Steve Dower

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Latest Post: On Becoming a Curmudgeon

At work, I often joke that I’ve reached the point where I get to be a curmudgeon – that cranky old person who brings up rose-tinted stories from their past. And while I make it sound like a joke, when I then go on to share lessons learned from the Windows Phone developer experience or early HPC Server, there’s certainly some truth to it.

Curmudgeon

Usually where this comes up is during mentoring sessions.

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My Posts

28 Dec 2022 - On Becoming a Curmudgeon

16 Mar 2020 - The most critical Python code metric

03 Dec 2019 - What makes Python a Great Language?

17 May 2019 - Debugging Cython with WinDBG

10 Dec 2018 - Python at Microsoft: flying under the radar

14 Jun 2018 - The Changelog

06 Nov 2016 - Why are there so many Python installers?

10 Sep 2015 - Building Extensions for Python 3.5 Part Two

26 Aug 2015 - Building Extensions for Python 3.5

04 Jan 2015 - What’s Coming for the Python 3.5 Installer?

26 Nov 2012 - New New Project From Existing Code

12 Nov 2012 - New Project From Existing Code

05 Nov 2012 - My Other Keyboard…

20 Oct 2012 - Async/await in Python

20 Oct 2012 - Async API for Python

15 Oct 2012 - Debugging Collections

01 Oct 2012 - Smart Indentation for Python

24 Sep 2012 - My Keyboard