Suz Hinton

Yeah, so I think I had the easy setting working at Microsoft because you can basically choose almost anything as long as it's a Microsoft product. And so I was using VS Code, which at the time was almost like a cheat code for being able to get it in there. But I also think that I was...

Yeah, so I think I had the easy setting working at Microsoft because you can basically choose almost anything as long as it's a Microsoft product. And so I was using VS Code, which at the time was almost like a cheat code for being able to get it in there. But I also think that I was...

mentioning something else that I was using, one of the workbench tool sets or something that was particularly good for Arduino that Microsoft put out at the time. And I think I also recommended another platform they have called MakeCode, which was this really cool in-browser IDE for interacting with some of their hardware pieces too. So I think I made mention of that at the end.

mentioning something else that I was using, one of the workbench tool sets or something that was particularly good for Arduino that Microsoft put out at the time. And I think I also recommended another platform they have called MakeCode, which was this really cool in-browser IDE for interacting with some of their hardware pieces too. So I think I made mention of that at the end.

If people are feeling intimidated, that's actually a really good way to get started.

If people are feeling intimidated, that's actually a really good way to get started.

It sounds so ungrateful, doesn't it?

It sounds so ungrateful, doesn't it?

It sounds so ungrateful, but I think that it's good to talk about this because it does explain why I sort of seemingly disappeared. I just don't think it's for me. Again, I never really sought the attention side of it and it just bothers me a lot because I am quite introverted and also I want people to focus on my work and not me. And I think that's where I also struggled too.

It sounds so ungrateful, but I think that it's good to talk about this because it does explain why I sort of seemingly disappeared. I just don't think it's for me. Again, I never really sought the attention side of it and it just bothers me a lot because I am quite introverted and also I want people to focus on my work and not me. And I think that's where I also struggled too.

I was like, no, so I'm trying to show you this thing and you keep putting the attention back on me. And it just, I wasn't having the conversations with people afterwards that I wanted to be having. And so I felt kind of lonely and frustrated as well. And again, I think it's a huge privilege to be a public figure and you don't sort of feed off the attention.

I was like, no, so I'm trying to show you this thing and you keep putting the attention back on me. And it just, I wasn't having the conversations with people afterwards that I wanted to be having. And so I felt kind of lonely and frustrated as well. And again, I think it's a huge privilege to be a public figure and you don't sort of feed off the attention.

And I didn't do it because I was sort of trying to fill that sort of void for myself. But at the same time, Yeah, it sort of made me feel very ungrateful for it because I know a lot of people would kill to be in my position and I just sort of, in their opinion, I might have thrown everything away. So, yeah, it's interesting.

And I didn't do it because I was sort of trying to fill that sort of void for myself. But at the same time, Yeah, it sort of made me feel very ungrateful for it because I know a lot of people would kill to be in my position and I just sort of, in their opinion, I might have thrown everything away. So, yeah, it's interesting.

I'm very grateful, obviously, for a lot of the doors that open as a result of me doing this. I want to make that very clear. And just the fact that I talked on ChangeLog years ago, that was because of the public work I was doing. So it's opened a lot of doors. Yeah, it's really helped me in my career. But I think they were just kind of surprising side effects for me at the time.

I'm very grateful, obviously, for a lot of the doors that open as a result of me doing this. I want to make that very clear. And just the fact that I talked on ChangeLog years ago, that was because of the public work I was doing. So it's opened a lot of doors. Yeah, it's really helped me in my career. But I think they were just kind of surprising side effects for me at the time.

So it's sort of hard to, sometimes it's hard to really reflect on that as much as I should be. Yeah.

So it's sort of hard to, sometimes it's hard to really reflect on that as much as I should be. Yeah.

I think people coming up to engage about the technical parts of what I talked about, more just technical discourse. I don't know. I'm such a nerd. I just want to talk about that. And so like I caught up with someone recently who I hadn't seen in like 16 years. We used to teach together at the community college.

I think people coming up to engage about the technical parts of what I talked about, more just technical discourse. I don't know. I'm such a nerd. I just want to talk about that. And so like I caught up with someone recently who I hadn't seen in like 16 years. We used to teach together at the community college.