Community Introductions: Share your stories!

Well, since you asked, hi, I'm Josh!  Microsoft was actually my very first job out of college, and I've been on the browser team the whole time, although I did have a few internships here as well during college, which was back in the IE days.  I got both of my degrees from Ohio State, although I don't use them too much right now   Officially I'm a community manager, although I also help craft the contents of the tiles on the update welcome page, as well as do a lot of support and testing internal to the company.  Prior to doing this I did a stint as a data analyst, and before that I was an official tester, all while staying on the same team!  

Outside of work, I'm a big old nerd, between being a music nerd singing in choirs or writing music, a video game nerd hacking consoles and speedrunning retro game randomizers, or a puzzle nerd writing puzzles for the various puzzle competitions we have at the company.  I'm also a big animal lover, although I only have cats right now since I just bought a house and before, when I was living in an apartment, didn't want to have a dog without also having a yard (which I now do!)  I'm also learning that home maintenance is a hobby in and of itself, and am hoping to take advantage of the spring to get outside and plant some stuff.  

Keeping in mind that I've been an Edge user for a long time, I'd say my newest favorite thing is the combination of vertical tabs and tab groups.  It's seriously a game changer for me.  I was super disappointed when we moved away from Edge Legacy specifically because of how well it handled lots of tabs, but this I think is even better.  I'm also a big fan of extensions, and tend to run more extensions that I've written than I get from the store!  For example, I wrote a favorites menu extension to emulate Edge Legacy's long before we added that into new Edge natively.  I also like using sites like Teams in a PWA window, and extensions can apply to those as well, tweaking their behavior to be even better than the full application.