Jen Gentleman 🌺
@JenMsft
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I work on the Windows engineering team at Microsoft and help with feedback for Start menu, Settings, taskbar, input + more
Seattle, WA
Joined August 2015
My brain refuses to believe there are 4 people in this photo
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“Do you want to hop on a quick call about this?”. N. O. O. o. o. o. o. 。. 。. .
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I've never been more invested in a random internet cat succeeding
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A senior developer, walking a junior developer through the legacy code base . "One day, this will all be yours"
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Formula 1 chief appalled to find team using Excel to manage 20,000 car parts
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>> What do we want?. Natural language processing!. >> When do we want it?. When do we want what?.
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A programmer had a problem. He thought — "I know, I'll use async!". has problems Now . two he.
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don't touch that, it's my emotional support box of obsolete cables.
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Website: we use cookies to improve our performance. Me: Same.
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Posting for no particular reason, but if you're looking for a modern version of Bliss, Microsoft Design made one:.
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@ask_aubry Ah yes *looks at notes*, infidelity, clearly the only reason someone might want to track that time of the month.
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Hi, my name's Jen, and my main use for Notepad is removing formatting from text.
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I am a:. ⚪️ man.⚪️ woman.🔘 person that works in tech. Looking for:. ⚪️ a good time.⚪️ a long walk on the beach.🔘 the bug in a screenshot someone shared with me with no other context.
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Little thing in Win 11 22H2 - you can now change the volume by scrolling a mouse wheel on the volume icon
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I made a comment on Reddit about how the colour filters feature in Windows can help out if you're colourblind, and all afternoon people have been reaching out to me with replies like this <3
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Is this. (gestures at picture). how you partition a drive?
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Did you know that if you hold CTRL it will pause Task Manager updating, which means the process names don't move around and are easier to select when you're sorted by resource usage? 👀. Works in both Windows 10 & 11
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One of the guys I work with left Microsoft on Friday, and his parting gift was to send off a PR to fix something that had been bothering him for a year in another's team's code.
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When confronted with a coding problem, one programmer thought, 'I know, I'll use threads' - and then two he hd aerpoblms.
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I'm so happy there's finally an end task option when right clicking apps in the taskbar
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If pokemon was written by programmers charmander would evolve into stringmander.
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I am a:. ⚪️ man.⚪️ woman.🔘 person who works in software. Looking for:. ⚪️ a good time.⚪️ a long walk on the beach.🔘 the bug in this screenshot someone shared with me with no context other than the words fix this.
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Finally a monitor big enough to show java stack traces without wrapping
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async await async await async await async await.in the function, the mighty function, the child thread sleeps tonight 🎵.
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Have you ever spent more than 100 hrs playing a single video game? 👀.
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Okay - this is unbelievably cool. Try interacting with the page using mouse or touch --> @PavelDoGreat
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As of today I've now worked for Microsoft for 14 years 🥂.
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Hi! My name's Jen, and I have a thing for keyboard shortcuts
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When trying to solve a coding problem, one programmer thought, "I'll use threads!" - and then two hd he arpoblmes.
Sat down with another engineer today to diagnose and fix a race condition. Multi-threaded code was a mistake.
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Sitting at the doctor's. Staring at their computer. Trying to identify what version of Windows they're running.
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The sequel kept me on my toes the whole time - what's next to go in this thrilling saga? No file is sacred
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This fridge looks like when you open a fridge in a video game
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As of today I've now worked for Microsoft for 13 years 🥂.
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