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Would you mind sending me an email (address in profile)? I'd love to pick your brain about some of the trickier ones I'm running into.

Do you happen to have links to any good documentation/articles on this topic? I'm working on what amounts to a dark theme for Win32 controls and largely making it up as I go along,…

My experience also. This is particularly bad in the SQL Server space, since Microsoft essentially dropped source control integration in SQL Server Management Studio 2016 and later …

I've been filling a tiny gap in Microsoft tooling with https://www.versionsql.com/ It's something that seemed small and simple to implement, but has filled a not-insignificant port…

I'm casually experimenting with this too, to improve AQ in my home office. Do you recall the surface area in the 6-inch-deep bioreactor (or total volume)? The only hard numbers I'v…

I've noticed that with single-question responses such as Amazon's "why are you returning this" drop-down, and it makes total sense there. A consistently random arrangement means th…

Today Google popped up a little survey in the corner of my account page, with questions like "I trust Google to keep my data private", "It's easy to find out what data Google has o…

This one suggests so: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/05/26/055... Released as a partial report last year; a quick search didn't find if it had been completed ye…

Check out NaNoGenMo [1], a yearly challenge to write computer-generated novels. Each year gets 100-200 entries (see the GitHub Issues tab) using various techniques. The resource li…

FWIW I have the 6290 (2016 model) and haven't run into any annoying misfeatures. Crisp and smooth at 60Hz, UHD color mode. Was stuck at 30Hz and perceptibly laggy until I forced it…

Earlier this year (~May) they shut down their API endpoint that rendered handy little stock chart images with a surprising amount of useful features. Any alternatives out there, ot…

The only killer use case I've encountered so far is being able to yell "hey Cortana! Next track!" across the room while playing with a toddler, since either walking over to push a …

I've been dogfooding my own SQL Server Management Studio add-in, VersionSQL [0] Priorities in its design and why I prefer to use it: It lives where I work, in SSMS. It's as close t…

Use AutoHotKey to remap CapsLock to function as an Enter key. Or dig into the JS and figure out how to execute the send manually?

Several mirrorless and pro compacts at least have focus peaking built in. Not perfect, but something that can be worked with.

I just ran across Language Tool[0] recently. Free, open-source proofreading lib, can be run totally locally. Uses Google Ngrams to check for often confused words. Didn't correct "d…

Cortana has that as an option in Settings, but it's not on by default.

Mine are in a bookmark folder. Middle-clicking the folder opens all of its contents in new tabs.

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Primarily video game soundtracks. They're made to play in the background while you perform tasks and come in all sorts of moods / intensity levels. Favorites: - FTL - Crypt of the …

AFAIK they only run the DMCA checksum when the file/folder is shared. Keeping it inside your own account is OK.

Unless you do it the other way around: Generate a list of all passwords similar to the one the user just entered and see if that matches any previous hashes. This is how Facebook's…

Tendon stretches a couple times a day [0] Whenever I start feeling pain in my hands/wrists, it's because I've been slacking on doing these stretches. [0] https://www.youtube.com/wa…

You might be interested in "Code Katas" - small, targeted programming exercises. Check out codewars.com, codekata.com, codekatas.org, etc. Also check out ACM Competitive Programmin…