Michael Lynch 9/15/2025

I Once Appeared in The Old New Thing

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A Microsoft developer shares a personal anecdote about being anonymously mentioned in Raymond Chen's 'The Old New Thing' blog. The article details their work on improving BitLocker's configuration error messages in Windows 8, explaining the technical challenge of dynamically including C++ constant values in localized error message files without creating synchronization issues.

I Once Appeared in The Old New Thing

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