Lucky MVP 13

Each year since 2011, Microsoft has sent me a lovely email around this time:

I've been fortunate enough to find a passion in life that has allowed me to do what I love and make a great living out of it all whilst contributing to the community in a meaningful and impactful way. In last year's MVP announcement blog post, I talked about one of my favourite contributions of all that year being the Pwned Passwords ingestion pipeline for the FBI. This year, they sent me something nice in return:

This is so cool, thanks @FBI 😊 pic.twitter.com/aqMi3as91O

— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) June 28, 2023

Thank you to everyone that helps me on this journey by consuming the things I create. Reading my posts, watching my videos, turning up to my talks and consuming services like HIBP and Pwned Passwords. The latter is a great example of community uptake: as of today, there were 5.12 billion requests to that service in just the last 30 days 🤯 That's amazing, thank you everyone 😊

MVP Award 12

11 years now, wow 😲 It's actually 11 and a bit because it was April Fool's Day in 2011 that my first MVP award came through. At the time, I referred to myself as "The Accidental MVP" as I'd no expectation of an award, it just came from me being me. It's the same again today, and the last year has been full of just doing the stuff I love; loads of talks (which, like the one above at AusCERT, are actually starting to happen in front of real live humans again), live streams every week, blog posts and perhaps my favourite thing of all, open sourcing Pwned Passwords and standing up an ingestion pipeline for the FBI. Cool 😎

But it has to be said that all these things only happen through the support of the community. There'd be no open source Pwned Passwords if nobody wanted to contribute, no live streams or blog posts if people didn't want to watch them and no conference talks if nobody attended. So, thank you for tuning in and giving me a platform to do what I love 😊