Chris Gardner

Speaker, Twitch affiliate, @devspaceconf organizer. I do strange things with C# and F#.

I'm like the Digital Lorax. I speak for the binary trees.

He/Him

[Chris Gardner @freestylecoder]

It MMEEEE! Y'all come see me.

[Scenic City Summit @ScenicSummit]

Look who's coming to #SCS2026! Tickets are available at https://t.co/bGmF8ZRrM4

[Chris Gardner @freestylecoder]

@peterritchie Yeah, probably didn't explain that well (needed a blog post.) The one I already did was IComparable. I have an abstract class with all the tests, and a few abstract fields you supply test data with. It then makes sure everything works as expected.

[Chris Gardner @freestylecoder]

Hey tweeps. I started working on a #dotnet library to test built in interfaces for semantic purpose. Right now, it's shoehorned into another project (which is what's using it.) Are enough people interested in this idea to spin it off to its own project?

[Chris Gardner @freestylecoder]

@saltnburnem Brother, I'm less than 2 months out from 50. At this point, I'm just happy if I can figure out how I pulled the muscle....

[Chris Gardner @freestylecoder]

I dream of the day I can let my #Linux box run updates without it requiring me to reinstall the entire operating system... #sigh

[Chris Gardner @freestylecoder]

I would say I just spent an hour that I'll never get back at @USPS getting absolutely no help, but I think I was just in a Monty Python skit...

[Chris Gardner @freestylecoder]

@oratnac I already got it all done. Checked it in yesterday. While I did use a decompiler for a few things, I wanted to still mostly do it by hand because of the fact they were tests and the point was to make sure they were pragmatic for each language.

[Chris Gardner @freestylecoder]

Me, looking at a 3400 line #FSharp test file I need to convert to #CSharp:

Ugh, there are not enough RegExs for this...

[Chris Gardner @freestylecoder]

@TaxPoetic Which is kinda funny, because I got a Master's in AI from UAH about a decade ago, and I can promise you, the two institutions are using wildly different definitions of the term AI...

[PJ - @aspleenic.bsky.social @aspleenic]

In personal news, I’m on the job market again.

If you need DevRel leadership or just a solid Dev Advocate with over 15 years of experience, hit me up - pj at devrelate dot io

I’m also available for contract gigs

[Chris Gardner @freestylecoder]

Whelp, #MVPBuzz renewal application submitted. It's all over except the crying, now...

[Chris Gardner @freestylecoder]

@microsoftslayer Never apologize for chokers, ever...

[Chris Gardner @freestylecoder]

@tdesseyn Ok, fair. I don't use iOS, and the one time I did, I didn't use iMessage, so I honestly didn't know.

[Chris Gardner @freestylecoder]

@mshoboslayer Remind me to tell you I hate you at the meetup... 🤣

[Chris Gardner @freestylecoder]

@TaxPoetic We'll allow it

[Chris Gardner @freestylecoder]

@rj_dudley @Linux_Mint Now that you say that, I've heard a few other people mention Mint in the past. I'll look into it

[Chris Gardner @freestylecoder]

I think I'm going to put #Linux on an old laptop that's struggling on Win10, due to a lack of TPM2 module. Old me would use Debian. More recent me would use Ubuntu. However, I know a lot of really good distros have come out lately. So, mostly dev, what distros should I look at?

[Chris Gardner @freestylecoder]

I don't remember where I heard it, but this quote has been living rent free in my head ever since:

Don't change the part of you that's cringe, change the part of you that cringes.