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@David_Risney Example graph https://raw.githubusercontent.com/david-risney/WinMDGraph/master/examples/3/3.dot.png … of the Windows .Services.Maps namespace

WinMDGraph graphs relationships between WinRT APIs https://github.com/david-risney/WinMDGraph/ …. My initial version is up.

@JenMsft Your tip weets should show as toasts for all win10 users

#Tip If you ever see a dialog box in this style & need to record what it said, instead of typing it out, just CTRL+C #Windows10

@FakeUnicode Spaces are technically not allowed in a URI so the only reasonable representation is percent encoded.

@FakeUnicode Reserved characters including brackets change meaning when decoded or encoded and so UA must not change those

@FakeUnicode At least some of that is from https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986 . For unreserved characters (a-z0-9._-~) normal form is decoded.

@osterman @ericlaw 'CLR cooks' I assume means you get the .NET projection of the WinRT APIs? That's good enough for most of my purposes.

Parsing WinRT metadata (winmd files) is much easier than last time I tried. There's support in .NET reflection APIs https://deletethis.net/dave/2016-11/Parsing+WinMD+with+.NET+reflection+APIs …

The static on TV is referred to as “hangyafoci” by Hungarians, which translates to “ant soccer” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_(video) …

Read the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual. How to Subvert Organizations with “Purposeful Stupidity” (1944) http://bit.ly/2dbnooU 

Didn't know retrospective realization of "that was a date" is common to super-smart-afraid-of-conflict narcissist’s club. Thx to @hodgman

Only Child written by @hodgman is amazing & hilarious. Although also showed me various ways in which I'm not special http://www.maximumfun.org/dead-pilots-society/episode-2-only-child-written-john-hodgman …

@sleevi_ thx!

Surprised ICANN doc doesn't cover intranet name collisions issues http://archive.icann.org/en/topics/dns-stability-draft-paper-06feb08.pdf … Does consider file ext collisions: no problem... https://twitter.com/kpyke/status/789156391726387200 …

It is difficult for me to not retweet everything this twitter account says. https://twitter.com/CRASH__N__BURN/status/786653239768940546 …

TIME is really painting themselves into a corner. Still several weeks before election plus aftermath available for additional melting. https://twitter.com/TIME/status/786531960902524928 …

@David_Risney But OTOH he also demonstrated viability of explicitly racist populism - just avoid the misogyny - for future misanthropes

"Trump’s One Public Service Was Exposing the Misogyny of the GOP" http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/10/trumps-one-service-was-exposing-the-misogyny-of-the-gop.html …

@BreetzTweetz @dwf In the late 22nd century, warp probes were launched to every corner of the galaxy containing the spec for H.264