Blue Desk

While developing my own personal tools in Rust – which seems to be “the one” language of my own stuff now, after the disappointment of the c...

A few months ago I had to dig into Visual Studio Code source until I found a change in the built-in light theme, where they changed the over...

I’m writing an insane amount of Go code lately. It’s really unobtrusive, allowing you focus on the problem you have to solve. And I’ve been ...

By default, Rust on Windows with MSVC toolchain compiles to a dynamically linked C runtime, apparently following the default configuration o...

Today I found the TOPE frame in the ID3v2 tag specification, which can be used in cover songs. I was simply using the comment frame so fa...

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...