Rainer Sigwald

Rainer Sigwald

@rainer.sigwald.org

If you’ve heard of me it’s probably because I maintain MSBuild.

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It is killing me that they don’t have this art on a t-shirt!

TX FReadom Fighters@freadomfighters.bsky.social

Let books be inspiring. Let books be thought- provoking. Let books be strange. Let books be funny. Let books be childlike. Let books BE. @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @penamerica.bsky.social

A former teammate would always say “package” (while staring at types named *Packet) presumably because of in-the-head double translation. Not sure if that refutes or confirms this hypothesis.

the other fun fact is that davies picked "packet" after talking to a linguist who pointed out it was likely the easiest word to translate directly into several languages

For our first kid we got a baby gate that had a cat door in the bottom. Cat jumped over it, ignoring the door. Baby crawled through the door.

Freya Holmér@freya.bsky.social

it's so hard to find a pet gate for cats it's like they're all made for dogs! cats can clear pretty much every single gate I find I kinda need it to go all the way to the ceiling you know

I guess I have been doing too much retirement planning lately because my brain read this as “Important TAX advice…” and had a real hard time with the end of the sentence.

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

Important advice from my dad for anyone who finds themselves being attacked by a badger.

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Replying to @dfreelon.bsky.social

I wanna make sure everyone understands what this means: when you pull TikTok data for the same hashtag at the same time using the official API and a scraping tool, you'll get two completely different datasets.

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becoming a parent has turned out to be a great excuse to learn the entire alphabet. sometimes he’ll ask me what a letter is and i’m like well shit, bubba. let’s find out together

Dinner conversation with the kids for the next month: sorted!

Fall of Civilizations Podcast@fallofcivilizations.com

🏝️🌋 Episode 21 is now live! 🌋🏝️ This time we look at the Majapahit Empire on the island of Java. With traditional music, shadow puppet performances, and readings in Old Javanese, find out how the empire of the islands fell. YouTube: youtu.be/01CZBhZM430?... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3xZ9...

Easy…

Stephen Nuñez@socio-steve.bsky.social

Drive is the last movie soundtrack album I recall that captures a real vibe. And that you want to listen to *as an album.* Others include the Matrix, the Crow, and even Batman Forever. What are some good examples since?

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Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. You were killed by DARK WIZARD!

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you stupid mother fucker (markwayne not eugene) we tricked the entire world into sending their smartest hardest working people here and then tricked those same people into staying permanently instead of going back to their home country you are BLOWING UP OUR SPOT

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social

I did not see this unhinged statement previously. These people really do not understand this country

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no one tells you setting up a NAS takes as long as it does. perhaps because ignoring people who run NAS systems at home is a natural and normal instinct

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Replying to @lmeeks.bsky.social

3. Local news covered issues like academic outcomes & bond issues more, but if voters wanted to know more about conservative groups’ involvement, it was concentrated in national coverage. National news cannot cover each school district leading up to Election Day, leaving local voters under informed.

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punchline's worth it on this one

Dark Laughter@darklaughtertdb.bsky.social

This reminds me of one of my favorite stories. During a Javelin Thrust in Yuma one year, we brought two Navajo Code Talkers out to talk to the comm Marines about doing the job in WW2, get a brief on modern comm gear, and so we could ensure we still had Marines who could say they shook their hands.

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You know I’m a Food Guy, and Paprika is where all my recipes live. It’s a no-nonsense, pragmatic, workhorse kitchen app. If you know what a mise is, this is the recipe app you want.

Rake! 🍃🍁🍂@spriteborne.bsky.social

The single most useful cooking app I use, Paprika, is on its annual sale You give it links and it pulls and formats the recipe for you so you can save it and look at it in the future without ads or long narratives I use it on my phone, so here’s the link apps.apple.com/us/app/papri...

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Come and join us at 4:00 PM PT to see what we've been building for the last 18ish months. And what we mean when we say 'cohosting' 😄

.NET@dot.net

Happening today at 4:00 PM PT: #ASPNET Community Standup: Razor Reloaded Get an inside look at the latest Razor tooling and Hot Reload enhancements coming to Visual Studio 2026 Insiders, straight from the team building it! See you here: msft.it/63324sa8i0

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Me: Today we are going to talk about censorship. Student: Is it because it’s #BannedBooksWeek? Me: Yes! I have lined this topic up with this week for years and this is the first time a student called out the connection in advance. 😊

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If you installed the Visual Studio 2026 preview and were getting lots of errors trying edit C# code…sorry about that. We shipped a fix an hour ago so go check for updates in your Visual Studio Installer.

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Hey so Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is out, and it's very exciting, but if you edit Razor files I have a personal favour to ask. For the last ~18 months I, and a few of my friends, have been working on a new foundation for the Razor editor called "Cohosting". I'd love for you to try it out.

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my pc goes on the floor so that it knows its place beneath civilized beings

Aftermath@aftermath.site

Wait, are we not all keeping our PCs on top of our desks? aftermath.site/pc-desk-floor

Read this post right after seeing one of the Musk sexbot system prompts and thought this was an attempt to improve on them.

Warcabbit@warcabbitmwm.bsky.social

She exudes a sense of grandeur, as if she's escaped from a classical civilization. "We've been fighting with just this (fist) since before the Common Era, hahaha