The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Retrofitting the WM_COPYDATA message onto Windows 3.1
It was carefully designed to be trivial.
The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad that they fixed it during emulation
Offensive content in the eyes of a software engineer.
How can I schedule work on a thread pool with low latency?
The thread pool is designed for throughput, not latency.
Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it
I mean, technically <I>I</I> didn't do it.
What’s the opposite of ClipCursor that lets me exclude the cursor from a region?
There is no such feature, but you can just exclude it virtually.
The Microsoft Company Party where everybody played name tag swap
Even the boss got into the festivities.
Rotation revisited: Shuffling more than three blocks, and other small notes
Generalizing the shuffle to arbitrary numbers of blocks.
The back cover of C++: The Programming Language also raises questions not answered by the front cover
Not doing the reading.
Rotation revisited: Avoiding having to calculate the gcd when doing cycle decomposition
Math is hard. Let's go counting!
Rotation revisited: Cycle decomposition in clang’s libcxx
Rotating in the minimum number of steps by performing cycle decomposition.
Rotation revisited: A shocking discovery about gcc’s unidirectional rotation algorithm
We've seen this before.
Rotation revisited: Another unidirectional algorithm
Moving in a straight line, in a different way.
The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was “modern”
Modern this and that.
Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 3
A variation where we try only once.
Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 2
Just let each person take turns trying.
Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 1
Caching the result and knowing when the cache is valid.
If C# and JavaScript lets me await a Windows Runtime asynchronous operation more than once, why not C++/WinRT?
A difference in philosophy.
A hypothetical redesign of System.Diagnostics.Process to avoid confusion over properties that are valid only when you are the one who called Start
Putting them in a place that can access only if you call <CODE>Start</CODE>.
