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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work!

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David McCarter is a Microsoft MVP, Solutions Architect, code quality expert, consultant, professional code reviewer, speaker, and author with 25+ years in software engineering. bit.ly/davidmvp dotnettips.com buymeacoffee.com/davidmccarter

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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 5h
20- and 45-minute conference sessions are great… if the goal is to speed-run a topic and call it “education.” Real teaching needs time: depth, demos, questions, and actual learning. Tell your favorite software conferences: give speakers an hour to teach, not just tease. #Speaking #Conferences
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🎸 Every .NET developer needs the Spargine Dev Tool! Find and safely remove temp and cached files—over 2,192 files/sec! Less clutter. More room to rock. 🤘 dotnettips.com/2023/02/24/s... #dotnet #Spargine #MVPBuzz
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚀The Spargine Dev Tool now quickly backs up your code and removes temporary & cached files from your system. I'm exploring new ways to make it even better. What features would you like to see next? Drop your suggestions below! 💡👇 dotnettips.wordpress.com/2023/02/24/s... #dotnet #MVPBuzz
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
October 7-11, 1968: The NATO Software Engineering Conference helped popularize software engineering as a discipline. Today, coding has been promoted from chaos to engineering. #programminghistory
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Someone bought TEN copies of my .NET performance book yesterday! 🤘🔥 Whoever you are, THANK YOU for supporting my work! You made my day! Here’s to turning your code’s performance up to 11! 🎸 dotnettips.com/rock-your-co... #dotnet
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s almost 2027, and I still need workarounds for Markdown in Edge and Word. Microsoft can cram Copilot into everything, but rendering a .md file is apparently rocket science. Try calling it “Markdown 365 Premium.” That should get it funded. #Edge #Office #Office365
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🎸 Today is Update Your Résumé Day—your quarterly career soundcheck! Dust it off, tune it up, and add your latest hits. You never know when you’ll need to audition for your next gig—especially this time of year. Keep your résumé ready to rock! 🤘 #JobSearch #Career #RockYourCareer
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don't know what is going on with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio over the last two weeks, but it somehow is now writing worse code than before. Is Copilot sick? #VisualStudio #Copilot
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Stop guessing whether your .NET projects are healthy. The free Spargine Dev Tool's health command finds outdated target frameworks, missing Nullable/ImplicitUsings settings, vulnerable NuGet packages, and available package updates. dotnettips.com/2023/02/24/s... #dotnet #MVPBuzz
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you're diving into the latest coding techniques, including performance optimization, I’d greatly appreciate your support as a GitHub Sponsor. Here’s how you can join and help contribute to the community. github.com/sponsors/Rea... #Coding #OpenSource #GitHubSponsor
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Here is what I think about that! 😡
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’m tuning up my slides and turning the visuals up to 11 for this month’s presentations in Poland and Italy! 🎸 What do you think of the new look—ready to rock? 🤘 😆
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Remember Microsoft’s quarterly MSDN CD shipments? 💿📦 Back when documentation needed shelf space and “Insert Disc 2” was part of the job. 😂 Glad updates no longer arrive by mail! Who still has their collection? #MSDN #dotnet #SoftwareEngineering #MVPBuzz
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Turn up the standards. Turn down the price! 🤘 Celebrate one year of Rock Your Code: Coding Standards for Microsoft .NET (20th Anniversary Edition)—just $24 USD all October! Grab copies for your team, too! bit.ly/CodingStanda... #dotnet #MVPBuzz
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Stop guessing whether your .NET projects are healthy. The free Spargine Dev Tool's health command finds outdated target frameworks, missing Nullable/ImplicitUsings settings, vulnerable NuGet packages, and available package updates. dotnettips.com/2023/02/24/s... #dotnet #MVPBuzz
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yet another issue with #LinkedIn. Starting this week, when pasting posts from Outlook to a LinkedIn post, it looks like this. Did anyone actually test whatever was changed? 😣
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Attention, .NET engineers: I’m already working on the 6th edition of my code-performance book, planned for release at the end of 2027. Want an early look? Paid dotNetTips.com subscribers get access to new content as I write it. It costs less per month than a cup of coffee. Subscribe today!
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Layoff season may be around the corner. Don’t wait to turn up your job search. Use one of these images to let your network know you’re looking for work. Then get interview-ready with *Rock Your Career: Surviving the Technical Interview*, 7th Edition. dotnettips.com/rock-your-ca... #RockYourCareer
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When I tell #ChatGPT or #Copilot that it has a bug, why does it make me fill out a form? You’re the AI. File your own damn bug report. 🤣 If I wanted to report mistakes to myself, I wouldn’t need your help.
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚀 Spargine 10 drops October 1—cranked to 11! 🤘 v2026.10.10.1 brings new APIs, expanded benchmarks, and 340 faster methods, with speedups up to 87.52×. Turn up the performance! 🔥 #MVPBuzz #Spargine #dotnet
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Boost your .NET projects with Spargine’s Assembly Extensions! Dive into enhanced type discovery and instantiation with our open-source assemblies. 🔗 dotnettips.wordpress.com/2024/09/22/b... 🎉 #dotnet #opensource #programming #MVPBuzz #Spargine
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
September 27, 1983: Richard Stallman announced the GNU Project. Meme line: Today, free software plugged in the amp.
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Boost your .NET projects with Spargine’s powerful RegexProcessor! 🚀 Efficient text processing with GeneratedRegexAttribute for top performance. Check out the methods and contribute today! dotnettips.wordpress.com/2024/12/22/b... #dotnet #regex #opensource #coding #MVPBuzz
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What happened to GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio this week? It ignores my instructions, writes broken code, and burns through my tokens while I ask it to fix the mess it just made. Apparently, it’s only optimizing my bill. 😡 #GitHubCopilot @visualstudio.com @github.com
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I think GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning or has a hangover. It's doing a really bad job! Frustrating! 😠 @visualstudio.com #GitHubCopilot
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🎸 Spargine Dev Tool now rocks 59 commands! I retired manual testing and put a PowerShell script on soundcheck. It takes a while, but it works! 👍️ New release Oct 1: dotnettips.com/2023/02/24/s... #dotnet #visualstudio #MVPBuzz
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yes! This is covered in my coding standards book 😀
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Boost your .NET projects with Spargine’s latest Assembly Extensions! Dive into enhanced type discovery and instantiation with our open-source assemblies. 🔗 dotnettips.wordpress.com/2024/09/22/b... 🎉 #dotnet #opensource #programming #MVPBuzz #Spargine
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NuGet version drift can quietly break builds. The free Spargine Dev Tool's nuget command finds package-version mismatches across projects, consolidates references to the highest version, and can clear local NuGet caches. dotnettips.com/2023/02/24/s... #dotnet #MVPBuzz
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨 Attention .NET Teams! 🚨 Want a veteran engineer who’s been rocking .NET since day one to review your codebase? I’ve written the books on clean, high-performance .NET code—and I know how to spot trouble fast. Let’s talk. I can help. 📩 Contact me with your needs! #RockYourCode
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’m getting really tired of this “token” model from AI tools like Adobe and Microsoft Copilot. Running out before the middle of the month is hurting my work. And when half of what it generates doesn’t even work? There has to be a better way.
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Boost your .NET project’s performance with Spargine FastLogger! 🚀 Achieve up to 11x faster logging with ease. Check out my latest guide on how this open-source tool can supercharge your logging framework. dotnettips.wordpress.com/2024/12/15/b... #dotNET #OpenSource #MVPBuzz #NuGet
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Developers, how did you meltdown your bugs and shred your code this week? What chaos or fun are you diving into this weekend that isn’t coding? Reply and let it rip — and remember, a fresh dotNetTips.com article drops Sunday. Stay loud. 🤘⚡ #RockYourCode
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Need a clean snapshot of your .NET setup? The free Spargine Dev Tool's env command reports installed SDKs, runtimes, global tools, detected IDEs, and PATH anomalies—perfect for onboarding and bug reports. dotnettips.com/2023/02/24/s... #dotnet #MVPBuzz
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Your development machine deserves a cleanup. The free Spargine Dev Tool's clean command removes temporary files and caches from Visual Studio, .NET, NuGet, SQL Server, Azure tools, JetBrains tools, Windows, and more. dotnettips.com/2023/02/24/s... #dotnet #MVPBuzz
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The 10 Commandments for Software Engineers: Thou shalt not copy and paste the same riff! I know many developers love to do this. They don't realize what a maintenance nightmare they have just created. My rule of thumb: if a solution does this or might, I move the code into a reusable DLL.
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Have a burning question about Microsoft .NET, software engineering, or career development? Need help with a coding issue or have an idea for a future dotNetTips.com article or video? Drop it in my new Suggestion Box—and help shape what I create next! dotnettips.com/suggestion-b...
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Spargine Dev Tool’s new `env` command lists installed .NET SDKs, runtimes, global tools, and Visual Studio, and whether they need to be updated, in seconds. Faster and easier than hunting for versions yourself. Give it a spin: dotnettips.com/2023/02/24/s... #dotnet #MVPBuzz #Spargine #VisualStudio
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#Singapore just became the #1 country visiting dotNetTips.com today. That’s a first! Are there dev conferences happening over there? Something’s buzzing. I visited Singapore back in my Navy days and would love an excuse to go again. Let’s make it happen. #RockYourCode #MVPBuzz
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
ALL DAY, #ChatGPT can’t read my attached files. Apparently, “intelligence” doesn’t cover opening an attachment. The flakiest service I’ve ever paid for. AI is supposed to write better code? Great. Start with the code running this damn service.
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's the middle of the month, and I'm already running out of GitHub Copilot tokens. As an MVP, it's hard to write articles, books, etc to help others with .NET when we are faced with this limit. This must be improved for Microsoft employees and us! @VisualStudio #Copilot #CopilotTokens
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Spargine’s next official release drops on the 1st! 🤘 This quarter brings fresh code and speed gains up to 39× so far. Open source, cranked to 11! 🎸 Get backstage early—add the NuGet packages now: dotnettips.com/spargine/ #dotnet #MVPBuzz
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Wild idea: maybe it should be illegal for companies like #OpenAI to sell you a plan and then quietly throttle your usage so you’re “encouraged” to upgrade. That’s not what I signed up for, and changing the deal after the fact isn’t “innovation” — it’s bait‑and‑switch. 😡
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Dear Copilot, Thanks for helping with my code in Visual Studio. Now, about the PowerShell, GitHub Copilot Terminal, and other tabs you leave everywhere… You clean up like a teenager with admin privileges. Even .NET collects its garbage. Take the hint. 🙄 #Copilot @visualstudio.com
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Turn your solution architecture into a diagram. The free Spargine Dev Tool's graph command maps project-to-project dependencies and exports Mermaid or GraphViz output for docs, reviews, and large-solution analysis. dotnettips.com/2023/02/24/s... #dotnet #MVPBuzz
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
First, ageism made finding a software engineering job painfully difficult. Now, conference rejections bring back that same hurt. It’s heartbreaking to feel pushed aside when I still have so much to teach, share, and give. 💔 I’m not done yet. I just wish the industry saw that.
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
#ChatGPT and #Copilot supposedly have “memory.” Apparently, it’s the free trial version. Both need intensive memory training—but they’d probably forget to attend. Artificial intelligence. Human-level excuses. 🙄 #AI
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Would you apply for a job with a $0 salary? 🤪 #DemandPDX
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🇩🇪 German devs, ihr rockt! 🤘 Germany is #2 on dotNetTips.com today! I’m part German and ready to crank your .NET conference up to 11! 🎸 Want to röck your code? Email your conference organizers: “Bring David McCarter to Germany!” 🎤 #dotnet #MVPBuzz
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David McCarter - Microsoft MVP - Looking for remote work! @dotnetdave.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy 60th anniversary, Star Trek! 🖖🎸 Six decades of boldly going—and we’re still cranking it up to warp 11! Live long, prosper, and röck your code. May your riffs be loud and your bugs get beamed into space! 🚀 #StarTrek60 #StarTrek #RockYourCode
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