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See another solar system! These are real images of a 4-planet system ~130 light-years from #Earth. Read about it: http://go.nasa.gov/2kySSt1 

Seems like @pushalotapp isn't on the Microsoft Store anymore? Will it come back?

@ericlaw that is a solid lock. Not getting through that lock!

@ericlaw @RReverser broke my screenshot muscle memory. Switched to snipping tool.

Creating an extension for all browsers: #msedge, #chrome, #firefox, #opera & #brave: https://www.davrous.com/2016/12/07/creating-an-extension-for-all-browsers-edge-chrome-firefox-opera-brave/ …

OH. MY. GOD. @SethBling MADE AN ATARI 2600 EMULATOR IN MINECRAFT. https://youtu.be/5nViIUfDMJg 

@davatron5000 I have a C:\users\dave\bin path I've added to my PATHS

Oh just realized Trevor, Simon, and Rebus are all the same person. Awesome. Assuming @StevenOgg isn't a robot

@AGoldmund Its my morning two minute hate. And then again around lunch time. And also just whenever.

@PA_Megacorp I read the title as Couchomancy and imagined a necromancer that summons couches. No one steal my new YA fantasy novel idea pls

@ericlaw Very fitting for the show but... those serifs. Aspects of 80s aesthetic I can do without include: wood paneling on cars, that font.

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

@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.

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 …