The Curious Coder

So, I was working in Chrome the other day, and I noticed something when I moused over the reload button. Normally I just hit F5, but I happened to have my hand on the mouse at that time. When I did this, I noticed something I hadn't seen before. There was a tooltip telling me that the button would "Reload this page," but also, "hold to see more options." Well, of course, I pressed and held the mouse button over the Reload icon and was rewarded with this pop-up: Sweet! I often need to make sure I do a hard reload so I don't used cached files, and usually check and uncheck that setting in the Network tab of the Chrome Developer Tools. This seemed like a nice option to have. 

I recently attended the Microsoft Build conference in Seattle. It was my first such conference and although I've been watching live streams and recorded videos from Build, IO, and WWDC over the years, but being there is an altogether different experience. I met some interesting people while I was there. There is a guy, Phillip Labar, who has been first in line for the keynote for the last 8 years. How did I meet him? I was 3rd in line. Phillip got there at 4:00am. I showed up at 5:45am and was only 2 spots behind him, so I think that worked out well for me. Why did I show up so early? Well, the information for the conference warned me that the line for the Keynote started early. I asked the guys at the Information Desk what that meant, and they entertained me with stories of lines snaking out the building by 5:30 in the morning (the Keynote was scheduled to start at 8:30am). Turns out, I woke up at around 5:00am since I was still on Central time (only 7:00am on my bio-clock), ...