This 46-minute presentation by Scott Hanselman and Stephen Toub is ten months old but is still worth watching. I note below that one of the more significant things Toub shows is not any sort of programming wizardry, but <i>column-selection in a text editor</i>. Half of the things that people use AI for can be solved with column-select and judicious copy/paste. <media href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRFfTdzpk-M" src="https://www.youtube.com/v/TRFfTdzpk-M" source="YouTube" width="560px" author="Microsoft Developer" caption="'Highly Technical Talk' with Hanselman and Toub | BRK194"> Another fantastic "deep dive" with these two: this time they're optimizing the Humanizer library on-the-fly, on-stage, during a session. This feels nearly completely improvised. Kudos to these two gen-Xers, doing an old-school presentation of just plain programming bravura with no frills. At <b>38:20</b>, Toub shows how to use column-select to make changes, which wows the audience. I guess it's really not such a well-known feature, but it's an incredible productivity booster. Toub uses the mouse to select when he could have just used the keyboard to select the lines with <kbd>Alt</kbd> + <kbd>Shift</kbd> + <kbd>down</kbd> or by selecting the space and starting double-quote, then <kbd>Alt</kbd> + <kbd>Shift</kbd> + <kbd>.</kbd> to select subsequent matches. After that, he used the mouse again to select the end of the lines, but he could have just left the lines selected from before and hit <kbd>End</kbd> to jump to the end of all the lines. It's good that he showed it but, as in previous videos, he's a bit more of a "mouser" than I am.