{"id":109208,"date":"2023-12-29T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=109208"},"modified":"2023-12-29T08:47:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T16:47:25","slug":"20231229-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20231229-01\/?p=109208","title":{"rendered":"2023 year-end link clearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><tt>IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.<\/tt><br \/>\n<tt>PROGRAM-ID LINK-CLEARANCE-2023.<\/tt><br \/>\n<tt>CLEARANCE DIVISION.<\/tt><br \/>\n<tt>LINKS SECTION.<\/tt><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tylervigen.com\/the-mystery-of-the-bloomfield-bridge\"> The mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge<\/a> starts out with a simple question: Why is there a maintained-but-unused footbridge from a Taco Bell to an industrial supplier? The investigation proves to be anything but simple. I enjoyed the twists and turns along the way, but the real payoff was when, after he exhausted all his leads, his colleague provided a simple tip that broke the case wide open.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/textslashplain.com\/2023\/05\/16\/how-do-random-credentials-mysteriously-appear\/\"> How do random credentials mysteriously appear<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>I was going to write a Microspeak entry on &#8220;flighting&#8221; then found that <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/\">Aidan Finn<\/a> already did the research, so <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=17862\">here is Aidan&#8217;s post on the etymology of flighting<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I am still deciding what processor to write about next, seeing as I think I have exhausted the processors that Windows had ever supported. I had thought about doing SPARC because of its register windows, but then I found that <a href=\"https:\/\/danielmangum.com\/\">Daniel Magnum<\/a> wrote it so I don&#8217;t have to: <a href=\"https:\/\/danielmangum.com\/posts\/retrospective-sparc-register-windows\/\"> A Brief Retrospective on SPARC Register Windows<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/50050659\/what-is-going-on-with-vector-base-common\"> What is going on with <code>__vector_base_common<\/code><\/a>?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tomhultonharrop.com\/c++\/sorting\/2023\/08\/19\/sorting-indirectly.html\"> Sorting Indirectly<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/tomhultonharrop.com\/\">Tom Hulton-Harrop<\/a> builds on my previous series on <a title=\"Applying a permutation to a vector, part 1\" href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20170102-00\/?p=95095\"> applying a permutation to a vector<\/a><\/li>\n<li>My colleague Keith Mahoney <a title=\"Deep Dive Analysis: Why did this dll increase in file size by 50%?\" href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/performance-diagnostics\/deep-dive-analysis-why-did-this-dll-increase-in-file-size-by-50\/\"> investigated why their project&#8217;s DLLs increased in size by 50%<\/a>. (Another colleague Stephan T. Lavavej created <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/STL\/pull\/4055\"> a PR into the STL project<\/a> to let you revert to the old behavior.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><tt>END PROGRAM LINK-CLEARANCE-2023.<\/tt><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ringing out another year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-109208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Ringing out another year.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}