Blue Desk

Unfortunately Firefox is getting worse every day, specially after the introduction of the horrible v89 interface . Having to resort to Chrom...

Just for the record, these are the settings I’m always using with Visual Studio 2019, when creating a new, empty C++ project: General ...

This should be something rather rare, but for some reason I keep needing to do it very often: I want to add a new, unrelated branch into an ...

Today I had to deep clone objects in Java. What a nightmare. First, the Cloneable interface is horribly broken , and writing such a simpl...

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, ...