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A bit tangential, but can you recommend any GUI applications for monitoring the system? The KDE's defualt system monitor is a bit heavy and does not provide much insights. I switch…

Interestingly, the Rust windows crate is generated from an MSIL assembly. And same metadata might be used to generate C# bindings thanks to cswin32 [1] project. The meta-assembly g…

I understand the burden that too much notes may take on you. I am a software troubleshooter and I used to keep my raw notes of all the interesting cases I encountered. However, wit…

Coongrats on the release. It reminds me of Log Parser Studio [1] on Windows. Using SQL to query text and log files is a great idea. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20170710212920/h…

I do a lot of Windows troubleshooting and still thinking about incorporating AI in my work. The posted project looks interesting and it's impressive how fast it was created. Since …

I've been using bpftrace -lv to examine available trace points. But the bpftrace output won't show you the complex types definitions and this tool can do it. Great work!

There is also Sysmon for Linux [1]. I work often with Windows systems that's how I know it (it's a popular choice on Windows to analyze Sysmon logs for suspicious events), but it's…

Have you tried running it on wine? [1] I use it this way on Linux and, after adjusting my commands for running editors and start menu tools, everything runs smoothly. [1] https://w…

I feel that nowadays Rust is the language to go when you are doing system programming, but C# is not a bad choice either. With .NET 9 being released in a few weeks we will get Nati…

Apart from search customizations, I also use the bang searches (a few mine and many from https://github.com/kagisearch/bangs ). I also recently switched to ultimate and created a f…

You can write drivers in Rust - it's just quite hard at the moment. Microsoft published metadata packages for WDK APIs and started creating samples: https://github.com/microsoft/Wi…

Apps developed for the modern (open-source) version of .NET may be compiled to a native code (NativeAOT). Some time ago, I tried AOT on a simple WinForms project and it worked. Unf…

I haven't considered the execution policy such a blocker since you may change it on the powershell.exe command line (for example, run "powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned …

AFAIR the WordPad source code was available in older Windows SDKs and it was the most comprehensive sample of using OLE embedding.