Jan 22, 2025 9 4 Be mindful of temporal terms in documents: What is the reference point in time? Raymond Chen What is your implied point in time for the reference?
Jan 21, 2025 4 3 Why doesn’t the Windows blue screen of death prominently identify the company that created the driver that crashed? Raymond Chen Because the driver that crashed may not be the one at fault.
Dec 31, 2024 4 3 Making sure the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler chooses the right source encoding Raymond Chen Making sure the file and settings are set correctly.
Dec 30, 2024 4 2 How various git diff viewers represent file encoding changes in pull requests Raymond Chen The invisible UTF-8 BOM, and sometimes invisible encoding changes.
Dec 18, 2024 2 0 Is there a way to split the git history of a file or combine the histories of two files without a merge commit? Raymond Chen Studying how git recovers history.
Dec 17, 2024 6 3 Microspeak terms that didn’t take hold: airspace, synthetics, and AOI Raymond Chen Sometimes they don't stick.
Dec 16, 2024 0 1 Why do we have header files <pshpackN.h> and <poppack.h> instead of just issuing the pragma directly? Raymond Chen Because the pragma may not work everywhere.
Dec 10, 2024 3 0 It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Disabling anti-malware scanning Raymond Chen If you have already infiltrated the process, then you can disable things from the inside.
Nov 29, 2024 1 0 Assessing the attack complexity of a race condition security vulnerability Raymond Chen It's not just how small the race window is, but how easy it is to hit the window.