago I got my 8th Covid jab. Really painful this one.

I haven't been in the office for over a year now. Before that, once or twice a month. I don't want to travel 3 to 4 hours a day to work 6 or 7 hours. I don't need to see my colleagues in real life. When I went to the office, I looked at the schedule and chose a day that most of them where not there. And Covid is still very much around. At this moment 2 of my colleagues are off sick with covid. X| And I am very vulnerable for covid. The doctor said to me 'if you get Covid, it probably will kill you' I am much more productive when I don't have to interact with other people. B.T.W. I haven't seen my family in real life for over 3 years now. We call or WhatsApp each other. And seeing friends digitally saves me beer. :laugh:

I am using an Escrow solution. My sources with instructions are deposited at a notary service. I update the sources every 3 months. If something happens (Meteorite, Alien attack... there is no bus around where I live) the company can get the sources and take them to another company to be maintained/developed. You can instruct when a company can access the sources, and which company should have access.