Hi, I’m Duane. I build software, teach developers, support the tech community, and help people learn how to breathe underwater.
I’m a long-time software developer who loves learning and sharing the technologies that excite me. You’ll usually find me:
Microsoft has recognized my ongoing involvement in the developer community with the MVP Award, which I’ve been honored to receive every year since 2017.
I don’t just geek out over software.
In 2015, I fell in love with scuba diving, and today I teach others as a PADI & SDI certified Scuba Instructor through Dive Rinse Repeat Scuba. Helping people overcome fear and experience the underwater world for the first time is one of the most rewarding things I do.
Today (Monday), out of the blue, one of my Windows 10 Parallels virtual machines decided that it had no connection to the internet. Friday I was on site at a client using their WiFi network to work through some changes they needed. Today, back at the office, I fired up my VM to push the changes and make a couple more tweaks. I was immediately greeted by git telling me that my git host didn’t exist. I realized that Windows was reporting that I had no internet connection.