2023 year-end link clearance
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID LINK-CLEARANCE-2023.
CLEARANCE DIVISION.
LINKS SECTION.
- The mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge starts out with a simple question: Why is there a maintained-but-unused footbridge from a Taco Bell to an industrial supplier? The investigation proves to be anything but simple. I enjoyed the twists and turns along the way, but the real payoff was when, after he exhausted all his leads, his colleague provided a simple tip that broke the case wide open.
- How do random credentials mysteriously appear?
- I was going to write a Microspeak entry on “flighting” then found that Aidan Finn already did the research, so here is Aidan’s post on the etymology of flighting.
- I am still deciding what processor to write about next, seeing as I think I have exhausted the processors that Windows had ever supported. I had thought about doing SPARC because of its register windows, but then I found that Daniel Magnum wrote it so I don’t have to: A Brief Retrospective on SPARC Register Windows.
- What is going on with
__vector_base_common? - Sorting Indirectly by Tom Hulton-Harrop builds on my previous series on applying a permutation to a vector
- My colleague Keith Mahoney investigated why their project’s DLLs increased in size by 50%. (Another colleague Stephan T. Lavavej created a PR into the STL project to let you revert to the old behavior.)
END PROGRAM LINK-CLEARANCE-2023.
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The Bloomfield Bridge was quite an adventure, thanks as always for the great links!
Hello Raymond, could you please make a post on Dark Mode in Win32 apps? The official documentation (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/desktop/modernize/apply-windows-themes) omits many things, for example, how to make dialog boxes and standard controls support the dark mode. As the result, if you google for “win32 dark mode”, you will find a lot of buggy implementations relying on undocumented APIs, which work differently in different Windows versions. You have a fantastic expertise in Win32 API, so it would be very interesting to hear your opinion. Thank you so much
Yes, I would like to see that too. Raymond, please!
What, is that COBOL? 😨
Looks like some type of record file format header footer thing. Wouldn’t a program language demand more explicit closing braces?
Remember when you call the LINK-CLEARANCE-2023 program, z/OS will truncate the name to “LINK0CLE”
Speaking of links, the redirect for older URLs to this blog is broken so all links to blogposts that are more than few years old lead to 403.
e.g. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2013/05/13/10417964.aspx redirects to https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/10417964.aspx instead of https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20130513-00/?p=4393 and the links inside article are similarly broken.
Posting this here in the hopes you can forward this to someone in charge of blog software as all the contact links from “Suggestion Box” articles are dead now.
Yes, I gave a redirect forwarding pattern to the hosting team. It’s on their backlog.