Chris Rae

I make odd Excel videos and race $500 cars.

Excel PM @Microsoft (2006-2012);
Derivatives Quant @UBS (1998-2006)

[Chris Rae @pugwonk]

@AGPamBondi Quite right too. I believe Mark Kelly was reminding us about this only recently.

[Chris Rae @pugwonk]

I'm on Threads as @pugwonk3. Install the app to follow my threads and replies. https://t.co/O5aPNAdCHZ

[Chris Rae @pugwonk]

@duolingo My mum has an account (VikiRae) and she doesn't remember her password. We don't know what email is associated with it and she can't do a password reset based on just an account name - is there any way to recover the account?

[Chris Rae @pugwonk]

News just in: Yevgeny Prigozhin leaves Belarus for "once in a lifetime" submarine trip to see the wreck of the Titanic

[Chris Rae @pugwonk]

@standupmaths I have been informed that you may enjoy my video about rendering the Mandelbrot set in Excel while making cruel jokes about mathematicians. I am available for weddings https://t.co/fFwTnVPP7W

[Bruce Grembowski @BruceGrembowski]

@jamesgrime Has @standupmaths seen this?

[Chris Rae @pugwonk]

BBC Senior Editor: The article is pretty good - maybe add a handful of things in square brackets?
BBC Editor: Gimme 5

[Graham Smales @gsmales]

An incredible picture of a Renault 19 16v against its rivals in 1990 from a French magazine. All the cars were travelling at 170 km/h to prevent the planes from stalling, yet in perfect formation. No photoshopping, no special effects, just guts. Chapeau! #1990s

[Chris Rae @pugwonk]

@danwwalker Indeed

[Chris Rae @pugwonk]

My Xcode has been updating for two hours... Mac OS is never very keen to tell you how far it is through app updates, but today I discovered that you can hover the mouse over the "stop" button and it'll tell you how far it is through.

[Chris Rae @pugwonk]

@ladyjayaubernon @24hoursoflemons @CLTMotorSpdwy @iRacing I'm definitely calling it "Champion's Week" from now on - I was calling it "week 13" which makes especially little sense when it's the eleventh week in the season

[Chris Rae @pugwonk]

Some pretty big news today - turns out Gwyneth Paltrow did not in fact ski into a retired optometrist

[Chris Rae @pugwonk]

@standupmaths I may have failed Maths 101 four times in a row at uni, but I did once make a spreadsheet to draw the Mandelbrot set, and a video which was chiefly about mathematicians being saddos.

[James Grime @jamesgrime]

You may also like: How to draw the Mandelbrot set in Excel https://t.co/CXxmMXAImX

[Chris Rae @pugwonk]

Apparently rule #1 of being a YouTube sensation is posting content regularly, and so far I have posted one video five months ago. But don't worry! I have two new ones in the works, and they should easily be finished by 2025

[James Grime @jamesgrime]

You may also like: How to draw the Mandelbrot set in Excel https://t.co/CXxmMXAImX

[Chris Rae @pugwonk]

@jamesgrime You may recall giving me permission several months ago to use your name in jest in my video about drawing the Mandelbrot Set in Excel... I did make said video, and you do feature in it (for about two whole seconds). https://t.co/kbWnDqzm7v

[Chris Rae @pugwonk]

@NYTGames I trust you folks are far above this sort of churlishness? https://t.co/ADoLRJfuW3

[Chris Rae @pugwonk]

Ooooookay... I'm done with Twitter for the moment. I'm at https://t.co/KniS5dojLZ if this makes it through.

https://t.co/aLxMMWPedL

[Chris Rae @pugwonk]

@hellNbak_ Yes

[Chris Rae @pugwonk]

Next up in my AI experiments: feeding it song lyrics. https://t.co/rpgQ18utCG

[Chris Rae @pugwonk]

Computer peeps: I would like to write a web game - not too fancy; graphics and complexity would be something like Wordle. There is a small server component.

I would like to write both server and client in C# and run the server on Azure - what tech do I use for this? Blazor?