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Dan Schnau
@danschnau.bsky.social
💻Software Engineer, 🤵Husband, 👶Father. I remember the time before the internet. ♟ #boardgames
🏒 #hockey 📚 #booksky

blogs @ https://danschnau.com

toots @ https://mastodon.social/@danschnau
I love that I can group my chats with emojis in Teams now. I have groups for
- something in production is broken
- robots posting automated things
- meetings
- channels for developers
May 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Must be spring. Pollen is collecting on my laptop from leaving the window open this morning lol
April 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick. It’s sharp and —ironically—free of AI-generated slop. It lays perspective and groundwork for LLMs: how to work with them, and how to keep learning.

Always bring AI to the table—but never let it drive. It’s co-intelligence, not autopilot. What do you think?
April 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
"The Best Programmers I Know" from mastodon.social/@mre

This article is great advice. The first two bullets, "Read the Reference" and "Know Your Tools Really Well" are ones I've been focusing on. I'm surprised at the things I can find just by reading the manual.

#development #blogpost
April 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Emojis show up nice in the database connections window in vscode-mssql 😊💾 #vscode
April 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_99

#VSCode is all in on AI integrations too
April 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
So long Azure Data Studio, hello vscode-mssql.

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-...

github.com/microsoft/vs...
April 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
LINQPad version 8.8.x has some cool stuff in the release notes.

More AI model support, support for @openrouter.bsky.social to arbitrarily support AI models, a new option to disambiguate databases with many schemas, and a bugfix for a Util feature I had no idea LINQPad already had.

#linqpad #csharp
April 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I had no idea there was a 3d renderer in Microsoft Edge's DevTools 🤯
April 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I still remember the day my wife and I beat Orleans Invasion after like a million tries. Great game
April 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM