# Happy Birthday, Doug Loud! 🎂 **URL:** \ **Category:** Off-Topic\ **Created:** [October 27, 2026, 6:13pm UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/happy-birthday-doug-loud/61908 "2026-10-27T18:13:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ruggy-Joesten](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/user_avatar/connect.superhuman.com/ruggy-joesten/32/50260_2.png) [@Ruggy-Joesten](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/Ruggy-Joesten)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2026, 6:13pm UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/happy-birthday-doug-loud/61908/1 "2026-10-27T18:13:02Z")
Some people make a community feel like family, and @Doug_Loud is one of them. When I joined as the “new guy,” Doug was among the first to say hello. One of my earliest Zoom calls here was with him, and I could have kept talking for five straight hours. Somewhere in that conversation, he shared his “Miss McGillicudy” test. If you can’t explain something to his fictional neighbor in a way she’d easily understand, you haven’t found the right words yet, so back to the drawing board you go! I think about Miss McGillicudy all the time. His anecdote has made me a better communicator, and I’m grateful Doug passed this little life hack along. That instinct for making the complex simple is a big part of why Doug is such a force as an OG Coda Maker. He knows the product so deeply that he’s taught _our_ engineers and product folks capabilities we didn’t know Coda had. Doug out here blowing minds! What I love most is that he’s just as full of life away from the keyboard. Between the horseback riding and everything else he gets up to, he’s making us New Yorkers proud. So if Doug has ever made you laugh, made you think, or made your life a little easier, I hope you’ll join me in wishing him a very happy birthday! 🎉 ---
**Author:** ![Karina\_Mikhli](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/user_avatar/connect.superhuman.com/karina_mikhli/32/32549_2.png) [@Karina\_Mikhli](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/Karina_Mikhli)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2026, 6:21pm UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/happy-birthday-doug-loud/61908/2 "2026-10-27T18:21:31Z")
Happy birthday, @Doug_Loud ! ---
**Author:** ![Christiaan\_Huizer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/user_avatar/connect.superhuman.com/christiaan_huizer/32/28269_2.png) [@Christiaan\_Huizer](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/Christiaan_Huizer)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2026, 6:41pm UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/happy-birthday-doug-loud/61908/3 "2026-10-27T18:41:55Z")
@Doug_Loud , happy birthday to you, I really hope to be as active as you are when I am 100 minus 15 years old! ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Loud](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/user_avatar/connect.superhuman.com/doug_loud/32/28122_2.png) [@Doug\_Loud](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/Doug_Loud)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2026, 9:24pm UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/happy-birthday-doug-loud/61908/4 "2026-10-27T21:24:56Z")
Thanks, guys! You are the ones who make it all possible! ---
**Author:** ![Piet\_Strydom](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/user_avatar/connect.superhuman.com/piet_strydom/32/19269_2.png) [@Piet\_Strydom](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/Piet_Strydom)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 12:09pm UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/happy-birthday-doug-loud/61908/5 "2026-10-29T12:09:54Z")
Happy, happy Doug! Hope you have a wonderful year ahead. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_OBrien](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/user_avatar/connect.superhuman.com/max_obrien/32/49285_2.png) [@Max\_OBrien](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/Max_OBrien)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2026, 2:38pm UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/happy-birthday-doug-loud/61908/6 "2026-10-29T14:38:23Z")
So @Doug_Loud, you survived another trip of the Earth around the Sun. It gets harder with each orbit (I am of a similar vintage, so I know)! > _I asked my dad, “What’s it like being 85?” He replied: “It sure beats the alternative!”_ So… congratulations on dying (yet)! 🦞Max _(warning: Irish wit can cause alergic reactions, reader discretion advised)_