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@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.

I'm not begrudging anyone who's following this; I'm literally getting all my info about this from Twitter, which is hilariously incomplete.

@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 

Running Windows 3.1 in browser emulation on an XBOX One because that's a thing that happens

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 …

As I've said, my westworld would be to live in an ST:TNG episode where nothing happens. Just all calm mutual respect and food replicators.

@sleevi_ thx!

Nintendo Switch is also Rob 2.0, CONFIRMED.

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 …

Github is down, which gave me the opportunity to share this incredible moment with all of you

OH "Careful though, if your pointer is too negative it might end up adressing the machine next to your current one."

Give flair to users with 2FA turned on. Make it a status symbol, then public shaming takes over. "U don't have 2FA what if you get hacked?"