Daniel Schroeder | aka deadlydog

@danskingdom.com

1280 Followers 151 Following

Experienced software developer & IC in SK, Canada. Dual MS MVP. FOSS creator, maintainer, & contributor. Loves C#, .NET, PowerShell, AutoHotkey, DevOps. Automate Everything! Shares tech-related posts & memes. Blog & socials at https://blog.danskingdom.com

Email notification from Microsoft saying: You’ve been accepted to the Microsoft MVP Program! Daniel Schroeder, We’re pleased to invite you to the Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) program in recognition of your outstanding contributions to the community in the following technical area(s): DevOps PowerShell
Daniel Schroeder's MS MVP name badge held up beside his name on the MVP name wall. MVP categories are Microsoft Azure - PowerShell and Developer Technologies - DevOps
Screenshot of the MS Teams "Join Meeting" prompt, showing how many other people are currently in the meeting. It allows you to see how many people are in the meeting before joining the meeting yourself.
The Slack message editor showing that you can copy a URL to your clipboard, then select some text, and paste. It will turn the selected text into a hyperlink to the URL you pasted. No need to click the Link button or use the keyboard shortcut before pasting.
3 frame cartoon drawing. Person riding bike: I want to make my app more secure Person putting stick in wheel spokes: Allowing password pasting seems dangerous Person fell off bike and on the ground in pain: Why are all my users getting hacked?
You streamed 5,071 minutes of podcasts.
A screenshot of Visual Studio 2026 showing a file with mixed tabs and spaces. The user is clicking the "Mixed" text in the editor status bar to reveal a dropdown, allowing the file to be formatted with Spaces or Tabs. There are also callouts showing you can change CRLF characters to/from LF, and change the file encoding from the editor status bar.
Screenshot of the Visual Studio 2026 GitHub Copilot Modernize feature in action.
Screenshot showing using the GitClean PowerShell module to run a single command that found and cleaned 277 git repositories, freeing up 55GB of disk space.
Social media post that says: the first thing our new hire did was fix a bug that's been bugging him forever as a user prior to joining. he then breathed a sigh of relief and submitted his two weeks' notice. wtf??
Screenshot of Azure costs grouped by resource, showing Azure Monitor costing almost $100/month just for availability tests. Monitoring was costing over 2x as much as the actual services themselves.
PowerShell API creation showing the scopes and glob pattern to be aware of
Confirmation message from Microsoft that Daniel Schroeder is registered for the March 24-26, 2026 MVP Summit in Redmon, Washington, USA.
Screenshot of the Visual Studio options showing Tools → Options → IntelliCode → General → Automatically generate code completions in the Editor being unchecked to disable automatic code completions, so you would manually use Alt+, or Alt+. on demand instead.
Screenshot showing VS Code and Visual Studio in the top dev IDE spots, with Notepad++ in 3rd, beating out JetBrains and other IDEs.
Screenshot of Slack showing that if you do not see the Unreads item at the top of the sidebar, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + A to access it.
Screenshot of searching the Visual Studio Code settings for "chat agent" and enabling the GitHub Copilot Agent mode, as it is disabled by default.
Screenshot of the New Outlook Reminders window, where a meeting is due in 24 hours, and the UI allows you to snooze it for 5, 10, 15, 30, 60, 120 _minutes_. There's no way to snooze it for more than 2 hours 😖
Screenshot of creating a new meeting in the New Microsoft Outlook app on Windows, where the time range pickers are not wide enough to show the full time, even if you increase the width of the parent window.
Screenshot of submitting a new GitHub issue in the tiPS repository where "PowerShell tip submission" is one of the issue types. You can use this as an easy web form for submitting new tips to tiPS.
Dan Schroeder posing in a picture with MS Clippy
Waiting in the Regina, SK airport at 4am for my flight while reading Observability Engineering by Charity Majors
Trying to add an iPhone text replacement of “in the” when it detects “i. the” but getting rejected because it contains a space. iPhone often replaces a letter with a period when it detects a space button press, when the user actually meant to type a letter directly above the space button. Rather than trying to predict a real dictionary word, Apple assumes the user meant to type garbage text.
In pwsh 7.5, running the Get-ChildItem cmdlet with the -Depth and -Filter parameters, and again with the -Depth and -Include parameters, showing they return the same results, as expected.
Screenshot of a YouTube video by Ed Anderson called ".NET and C# are in trouble. Here is what I'd do." agreeing with a tweet from me, Daniel Schroeder, that says, "I just wish they would have an ELTS (extra long term support) version every 5 or IO years that had 10 years of support. If you want that today, it means going with .NET Framework".
4 Pictures describing the Debugging process. The first 2 are of a person thinking. The 3rd is of them having a great idea. The 4th pic is them racing off of the toilet to go implement it.
Screenshot of an Azure DevOps pipeline giving an error message saying that it doesn't recognize the path of a PowerShell script file as a valid command to execute
From Lord Of The Rings: "You have my sword.... and by bow" Then from Office Space: "And I believe you have my stapler"
Comment on Dan's YouTube video "Save time and improve your video watching experience with Video Speed Controller" that says: "i dont know what to say "u must be a nerd or some like scientist" the way u explain is SUPERB, every details,wow, no words, which i persoanlly love it , as im a programmer + psychology student, so i love in-depth detail, why im saying all this is '' PLZ MAKE MORE VDOS" esp. those COMPLEX vdos, which others make it more complex by thr poor explanation, im quite sure u u can breakthrough"
"My gf. told me that I care about programming more than her. I told her that in array of my interests she is [1] - she was satisfied 🙂😇"
“What are we doing for our anniversary” “Don’t worry I’ve booked us a table for two” Later: Husband getting ready to serve on a ping pong table with the wife looking upset.
User review saying "This is a very useful add-on for comparing files in bulk. I've been using it for a few years."
Hovering over the clock in the Windows 11 taskbar to show the time of 2 additional clocks set to different timezones.
Sea Of Stars video game cover
Scene from office space with new script: “What would you do if you had 32GB RAM?” “I’ll tell you what I’d do, man. Two Chrome tabs at the same time, man”
“It’s not DNS. There’s no way it’s DNS. It was DNS.”
A person using a ruler and pencil to draw a line, but is using the pencil as a ruler and the ruler as a pencil (has the tools mixed up in their hands)
Bluesky app notifications showing two tabs, All and Mentions
Pixels movie poster of Pac-Man and Space Invaders attacking a city
“Christmas with the California Raisins” album record
A software developer in 2009 and in 2019, where the pictures are the same except the 2019 pic has a colourful glowing keyboard
An open source Azure DevOps public repository opened in the browser, but showing an error that it could not connect to the resource.
Screenshot of a PowerShell terminal using Terminal-Icons, where certain files and directories have different colors or icons depending on their context.
Screenshot of Dan's work email inbox, showing zero emails
What's On Your Mind? 🤔 Your content DNA, decoded Your Top Topics PowerShell90% When it comes to PowerShell, Daniel’s enthusiasm could probably power a small city—if only scripts could generate electricity! Open Source80% The love for open-source libraries and projects flows through his posts like coffee on a Monday morning—essential and a bit jittery! Software Development85% He's the self-proclaimed librarian of code, reading the latest articles with the intensity of a detective with a magnifying glass—'Did you check out this SQLite article? It’s a page-turner!' Writing Style Daniel’s posts are like a rollercoaster: thrilling, sometimes a bit bumpy, but ultimately a lot of fun. The frequent emoji use adds a splash of color to his technical precision. Thought Leader Score 75%
The roast of deadlydog's Bluesky account that says: Code Ninja by Day, Bluesky Comedian by Night! Daniel's a tech wizard, but his posts are like a tech expo—full of excitement and a bit chaotic. A delightful mix of software mastery and quirky humor, sprinkled with moments of existential reflection over a cup of PowerShell.
“I found a free hosting service” “Which one?” “Localhost”
A dog reading “How to wins friends and influence people” and a cat reading “The art of war”
An image of a typical shopping receipt, but with GitHub contribution stats instead of items purchased on it
Picture of one rabbit drop kicking another rabbit