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This is bold … and italic and more: Microsoft Azure CTO vibe codes a text formatter for LinkedIn posts

This is bold … and italic and more: Microsoft Azure CTO vibe codes a text formatter for LinkedIn posts

By Kurt Schlosser
Publication Date: 2026-06-08 16:19:00

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit in 2018. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota)

Mark Russinovich writes a lot of LinkedIn posts. Going forward it appears he’ll be formatting the text for those posts in a new tool he built.

In a LinkedIn post on Sunday — complete with bold, italic, bullets, emojis and more — the longtime Microsoft Azure CTO said he vibe coded a new utility called LinkedIn Post Formatter that allows users to easily get the look they want in text on the professional networking platform.

Russinovich, who has been at Microsoft for more than 20 years, admitted that he’s “always been frustrated” by formatting tools available online, and that most of the free ones are “clunky” and don’t support smooth, in-place text formatting.

In addition to the in-place text formatting capabilities, LinkedIn Post Formatter also includes a character counter and a preview of posts for mobile and…

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