It’s PASS Summit Time!
This week, I’m dedicating all my blog content to PASS Summit. Why? Because I’m here and it seems stupid to not talk about that.
Hey, it’s finally Wednesday. That means I can sleep in and have nothing to do but annoy people around the convention center.
All updates will be under this line. Hit refresh once in a while. Enjoy the show.
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Video Summary
In this video, I share my experience trying to conduct some fun interviews with people who just passed an exam, but unfortunately, many of them were in a bad mood today. Despite the initial setback, I managed to secure something special—an exclusive SSMS 21 T-shirt in Dirt from Aaron Stilato, which I couldn’t resist showing off. The shirt’s dark mode design caught the camera’s attention, and it really did look magnificent under the spotlight. It was a delightful surprise to see SSMS finally supporting dark mode, and I can only hope this feature brings more joy to developers who use the tool daily.
Full Transcript
So I spent some time trying to get the people that passed to do fun interviews with me, but a lot of people are in a bad mood today. So that didn’t quite work out. Maybe tomorrow will be better after people have had a chance to drink and whatever. But I did manage to score, I think, an exclusive T-shirt from Aaron Stilato. And this is an SSMS 21 T-shirt in Dirt. I just want you to take a look at dark mode. And I just want you to take a look at this beauty. Because for some reason, this camera just wants to look at the pillows on my hotel room bed. But take a look at this, the majesty of this shirt. Look at that. Who said SSMS could never be in dark mode? I don’t know. That’s just, that’s just silly to me. And I’m very happy that we finally got this going for us. I think maybe we can thank Visual Studio for this. But anyway, I’m going to go back. I’m going to go back in again and see if I can find someone, someone who wants to be fun with me. All right. Erik Darling, Darling Data, signing off.
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