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I Once Appeared in the Old New Thing

created: Sept. 17, 2025, 12:03 p.m. | updated: Sept. 21, 2025, 1:39 a.m.

I Once Appeared in The Old New ThingI’m a pretty humble guy, so most people don’t know this extremely impressive fact about me: Raymond Chen once mentioned me on The Old New Thing, the classic Windows development blog. In 2009, Raymond Chen mentioned me in an issue of The Old New Thing. How Raymond Chen got involved 🔗︎I didn’t know a lot about the Message Compiler tool that consumed .mc files. Wasting Raymond Chen’s time 🔗︎The shameful part of this story is that even though I got advice from the great Raymond Chen, I chickened out of using it. The Windows build system was infinitely more complicated than a Makefile.

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