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The cat walking in the night, by the lake side YouTube: www.youtube.com/@WalkingCatVideos Channel9: walkingcat.github.io/ch9-index

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WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

MIX06 - Beyond the Browser - Joe Belfiore - 2006/03 www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0s7...

MIX06 - Beyond the Browser - Joe Belfiore - 2006/03

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WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

CH9 - MIX06: Windows Communication Foundation - Doug Purdy, Clemens Vasters @clemens.vasters.com - 2006/02 www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2lD...

CH9 - MIX06: Windows Communication Foundation - Doug Purdy, Clemens Vasters - 2006/02

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.NET @dot.net · 02/10/2026

In today's One Dev Question, Amanda Silver shares Microsoft's open source journey, from early #ASPNET support for jQuery to open-sourcing TypeScript, Chakra, .NET, and Visual Studio Code. 🎥 msft.it/63324agdQk

A split image featuring a question about open-sourcing TypeScript, Chakra, .NET, VS Code, and the Copilot extension with text in a code block style. On the right, Amanda Silver, a woman with glasses and dark hair, looks towards the viewer, sitting against a wooden backdrop.

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Steve Syfuhs @syfuhs.net · 02/10/2026

Dang it. @scott.hanselman.com shamed our team on the credential manager [UI] in Windows. He built a better version of it. We should ship it. github.com/shanselman/C... Remind me to tell the story of our Garage project to ship a full password manager a few years back.

GitHub - shanselman/CredentialExplorer: A modern WinUI 3 metadata-only explorer for Windows credentials and Credential Locker.

A modern WinUI 3 metadata-only explorer for Windows credentials and Credential Locker. - shanselman/CredentialExplorer

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TitleOS (They/Them) 🏳️‍🌈 @titleos.dev · 02/10/2026

Looking to attend BSidesTC this Oct 23 for the first time with my non-technical wife, any advice for a first timer who was hired out of high school by Apple as a infosec L2 engineer, gray hatted Microsoft and Xbox before that, has since learned DevOps and now augments infosec with machine learning?

WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

MIX06 - A First Look at Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere ("WPF/E") - Joe Stegman - 2006/03 www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lze...

MIX06 - A First Look at Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere ("WPF/E") - Joe Stegman - 2006/03

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WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

CH9 - MIX06: AJAX - Shanku Niyogi, Brad Abrams, Bertrand Le Roy - 2006/02 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tej4...

CH9 - MIX06: AJAX - Shanku Niyogi, Brad Abrams, Bertrand Le Roy - 2006/02

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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 29/09/2026

Our 1.0-beta.1 release of the Rust SDK for Azure Cosmos DB is out. We're considering this a release candidate for a 1.0 release coming soon - give it a spin and let us know if you run into any issues. #CosmosDB crates.io/crates/azure...

crates.io: Rust Package Registry

crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects

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.NET @dot.net · 30/09/2026

In today's One Dev Question, Amanda Silver reflects on joining Microsoft in 2001 during the early days of .NET and how her first project, writing the P/Invoke interoperability specification, shaped her understanding of managed runtimes, APIs, and dev platforms. 🎥 msft.it/63326a91Er

WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

MIX06 - Next Generation Browsing Experience - Dean Hachamovitch, Rich Turner @bitcrazed.bsky.social , Scott Guthrie - 2006/03 www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-0n...

MIX06 - Next Generation Browsing Experience - Dean Hachamovitch, Rich Turner, Scott Guthrie -2006/03

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WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

MIX06 - [Keynote] The Next Web Now - Bill Gates - 2006/03 www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6LB...

MIX06 - [Keynote] The Next Web Now - Bill Gates - 2006/03

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WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cameron Myhrvold talk a bit about the history of Windows NT

WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

lol. ... but there is no PDC in 2006, maybe 2005? :-)

WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

this Quentin Clark's presentation at TechEd 2006 was the last time WinFS showed up on stage, like a Swan Song, months before it was cancelled, unfortunately the slides and the first 20 minutes of audio was lost ...... youtu.be/jMc0okfgCOw?...

TechEd 2006 - WinFS and Integrated Storage Overview - Quentin Clark, Shan Sinha - 2006/06

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WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I just uploaded several MSDN Events developer resource DVDs from 2004-2005 to the Internet Archive. archive.org/details/@wal...

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Microsoft C++ Team @msftcpp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Visual Studio 2026 versions 18.7-18.10 bring 272 C++ bug fixes, GA GitHub Copilot modernization for MSVC upgrades, faster navigation with Whole Codebase Indexing, built-in Git worktree and submodule support, and more: devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/what...

devblogs.microsoft.com

What’s New for C++ Developers in Visual Studio 2026 (18.7 – 18.10) - C++ Team Blog

Over the past few months, we have continued shipping monthly Visual Studio 2026 releases, delivering improvements across all stages of the development

WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Nice I recovered several more episodes of .NET Show from MSDN discs, here is Ep. 35 Brad Abrams, Anders Hejlsberg @ahejlsberg.bsky.social , Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social talking about Managed Code in 2003 www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP-G...

The .NET Show - Ep. 35: Managed Code - Brad Abrams, Anders Hejlsberg, Chris Sells - 2003/08

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WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

at 12:53 of the VS Code documentary there is screenshot of a video in my YouTube channel lol 🤓 youtube.com/watch?v=lMKJ...

WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

for more early history of Project 'Monaco' you may watch this 2012 presentation by Chris Dias with introduction by Erich Gamma 🤓 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMKJ...

WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

at 12:53 of the VS Code documentary there is screenshot of a video in my YouTube channel lol 🤓 youtube.com/watch?v=lMKJ...

WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Windows Hard Problems - Richard Ward - 2006/11 www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5K6...

Windows Hard Problems - Richard Ward - 2006/11

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WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

[SAMPLE] Inside WinXP/2003 - Module 15-3: Scalability - David Solomon - 2003/03 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEGS...

[SAMPLE] Inside WinXP/2003 - Module 15-3: Scalability - David Solomon - 2003/03

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WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Behind The Code - Ep. 5: Rob Short, Operating System Evolution - 2006/12 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZk1...

Behind The Code - Ep. 5: Rob Short, Operating System Evolution - Rob Short - 2006/12

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WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Microsoft Windows 3.0 Demo - 1990/09 www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ31...

Microsoft Windows 3.0 Demo - 1990/09

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Visual Studio @visualstudio.com · 28/08/2026

WINSTART.BAT wasn’t a Win95 quirk — it’s a Windows 3.1 feature. 😄 It runs after DOS + AUTOEXEC.BAT but before the Windows kernel, letting you load TSRs that apply only to Windows programs. A tiny but clever VM‑era optimization. 👉 buff.ly/nk8n0c2

Slide titled "The Old New Thing" promoting a blog post "The little-known winstart.bat batch file," showing glasses on stacked books and a call to read the blog.

WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

TechEd 2006 - Windows Vista: Kernel Changes - Mark Russinovich, David Solomon - 2006/06 www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhpQ...

TechEd 2006 - Windows Vista: Kernel Changes - Mark Russinovich, David Solomon - 2006/06

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Jan Gray @jangray.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#FPGA #HotChips #OoO #EDGE This just came up again. Good times! arxiv.org/pdf/1803.06617

Floorplan of an FPGA-efficient “parallel” OoO instruction scheduler.

Floorplan of an FPGA-efficient OoO instruction window including teo “incremental” dataflow instruction schedulers.

WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Behind The Code - Ep. 4 Aftershow Q&A - Tony Williams - 2007/01 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN00...

Behind The Code - Ep. 4 Aftershow Q&A - Tony Williams - 2007/01

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WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Behind The Code - Ep. 4: Tony Williams, Co-inventor of COM - Tony Williams - 2006/08 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiAV...

Behind The Code - Ep. 4: Tony Williams, Co-inventor of COM - Tony Williams - 2006/08

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WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

TechEd 2006 - Announcing the Windows Live Platform - George Moore - 2006/06 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_tx...

TechEd 2006 - Announcing the Windows Live Platform - George Moore - 2006/06

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Jan Gray @jangray.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Apropos of nothing please enjoy this lovely presentation from my old friend and colleague Burton Smith, dearly missed. Operating System Resource Management www.ipdps.org/ipdps2010/ip...

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Immo Landwerth @terrajobst.net · 13/08/2026

I guess we finally understand how VB people felt for a very long time.

WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

😂

WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Long Term Storage Trends and You - Jim Gray - 2006/09 www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpH7...

Long Term Storage Trends and You - Jim Gray - 2006/09

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WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Behind The Code - Ep. 3: Conversation with Database Legend Jim Gray - Jim Gray - 2006/03 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf2R...

Behind The Code - Ep. 3: Conversation with Database Legend Jim Gray - Jim Gray - 2006/03

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EricLaw 🎻 @ericlawrence.com · 05/08/2026

Progress Telerik has confirmed that their new license forbids ALL Commercial usage of Fiddler "Classic" for Windows, even if you pay them. I have thoughts. textslashplain.com/2026/08/05/f...

textslashplain.com

Fiddler in 2026

I’ve shared the stories behind the Fiddler Web Debugger a fair bit over the years, in the Fiddler Book, in a talk at the CodeMash conference in 2015, and on this blog. It features prominently…

WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Behind The Code - Ep. 2 Aftershow Q&A - Anders Hejlsberg - 2006/05 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t1w...

Behind The Code - Ep. 2 Aftershow Q&A - Anders Hejlsberg - 2006/05

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Howard van Rooijen @hvr.endj.in · 02/08/2026

New 25 minute talk about Rx .NET v7.0! TOC: - Breaking Change 1: TFMs - TFM Confusion Explained - Breaking Change 2: Nullability - Big Change UI Packages Split - The 95MB Problem - Deployment Results - Source vs Binary Breaking - ReactiveUI Demo endjin.com/what-we-thin...

Rx.NET v7.0 Released - it could save you 95MB! | endjin

Rx.NET 7.0 can cut self-contained Windows app deployments by ~95MB by moving WPF/WinForms support out of System.Reactive into optional packages.

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The Register @theregister.com · 02/08/2026

Meet the 'internet radical' who helped Microsoft get email and AT&T get online

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Meet the 'internet radical' who helped Microsoft get email and AT&T get online

Tom Evslin on Bill Gates, the birth of Exchange, and dragging Ma Bell onto the web

WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Behind The Code - Ep. 2: Life and Times of Anders Hejlsberg - Anders Hejlsberg - 2006/02 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIXb...

Behind The Code - Ep. 2: Life and Times of Anders Hejlsberg - Anders Hejlsberg - 2006/02

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WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Behind The Code - Ep. 1 Aftershow Q&A - Mark Zbikowski - 2006/04 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXIW...

Behind The Code - Ep. 1 Aftershow Q&A - Mark Zbikowski - 2006/04

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WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Behind The Code - Ep. 1 Aftershow Q&A - Mark Zbikowski - 2006/04 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXIW...

Behind The Code - Ep. 1 Aftershow Q&A - Mark Zbikowski - 2006/04

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WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Behind The Code - Ep. 1: Mark Zbikowski, From DOS 1.0 to Windows Vista - Mark Zbikowski - 2006/05 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpBp...

Behind The Code - Ep. 1: Mark Zbikowski, From DOS 1.0 to Windows Vista - Mark Zbikowski - 2006/05

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Sarah Young @sarahyo.com · 21/07/2026

A few weeks ago, I too was informed that my Microsoft role had been made redundant for the second time in 14 months. Grateful for the friendship and opportunities that have been afforded to me whilst I have been here.

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Kirill Osenkov @kirillosenkov.com · 15/07/2026

MSBuild binlog viewer downloads have fallen off the cliff since ~March: msbuildlog.com/stats/ My interpretation is that AI is solving MSBuild issues, as well as less and less people using MSBuild. Also hopefully modern MSBuild and SDK is more pit of success.

bar chart where downloads are growing until ~ September 2025, then falling rapidly in March, then falling again to a third of peak

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Jon Skeet @jonskeet.uk · 13/07/2026

As I've had a flurry of attention on this post just recently, here's a quick update: I'm currently in the process of applying for two roles. They're quite different to each other, but both are really interesting. We'll see where they go...

WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The C7 Days: More tools, more problems by Rico Mariani medium.com/p/the-c7-day...

The C7 Days: More tools, more problems

Here’s some interesting dates for this article:

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WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

@jangray.bsky.social a PDB file was involved😁

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WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The C6 Days: Tools, Memory, and Bugs | by Rico Mariani | Jul, 2026 | Medium ricomariani.medium.com/the-c6-days-...

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The C6 Days: Tools, Memory, and Bugs

This will hopefully be a short series on the old-timey tools around C6.0, C/C++ 7.0 and Visual C++ 1.0. I’m not sure how long it will take…

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WalkingCat @h0x0d.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The Performance Threat, and How We Should Counter It - Michael Fortin, Rico Mariani, etc - 2006/06 www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaOB...

The Performance Threat, and How We Should Counter It - Michael Fortin, Rico Mariani, etc - 2006/06

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