Blue Desk

One thing I always missed in Go was sum types . I’ve seen some discussion before . Although Go doesn’t have this as an explicit, native fea...

I always used FileTypesMan to register the Windows file associations. But after Windows 7 or so, some associations simply refused to work, ...

During my 20 years or so writing Win32 programs, I always relied on SetFocus to focus a control. However, I always noticed a weird behavior...

Today, while performing tests before publishing the first version of WinSafe , I stumbled across a problem I had with Go a few weeks ago. It...

I decided to show the current Git branch at my bash prompt whenever I’m at a directory which contains a repository. I found a rather convolu...

Go 1.16, released this week, deprecated GOPATH . I used it extensively to develop my libs before publishing them, but now I’m forced to conv...

Today I was trying to write polymorphic error handling in Rust, something achievable with dynamic_cast in C++, and incredibly easy in Go . ...

Sometimes, after you mess up too much with your Git repository, it ends up with a couple useless objects, which are no longer referenced any...

When dealing with tables with an auto-incremented ID field, Oracle requires an special syntax if you’re about to insert data manually. You m...

WinLamb , as the name itself implies, is heavily based on lambda functions. While searching a way to enforce the lambda signatures in the up...

Today, while researching for the upcoming C++17 version of WinLamb , I was rethinking the idea of restricting the allowed types on a templat...

Yesterday I just stumbled across this incredible CSS work, which makes a picture look like a folder poster on Reddit . The CSS was somewhat ...