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EricLaw 🎻

@ericlawrence.com
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Seek first to understand. Impatient optimist. Dad. Zetetic. Author. Runner. Speaker. Made Fiddler & SlickRun. My code runs in your browser. @ MSFT 19yrs+ on web & security. I speak for myself. he/him ericlawrence.com textslashplain.com

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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 1h
This is such a wild trip down memory lane. I remember first writing the equivalent of this in 2003. Back then, I didn't know any C# and needed to look up every bit of syntax in the C# Cookbook, which was this slab of dead tree on which little drops of ink were arranged. We called these "books."
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 3h
geopolitics is everywhere
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 5h
My April 2022 Chromium bug got fixed!
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 5h
The sheer number of years I spent paying my dues learning stuff that I no longer need to bother with...
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 8h
oh wow, they're doing this for realsies...
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 8h
VisualStudio.com tries to talk to loopback
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 8h
oops, i broke the whole designer. The properties pane no longer works.
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 8h
Visual Studio 2026 bug? The designer invents non-existent copies of the controls.
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 18h
Clearinet now supports both script and basic extensions.
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 18h
There's no environment variable representing the user's documents folder, so to handle the case where OneDrive "moves" it from the %USERPROFILE%\Documents default, you have to do chicanery like this:
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 21h
"Let's use a simple format, like JSON" 🤦‍♂️
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 21h
Memory prices are such that this laptop may've gone UP in value since I bought it.
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 21h
Like, it even says "Hey, this is gonna look bad but you gotta do what you gotta do" and then it *still* messes it up.
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 21h
It's 2026 and no matter whether I start VS2026 DPI Unaware and/or turn off the "Optimize for pixel densities" option, opening my project on a 125% DPI screen **still** corrupts all of the size values in the designer.cs file. :(
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 29/09/2026
womp womp what century is this?
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 29/09/2026
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 28/09/2026
You're gonna wanna install the VLC update, like, last month.
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 28/09/2026
Phishing eBay
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 28/09/2026
Ken Paxton is the most corrupt senate candidate of my adult life and even a billion dollars won’t save him.
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 28/09/2026
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 27/09/2026
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 26/09/2026
00 ?
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 26/09/2026
It's been a long time since I've wanted to upgrade to a 386.
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 25/09/2026
Smart App Control isn't really practical for Dev Boxes
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 25/09/2026
Interestingly, Cloudflare rates it 5 Stars across Streaming, Gaming, and Video calls. Meanwhile, it rates my AT&T Fiber connection as 4 Stars across all three. 🤔
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 25/09/2026
First test of Starlink Mini
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 25/09/2026
Hey, PayPal: You know what the Open Web is great for? Finding alternatives to companies that force installation of unnecessary mobile apps.
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 25/09/2026
It bears mentioning that the Trump administration has massively defunded fusion power. Nevertheless, the US added 43GW of capacity in 2025.
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 25/09/2026
This is a prank, right? Right??
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 25/09/2026
I've installed 900 megabytes of code in order to finally get modern and use the latest AI tooling. I type my first query and hit enter, holding my breath...
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 25/09/2026
Feelin' lucky, punk?
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 24/09/2026
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 23/09/2026
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 23/09/2026
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 22/09/2026
Thanks for nothing, Gemini.
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 22/09/2026
yet another tracer
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 22/09/2026
wait, what?
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 21/09/2026
Good work, AI
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 21/09/2026
Unblocked Google account worm phishes credentials from your contacts
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 18/09/2026
🤨
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 18/09/2026
Debugging drag/drop with the Chromium DevTools is annoying because if you break inside a drop event, the DevTools get confused and think you're trying to drop something *on them*
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 17/09/2026
Chromium has an in-browser EDR.
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 17/09/2026
I'm a bug magnet
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 16/09/2026
Naw. textslashplain.com/2026/08/05/f...
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 16/09/2026
Still, how do you do all of the hard stuff, and then make the UX this janky?
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 16/09/2026
There's a bunch of awkward stuff about this tool, and some questionable design choices, but they've got some awesome ideas too:
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 16/09/2026
umm
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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 16/09/2026
\o/
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