The mental model for StartThreadpoolIo November 17, 2021 Nov 17, 2021 11/17/21 Raymond Chen It's internally managing a reference count.
Microspeak: Righteous November 16, 2021 Nov 16, 2021 11/16/21 Raymond Chen A colloqualism that has become a preferred adjective.
A practical use for GetHGlobalFromStream when sharing was never your intention November 15, 2021 Nov 15, 2021 11/15/21 Raymond Chen This may even have been its original purpose.
Another way of looking at C++ reverse iterators November 12, 2021 Nov 12, 2021 11/12/21 Raymond Chen It's the same thing, just going in the opposite direction, right?
I sort of knew that I’m a bad flute player, but I guess this proves it November 11, 2021 Nov 11, 2021 11/11/21 Raymond Chen The fault is in ourselves, after all.
The inside story of the outside investigation of SoftRAM 95 November 11, 2021 Nov 11, 2021 11/11/21 Raymond Chen It had a plan, but didn't quite execute on it.
How am I supposed to create children of the Win32 tab control? November 10, 2021 Nov 10, 2021 11/10/21 Raymond Chen They look like children, but they're not.
If your domain name parser can’t handle internationalized domain names, then maybe that’s your parser’s problem November 9, 2021 Nov 9, 2021 11/9/21 Raymond Chen Don't blame someone else for letting strange domain names reach you.
Restoring support for pre-standardization coroutine free awaiters for even older code bases November 8, 2021 Nov 8, 2021 11/8/21 Raymond Chen Connecting the dots, and reaching back to an earlier time.
The case of the C++/WinRT cached factories that pointed into freed memory November 5, 2021 Nov 5, 2021 11/5/21 Raymond Chen Developing theories that match the evidence.