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I wasn't happy with existing solutions for clean shutdown of Azure Spot VMs so I put together this tiny service application that does basically what all those scripts do, but with …

An observation and a rant. Many will not even notice that icons got more blurry with Windows 10 and then worse, but I needed to get this off my chest, and perhaps I'll find likemin…

It's a little more complicated if you are to be using themes, GDI and common controls. Some time ago I put together this example: https://github.com/tringi/win32-dpi The high DPI s…

So how shall a launcher application determine which AArch64 ISA level is available on Windows on ARM device? Full story: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1gxnr85/deter…

There's this issue with Win32 synchronization API, discussed and documented in many blogs, videos and tutorials over the years, that comes up again and again, that one thread can o…

Ah, yeah, that's true.

As awesome as these algorithms are, I can never imagine use case. Any time I need to turn something into uppercase or lowercase, it's user's input or something Unicode. Which can b…

The Hub Event (working title) is similar to the standard Win32 Event Object, but multiple consumers (clients) of the event can reliably wait on them, while being set/reset by the p…

Some time ago I did some test, 256 threads competing on a small number of cache lines, and found out that all, CreateMutex, CRITICAL_SECTION and SRWLOCK, were quite fair. The most …

Blocking new readers when a writer arrives is perfectly good and desirable. Blocking readers when the writer finishes, and there isn't any new queued, is definitely not.

And Twitter/X accounts. I have had a lot more things fixed in Windows or MSVC from nagging devs on there than from reporting through any official channel.

I'm always fascinated when engineers who make my year's salary in a week come up with something as dumb as this.

A simple tool that I've created to solve a somewhat self-inflicted problem. In some projects I want or need small differences in DLL .def exports, differences by architecture or re…

Algorithm intended as a replacement for basic fast Ctrl+F search inside C++ sources. Ignores insignificant whitespace, diacritics and is case insensitive. Can ignore comments/strin…

Yes, it is.

Yes. 200 MHz down from base clock.

I'm searching for it too, and I can't find the actual text. Somebody doesn't want us to begin mixing that cocktail ourselves :D