In 1979, some software company in Bellevue was hiring

Raymond ChenOctober 12, 2020Oct 12, 202010/12/20

Digging through the archives.

A consequence of being the first to adopt a standard is that you may end up being the only one to adopt it: The sad story of Korean jamo

Raymond ChenOctober 9, 2020Oct 9, 202010/9/20

To be a leader, others must follow.

How did we end up parsing Savvyday 29 Oatmeal 94 as Saturday 29 October 1994?

Raymond ChenSeptember 29, 2020Sep 29, 202009/29/20

Unsophisticated pattern matching.

Embarrassing product names averted: Windows Embedded POS and Windows 10 for Advanced PCs

Raymond ChenSeptember 15, 2020Sep 15, 202009/15/20

If you see something, say something.

How is it possible to jam a virtual card reader?

Raymond ChenSeptember 8, 2020Sep 8, 202009/8/20

Did you feed it a bent virtual card?

More on trivial functions like CopyRect and EqualRect

Raymond ChenSeptember 1, 2020Sep 1, 202009/1/20

Let's go code golfing.

That time Bill Gates went through a McDonalds drive-through with no cash

Raymond ChenAugust 25, 2020Aug 25, 202008/25/20

No special treatment, not even for the richest man in the world.

What was so horrible about the FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER flag that the Windows Store disallowed it for so long?

Raymond ChenAugust 6, 2020Aug 6, 202008/6/20

Letting in the riffraff.

What does it mean when it says that FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER can be used in Store apps starting in Windows 10?

Raymond ChenAugust 5, 2020Aug 5, 202008/5/20

What happens if you use it anyway?