Eric Lippert
@ericlippert.com
Eric Lippert designs programming languages; prior work includes architecting the Hack and Bean Machine compilers at Facebook, and developing the Visual Basic, VBScript, JScript and C# compilers at Microsoft. Blog at https://ericlippert.com
Destroy him, my robots!
January 27, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Destroy him, my robots!
Thanks @scott.hanselman.com for inviting me to be a guest on HanselMinutes to talk about my upcoming book, Fabulous Adventures In Data Structures And Algorithms. I had a great time!
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January 22, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Thanks @scott.hanselman.com for inviting me to be a guest on HanselMinutes to talk about my upcoming book, Fabulous Adventures In Data Structures And Algorithms. I had a great time!
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Now I'm going to have to close my ScotiaBank account. VEXING.
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Scotiabank CEO says Trump doctrine to dominate hemisphere will be good for business
Financial data suggests Canadian banks are poised to profit if Donald Trump’s plan to takeover Venezuela’s oil industry comes to fruition.
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January 9, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Now I'm going to have to close my ScotiaBank account. VEXING.
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December 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Thank you so much for asking! I would love to, but let me coordinate real quick with manning marketing dept. :)
December 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Thank you so much for asking! I would love to, but let me coordinate real quick with manning marketing dept. :)
We used to stress out about whether a *warning* could possibly be interpreted in a way that would cause a new bug, and now intellisense is recommending I write a dozen new bugs every time I use VS. No wonder the old guard are vexed.
December 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
We used to stress out about whether a *warning* could possibly be interpreted in a way that would cause a new bug, and now intellisense is recommending I write a dozen new bugs every time I use VS. No wonder the old guard are vexed.
Ought the tech industry to take the legal system as its example of how to do jargon right then? Replace simple English words with Latin phrases?
November 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Ought the tech industry to take the legal system as its example of how to do jargon right then? Replace simple English words with Latin phrases?
Thank you everyone who has given me such warm support and thoughtful feedback on the early access release of my upcoming book:
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I really appreciate it.
The site-wide sale is over but if you want 50% off at checkout from now until Nov 27, use code MLLippert at checkout. Thanks!
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I really appreciate it.
The site-wide sale is over but if you want 50% off at checkout from now until Nov 27, use code MLLippert at checkout. Thanks!
November 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Thank you everyone who has given me such warm support and thoughtful feedback on the early access release of my upcoming book:
hubs.la/Q03Q9PGP0
I really appreciate it.
The site-wide sale is over but if you want 50% off at checkout from now until Nov 27, use code MLLippert at checkout. Thanks!
hubs.la/Q03Q9PGP0
I really appreciate it.
The site-wide sale is over but if you want 50% off at checkout from now until Nov 27, use code MLLippert at checkout. Thanks!
I do not, sorry. And I don't have a good enough understanding of memory models to write my own!
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I do not, sorry. And I don't have a good enough understanding of memory models to write my own!
Doug mocked that up but the title was mine!
October 31, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Doug mocked that up but the title was mine!
I'm writing another book, and the first few chapters are available through Manning Early Access now! For 50% off!
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More details, and the story of how I came to write it, are on my blog at
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It feels great to be writing again after a long break. :)
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More details, and the story of how I came to write it, are on my blog at
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It feels great to be writing again after a long break. :)
Fabulous Adventures in Data Structures and Algorithms - Eric Lippert
Author Eric Lippert introduces fabulous solutions using uncommon algorithms and data structures.
There’s a lot more to algorithms than the useful-but-boring recipes you recite for every interview. Th...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I'm writing another book, and the first few chapters are available through Manning Early Access now! For 50% off!
hubs.la/Q03Q9PGP0
More details, and the story of how I came to write it, are on my blog at
ericlippert.com/2025/10/30/i...
It feels great to be writing again after a long break. :)
hubs.la/Q03Q9PGP0
More details, and the story of how I came to write it, are on my blog at
ericlippert.com/2025/10/30/i...
It feels great to be writing again after a long break. :)
There are no senior employees if there is no pipeline for training junior employees, and LLMs will never replace senior employees because LLMs *do not think and will never think*. It's incredibly foolish to destroy that pipeline.
October 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
There are no senior employees if there is no pipeline for training junior employees, and LLMs will never replace senior employees because LLMs *do not think and will never think*. It's incredibly foolish to destroy that pipeline.
Of course companies are not altruistic. Microsoft provided me vocational training not for the 12 months of terrible quality work they got out of me, but rather to incentivize me to become a highly loyal high quality entry level employee who could then make them 4x salary in revenue. It worked.
October 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Of course companies are not altruistic. Microsoft provided me vocational training not for the 12 months of terrible quality work they got out of me, but rather to incentivize me to become a highly loyal high quality entry level employee who could then make them 4x salary in revenue. It worked.
The point of giving tasks to interns isn't to get the task done, it's to train the intern! That's why we don't give critical tasks to interns.
October 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The point of giving tasks to interns isn't to get the task done, it's to train the intern! That's why we don't give critical tasks to interns.
Many times at MSFT decades ago I said that QA's job was not testing, it was advocating on behalf of the user. Testing was a tool, meeting user needs was the goal. Who advocates for users now? Seems like no one.
October 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Many times at MSFT decades ago I said that QA's job was not testing, it was advocating on behalf of the user. Testing was a tool, meeting user needs was the goal. Who advocates for users now? Seems like no one.
Wait til they find out about XBOX!
September 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Wait til they find out about XBOX!
The most stunning thing we saw diving Sund Rock yesterday though was the biggest GPO I've ever seen in the wild. It was fast asleep, out in the open, in only 18 feet of water. I've never seen one asleep out of its den and so shallow before.
September 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The most stunning thing we saw diving Sund Rock yesterday though was the biggest GPO I've ever seen in the wild. It was fast asleep, out in the open, in only 18 feet of water. I've never seen one asleep out of its den and so shallow before.
I spent the morning diving in the Hood Canal and got a pretty decent shot of this beautiful golden dirona. Biggest one I've ever seen, at least as big as my palm.
September 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I spent the morning diving in the Hood Canal and got a pretty decent shot of this beautiful golden dirona. Biggest one I've ever seen, at least as big as my palm.
Since I've started using VS again, ignoring the bad suggestions being constantly made has unfortunately become second nature.
When I was in devdiv my team worked hard to make systems that did NOT suggest that I introduce subtle bugs a dozen times an hour.
Please do better.
When I was in devdiv my team worked hard to make systems that did NOT suggest that I introduce subtle bugs a dozen times an hour.
Please do better.
September 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Since I've started using VS again, ignoring the bad suggestions being constantly made has unfortunately become second nature.
When I was in devdiv my team worked hard to make systems that did NOT suggest that I introduce subtle bugs a dozen times an hour.
Please do better.
When I was in devdiv my team worked hard to make systems that did NOT suggest that I introduce subtle bugs a dozen times an hour.
Please do better.
It was! And having seen many of my friends and colleagues laid off in the last three years by billionaires seeking to put downward pressure on wages, it continues to be infuriating.
September 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
It was! And having seen many of my friends and colleagues laid off in the last three years by billionaires seeking to put downward pressure on wages, it continues to be infuriating.