Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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On transferring or copying ABI pointers between smart pointers

September 8th, 2023
Keep track of who owns the reference.

A freestanding JavaScript function that uses this is easily mistaken for a constructor

September 7th, 2023
Because that's what constructors look like.

Detecting whether a tree-like data structure contains a cycle

September 6th, 2023
Combining two things we already know.

When documentation cautions that something may not happen, that suggests that it normally does happen

September 5th, 2023
Reading between the lines.

Just for fun: What happens when you shift a register by more than the register size?

September 4th, 2023
A comparative study of processor architectures.

How do I find out more about the fail-fast exception that occurs when an exception in a PPL task goes unobserved?

September 1st, 2023
Digging into the internals.
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Diagnosing a crash when trying to call ReadFile via language interop

August 31st, 2023
Checking the signatures and inferring what could have gone wrong.
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How can I programmatically obtain the value of the “Make text bigger” slider?

August 30th, 2023
The text scale factor property.

The popularity of DOS/4GW made Windows 95 game compatibility a little easier, but with higher stakes

August 29th, 2023
A popular path to protected mode.

Just for fun: Which processors prefer sign-extended loads, and which prefer zero-extended loads?

August 28th, 2023
Another pointless chart.