Blue Desk

Rodrigo’s blog.

Monday, June 22, 2026

Creating new file types in Windows 10

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After formatting my computer and installing Windows 10 IoT LTSC, I lost all my custom file extensions. So far, I was using FileTypesMan , bu...
Sunday, June 14, 2026

Inactive titlebar color in Windows 10

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After I installed my Windows 10 IoT LTSC, I noticed that the inactive titlebar was white. The blue active titlebar could be set via Settings...
Saturday, June 6, 2026

Understanding std::rotate

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While working on the future version of my C++20 WinDlg library, I stumbled upon the need to shift characters within a string. My first impu...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Define initial directory in Git Bash

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After installing Git on my new Windows 10 IoT LTSC, as always the default directory of Git Bash is home. It is, however, rather easy to cha...
Monday, May 25, 2026

Make Firefox fast again

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Still on my new Windows 10 IoT LTSC setup, I found a page which seems to have a large amount of Firefox tweaks. I’ve tried most of them, an...
Sunday, May 24, 2026

Disable Win global hotkeys

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Today I installed a new 1 TB SSD drive, since my old 120 GB one capacity was out of control. Windows 10 IoT LTSC was the OS of my choice, al...
Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Reusing code in const and non-const methods, C++17

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I found the code below from this great answer in StackOverflow . It allows you to implement the const method with your logic, then use this...
Thursday, April 2, 2026

Project templates in Visual Studio 2022

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After configuring C and C++ projects countless times, base on these settings , I finally bit the bullet and created a reusable template in V...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

The Rust doc_cfg fiasco

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In WinSafe , Cargo features are used extensively to gate the DLL modules which are currently implemented. This is good because you specify o...
Friday, November 21, 2025

Windows 10 SDK 10.0.20348.0 is gone

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I was caught by surprise today after updating Visual Studio 2022 to version 17.14.11. All my projects failed to compile, because the SDK fil...
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Non-movable and non-copyable C++20 classes

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On my fantastic journey implementing WinLamb v2, I’m diving deep into C++20, grasping a lot of concepts I never understood before, and havi...
Friday, October 24, 2025

Ibanez Wizard profile history

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Since I’m on the market for a “battle” RG guitar to play with bands, I reminded a change that happened to the fretboard width of Wizard neck...
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