brendoneus.com
I train and mentor development teams primarily on dotnet, vuejs, CI/CD, TDD, and Pair Programming. 👨💻
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I'm a former on-and-off Microsoft MVP from 2009-2022. 🏆
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Please allow me to share this song about the Cuyahoga River fires in Cleveland...
youtu.be/XVNuT4fkjAs
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I love getting to a good day game! Nothing better!
I got to our home opener this year, something I try to do every year.
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Yep, it takes a lot to do that!
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Yeah, I miss streaming, too. I tried a couple of times to get back into it...
Getting started on it with a regular cadence will be the toughest part if I'm ever to start up again.
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A twitch stream you say...
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Yeah, I've always assumed it's the rush to the next session that has people not give feedback right away. And then it's easy to forget or think others will do enough.
Interestingly, I get much more (and more detailed) feedback on workshops than regular sessions!
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The next time you are at an event, please try to submit the feedback before running to your next talk.
A quick blurb about what you liked, didn't like, thought could improve, etc. will go a long way!
It can help speakers tweak their talks and help conferences know which talks were liked and why!
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The reason I mention that people come up and say "that was my favorite talk of the event", is that no one would come up to say the reverse.
You won't get people coming up and saying what they thought you could improve. I know people have things they don't like in my talks, but more need to tell me!
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I've had events with 2 responses and plenty where NO ONE responded in the event's feedback.
It's hard to know what people liked AND EVEN HARDER to know what people didn't like without the anonymous feedback forms!
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My most popular talk has never had 10% of attendees to give feedback.
As an example, I did it as an sub-in talk at KCDC 2024 and had people coming up to me for the rest of the event just to step in and tell me that they loved the talk.
Despite the 115 people attending, these are my 6 responses.
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I have one talk that is ever-changing and I try to do regularly. It usually packs a room with people standing in the aisles and outside the door.
What it gets is plenty of clapping at the end and people coming up to tell me they liked it.
What it doesn't get? Much feedback from the events' forms.
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I've spoken at plenty of conferences and user groups and have been actively speaking at user groups and conferences for more than 15 years
I think I'm a good speaker. I'm far from the best, but I definitely have people who enjoy attending my talks.
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They're just trying to scare you.
I visited down that way in the late fall/winter once, and I learned about that pollen timing the hard way.
I don't normally take my allergy meds in this season...
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Reminds me of when trusted characters in stories say, "Don't trust anyone."
Then, when the trusted characters betray the protagonists, they remind them of their previous warnings.
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Ha! I'd forgotten they do that!!
As a kid, I always enjoyed that I could see which objects were foreground ones since they'd be slightly different shades of color, so I knew ahead of time if something would move.
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He notices that they want money (likely on their site), almost like it's a freely available resource he uses and then refuses to fund...
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He isn't a genius either.
None of the designs or plans are his, except the truck that looks like my toddler designed it.
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It's what makes it such a good test.
They personally knew what was wrong there and had no way to deny it even to themselves.
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I'm planning to do that soon as well...
Wish me luck. I'm not sure the state of this one!
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Yeah, I'd rather have a group to talk and discuss with than mostly bots and lurkers who never reply!
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I'm a Community Taught Developer, so I'm thankful for everyone who put learning materials and answers online in the '90s and '00s. You indirectly helped me learn to code.
I'm thankful for those continuing to add resources online. You're bringing in the next group of Community Taught Developers!
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I'm thankful for everyone I've worked with in the industry that allows me to afford to put food on my family's table.
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I'm also thankful for those working today to help everyone else enjoy the holiday.
And those who already helped, allowing us to be together enjoying meals this holiday, from gas station workers to farm workers.
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Yay! Welcome, @bethmassi.net !
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I assumed tuned.
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Yep, that looks like delicious chili! Great work!
I make mine with enough beans to scare @sinclairinat0r.com .
The best (and worst) part is smelling it cooking the whole day!
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*Preparing
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Stunning.
I want one.
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Yeah, there are plenty of us!
It's a community that massively shifted recently!
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I'm also a dotnet developer if you've got space for me.