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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A quick note about WRL’s Chain­Interfaces template class

May 1st, 2023
For interfaces which extend each other.

On the finer points of cancelling timers and wait objects in Windows thread pool

April 28th, 2023
Assorted little details.
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What’s up with this new memory_order_consume memory order?

April 27th, 2023
A weaker variation of acquire.

One way to defer work when a re-entrant call is detected

April 26th, 2023
Tying a string on your finger, as a reminder to yourself.

A code comment noting the steps to take when a 256th enum field is added

April 25th, 2023
A note for my future self.

Why is std::hardware_destructive_interference_size a compile-time constant instead of a run-time value?

April 24th, 2023
The compiler is already making compile-time assumptions about the processor; you just don't realize it.

Protecting a broker from a failing delegate

April 21st, 2023
Catching them in a different way.

Protecting a broker from a failing event handler

April 20th, 2023
Gotta catch them all.
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The case of the unhandled exception in a brokered Windows Runtime component

April 19th, 2023
Digging into the event dispatch code.

No, it is not a security vulnerability that there is no certificate of appreciation for reporting a bug

April 18th, 2023
It wasn't even a bug report.

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