Adventures in application compatibility: Calling an internal function

Raymond ChenJuly 24, 2019Jul 24, 201907/24/19

Clearly wandering into unsupported implementation details.

Windows NT services are assigned a SID based on an SHA-1 hash, but what about the risk of collision?

Raymond ChenJuly 17, 2019Jul 17, 201907/17/19

Those collisions are going to be hard to manufacture.

My initial confusion when encountering functions whose names begin with Co

Raymond ChenJuly 15, 2019Jul 15, 201907/15/19

We aren't in the math department any more.

Generating good error messages from code analysis tools is harder than it looks

Raymond ChenJuly 4, 2019Jul 4, 201907/4/19

Describing the problem accurately, with enough diagnostics to chase the problem

Microspeak: Ingestion

Raymond ChenJuly 2, 2019Jul 2, 201907/2/19

Let's hope it goes down easily.

2019 mid-year link clearance

Raymond ChenJune 28, 2019Jun 28, 201906/28/19

Another checkpoint reached.

Stupid git commit-tree tricks, Part 7: Combining more than two files into one while preserving line history, manual octopus merging

Raymond ChenMay 15, 2019May 15, 201905/15/19

Sometimes you just have to take things into your own hands.

Stupid git tricks: Combining two files into one while preserving line history

Raymond ChenMay 14, 2019May 14, 201905/14/19

Starting with the two-file case.

Stupid git commit-tree tricks, Part 6: Resetting by reusing an earlier tree

Raymond ChenMay 13, 2019May 13, 201905/13/19

Just take me back.

Stupid git commit-tree tricks, Part 5: Squashing without git rebase

Raymond ChenMay 10, 2019May 10, 201905/10/19

Working completely from trees.