Michael Tharrington

I'm a friendly, non-dev, cisgender guy from NC who enjoys playing music/making noise, hiking, eating veggies, and hanging out with my best friend/wife + our 3 kitties + 1 greyhound.

North Carolina Joined on Oct 24, 2017 michael@forem.com

Education

BFA in Creative Writing

Work

Senior Community Manager at DEV

Michael Tharrington for The DEV Team

Jun 30

Discussion and Comment of the Week - v9

#bestofdev

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📺 Last week : abortion in the medias 👭

Ughhh, these are dark days. 😔 We've gotta do something about ...

Jul 3

What was your win this week?

Jul 2

Follow Friday: React Edition (1 July 2022)

Shoutout to @franklin030601 who has been writing quite a few ...

Jul 1

Finnaly joined the team of devs at 'dev.to'. I am happy to be here.

Awesome to have ya with us! 🙌

Jun 30

Music Monday — What are you listening to? (June 27)

OOoooo awesome! You 2 collectively have some great taste in m...

Jun 27

Music Monday — What are you listening to? (June 27)

Thankya thankya! Happy to have helped bring them back into fo...

Jun 27

Basic HTML CSS Course

Hi there, I'm a Community Manager at DEV. I really think t...

Jun 27

Music Monday — What are you listening to? (June 27)

I'm tuning into the Texas Sun EP by Leon Bridges & Khruan...

Jun 27

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Michael Tharrington for #music discussions

Jun 27

Music Monday — What are you listening to? (June 27)

#watercooler #discuss #music

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Michael Tharrington for The DEV Team

Jun 23

Discussion and Comment of the Week - v8

#bestofdev

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Michael Tharrington for The DEV Team

Jun 14

Music Monday — What are you listening to? (June 13)

#watercooler #discuss #music

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Michael Tharrington for The DEV Team

Jun 9

Discussion and Comment of the Week - v7

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Jun 8

Ever donate to a developer who created something you like?

#discuss

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Jun 7

Music Monday — What are you listening to? (June 6)

#watercooler #discuss #music

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Jun 2

Discussion and Comment of the Week - v6

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May 31

Music Monday — What are you listening to? (May 30)

#watercooler #discuss #music

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Michael Tharrington for The DEV Team

May 24

Music Monday — What are you listening to? (May 23)

#watercooler #discuss #music

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May 20

Share the ️Love ️— What's your favorite #gamedev post on DEV?

#discuss #bestofdev #gamedev

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Michael Tharrington for The DEV Team

May 19

Discussion and Comment of the Week - v5

#bestofdev

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Michael Tharrington for The DEV Team

May 17

Music Monday — What are you listening to? (May 16)

#watercooler #discuss #music

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May 12

Discussion and Comment of the Week - v4

#bestofdev

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May 10

Music Monday — What are you listening to? (May 9)

#watercooler #discuss #music

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May 5

Discussion and Comment of the Week - v3

#bestofdev

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May 4

Share the ️Love ️— What's your favorite #beginners post on DEV?

#discuss #bestofdev #beginners

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Michael Tharrington for The DEV Team

May 3

Music Monday — What are you listening to? (May 2)

#watercooler #discuss #music

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Apr 30

What are your thoughts on the Oculus Quest 2 or other VR hardware?

#discuss #vr #oculus

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Michael Tharrington for The DEV Team

Apr 28

Discussion and Comment of the Week - v2

#bestofdev

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Michael Tharrington for #music discussions

Apr 25

Music Monday — What are you listening to? (April 25)

#watercooler #discuss #music

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Michael Tharrington for The DEV Team

Apr 21

Discussion and Comment of the Week

#bestofdev

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Apr 16

I'm a Teenage Engineering fanboy!

#watercooler #design #music #discuss

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Michael Tharrington for The DEV Team

Apr 14

What's a fun group activity that we could do during CodeLand 2022?

#discuss #codeland #watercooler

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Apr 12

Calling all indie game developers, come show off your games! 👾

#discuss #gamedev #showdev

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Michael Tharrington for The DEV Team

Apr 6

Lesser Known Features of DEV — Ignoring a Tag via Negative Follow Weights

#meta #forem #documentation

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Apr 2

What's your favorite old-school website based on design?

#discuss #webdev #brutalist #design

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Mar 5

Share the Love — What's your favorite post on DEV? (by someone else!)

#discuss #writing

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Aug 31 '21

Got a favorite DEV plugin or accompanying app?

#discuss #meta

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Michael Tharrington for The DEV Team

Jul 21 '21

DEV Community: Ableist Language & Maintaining an Inclusive Environment

#a11y #meta #community

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Jul 8 '21

Name 3 writing tips you wish you had when you first started blogging

#discuss #beginners #writing

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Michael Tharrington for The DEV Team

Jun 22 '21

The 7 Most Popular DEV Posts from the Past Week

#icymi

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Feb 3 '21

Interested in the Future of Web Monetization? Check out the WM Community

#webmonetization #meta #forem #gftwhackathon

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Michael Tharrington for The DEV Team

Dec 8 '20

Community Moderation and Support on DEV

#meta #community #support

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Nov 18 '20

Apple to Reduce App Store Commissions for Small Businesses in 2021

#news #apple #ios #discuss

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Nov 3 '20

Facebook Pushes for Reforms to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act

#news #facebook #google #twitter

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Oct 22 '20

100th Anniversary of the Theremin

#watercooler

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Sep 16 '20

Any recommendations for a chair to pair with a standing desk?

#discuss #help

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Sep 14 '20

Nvidia Acquires Arm

#news #nvidia #hardware

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Aug 18 '20

Rust Announces Plans to Form a Foundation

#news #rust #mozilla

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Aug 11 '20

Mozilla Changing = Lots of Layoffs

#news #mozilla #firefox

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Aug 6 '20

Stack Overflow Raised $85 Million to Invest in Teams

#news #stackoverflow

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Jul 29 '20

Zuckerberg, Cook, Bezos, & Pichai Testify before US House Judiciary Committee (Live Now)

#news

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Jul 29 '20

Roblox Making Bank Means More Money for Devs

#news #gamedev

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Jul 16 '20

Linux Commits to Inclusive Language

#news #linux

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Michael Tharrington for The DEV Team

Jul 15 '20

Want to help cover #news on DEV?

#news #meta #writing #programming

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May 4 '20

Trying to decide which Star Wars to watch tonight...

#watercooler

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Apr 22 '20

Got any tips for folks looking to live Earth consciously?

#watercooler #opensource #discuss #earthday

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Apr 22 '20

Any conservation foundations or initiatives that you'd recommend others look into?

#watercooler #opensource #discuss #earthday

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Mar 13 '20

I'm Michael, and I support self-identifying women & non-binary devs.

#shecodedally

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Feb 22 '20

Games to teach programming to a 9-year-old?

#discuss #watercooler

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Michael Tharrington for The DEV Team

Nov 28 '19

A Big Thanks to All DEV Mods

#gratitude #meta

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Nov 5 '19

Text classification tools for fighting spam

#discuss #meta

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Finnaly joined the team of devs at 'dev.to'. I am happy to be here.

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Basic HTML CSS Course

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