Peter Smith (he/him) @peterdsmith

Now a Program Manager at Microsoft, Peter used to be a hot-shot developer for the Teradyne, BBN, and WildTangent. sunriseprogrammer.blogspot.com Joined December 2008

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Peter Smith (he/him) @peterdsmith

3 days ago

It's just plain wrong that "Ontario, CA" isn't enough to identify a location to within 1000 miles.

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Peter Smith (he/him) @peterdsmith

3 days ago

The Algorithm is feeding me adverts for bail bonds companies. Do they know something I don't? Am I on some weird Trumpy arrest list?

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Peter Smith (he/him) @peterdsmith

5 days ago

Hey @MapQuest -- I had to create a MapQuest account for like 15 minutes to see if you supported an import workflow for points of interest. You don't, so I'm deleting my account. Why do you make it so hard? It should be as simple as "click the delete button" with a confirmation.

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Peter Smith (he/him) @peterdsmith

a week ago

I was a professional network programmer for 10 year before SSL was even invented :-)

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Peter Smith (he/him) @peterdsmith

2 weeks ago

Hey @Delta -- I truly loathe how I can't just sign in to my Delta with just clicking buttons. No matter what, I also have to type in my fricken name, like we're still in the 90's.

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Peter Smith (he/him) @peterdsmith

2 weeks ago

Hey @TMobile -- when I convert my now-adult kid from "standard user" to "authorized user", I see the message "Reassign this phone .. to the new authorized user's T-Mobile profile and remove it from..previous..profile." I'm adding abilities, not deleting their account!

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Peter Smith (he/him) @peterdsmith

a month ago

Science and math have perhaps the best ROI of any government investment. What we've spend on math departments for the last 50 years has all been repaid with just the Diffie-Helman key exchange and the resulting enablement of internet encryption.

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Peter Smith (he/him) @peterdsmith

a month ago

Old Wodehouse books are full of off-hand comments about how "Judson -- you know, from the Jusdon buiscuits" or "Fortherington -- you know, the pater made washers". In ten years, it'll be "Jackson -- you know, got all the money from the baking youtube channel" :-)

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Peter Smith (he/him) @peterdsmith

a month ago

Hey @HiltonHotels : if I've been searching for a vacation in York, and looking up trains from London to York, and museums in Yorkshire... then maybe when you show me "hotels in york" you skip over that one Hampton Inn that you've got in Nebraska!

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Peter Smith (he/him) @peterdsmith

2 months ago

Hey @bingmaps -- Please make up your minds about whether hay on wye is part of England or Wales.

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Peter Smith (he/him) @peterdsmith

2 months ago

"I hope you liked my video. If you're looking for more context, you're not going to get it." Go get'em, tiger!

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Peter Smith (he/him) @peterdsmith

2 months ago

The latest Visual Studio AI integration is trying to add a bunch of new items to the informal TODO.MD file in my project :-) #devdiv

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Peter Smith (he/him) @peterdsmith

2 months ago

Unhappy discovery: In Winui3, if your PointerReleased doesn't set e.handled, focus is set to an un-named, un-parented ScrollViewer. Good news: it only took a couple of hours to figure it out. Did you know that the easy-to-use "GetFocusedElement()" in WinUI3 always returns null?

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Peter Smith (he/him) @peterdsmith

2 months ago

I'm going to start closing all my bug reports like this: > Karoline Leavitt implied evil spirits caused technical difficulties during Trump's White House Prayer Call with faith leaders: "There is spiritual warfare...It tried to break up our call as the president...alluded to."

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Peter Smith (he/him) @peterdsmith

3 months ago

Project @gutenberg_org has a 300 page book on famous cats :-) gutenberg.org/ebooks/76311

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Peter Smith (he/him) @peterdsmith

3 months ago

New Bluetooth serial port programming blog post! sunriseprogrammer.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-quic…

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Peter Smith (he/him) @peterdsmith

3 months ago

Pointless questions with @windowsdev GitHub Copilot: asking me if I want to use a "different" GitHub account when you don't show me my current GitHub account.

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Peter Smith (he/him) @peterdsmith

3 months ago

Hey @windowsdev -- the AI I want most for Visual Studio is fixing C# "Windows can't be found" issues. using Windows; What's online is a mass of old, incorrect information and exciting new information that doesn't work. Calling WinRT from WPF should take 3 hours of digging!