The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Jun 11, 2026
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Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it
I mean, technically <I>I</I> didn't do it.
Jun 10, 2026
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What’s the opposite of ClipCursor that lets me exclude the cursor from a region?
There is no such feature, but you can just exclude it virtually.
Jun 9, 2026
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The Microsoft Company Party where everybody played name tag swap
Even the boss got into the festivities.
Jun 8, 2026
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Rotation revisited: Shuffling more than three blocks, and other small notes
Generalizing the shuffle to arbitrary numbers of blocks.
Jun 5, 2026
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The back cover of C++: The Programming Language also raises questions not answered by the front cover
Not doing the reading.
Jun 5, 2026
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Rotation revisited: Avoiding having to calculate the gcd when doing cycle decomposition
Math is hard. Let's go counting!
Jun 4, 2026
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Rotation revisited: Cycle decomposition in clang’s libcxx
Rotating in the minimum number of steps by performing cycle decomposition.
Jun 3, 2026
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Rotation revisited: A shocking discovery about gcc’s unidirectional rotation algorithm
We've seen this before.
Jun 2, 2026
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Rotation revisited: Another unidirectional algorithm
Moving in a straight line, in a different way.