Blue Desk

Apparently with my Gibson Les Paul craze back again, I’ve been dabbling into the specs of the High Performance series. The specs list the f...

In whathever programming language, it’s rather common to have a function which accepts an array of strings. Specifically in Rust, there is t...

Hello, dear reader. I started this blog exactly 10 years ago, in a Saturday morning, without having much idea about what I’d write here. I...

Just out of curiosity, I wrote a Rust macro similar to Visual Basic’s IIf function : macro_rules! iif { ($cond:expr, $iftrue:expr, $iffa...

In searching for a fix to the Firefox 89 Proton layout catastrophe, I found a very neat site which tries to summarize all the fixes that ca...

One of my all-time favorite features of Go is the defer mechanism . It’s so incredibly simple, and so incredibly ingenious and useful. The ...

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...