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David Kean

@keansbox.com

812 followers 199 following 279 posts

I make things fast @ Visual Studio, previously NET. He/Him.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 01/10/2025

If you aren't using the new insiders build, you are missing out:

Scene from Interstellar movie where they are near the black hole planet with caption "This little maneuver's gonna cost us 51 years"

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 03/08/2025

. @vscode.dev What happened here, I find it super hard to find the commands I actually want to click on this. 5 ways to split, probably unneeded?

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 15/03/2025

Here back at ya, 9am bloody mary for breakfast.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 11/03/2025

Did a thing over the weekend, surrounded by friends and family.

Just married couple, with husband's back facing the camera, looking sideways towards his bride. The bride facing sideways, looking over her shoulder towards the camera.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 23/12/2024

If you ever hit this sort of thing, just throw in a en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-wi... and no one will ever know.

A text box with the error next to it saying "Parameter display name already exists"

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 05/12/2024

34k for me.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 02/12/2024

Sick burn @blueskyroast.bsky.social, I think I'm going to put this on my profile page.

Screenshot from blue sky roast "David's posts are like the Visual Studio startup: you love the journey but sometimes wish it would just open already!"

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 02/12/2024

If you have 17.12 Preview or later (and now 17.12 GA), you will not.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 02/12/2024

So if you you have 17.11 or earlier, you will see the spinning donut 10 seconds.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 02/12/2024

Attached is what I saw, can you see it? The background of the pointer was being changed to what we aptly call a "spinning donut" internally. 2013 did not do this, so my brain was instinctively waiting for that before I felt the IDE was done and therefore increasing "my perceived" startup time.

The Visual Studio 17.11 window showing the pointer with a background "spinning donut" cursor.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 26/11/2024

Them: Use memory-safe languages, you'll be free from a certain class of bugs. My JavaScript website running in Chrome:

Chrome showing a HRESULT about an access violation, something typically only seen in native languages.

This is very likely caused by Chrome itself (or something native its talking in the OS), and not the web site, but was an amusing enounter.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 24/11/2024

These black Friday deals are amazing, anyone want me to them up a bottle (or two) at LAX duty-free?

$65,500 bottle of whiskey reduced to $52,000.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 18/11/2024

Visual Studio 2022's splash screen shows up approx. 100ms later than Visual Studio 2013 manually testing it. This was confusing to me after I traced it, as relative to their main method entry point, they both take about the same amount of time to render and show the window. What was going on?

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 16/11/2024

Tree with yellow leaves in front of a building at Microsoft.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 12/11/2024

I confirmed I was sitting at a window seat with the agent when I checked in, but I'm sitting here thinking that it's probably my fault that I specifically didn't ask for one with an **actual** window. My view for this flight.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 12/11/2024

I confirmed I was sitting at a window seat with the agent when I checked in, but here I'm sitting thinking that it's probably my fault that I specifically didn't ask for one with an **actual** window. My view for this flight.

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