The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Aug 21, 2026
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Reducing C++ template bloat by factoring out the type-dependent portions of the function, practical exam
Applying our principles.
Aug 20, 2026
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Reducing C++ template bloat by factoring out the type-dependent portions of the function
Looking for consolidation points.
Aug 19, 2026
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On wrapping a callable in a lambda that just calls it with the same parameters
Just use the callable directly.
Aug 18, 2026
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Why did the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows have a special sticker announcing that it also had Tetris?
A contingency plan.
Aug 17, 2026
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How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?
The usual probing.
Aug 14, 2026
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Forcing an ARM64X executable to run as a specific architecture
You can request the target machine architecture.
Aug 13, 2026
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A little helper class for managing LPPROC_THREAD_ATTRIBUTE_LIST s
Another RAII-style wrapper.
Aug 12, 2026
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The comments that go into code versus those that go into the pull request description
Understanding the temporal relevance.
Aug 11, 2026
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The little-known winstart.bat batch file
It had been there long before Windows 95, but nobody remembered.