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I continue to work on Aba Search and Replace, a tool for regex search and quick conversions (Base64, URL encoding, JSON Web tokens, timestamps to dates and vice versa). https://www…

I continue to add more features to my search-and-replace tool for Windows ( https://www.abareplace.com/ ). I initially built in for myself and it was one of the first incremental g…

I'm working on a regex / data conversion tool for web developers: https://www.abareplace.com Plan to add more handy features in the next version.

Agreed, the lack of borders or indentation on the screenshots is very confusing. It's hard to understand what text comes from the malicious website and what is from the author.

Is it for iOS? Then, it could be the Swift runtime library.

Eevee is she, not he. See the website footer and the home page.

https://www.abareplace.com/ An old-school regex and text processing tool for web developers. Great for browsing source code, automating complex replacements, and decoding Base64, U…

It helps to start blogging about things that are related to your product or interesting to your target audience. I got the first users by writing about text-processing tasks that y…

Exactly, not loading the whole file into memory works well only for hex editors.

Yep. BitBlt originally used complex 16-bit "operation codes" that store the binary operations in reverse Polish notation. Then, they added "operation index" that stores the same in…

If there is no application manifest, you will get Windows NT4 / Windows 9x style buttons. Just tested this on Windows 11.

booking.com natively supports this "email is authentication" pattern, so you even don't have to change your password and come up with a throw-away password. They just send you a li…

No, they won't get dark mode and this is the biggest problem for Win32 UIs now. If Microsoft would make dark mode available for classic Win32 apps, it would meet all requirements o…

Check out the Scrollbars series from Raymond Chen: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030731-00/?p=43... https://github.com/mity/old-new-win32api?tab=readme-ov-file#...

My app is around 500 KB (not megabytes) and it supports dark mode (see https://www.abareplace.com/ ). So this is definitely possible without using Electron or bloated GUI libraries…

Unfortunately, it does not load under Firefox

I'm working on a bulk search-and-replace tool for webmasters and developers that allows you to correct errors on your webpages, add width/height attributes to https://www.abareplac…

The CPU usage is around 30% when idle (not handling any HTTP requests) under Windows, so you won't want to keep this app running in background. Otherwise, it's a nice try.

This is length of a null-terminated string, e.g. lengthof("abc").

Thank you. Unfortunately, my experience is the same: it's hard to promote a software project on today's Internet without investing a lot of money or spending 4 hours/day on social …